That's it?
THAT'S FUCKING NOTHING.
FOUR MORE YEARS!
Badalian’s efforts to cover up his Jan. 6 participation also included changing his phone number, prosecutors said.
Remember this example of tactical brilliance the next time you hear some right wing asshole talking about a second civil war.
That's why these people don't really scare me, they're huge idiots.
They should. They came alarmingly close to overturning democracy. Imagine a round 2 where there’s more organization.
They didn't though. They came alarmingly close to overturning a performative ceremony that has no actual bearing on the election. Do you really think Trump would have become president if they had succeeded in stopping the count? It had already been counted, just not officially. That's how stupid these people are.
For those complaining about the short sentences many of these folks are getting, the silver lining is this is a felony on their records, forever. Decent jobs will be nearly unreachable, once they get out, and federal prison sentences has no (drastic) "released early for good behavior" crap like state ones. No "sentenced to ten years, out in 4" at the federal level.
The silver lining is our failed penal system? I don't much like that, to be honest.
Yeah. I'd rather they get proper sentences and have a chance to rehabilitate and get back to a normal and non criminal life after prison. But then again i am not American, so the whole "vengefullness over prevention and rehabilitation" seems rather stupid.
Maybe there'll be a reform now that more of the other side are getting screwed by it.
Next GOP president is going to expunge all of the convictions.
I would hang these assholes. That’s what you do with traitors, right?
18 U.S.C § 2381, states that a person guilty of treason against the United States “shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
Only $10k? That needs to change.
When was that written? If it was long enough ago that was actually a lot of money.
IF I am reading the changes correctly, it was originally written in 1948 with a penalty of $10. 1994 revision changed that to $10,000
https://law.justia.com/codes/us/2021/title-18/part-i/chapter-115/sec-2381/
PATRIOTS45MAGA Gang
They’re so subtle.
I like to see these traitors faces once I learn they’re going to prison, so here:
How did they get his telegram messages?
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