These four men recounted in graphic detail what happened to them, supported with graphic body-cam video. They were beaten the crap out of, one was tazered repeatedly with his own tazer, one had his eyes gouged, one now has a permanent traumatic brain injury that will affect him for the rest of his life, and your take away from all that was to mock them for their emotions. Well, I guess if I was beaten to the point of fearing for my life, I would be emotional too when recounting it to others, as would any thinking, feeling member of the human race.
That's all true, of course, but we should recognize that discussing such things with pseudonymous ****** is not necessarily the same as interacting with thinking, feeling members of the human race.
I can sum up the causes of 1/6 in four short paragraphs...
1. For more than six months leading up to the 2020 Presidential election, Donald Trump sowed the seeds of distrust among the morons that make up his base by repeatedly stating that if he lost the election, it would be because the Democrats will have stolen it.
2. When he actually did lose the election in November 2020 (by over seven million votes) he amplified his claims into The Big Lie. Taking a leaf from the Joseph Goebbels' Book of Propaganda, he incessantly repeated The Big Lie until he brainwashed his moronic followers into believing it.
3. In the weeks leading up to Electoral College certification, he ramped up the lies, repeating The Big Lie repeatedly, and adding in other lies such as the lie that the VP could stop the count and declare Trump the winner, and the lie that he could declare martial law to stop the Electoral College vote. He was ably assisted spreading those lies by a number of co-conspirators... Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell, Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks, Michael Flynn, Ted Cruz, Matt Gaetz, Josh Hawley, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Lauren Boebert et al.
4. He invited his moronic base of deplorables to come to Washington DC for a rally. He had a number of his fellow traitors, including his idiot family, whip up his moronic base into a blind frenzy, pointed them at the Capitol and told them to stop the Electoral College vote - 'Stop what's happening in that building'.... and they did!
That too is all true, but why should anyone become emotional just because a few thousand morons and traitors invaded the US Capitol for the purpose of putting an end to over two centuries of democratic tradition and the rule of law?
Seriously, can you imagine *********** or ******** becoming the least bit upset about that? I can't.
And if you think Officer Hodges was emotional during Tuesday's testimony, you should watch the video of Hodges being crushed in the doorway on 6 January. It's hard to imagine Clint Eastwood or John Wayne screaming like that just because they were in real danger of being crushed to death.
And consider Officer Fanone, when he became separated from his fellow law enforcement officers and was beaten and tased by rioters who called him a traitor and chanted "kill him with his own gun." Fanone was so scared that he appealed to the emotions of his would-be killers by saying he has kids. Can you imagine *********** or ******** paying the slightest attention to such a transparent appeal to humanity? I can't. Yet at least some of the rioters relented, allowing Fanone to be rescued and dragged back to relative safety. As we saw in video from his body camera, Fanone became as stoic as Eastwood or Wayne during his rescue. By then, of course, he was unconscious, just like Eastwood and Wayne were when acting their most famous roles. Doctors say Fanone was lucky to escape with nothing worse than a heart attack, concussion, and traumatic brain injury. Why, that's nothing compared to the many shootings Eastwood and Wayne have suffered on screen.
Gonell was beaten with a flagpole, sprayed with bear spray, and suffered a lacerated hand. Would Eastwood or Wayne have complained about such treatment? I've seen videos in which they remained stoically silent, even after they'd been killed.
Dunn was repeatedly called a name that starts with the letter N. Can you imagine how Clint Eastwood or John Wayne would have responded? They'd have shot the scoundrels without a second thought. But Dunn over-reacted: Instead of reaching for his firearm, he became emotional hours, days, and months later.
