You Get What You Pay For

As an addendum to my last post (you did watch the video, didn't you?  If not, go back and watch it now), I present a fundraising email just released this week from Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Az.).

"...I refuse to accept their false narrative about January 6."

"...the FBI might have had a hand in planning and carrying out that event."

He goes on describe Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed as she tried to illegally breach the Capitol and reach members of Congress who were just yards away as "executed in cold blood by an unidentified killer."

In previous comments he called those invading the Capitol "peaceful patriots."

Rep. Gosar is not alone in fundraising (fundraising!) off of lies about the attack on the Capitol and about the election.  He pledges that he "will not stop asking questions until I get truthful answers about the events of that day.", yet he voted against the formation of a bipartisan commission to formally investigate what took place.

Furthering the lie in order to fleece the gullible and grift for money is the objective here, not seeking the truth.  This is another egregious example, but there are many more like him doing the same thing.  

You Owe It To Yourself To Watch This: Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol

A 40-minute heartbreaking video from the New York Times.  

Also here:

Day of Rage:  An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol

A six-month Times investigation has synchronized and mapped out thousands of videos and police radio communications from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, providing the most complete picture to date of what happened - and why."  Includes cell phone and unsealed police body cam footage to show the most complete (to date) picture of the attack on democracy that took place on January 6th.

Let's be clear:  The cause for the invasion of the capitol was a lie.  A lie spread and encouraged (still to this day) by Donald Trump and his surrogates.

This includes Republican members of Congress who are trying to whitewash the events of, and leading up to, that day because they are afraid the findings will hurt them in the midterms and 2024, and tarnish the false narrative they're using to attempt to pass sweeping voting restrictions across the country, particularly in the states Trump lost that cost him the election.

All based on a lie about the election because a certain candidate lost.

And the lies continue, like "Antifa" was responsible for the riot, or the FBI coordinated it, or lies like this one, which is one of the most egregious examples from a member of Congress, but by far not the only one:

"Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes, taking videos and pictures.  You know, if you didn't know the TV footage was a video from January the 6th, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit."

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.)  May 12, 2021