In more “Party of Personal Responsibility” news,
the GOP continue to be the braindead ‘No, U!’ party as they blame Nancy Pelosi for the Jan 6 inbred insurrection.
Earlier today I saw the latest Trae Crowder upload talking about the GOP blaming Pelosi for the redneck rebellion. I thought “Okay maybe he’s just exaggerating and doing what everyone does and generalizing.”
I don’t know why I keep doing this to myself. I don’t know why I keep giving Trump supporters the benefit of the doubt.
Every. Single. Time. I think even the tiniest bit highly of them they will turn around and say “Jokes on you!”
every time.
Sgt. Gonell, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, says that insurrectionists noticed the color of his skin on Jan. 6 and reacted.
“They said, you’re not even American,” Gonell recalled. He added that it took him some time to process why they made the remark.
Rep. Cheney opened up her round with a question about what the officers thought of Trump calling the mob a “loving crowd.”
“All of them, all of them, were telling us, ‘Trump sent us,’” Gonell replied. “He could have done a lot of things. One of them was to tell them to stop.”
Dunn is recounting an exchange he had with insurrectionists in MAGA hats, who, he siad, were yelling that “President Trump invited us here.”
One rioter, Dunn said, yelled that “nobody voted for Joe Biden.”
Dunn recalled that he replied to the rioter, “Well, I voted for Joe Biden. Does my vote not count? Am I nobody?”
That led to a torrent of racial epithets.
“One woman in a pink “MAGA” shirt yelled, ‘You hear that, guys, this nigger voted for Joe Biden!’” he tells the committee. “Then the crowd, perhaps around twenty people, joined in, screaming ‘Boo! Fucking Nigger!’”
Hodges keeps referring to the mob of insurrectionists as “terrorists.”
“You will die on your knees,” he recalls one saying to him.
“To my perpetual confusion, I saw the thin blue line flag being carried by terrorists as they continued to assault us,” he adds with a bit of dry irony.
Fanone is recounting being dragged into a mob of insurrectionists on Jan. 6.
“They ripped off my badge. They grabbed my radio. They seized the
ammunition that was secured to my body,” he says. “They began to beat me, with their fists and with what felt like hard metal objects.”
“I’m sure I was screaming, but I don’t think I could even hear my own voice,” he added.
Fanone went on to make two interesting points: that no members of Congress had to go through what he went through, and that he made a conscious choice not to use his firearm.
“During the assault, I thought about using my firearm on my attackers. But I knew that if I did that, I would quickly be overwhelmed,” he said. “And that, in their minds, it would provide them with the justification for killing me.”
Fanone was knocked unconscious and later found to have suffered a heart attack during the assault.
Gonell broke down crying as he related some of the heart-wrenching details of his return home early in the morning of Jan. 7.
“I arrived home at nearly 4:00 a.m. on January 7,” Gonell said. “I had to push away my wife from hugging me because of all the chemicals that covered my body.”
“I couldn’t sleep because the chemicals reactivated after I took a shower, and my skin was burning,” he added.
When a Trump supporter tells you who they are, believe them. And Trump supporters - not your rank and file Republican voters who simply votes for anyone with an (R) next to their name every 2 years - but actual loud and proud MAGA told us exactly who they were on Jan 6.