The same Republicans who denied the obvious now say that it’s old news. Nothing to see here. The attempted coup, or hissy fit or whatever it was, really was the work of left-wing Antifa, or was an FBI false flag operation. It’s hard to keep track of the evolving claims. It was “legitimate political discourse,” as the Republican Party put it last February. We’ve known these details for months, but my main takeaway is not just that Trump incited a riot and did so for base purposes (his ego), but that the entire effort was an eye-rolling farce.

The most recognizable Capitol intruder is a bare-chested, spear-carrying man wearing a fuzzy, horned hat seemingly lifted from Fred Flintstone’s Loyal Order of the Water Buffaloes. The intruders weren’t able to “Hang Mike Pence,” but they managed to create plenty of mayhem. But to what end remains unclear.

“The problem I have with the coverage of January 6 is that nobody is capturing the comedic value of the events leading up to that day and the pathetic half-assed, angry-boomer insurrection,” Tweeted attorney Doug McCullough. Yep. Americans should be mocking the snowflakes who stormed the Capitol, some who portray their resulting wrist-slaps as gulag-like injustices.