If you see it on TV, is it real?

 This is a political post. In case you are among my many friends avoiding such...fair warning!

People knew what the law was, and respected it. Even being willing to go to jail for sit-downs and peaceful demonstrations. But news coverage was limited.

Insurrection Jan 6, 2021. Many of us watched news reports throughout the day with many visuals available as live action, and then the next week more were publicized through personal videos as well.

Months of investigations by Select House Committee about the January 6 Insurrection, resulting in a public report.

Jan 20, 2025 President Trump pardoned 1500 who had been legally tried and convicted of the Jan. 6 Insurrection.

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Hang onto your own sense of reality.

This man doesn't have the same one as the rest of us. We will be tested over and over as he lies about the things we know aren't true, the facts of the Biden administration being trash-talked as he did in his campaign speeches.

Always look at the primary source of information. These days the broadcast news will inevitably be "handled" to shade the orange one and his lies as true. I learned when doing ancestry work, to look for written records, like bills of sale, last wills, census lists that showed me the truth of people's lives. Yes some people added names to their own family trees so they could say they were descended from so-and-so. But these people never really existed.

Now we have to carefully sift through the emotional triggers...to let them pass by as just winged moths going to the flame, and having no merit.

North Carolina had a visit from His Majesty the Orange One this last week, as he inferred "to see how the people had been forgotten by the previous administration after the Hurricane Helene disaster." He had some (MAGA?) people who gave their own experiences of the floods and land slides. They were indeed people who had suffered. His teasing thrust was that FEMA had failed and he would destroy it. (It is not within his executive powers, no matter how much he stretches them.)

I was pleased to hear a little voice of reason on our local evening news, which had covered the afternoon press conference earlier in the day. The evening news also spoke of the $100 million from FEMA that had been used in Buncombe County for housing help and rental assistance, which gave a little bit of positive information.

And perhaps fortunately, I haven't heard/read anything about his Imperial Lying Majesty's visit to California the same day.

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Today's quote:

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. -Leigh Hunt, poet and essayist (1784-1859)

Today's art:

Thetis  70,000 individual ceramic vases in this one monumental sculpture by Grégoire Scalabre.