A couple take-aways.

– I’d always thought that (no particular order here) LBJ, Nixon, and Reagan would be the both the worst people to hold the office and the worst at performing their jobs as president I’d ever see in my life. The last four years have shown how massively ignorant that thought was — the first year of trump’s presidency convinced me of that. He rocketed past those other three
– Today means that G. W. Bush is no longer the worst living former-president

Re “. . . the Metro police were stunned, undermanned and unprepared for Trump’s surprise launch of thousands of his enraged Trump supporters, some armed, on the Capitol.”

Then they must not have been paying attention to the last four years of Trump’s tens of thousands of lies and near constant fomenting of as much division and trouble in the nation as he could. It is more likely that there were/are Trump stooges in place within the command structure that were told to make sure no unsettling warnings circulated and no preparations were made.

I believe that is under investigation now, along with possible aid to the perps provided by active and/or past military and police, and even Republicans in Congress.

I’m glad you brought that up. Ever since the Malignant Moron still infesting the W. H. has been charging, without real evidence of course, that the election he “won in a landslide” was “stolen from him” I’ve thought that:
(1) If there was any significant amount of fraud involved, it is way more likely to have been Republicans doing it than Democrats. Democrats just need to turn out the vote; the modern Republican Party is a minority party — just look at the racists, neoconfederates, Qanoners, boogalooers, and other wackos who make up the MM’s cheering base these days.
And (2) Trump and Republicans in general do a lot of psychological projection of their thoughts, motivations, and aims on their perceived enemies. It’s been a useful tip-off.

One hundred days before Dave Patrick Underwood was murdered on 29 May, a group of analysts who monitor online extremism concluded that an attack like the one that killed him was coming.

An anti-government movement intent on killing law enforcement officers had been growing rapidly on social media, the analysts at the Network Contagion Research Institute warned.

Building on the work of other analysts, the researchers had identified Facebook groups where thousands of members obsessed over the idea of an imminent American civil war called “the Boogaloo”

Extremism experts warned that the anti-government movement was planning attacks online. Why didn’t Facebook act?

ISTR reading somewhere that Zuckerberg was sympathetic to Trump, and here it is:

Will Zuckerberg dump Trump, or continue to serve him?

Before Donald Trump exhorted the Jan. 6 rally to march on the Capitol, the White House had been warned by the rally sponsor that there was no permit for a march, that DC Metro Police were promised there would be no march, and that such an unplanned march was dangerous.

As a result, the Metro police were stunned, undermanned and unprepared for Trump’s surprise launch of thousands of his enraged Trump supporters, some armed, on the Capitol.

Insider: White House was Warned March was Illegal
Trump’s Call to March Broke Organizer’s Promise to DC Police

“But I cannot emphasize that there must be no violence, no lawbreaking, and no vandalism of any kind.”

Right — he cannot emphasize that; it would make him look weak. /sarc

Aaaah Conservapedia, the place where (“the man” refers to Andy Schlafly, son of the infamous orange-juice tinged anti-gay bigot)

– the man behind it, allegedly an electrical engineer, posted an “argument” that complex numbers weren’t useful and aren’t needed
– the man behind it argued, and may still argue, that proof by contradiction isn’t valid and “no true mathematician uses it”
– tried to argue that relativity was a hoax. His brother attempted a defense but wouldn’t say Einstein’s formulation was correct because “Einstein was a jew”

That isn’t even mentioning the “2008 massacre” in which one of schlafly’s “editors”, Ed Poor, went on a rampage and mutilated most of the already rare accurate discussions of math and physics. The place is designed for the low IQ right wing folk — it’s probably where rickA and mikeN get their information.

I’m not surprised they have an unhinged tribute to the insurrectionist in the White House.

https://billmoyers.com/story/insurrection-timeline-first-the-coup-and-then-the-cover-up-updated/

Well posted again Jef:

Trump and his goons did everything to impede mail-in voting and voting using drop-off boxes, knowing that both methods would garner far more Democrat than Republican votes.

And Raffensperger is far from a champion of democracy given his actions as revealed here by “Greg Palast

Chris Winter your posts are also timely and show how RickA’s claims about antifa and Republican terrorists not burning down buildings, a crafty claim given that fire is not required to cause the chaos and damage wrought by such entities and clearly visible in the video posted.

Well posted again Jef:

Trump and his goons did everything to impede mail-in voting and voting using drop-off boxes, knowing that both methods would garner far more Democrat than Republican votes.

And Raffensperger is far from a champion of democracy given his actions as revealed here by “Greg Palast

Chris Winter your posts are also timely and show how RickA’s claims about antifa and Republican terrorists not burning down buildings, a crafty claim given that fire is not required to cause chaos and damage wrought by such entities and clearly visible in the video posted.