Beer And Conversation With Pigweed And Crowhill

P&C drink and review Double Nickel Session IPA, then discuss January 6 and all the hyperventilating about it. The over-hyping of the events of January 6 turned Pigweed and Crowhill away from the story. When everyone over-reacts, we under-react. Now that there's some distance and the rhetoric has died down a bit, maybe there's some ability to evaluate it calmly. First, Trump was absolutely wrong in his belief that Pence had the authority to not certify the election results. Unfortunately, some people believed it. Second, there have been some persistent lies about that day, such as the claim that six police officers died. That's not true. The lies and exaggerations were quite over the top. Calling the event an "armed insurrection" is absurd. If Jan. 6 was an insurrection, it was the lamest, stupidest insurrection that's ever been attempted. Calling it an attempt to overturn democracy, or destroy the Constitution, is such breathless, mindless stupidity that it beggars the imagi