What Were You Doing Five Years Ago Today?
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart My wife and I were retired on January 6, 2021. We were watching television when the broadcast was interrupted with an announcement of “BREAKING NEWS.” The next thing we saw was a hastily constructed wooden structure but no one was standing on it. A couple of minutes later we saw the humongous ass of your illegitimate president struggling to walk up two stairs and stand behind a microphone. Thus began the “big lie,” and the darkest day in American history. Trump addressed a small number of his cult’s members. We later learned that an even larger number were already outside of the Capitol building. First, he told the big lie, although every court in the land, including his own, stacked Supreme Court threw out the cases before them, claiming that he had won the November 2020 election. Then he ordered them to march to the Capitol and prevent the certification of the Electoral College vote. Although this is a requirement contained in the Constitution, the old, obese ...