{"id":51971,"date":"2022-06-18T01:24:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T01:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51971"},"modified":"2022-06-18T01:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T01:24:25","slug":"this-isnt-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51971","title":{"rendered":"This isn&#8217;t &#8216;normal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/US-Capitol-Police-officer-dies-after-DC-riots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45981\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/US-Capitol-Police-officer-dies-after-DC-riots-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/US-Capitol-Police-officer-dies-after-DC-riots-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/US-Capitol-Police-officer-dies-after-DC-riots-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/US-Capitol-Police-officer-dies-after-DC-riots-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/US-Capitol-Police-officer-dies-after-DC-riots.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake that I will go to my grave wondering how in the name of sane thought certain congressional Republicans can compare the 1\/6 insurrection to a normal &#8220;tour group&#8221; walking through the Capitol Building.<\/p>\n<p>Yet &#8230; they are. They continue to insist that despite what our &#8220;lying eyes&#8221; are telling us, the attack on our nation&#8217;s Capitol was no big deal. The traitors who smashed through windows, waged hand-to-hand combat with Capitol cops and defecated on the floor bore no resemblance to a &#8220;normal&#8221; tour group.<\/p>\n<p>The televised congressional hearings continue to engrave in our memories that the frontal assault was organized as such and carried out just as radical groups intended.<\/p>\n<p>What continues to astound me is that the congressmen and women who barf out the nonsense about 1\/6 have voters back home who actually endorse the perversion that pours out of their respective pie holes.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great country. Its greatness, though, is being stained &#8212; indelibly, I fear &#8212; by the nimrods conducted the insurrection against our democratic process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make no mistake that I will go to my grave wondering how in the name of sane thought certain congressional Republicans can compare the 1\/6 insurrection to a normal &#8220;tour group&#8221; walking through the Capitol Building. Yet &#8230; they are. They continue to insist that despite what our &#8220;lying eyes&#8221; are telling us, the attack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51971\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This isn&#8217;t &#8216;normal&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2280],"class_list":["post-51971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-insurrection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51972,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51971\/revisions\/51972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}