Who Were These People?

In horror we watched as our nation's

Capitol Building was overrun

By wild, angry pro-Trump mobs

On one…six…twenty-one.

 

Who were these people? you might ask.

Do you really want to know?

It's hard to imagine how people here

Could be so vile and stoop that low.

 

We could see T-shirts that read

6 - M - W - E.

"Six Million Wasn't Enough"

Is what they say it means, you see.

 

The number "Six Million"° refers

To the number of Jews whose lives were lost

Back in the 1940s during

The nightmarish Holocaust!

 

At least one thug wore a T-shirt

That read "Camp Auschwitz." He's a guy

You wouldn't want to bring home to Mother.

I'll give you fifty reasons why.

 

Some stormed through the halls of Congress

Waving Confederate flags. How telling!

Others were members of white militias,

Running through the building and yelling.

 

Others involved were QAnon people

Who have nothing better to do

Than think up bizarre conspiracy theories

And then pretend that the nonsense is true.

 

Members of the KKK

Also showed up there to endorse

The president. But who is shocked?

That is merely par for the course.

 

One thing that united them all

Was how they swallowed the president's lies.

After he fired them up at a rally,

Their wild behavior was not a surprise.

 

Trump says these are patriots!

Patriots? If such a display

Shows patriotism, then Trump is growing

More delusional every day.

 

-by Bob B (1-9-21)

 

°Some estimate that the number was millions more

Reviews

[barleygirl]

Altho I'm late in reading this & most are ready to move on, I have to give credit where credit is due. You do a great job of letting the visuals of that day speak for themselves, while also tying these scenes together with snappy rhyme & rhythm. It's both shocking & funny to hear "regular" Trump supporters complain that they're getting "lumped in" together with these scoundrels that stormed the Capitol. You associate with pigs, you own the mud that gets on you (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Bob B]

I wrote a comment and it didn't post for some reason. I'll try to remember what I said.
I said that I love how your expressed the idea that if we associate with pigs, we own the mud that gets on us. It infuriates me how many members of Congress voted to overturn the results of a fair election, which contributes to the lie and further incites insurrection, and then they say that we must heal and unite. OMG!