January 6, 2021

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I posted this on my Facebook page earlier today, about yesterday’s events in Washington, DC …

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I didn’t post anything during yesterday’s events because:

1. I was too stressed out by it all, and

2. I wanted to process a bit before adding my own words to stuff others were already saying.

I still don’t know what to say that hasn’t already been said quite well. I’ll just share this.

Yesterday afternoon I watched Sen. McConnell’s speech refusing to go along with objections to Electoral votes, felt a bit relieved, and turned it off because my grocery delivery had come. I listened to a favorite podcast while I sorted and put away my groceries. Then I looked at Twitter and everything had changed. Not really everything had changed of course ... that’s probably going to be part of the point. But you know what I mean. One minute it’s THIS, the next minute it’s THAT.

I could make lots of observations about:

  • The fragility of democracy ...

  • How we ALL both over and underestimated Trump ...

  • How the Capitol Police were deployed and performed yesterday vs. during the Black Lives Matter protests earlier in 2020 ...

  • How the Capitol Police were deployed and performed yesterday vs. when disabled protesters demonstrated to protect Medicaid and the ACA in 2017 ...

  • Whether we need technical reforms in the transition process ...

  • DC statehood ...

  • How much of Trumpism is cynical and how much is sincere, (and how much that does or doesn’t matter) ...

  • The differences between defensible protest and indefensible insurrection ...

But I’ll leave it at that for now. Stay safe everyone. Get some rest. Pay attention, but try to relax a little too.