Those A**holes Closed Down our Sledding Hill
If appealing to the rule of law doesn't do the trick, maybe this will
We just had a massive snowfall in DC yesterday, and we woke up to a raft of school closures and cancellations.
We have a two year-old son whom has only gotten to sled once before in his entire life, and when we heard of the oncoming snowstorm, my wife and I figured it would be a great opportunity to break out the ole’ neon sled and take our kid to Capitol Hill for a few turns.
After all, the hill running down the west side of the Capitol is *the* place to sled in the city. I mean, look at this!
The building! The angle! Everything about it screams “I am hill, you must sled me.”
Yesterday was also January 6th, the day on which, every four years, Congress convenes to certify the results of the Presidential Election. For dozens of election cycles, this day was a generally uneventful one - after all, who in their right mind would have the audacity to question the results of fifty-one* separate federal elections conducted by the states (*and the District of Columbia) after being certified by each states’ governing body?
So in nearly every other year, if a massive snowstorm and January 6th happened to fall on the same day, you would see hundreds of DC residents trot out with their kids to the Capitol, enjoy the idyllic landscape, and have a good time.
Instead, this was the view that we DC residents had of the Capitol yesterday.
As it was for many weeks after January 6th, 2021, the Capitol grounds were surrounded by a 10-foot iron fence, preventing anyone without credentials from entering the area. Which meant that our beloved sledding hill was closed.
I am obviously and intentionally skipping over the reasons why there was a giant perimeter fence established around the Capitol for the day on which the election was certified, but just in case you need me to refresh your memory:
These craven jerkwads took away my kids’ sledding hill. And the person they stormed the Capitol for - Donald John Trump - has inexplicably escaped any form of punishment and will be installed as our next President in less than two weeks.
I want my sledding hill back. I want my country back.