Is There Really Nothing That Will Be Bad Enough?

Here's a story that our nation's press, which has been willing to publicize such blatant Republican lies as Obama's birth certificate, Benghazi, Critical Race Theory, Hunter Biden's alleged laptop or Hillary's e-mails, has managed to forget almost immediately.  From Newsweek:

"Images captured during the January 6 riot showed former Vice President Mike Pence hiding in an underground parking garage, according to the author of a book about the events surrounding the incidents at the Capitol.

ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl said while researching his book, he found out that Pence had been with an official White House photographer during the hours of the riot carried out by supporters of ex-President Donald Trump.  "He was in this concrete parking garage...with his family," Karl said. "This is the vice president of the United States and he is, like, holed up in a basement."

Why was he in a parking garage while a screaming mob ransacked the Capitol building intent on killing him?

"Pence, his aides, and staff were locked out of their offices in the capitol complex during the insurrection because their access badges had been DEACTIVATED the morning of the attack, according to sources familiar with the incident. According to one source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to an ongoing investigation, Pence's team huddled in a loading dock, unable to access their offices, and started planning contingencies for a constitutional crisis and how to remove the president. The access badges worked that morning before the mob entered the capitol, but once Pence was removed from the chamber floor, their badges no longer worked."

The badges which granted them access to safe spaces, which were fine earlier in the day, suddenly stopped working as traitorous Trump supporters roamed the Capitol intent on murder.

Who, you might wonder, would have the authority to place the Vice President of the United States in danger of losing his life, and exactly who would benefit if he had been caught and killed?  I doubt that we will ever "know" who did this, but we all know who is the only person with the power and contempt for democracy to do it.

This was an attempt to murder the Vice President, which would have provided a pretext to permanently stop the counting of electoral votes that would make Joe Biden President.  

Ask yourself this:  After this, how is Donald John Trump any different from John Wilkes Booth, or Lee Harvey Oswald?  Oh, there's one way he is different- as usual with Trump, his plan was a failure.  But other than that, as far as I am concerned, there is no real difference.  But of course, the mainstream press has chosen to utterly ignore what this means, as has the entire Republican party.  A few minutes better timing and Trump would still be in the Oval office, ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life, but nobody seems to care as much as whether some school somewhere is teaching Critical Race Theory.

At this point, our democracy is all but dead.