9/11 vs. 1/6

Terror Firma

September 14, 2021

Much was made of the 20^th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. I understand the need to keep the memory alive. The physical destruction, the emotional and social damage, not to mention the rending of our democracy, and the recently ended 20-year war that marked our government’s response. Perhaps worst of all, was how that day not only salvaged George WTF Bush and his ventriloquist Dick Cheney’s nose-diving presidency, but likely assured them a second term. It was a unique and traumatic day in American history, whatever one’s feelings or leanings might be.

Big Dick and Little Dummy

I cannot help but wonder however, what the 20^th anniversary of the January 6^th insurrection/assault on the Capitol will be like. Will there be a recognition that although many more Americans died as a result of the 9/11 attack, the assault was perpetrated by foreign terrorists and only indirectly funded and aided and abetted by Americans, whereas on January 6^th the terror was completely homegrown, well-funded by white-wing fanatics, and aided and abetted by the sitting president of the United States and the vast majority of the political party he had by the balls?

One thing both 9/11 and 1/6 had in common was the onslaught of warnings each White House received. While 9/11 plunged America into an illegal war, the Orwellian-named PATRIOT Act – which would have made Francisco Franco blush if he wasn’t still dead – the episode resulted in frighteningly few lessons learned. Will we learn anything from the January 6 investigation, which the Party responsible for inciting the terror attack on the Capitol and our democratic institutions and continues to lionize those who carried out the insurrection is desperate to squelch?

What the two events did not have in common is that 9/11 did not see Democrats take the side of al Queda, or even blame the Bush/Cheney administration for the attack, though there was plenty of blame to go around. The Ratpublican Party has been all-but-all-in on the January 6 domestic terror attack. With rare exception, the party of Turmp fell right in line with the domestic terrorists because each and every one of those seditious shitheads is an unwavering, irredeemable Ratpublican. The domestic terrorists are an essential segment of the Ratpublican base and most of their chosen representatives in Congress are part of the sedition caucus.

The handiwork of terrorists, foreign and domestic

Will we also remember that Donald Turmp was responsible for literally 100 times as many deaths as those who perished on 9/11 thanks to his sociopathically irresponsible response to the COVID pandemic? Over the course of two months, nearly a year into the pandemic Turmp nurtured, the U.S. averaged more deaths per day than those lost on 9/11. Many, if not most of those lost to the virus were, and continue to be directly attributable to Turmp’s actions. And that’s not counting those who died from drinking disinfectant, per his instructions.

As always, history is written by the victors, or at times by those who are able to convince the world that they won. Who will end up being the winner of the January 6^th insurrection? And who will actually prevail in the writing of its history.

I. Mangrey remembering.