Whether you support Donald Trump or hate him, please watch this 40- minute documentary produced by The New York Times. Please watch it all the way through to the end:
Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Your personal opinion of Trump or The New York Times is inconsequential.
Set aside your personal feelings about illegal immigration, abortion, foreign relations, jobs and the environment and concentrate on the scene that unfolds in this video.
What matters is that you take a candid, objective look at this presentation, absorb the visual content, try to comprehend the mentality of the participants and then ask yourself the following questions:
- Do you agree with Rep. Andrew Clyde who equated the events of Jan. 6 to a “normal tour visit”?
- Do you agree with Sen. Ron Johnson who said he never felt threatened during this event?
- Do you really think this was no more serious than the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Portland?
- Do you actually believe that these people were patriots trying to save democracy?
- Do you believe in your heart of hearts that Donald Trump’s rhetoric did not contribute to this event?
- Do you believe this is an accurate portrayal of support for police?
- Superimpose yourself into this crowd and ask yourself: “Would I be proud for my grandchildren to see me there?”
- Do you seriously believe that this was a proper way to display love for one’s country?
- Do you subscribe to the position that Donald Trump does not owe the country an apology?
If you answered in the affirmative to even one of these questions, then you are part of the problem.
Period.
Louisiana Voice 
No to all of the questions. But, is anything really going to happen? Is anybody going to face real consequences for inciting this? Nope. And that sickens me. None will be held accountable, none of the big wigs at least. The blind followers who did the actual crime will be held accountable, but none of the ones who have the money and power who told the blind sheep to do this will ever be punished as they should be. And that, to me, is the problem.
I agree, completely, and it is truly sickening that our country has come to this – and that at least 30% of the population think it is long overdue. May God have mercy on us.
You’ve officially become satire.
You’re almost funny yourself. 40 minutes of video footage, much of it shot by the participants themselves, and you call it satire. Only a Trumpite Kool-Aid drinker could make that stretch. Wow, just wow.
I just had a chance to watch the NYT film. It provides incontrovertible documentation of what happened on January 6. EVERY person in America needs to watch this and watch it in its entirety. I am still nauseous because it is literally sickening to watch. Anybody who believes this is some manufactured edit of the events has not had the courage to actually watch it and would prefer to attack it without doing so. I hope it can be entered into evidence for the House investigation. What happened and why deserves a full and complete airing.
I watched the insurrection in real time and was horrified then. Watching this documentary from all of these angles, especially the rioters footage, actually made me sick to my stomach. I’ve delayed watching because I knew I’d feel as anxious and frightened and infuriated as I was that day. These traitors should have all been rounded up that day, not released, and that they weren’t still baffles me. Perhaps one day they will all be arrested along with the former guy to face the consequences of their deadly actions.
Well said.