The Erasure of January 6th Continues, US Mint Edition
While everyone was watching as Trump and Vance were taunting Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, other things were happening.
From last Friday at the rather niche publication Numismatic News:
The U.S. Mint has removed the bronze medal commemorating law enforcement officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, from its website. The removal appears to have been done without prior notice or explanation, leaving collectors and observers speculating about the reason behind the decision.
The medal was originally created as part of a congressional initiative to honor the U.S. Capitol Police, the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police, and other first responders who helped secure the Capitol during the events of January 6. Congress authorized gold medals to be awarded for their service, with bronze replicas made available to the public for purchase through the U.S. Mint.
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While the medal has been available for purchase for some time, its product page on the U.S. Mint’s website now returns an error message indicating it has been removed.
NBC News adds a few more details:
Former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, who was injured by the mob on Jan. 6, told NBC News that he tried to purchase a number of the replica medals this week, planning to hand them out as gifts, and was surprised to see they were no longer available.
Gonell said the erasure of the medals fits in a broader pattern, pointing to the failure of Congress to place a memorial for law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol up in the building before Trump’s second inauguration last month.
Justice Department webpages that listed the cases and featured summaries of the work of the federal prosecutors who brought Jan. 6 cases were also removed from the web after Trump took office.
“Not only do Republican members of Congress refuse to put up the plaque, but they are even erasing and removing the ability to purchase the coin for the Congressional Gold Medal,” Gonell said.
Before the listing was erased from the Mint’s website, a description noted that the medal was struck under the authority of Public Law 117-32, an act passed in August 2021 to honor the “sacrifice of heroes including Capitol Police Officers Brian Sicknick and Howard Liebengood, Metropolitan Police Department Officer Jeffrey Smith, and those who sustained injuries, and the courage of Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman.”
Tonight, Donald Trump will enter the US Capitol to address a joint session of Congress, entering the House chamber through the same door that Ashli Babbitt tried to climb through before being shot by US Capitol Police on January 6th.
George Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning, and Ray Bradbury did the same with Fahrenheit 451; Trump is using them both as instruction manuals. Trump and his minions are going after the FBI agents who played a part in the January 6th investigation, and also the DOJ lawyers who prosecuted the hundreds of the January 6th insurrectionists, declaring them to be workers of injustice. Trump has pardoned those hundreds – some who had pleaded guilty and others who were found guilty by a judge and/or jury – and declared them to be innocent victims of a political plot against him. Trump launched primary challenges against members of Congress who voted to impeach him, and threatens to do the same to any who stand in his way today. Up is down, declares the leader, and woe to any who dare to disagree.
And in this context, reports emerged last Friday that the US Mint has joined the effort to “disappear” the January 6th insurrection. We don’t know whether they were ordered to stop selling these medals by the White House or whether they decided this on their own as a way of trying to keep their heads down during the Trump/Musk purge of the government. Either way, the result is the same: the history of January 6th is being slowly erased.
The wording on those January 6, 2021 commemorative medals is simple and direct: “Honoring the service and sacrifice of those who protected the US Capitol.” The US Mint may have stopped selling the medals, and Trump may have pardoned those who stormed the Capitol, but the service and sacrifice which the medals recognize cannot be erased.
It can be forgotten, though – and nothing would please Trump more than that.
Wow, wow, wow.
And in case you missed last week’s wrestling match, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeUZI5RnYGg &pp=ygUKZGFpbHkgc2hvdw%3D%3D
[Moderator’s note: URL edited to inactivate tracking. Please remove everything after the ampersand when sharing YouTube links. /~Rayne]
Ah Rayne, thank you for mod guidelines on links. Couldn’t remember or figure out from the Google machine how to post them correctly.
Will copy pasta your guidelines to my cheat sheet. Thanks again.
https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3lggmkagcf22e
January 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Judge Amy Berman Jackson, 1/23/25:
It’s a pity the Ningi* doesn’t actually exist: a commemorative Ningi might have enough space on its face for all of Trump’s lies and broken promises to be engraved for posterity.
