That’s the question a pro-Trump rioter asked outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, as his fellow rioters disrupted the counting of electoral votes, and with ziptie handcuffs in their hands went looking for congressional leaders to lynch on the gallows they’d erected, an[...]
Archive for January 12th, 2021
January 12th, 2021 - 5:44 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
OIympic swimmer ID’d as rioter
“Klete Keller, a swimmer and two-time Olympic gold medal winner for the United States, was recognized by former teammates and coaches as one of the participants in the deadly pro-Trumb mob that overtook the Capitol last week,” The Hill reported on Tuesday, January 12, 2020. Read story he[...]
January 12th, 2021 - 5:28 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Middlebury College revokes Giuliani’s honorary degree
Middlebury College of Vermont revoked an honorary degree it gave Rudy Giuliani in 2005, The Hill reported on Tuesday, January 12, 2020. Read story here and the college’s statement here. On Monday, the college’s president, Laurie Patton, accused the Giuliani of “fomenting the violent uprisi[...]
January 12th, 2021 - 11:28 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Smile for the camera, cop killer
“The FBI has released two photos of a suspect they want to question about the murder of US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick during last week’s violent riots,” the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail reported on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. Read story here. Note: This photo and video a[...]
January 12th, 2021 - 1:01 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Heart of darkness
Heart of Darkness is an allegorical novel by Joseph Conrad often interpreted as a journey into the darkness of the human heart. Donald Trump is a unique figure in American history and we can only hope there will never be another like him. As a nonpariel demagogue, he took America on a journey i[...]