probably not but there’s a good chance that charges get added, right?
At this point it’s not even so much that I’m against overcharging everybody who was even tangentially involved (although I am). It’s more like I’m just pointing to where we’re heading with sadness and resignation.
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The GOP elites are basically Walter White in the desert after having called in the Nazis right now.
While lusting for power and money, they got in bed with the absolute worst people. Now they can’t call them off.
This isn’t going to work out for any of them, not even Hawley or Cruz. The nazis will always demand ever-crazier political representatives. They may get a barrel of money if they promise to go away quietly, or they may just get the Agent Schroeder ending, but its not going to go well for them from here.
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Trumps tweeting from 2011-2014 was pretty damn good
https://twitter.com/b1g_damage/status/1347691169770319872?s=21
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Normalizing political violence is a much greater danger than overcharging. Political violence can easily escalate and spiral out of control.
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Making people walk through the concentration camps did more than hanging people in Nuremburg.
I can be sympathetic to the “we’re fucked no matter what” line of thinking, but going down without a fight is not what I’d try.
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Yes
But they deserved to be hung.
You know something, you are correct. I definitely think there were people that were not up front and pressing to push their way in violently that later went in on a scenic tour for selfies. But it seems now like the existence of those people is providing cover for the people who lead the charge, and that’s not right. And you’re also correct that these people were comfortable enough to hang out with people spewing hatred, wearing and carrying open symbols of hate, and loudly calling for the death of govt representatives. They don’t deserve to be forgiven for their “mistakes”.
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Hanged (they weren’t tapestries).
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Is any application of rule of law fascism?
I don’t think so, no. This doesn’t look like a “lets quickly charge and upgrade later” situation to me.
My point isn’t for bloodlust or revenge or whatever. It just historically and logically works more often then doing nothing. The US is a lot closer to failed states, Balkans and other places that just ended up with the fascists in charge shortly after they were “stopped.” There is a very easy remedy to this!
Except we’re not heading there, because they’re not being charged appropriately. We’re heading someplace worse.
You’re probably not going down at all. You’re going to help Pyrrhus crush the Romans.
Downstate Illinois is as red as it gets
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Possibly every German citizen who didn’t oppose Hitler deserved to be hung. But, deserves got nothing to do with it. Hanging the top Nazis was important and of course they deserved it and Trump deserves to hang as well. Even if the guy who stole the podium deserves to hang, I don’t think the result would be good if he does.
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Isn’t it extremely difficult to win a case when you’re charged with an accessory to a crime? Like being in the car when somebody stops at 7 11 and unbeknownst to you robs it?
Its also unforgivable that there was zero effort to make widespread arrests of people carrying guns. DC has very strict gun laws, gjge.
LOL Pence - look what all that loyalty got you - first in line in a Ben Garrison cartoon and top 5 most hated in the Trump traitor pantheon forever.
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