It could be placed into orbit around Mars ;-)
*The Ningi is a galactic unit of currency, valued at one eighth of a Triganic Pu. A Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side. Galactibanks refuse to deal in Ningis, declaring them “fiddling small change.” (see https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Ningi)
Time for a new coin:
https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio-arrested-a1b88e26b17e21193fbf92ad0e9a65e2
(EW: autofill name and email no longer working for me)
[Moderator’s note: did you try clearing your browser’s cache? /~Rayne]
Yes, I just did. I just tweaked my browser settings, too. We’ll see if that fixes it. Feel free to delete this reply.
Peterr,
Sorry for this OT. And apologies to Rayne as well. I don’t think there is a way to privately send messages so for better or worse…here goes.
I suppose Marcy, Ed, Rayne, and you might do this topic – as a separate top post – justice if indeed it is worthy of the effort.
I heard a name on the news last night – one that I heard before, but it had not then meant much. Curtis Yarvin.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
My limited take is as follows. When I think of Trump as a vessel for this radical change and not any sort of “true believer” then drawing a line from now to this future makes sense to me – not a straight line nor one one easily navigated. Then you see the “directors” around Trump – billionaires (Musk Thiel, Andreesen) but also Vought, Bannon, etc – all “disciples” to varying degrees of Yarvin.
Yarvin was quietly at the inauguration too: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/30/curtis-yarvins-ideas-00201552
Heading to the woodshed now.
Hey PeteT, I was just talking about this yesterday- the the broligarchs dreams of the Network State that’s informed by Yarvin’s half baked “philosophy”.
I highly suggested this video to explain that this goal of the Network State explains Musk’s actions. Their ideas are terrifying unless you want to live in a surveillance techno state.
Tech bro Supervillians Confess World Takeover Plan.
Figured out where the trackers on YouTube are finally!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFVgGamrWLg
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Very good. TY. I want MOAR. Got my pick and shovel in search of “gold”.
JD Vance brought Yarvin to Trump. Curtis Yarvin is a name we will all be forced to know, probably in a sickeningly short time. These people claim to be Christians, but their “moral philosophy” is far more indebted to Yarvin’s so-called ideas–which are not ideas but reactionary, regressive, and most of all angry rants directed at those less powerful than he is.
Yarvin:Trump regime = Dugin:Putin regime
Ruscism translated to American English.
for your woodshedding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQmoQEeNYrs&ab_channel=JoeScott
and this as well (nyt podcast)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcSil8NeQq8
that will give you a good overview of accelerationism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
and get you to yarvin and “dark enlightenment” aka “neo-reactionary movement” aka NRx.
I am not as deep a thinker as many of the people here but I have been wondering about DOGE and its true purpose. When all the information came out debunking their claims of getting rid of waste, I thought they were just data gathering for a Musk project. Seeing the Yarvin ideas next to what is happening is mind blowing, to use an ancient term.
Thinking ahead: Ventris C. Gibson, Dir. of the US Mint was appointed by Pres.Biden in 2022 “by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.” The term of the Director is 5 years. The President may remove the Director from office. On removal, the President shall send a message to the Senate giving the reasons for removal.” 31 U.S. Code § 304 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/304.
Ventris C. Gibson is the 7th woman in the role & first African American. “While working in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) she was the highest-ranking woman Veteran, and most recently, she served as a Director at the District of Columbia Department of Human Resources for Washington D.C.’s Mayor, Muriel Bowser.” She passionately advocated for the Harriet Tubman $20 bill.
https://heragenda.com/p/ventris-c-gibson/
I suspect over yhe course of the next four years the convicted 1/6 maga felons will be deemed patriots and they’ll get reparations from the govt. For their “ordeal”
Anybody else skipping Trump’s sermon tonight? I can’t stomach it esp. the applause.
(Rayne, autofill is back!)
DoJ “signals” settlement with Ashli BABBITT estate/husband.
Judicial Watch, linking to Washington Examiner:
https://www.judicialwatch.org/justice-signals-settlement-in-30m-ashli-babbitt-wrongful-death-suit/
DOJ is also interfering in az state to get tina peters released and “excessive sentence” vacated.
Settling with babbitt family even tho the investigation ruled the policeman acted appropriately. Settlement with convicted 1/6 magats are just around the corner.