Pardons – so very disappointing.

What biden did for a son … pretty bad. What biden did for his extended family much worse. What he did for truly heinous criminals .. appalling.

Preemptive Pardons seem ridiculous, but trump made threats against civil servants both in speeches and interviews. So that one is gray.

What trump did pardoning Jan 6 people is simply scary. That storming of the government, was a clear message, from a person who was still president, but lost, who wanted an election certification stopped. If his speech wasn’t enough to motivate, then mob theory does help fuel what occurred.

People know words matter – he uses them to rile, threaten and to get others to do his bidding.

I know there was embedded informants, that is true of any demonstration, I know that someone opened a door and let them in. But fired up mob theory caused people to target and destroy. All in the name of disruption of a certification.

Some likely believed they were part of history, others simply caught up in a moment and were brainwashed, the scary part is no one will be held accountable for what was a real and documented assault. There is no comparison, not historical riots or the 60’s or black lives matter. They wanted to stop certification.

(The 1921 Tulsa OK attack by whites on a black section of town might be a comparison, because its message was to change a dynamic, burn them out, and to instill fear. kkk, lynching, vigilantism were prevalent there.)

Times they are a changin’