Democrats obsess over January 6th in order to promote changing all the rules.

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Slash, Ben, we'll get to all the news in just one moment. First, let me remind you that you're spending way too much on your cell phone bill. Did you know that you don't just vote in November? You vote every single month with the money that you spend and the companies you spend it with. If you're still a customer of Verizon or AT&T or T-Mobile, you're choosing to support the candidates in issues that they donate to.

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election fraud, how he was the rightful president, how Mike Pence could somehow illegally shift the

votes in the election or not count votes in the election and throw the entire process into

chaos and then continued Trump in the presidency. None of that was true. So you don't have to

downplay the evils of January 6th in order to recognize that the left is now doing with January 6th is absurd. The left has declared that January 6th is the be-all end all. It is the only thing that matters in human history. And it only matters because if there's an emergency, if there's an ongoing emergency, this means that they can take emergency power in the same way that the left used COVID in order

to grab control and never relinquish it of every aspect of American life in major American

cities like New York or Los Angeles or Chicago in exactly the same way.

The left is now suggesting that January 6th is not a bad thing that happened, a horrible thing

that was perpetrated by people who are now in jail

and that was revved up by a president who's no longer president. No. Instead, they have to say

January 6th is every day. That was literally the name of an editorial from the New York Times

yesterday. January 6th is every day. Every day is January 6th. Well, no, it's not. But the reason

they have to say that is because if there's an ongoing threat to democracy, each and every day. Every day is January 6th. Well, no, it's not. But the reason they have to say that is because if there's an ongoing threat's democracy, each and every day, if that threat is ongoing, continuous, never ending, that means the only way to fight back against that is to seize control of all the levers of power, just as they did with COVID. If there's an ongoing emergency, we must have emergency power. If there's an ongoing electoral emergency, we must have emergency electoral power. Now, here is the thing. January 6th, the

riot at the Capitol building, that was really not even quite unprecedented. I know that we've all

sort of memory hold what happened in 2017, but over 200 people were arrested in Washington, D.C. when Trump was inaugurated

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