As far as we know, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell was not at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, but the ghosts of the insurrection still haunt him. The Capitol doesn’t feel the same as it did before … now it feels like visiting a historic battlefield. O’Donnell is not alone; as VICE reported on the six-month anniversary of the riots, journalists were still coming to terms with the trauma they’d experienced. “I’m still not sleeping like I used to, even to this day,” said PBS NewsHour correspondent Lisa Desjardins. Freelance reporter Matt Laslo choked up as he revealed that he “used to call the Capitol my girlfriend,” but now he didn’t even want to be there.
More than two years later, the trauma lives on.
Today is my 1st time inside the Capitol since Jan 6. Everything looks the same but it doesn’t feel the same. Maybe I’ll get used to it again but now it feels like a visit to an historic battlefield. Out of every window you see the paths of the attackers. pic.twitter.com/VpUNFSbvFP
— Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) February 2, 2023
Calm down
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) February 2, 2023
February 2nd, 2023
The air is still think with the anguished howls of the ghosts of America’s founders. The clouds hang low on the horizon, as if the crippling weight of that fateful day burdens our nation’s soul. https://t.co/HLRhpW6xVF— John 'pro-norms' Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) February 2, 2023
I feel the same way when I walk into a Walmart. Every Black Friday of the past haunts me.
— Thirteen O'Clock – Todd (@o_thirteen) February 2, 2023
Thank you for your service.
— this Max guy (@MaxNordau) February 2, 2023
Oh. please.
— Goldens Rule (@jamesbranch3) February 2, 2023
Holy crap, you're weak.
— Jason Scalese (@jason_scalese) February 2, 2023
OMFG, get over yourself
— Bill Lumbergh, The Puppatus of Love (@Jeff_Weimer) February 2, 2023
Easy there chief, not exactly Flanders Field is it
— GoodestBoi (@GoodBoiLaserDog) February 2, 2023
— Damin Toell (@damintoell) February 2, 2023
Drama Queen pic.twitter.com/tAgLa0buZl
— Ultra-MAGA Deplorable Petr (@PragueArtist) February 2, 2023
Lol you gonna be ok bro? 🤣
— BKactual (@BravoKiloActual) February 2, 2023
I really liked it when the savage attackers stood politely in line behind velvet ropes.
It was practically Stalingrad, you can tell. pic.twitter.com/QmEnhIhmje
— BerzerkSavant (@BerzekSavant) February 2, 2023
I don't know how you survived
— Ted (@DenverTeddy526) February 2, 2023
Courage, Larry. Courage
— It's Crazy What You Could've Had (@ConservaThreads) February 2, 2023
— Terby (@mterbs2) February 2, 2023
— Todd Brooks (@brooks_todd) February 2, 2023
You're the real victim in all of this, Lawrence. When did the shaking stop?
— TheRealJoeFL65 (@TheRealJoeFL65) February 2, 2023
My friend John was there that day. He was so traumatised he fled Washington. He was arrested for vagrancy, but escaped to a disused mineshaft in the woods. Later on, he blew up a gas station, hijacked a supply truck & shot a cop. When they caught him he was crying like a baby
— marc blanc (@blancmarc20) February 2, 2023
Alright after reading this, maybe men can be women..
— Call Sign: Idiot (@benkrake) February 2, 2023
That vase the insurgents knocked over was cleaned up by a congressman who then donated the suit he was wearing on January 6 to the Smithsonian.
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One reporter who survived the Capitol riots says he ‘used to call the Capitol my girlfriend,’ but now he doesn’t want to be there https://t.co/3eGozG1dPh
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