Insurrectionist morons like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Lyin’ Ted Cruz and their ilk, taking their cue from the Big Orange Turd, keep referring to the rioters arrested for their violence on January 6, 2021 as hostages. According to this deranged theory the indicted and convicted rioters are political hostages, unfairly arrested, subjected to bogus political prosecutions, illegally locked up and being badly mistreated for merely engaging in forceful protest that the RNC officially designated “legitimate political discourse”.

Everyone knows what hostages are, they’re people taken prisoner by force, kidnapped and held for ransom, usually by criminals or terrorists, in order to extract concessions from the loved ones of the hostages they are holding. The civilians kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th, being held as pawns in a negotiation, are hostages.

By contrast, and in direct contradiction to compromised Speaker of the House MAGA Mike’s recent lie, no protester walking in the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, no matter how peaceful, was innocent of, at the very least, criminal trespass. The entire MAGA crowd right wing fabulist Tucker Carlson called “respectful, peaceful tourists” entered after a violent armed crowd overran the police lines, sending dozens to the hospital, and broke into the locked building where a joint session of congress was in progress. Leaving aside the disgusting detail of how many of these innocent patriotic citizens defecated and pissed in the halls of the People’s House, while sacking it.

Many of these militant, right wing, white nationalist motherfuckers, like the ones who chanted “Hang Mike Pence (bring him out!) hang Mike Pence (bring him out!)” were guilty of crimes much more serious than trespass, in spite of Ronna Romney McDaniels’ alternative fact styling of their activities as “legitimate political discourse.”

Here is a very short description of one of Trump’s so-called hostages, the innocent patriots that he is fixing to fully pardon in his syphilitic fever dream of a second term when he would be a dictator for one day.