America This Week: January 2, 2022

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Reflections on the Anniversary of January 6th

These pricks really did try to overthrow the government of the United States of America, y’all. Every damn day there are more people cooperating and there is more color on the sedition-paint-by-number and it’s really fucking scary. And it is ongoing. This coming week we will observe the one-year anniversary. I love spy thrillers and political thrillers but can we keep it in my fiction going forward ffs.

Author’s screenshot, movie poster for the classic Watergate thriller, “All The President’s Men”

It feels weak to compare the two historical events, but we’ve never experienced something this horrific before so there’s going to be a lot of grasping toward comparatives.

• Watergate: 13 months to pubic hearings; 21 months to indictments; 69 people indicted.
• January 6th: over 300 witnesses interviewed by the committee; public hearings starting soon; 800+ people charged (only the foot soldiers so far, but several members of the fascist militia appear to be cooperating); committee is reviewing the funders’ bank data; three GOP Members of Congress have been named as having relevant information to the case.