Gearing up for 24 hours of sanctimony

January 6, 2021.

That was the day the U.S. Congress was set to ratify the electoral college results declaring Joe Biden the winner of the Presidential election two months earlier. It was also the date when a handful of disgruntled Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, where Congress was convening at the time, in protest over what they believed were fraudulent election results. Some have called it an "attempted coup" while others have referred to it as an "insurrection." Whatever the case, many "progressive" elected officials and media types alike have commemorated the sixth of each month over the past 11 months as the "--- month anniversary of perhaps the darkest day in American history." 

Initially the outrage (OUTRAGE, I tell ya) was expressed to demagogue the incident in an effort to rubber stamp a prog agenda which would get us as far away as possible from the stink of Trump. But now the mythical vapors are being conveyed to distract from the disastrous administration of President Joe Biden while also attempting to stem the tide of Dems being wiped out in the 2022 midterms. 

According to political commentator Erick Erickson, it ain't workin'.

(W)hile I think (Jan. 6, 2021) was a no-good, terrible, bad day, the American media wants you to believe that it was the absolute worst day ever. Why is this?

To understand what's going on here, you need to understand a report from the website Morning Consult that does a lot of data-driven analysis. One of the things that they say is the views of the Republican Party are back to normal. People do not hold the Republican Party in contempt for January 6th. In fact, their views of Donald Trump have rebounded as their views of Joe Biden have gone down. Now, this is everything to do with Joe Biden being president, not Donald Trump. But at the same time, Republicans are no longer associated per se with January 6th. The public does not hold it against Republicans.

You will recall that James Carville was on television and said that the Democrats needed to do their best to tie Republicans to January 6th in the same way Republicans have tied Democrats to the riots across the country and that their failure to do so would mean doom in 2022. As perception of the Republican Party has rebounded, the bottom line is the media has to go into double hysterics over January 6th because they've got to convince the American public that they cannot restore Republicans to power. The media is doing this on behalf of the Democratic Party.

Hell, CNN is devoting an entire primetime special to the events of 1/6/2021. Given the network's cratering numbers since Trump left office, one would understand airing this broadcast in an effort to resurrect sagging ratings for a night. However, it'll have little impact for CNN long term and it sure as heck won't have any bearing on the 2022 midterm elections. 

With all that said, I am staying completely off of social media for all of Thursday. While I have no issue acknowledging that the perpetrators of the Capitol riot need to face consequences, anything less than saying said incident was on par or worse than the events of 9/11/2001 is (according to the Twitterverse) tantamount to treason. 

So enjoy your day of self-righteous indignation, progs. Come Friday morning you'll still have the trough-like stink of the Biden administration emanating from your beings. 

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