This Raw Story OP/ED turned my stomach, but it's TRUE...Trump's Jan 6 stunt is "close to being forgotten"

[Miles Archer]

Last edited Sat Aug 23, 2025, 12:07 PM - Edit history (1)

REPUBLICANS tucked their tails between their legs and feigned ignorance...the Sgt Schultz "I see NOTHING I hear NOTHING" thing.

Trump PARDONED the assholes he sent to the Capitol.

EVEN AFTER Fox and Newsmax took it in the shorts with defamation lawsuits, Trump STILL PIMPS HIS "BIG LIE" at every given opportunity, and if he's not given one, he just MAKES one.

TRUMP is an ADJUDICATED RAPIST, he got away with FRAUD, and he got away with JANUARY 6.

I REFUSE TO BUY INTO THE "BUT WHAT IF HE REFUSES TO LEAVE IN 2028" bullshit. That doesn't mean it's not a possibility. I'm just not going to spend the next 3 and a half years worrying about it. Here's the link to the RS piece:

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-election/

[BoRaGard]

1. Historians will not forget

Nor will I.

The GOP disgraced itself for all-time by violently pissing, crapping, and beating on America and American democracy.

[Lovie777]

2. Nope................

[EarlG]

3. I've been thinking about this concept a fair amount lately

The idea that history is easily forgotten. Trump is attacking our short and long term memories as individuals, and our long term memory as a society.

As a personal example on the individual level, Trump's only been in office seven months, and I've already forgotten what he was doing six months ago.

Human long term memory isn't infinite, for most people at least. While some individuals do seem to have total recall capability, generally speaking, over time, we only remember the things that our brains think are important.

So in a normal presidential administration, this wouldn't be an issue, because most of the time you don't need to know what the president is doing on a daily basis. But Trump's method is to remain the center of attention each and every day, which overwhelms the brain's ability to separate what's necessary to remember, from what's not.

On a societal level, we don't just remember things we need to remember -- we remember things we choose to remember. We record moments in human history because it helps us to agree on where we came from and use that knowledge to move forward.

This is why Trump's attacks on museums are so insidious. He'd like to change what we, as a society choose to remember -- what we've decided is important to us. He would like us to remember history differently -- so that things like slavery, or the civil rights movement, or his assault on the Capitol Building, never happened.

[Miles Archer]

4. What strikes me as the most odious is that this time, it's all being done out in the open

And the public really doesn't seem to care (as a majority...I know there are people who care).

ALL OF THE "adults in the room" are gone...all of the guardrails shattered...Trump's enjoying his benediction / anointing from John Roberts.

And America, for the most part, is just sitting back and letting it happen. CNN is worthless, and unless viewers tether themselves to Wallace, Maddow, and O'Donnell, MSNBC is just as bad. Musk's Twitter is a MAGAt freeway rest stop. The good news, I'd say, is that most of my Facebook friends know what's in the Kool-Aid.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. As is the stolen classsified documents case.

THE MF'ER STOLE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS!!!!

[TnDem]

6. I'd go easy on part of that

Claiming "rape" being one of them...That's what snuffleupagus got in trouble for...Always claimed the adjudicated crime, not hyperbole.

Pardoning people is what all Presidents do, often times for political reasons...Clinton pardoned his brother and Biden pardoned his son. That's politics and it's the perks and politics of winning the office of President...This Jan 5th bunch is no different.

It's all politics.

[Miles Archer]

9. Yeah, you're right, I edited the OP.

I hate calling Trump an "adjudicated rapist" because it implies that E Jean Carroll wasn't raped, or she was "allegedly" raped.

[Clouds Passing]

7. Thanks merrick

[Midwestern Democrat]

8. It was a very bitter and shocking pill to swallow, but for whatever reason, Jan 6th as an issue never really seemed to

gain any real traction with anyone outside of the Democratic base - I began to realize this as early as the summer of 2021.

[haele]

10. In a way that's right.

How many people actually remembered, say, the Bonus Army? When I was growing up, people were still around who would have been involved. It wasn't discussed, and hadn't been after a few years of it happening. it wasn't "brought up", it wasn't memorialized, when legislation concerning veterans, or pensions, or social structure responsibility concerning the poor and elderly when it came to promises of support.
There wasn't film.
The full scope of draft riots of the Civil War, heck, even the Vietnam "War" (note - it wasn't just Kent State and Chicago)? The Civil rights riots? Watts?
Beuller?
Media doesn't remember what isn't profitable to it's ownership. And the average citizen is far more interested in living their own life as it progresses.
And all these things before short attention span Meme Culture.
Jan 6 is already becoming a footnote, and frankly, it's being rewritten - future history might just blame Biden, no matter how progressive the history, far more than *Rump for it because his administration didn't react properly to it.

[BadgerKid]

11. The coup never ended. Nt