Nancy Pelosi's sham investigation

Thank God for journalists who are interested in reporting the truth. Glen Greenwald is a journalist in search of the truth. In this article, Greenwald puts January 6th in historical and statistical context. He cited Vice President Harris's assault on common sense when she compared January 6 with Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Greenwald put things into statistical context by citing the fact that "the number of people killed by pro-Trump supporters at the January 6 Capitol riot is equal to the number of pro-Trump supporters who brandished guns or knives inside the Capitol." It's worth noting that "the number of pro-Trump supporters who brandished guns or knives inside the Capitol" is equal to the number of corporate media elitists interested in finding the truth.

The number of people killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor is 2,403. The number of people killed on 9/11 is 2,977. Comparing January 6th with those historic days is ridiculous. Thinking people understand the historical importance of 9/11 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Comparing January 6th with those days is like comparing a fishing boat with the Queen Elizabeth luxury liner. They don't fit together whatsoever. But I digress.

Greenwald continues with this:

That is the same number as the total of Americans who — after a full year of a Democrat-led DOJ conducting what is heralded as “the most expansive federal law enforcement investigation in US history” — have been charged with inciting insurrection, sedition, treason or conspiracy to overthrow the government as a result of that riot one year ago. Coincidentally, it is the same number as Americans who ended up being criminally charged by the Mueller probe of conspiring with Russia over the 2016 election, and the number of wounds — grave or light — which AOC, who finally emerged at night to assure an on-edge nation that she was “okay" while waiting in an office building away from the riot at the rotunda, sustained on that solemn day.

That number is zero.

Of course, it couldn't be a complete day without the cast of Hamilton performing at anniversary of January 6th:

How appropriate. The 1/6 Committee is as much theater as is the cast of Hamilton. Greenwald notes, though, that there's an important lesson worth learning from this performance:

The Democratic Party, eager to cling to their majoritarian control of the White House and both houses of Congress, knows it has no political program that is appealing and thus hopes that this concocted drama will help them win — just as they foolishly believed about Russiagate. With the threat of Al Qaeda and ISIS faded if not gone, and the attempt to scare Americans over Putin a failure, the U.S. security state, always in need of a scary enemy, has settled on the claim that right-wing “domestic extremists" are the greatest threat to U.S national security; though they claimed this before 1/6, casting 1/6 as an insurrection allows them to classify an entire domestic political movement as an insurrectionary criminal group and thus justify greater spying powers and budgetary authorities.

At the heart of this is the fact that the Corporate Media continually reinforces an us-vs.-them narrative to breed mistrust between people. It's time to put a permanent end to that narrative.