A deep reveal of the reality of our current GOP absurdity (h/t tengrain):

Someone PLEASE TELL ME what happened tonight on @11thHour with Brian Williams! ? pic.twitter.com/VjzwMPbtt2

— Douglass Sloan (@DougSloan) January 29, 2021

Gross, and further still:

Howver, not an ounce of any kind of romance — it’s all liars lying about lying.
Jennifer Rubin at The Washington Post this morning on the crazed GOP:

When it comes to the former president specifically, PRRI reports, “More than six in ten Americans (64-percent) now say that Trump has encouraged white supremacist groups, compared to 57-percent in September 2020.”
Twenty-five percent of Republicans say the same, up from 18-percent in September.
How many times have we heard Trump’s call to march on the Capitol?
His lies about a stolen election?
Apparently most of his followers prefer to forget.

Even more bizarrely, only 35-percent of Republicans are willing to hold white supremacists — the ones who paraded through the Capitol with Confederate flags, wearing “Camp Auschwitz” shirts and threatening to murder then-Vice President Mike Pence — responsible for the attack.
Do they really imagine these were disguised antifa forces?
In the real world, 62-percent said white supremacists shoulder a lot of the blame for the attack (22-percent say they are a little bit to blame).

The vast majority of Republicans prefer to live in a world of denial, even at the price of refusing to hold the instigator of a domestic terrorist attack responsible.
The party’s base, at this point, is as delusional as Republican “leaders” who refuse to convict Trump for instigating the assault and who treat conspiracy-monger Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) as a member in good standing.

And end result via history:

Yet we need judgment for the now…

(Illustration: Salvador Dalí’s ‘Galatea of the Spheres,’ found here).