Groucho Marks has been credited with the line “Who are you going to believe? Me, or your lying eyes?” to his wife. Of course this was after she caught him in bed with another woman.
Evening shift on January 6, 2021 started like they all did.
It was the 1st pandemic winter. There was good news. The vaccines were flowing into peoples’ arms. Schools in North Carolina were still mostly remote.
We were all masked. Even in the operating room core and the hallways.
Children under 14 were still not permitted to visit family members in the hospital.
However things were looking up. Most of the hospital had had at least 1 covid vaccine with a lucky few having both shots. There was talk of the expansion of the vaccines to those who were most vulnerable. The operating rooms had opened and were operating at a full capacity.
This means we were busy, busy, busy. As the fall into winter rush showed no signs of abatement.
The first Cookie Thursday is a Thing was set to happen the next day on January 7th. I was very proud of that month’s theme. The theme was Boozy Cookies. To celebrate us and the crap year we had just gone through.
Just an ordinary Wednesday.
A new president of the United States had been elected on November 3, 2020.
With the attendant denials and bluster from the current to the time president.
Rumblings of refusal to leave were being heard and drum beats filled the media and news stories. The far right was gathering their forces (the people who stormed the capital) by filling their heads with more lies.
January 6, 2021 was supposed to be the vote to certify the election. The best thing that Vice President Pence ever did was to stand by the Constitution and refuse to bow the knee.
Instead it was chaos as the supporters of the current to the time president stormed the capital.
They were high on the idea, carefully fed to them, that the election outcome had been a mistake, that their man could never be voted out. That there was a election theft happening right under their noses.
And they marched and rushed the capital. At least 2000 of them
It was chaos.
Around the same time I clocked in for my shift rioters were breaking the windows of the Capital and helping themselves to the inside.
More chaos.
They were stopped.
In the aftermath there was a protestor dead. A United States Capitol Police officer died later that day after being attacked and sprayed. There were four suicides of other USCP officers within the next year.
It happened.
No matter what the current White House and the current President would have you believe it happened.
There was violence at the capital.
Five years later the same President is back in office through a series of unfortunate events. And pardoned the nearly 1600 people who had been convicted of crimes related to January 6, 2021 on his first day back at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
And still causing chaos.
The most recent scapegoat on the White House’s newest sham website are the police. The violent protestors who broke windows and assaulted officers and smeared shit on the walls of the capital were “peaceful protestors”.
This is not correct. This is a LIE and we all know it.
Well, most of us are aware of the white washing of history going on in our very own White House.
The horrible events of this horrible day happened.
No matter what they are trying to cram down your throat.
We remember and do not fall for their lies.
Up the rebels.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 