A short thread about "crazy":

On the block where I lived in Louisiana, there was an hunchbacked old lady w/ a yard full of random junk that included a 50's-looking rocket shell. There was a guy who had his license revoked for being nuts, so he drove a lawnmower around the 'hood.

The lawnmower had a basket on the front where he'd put his Pomeranian. There was a creepy tall guy who just walked around all day & smoked. One day on the way home from school me & my friend saw him kneeling in his yard w/ his eyes closed. We ran. There was homeless guy...

...under the crosswalk who people hired for odd jobs. There was a Masonic temple, & next door this one lady had really loud peacocks. This was all in 1 block. When I went to grad school in the Northeast, ppl thought I was lying about this stuff & doing a "colorful southerner" bit

I could go on & on & on & on. My point: the crazy that you saw in the Capitol on 1/6 has always been here in a big way. You just didn't live in the right place. Sorry you didn't see it, before. You do now. Thank the internet for that, I guess.

There was a 14yo inside me watching the goons invade the capitol like, "LOL them's my people! My people are in the capitol, y'all! They done busted into that sucker! Aiii-eee!!" *accordion music*