{"id":8092,"date":"2022-01-06T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8092"},"modified":"2022-01-06T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T19:07:08","slug":"jan-6th-treason-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8092","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 6th: Treason Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>January 6th marks the one year anniversary of the Capitol riots, or Treason Day as we&#8217;re calling it here at the Bucket, and<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" like we mentioned in a previous post (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8040\" target=\"_blank\"> like we mentioned in a previous post<\/a>, many of the instigators like Paul Gosar, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene are still roaming free and haven&#8217;t been brought to justice or even expelled from Congress.  And the biggest culprit, TFG,  is still blabbing and squawking about non-existent election fraud on his cross country tour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2021\/12\/30\/former-president-donald-trump-announces-florence-arizona-visit-jan-15\/9059541002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"including an upcoming appearance here in Arizona (opens in a new tab)\">including an upcoming appearance here in Arizona<\/a>. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who sure seems to be taking his sweet time, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"assured America that his office will continue to pursue those responsible (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/01\/05\/1070675936\/ag-merrick-garland-jan-6-riot-accountable-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\">assured America that his office will continue to pursue those responsible<\/a> and that  &#8220;the actions we have taken thus far will not be our last.&#8221; We certainly hope so because up to now, we haven&#8217;t been particularly impressed with Mr. Garland or his Department of Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re reposting our photo-toon from our November post because it pretty much says it all. The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"facts surrounding Treason Day are undisputable (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/numbers-jan-investigation-shaping-year\/story?id=82057743\" target=\"_blank\">facts surrounding Treason Day are undisputable<\/a>. The investigation&#8217;s federal prosecutors<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" have charged more than 700 people related to the attack, with new criminal cases introduced every week (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/01\/05\/1070199411\/5-takeaways-from-the-capitol-riot-criminal-cases-one-year-later\" target=\"_blank\"> have charged more than 700 people related to the attack, with new criminal cases introduced every week<\/a>. Many of the accused have military backgrounds and are relatively young. About a quarter of those charged are accused of physical violence. But like we&#8217;ve said before,  <strong>this was an attempted coup to overthrow a legitimate election with almost zero voter fraud, no matter how much the Republicans claim there was!<\/strong> <strong>This was a dress rehearsal. If we don&#8217;t punish those responsible, the next time . . . and there will be next time, the rioters will be successful and America will cease to be a democracy!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jan6capitolriotinsurrectionattemptedcoup.jpg\" alt=\"Despite overwhelming evidence that the Jan. 6th riot was an attempted coup, the Republicans continue to gaslight the American people by saying that it was just a nice, friendly tourist visit.\" class=\"wp-image-8042\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jan6capitolriotinsurrectionattemptedcoup.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jan6capitolriotinsurrectionattemptedcoup-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Despite overwhelming evidence that the Jan. 6th riot was an attempted coup, the Republicans continue to gaslight the American people by saying that it was just a nice, friendly tourist visit. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 6th marks the one year anniversary of the Capitol riots, or Treason Day as we&#8217;re calling it here at the Bucket, and like we mentioned in a previous post, many of the instigators like Paul Gosar, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene are still roaming free and haven&#8217;t been brought to justice &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jan. 6th: Treason Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,2320,8,68,1687,963,3,2307,198],"tags":[1602,1575,2288,252,237,22,20,2331,1576,914,915,1538,9,2292,2330,2143,2144,199,98,296,2250,188,982,19,661,2245,2313,47,48,2332,2314,1034,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8092"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8100,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions\/8100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}