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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 319: Was Jan 6 "the darkest day in history"?
Description: 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...