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SledDriver

(2,059 posts)
2. We are guaranteed another physical assault on the government
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 07:17 AM
Aug 2021

now that it’s clear there were no consequences for the first one.

marble falls

(57,077 posts)
3. What do you thinkl the grand juries have been about? What do you think the bond hearings ...
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 08:55 AM
Aug 2021

... have been about? What do you think the five days the Jan 6 committee has been investigating and what it's about?

How long does it take for your local prosecutor to get a murderer to trial in your county? I bet about two years.

Being too impatient to work through the system is what got them in trouble. Let's not be them.

tecelote

(5,122 posts)
5. This attitude is why they're allowed to say Trump will be back in office in this month.
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 11:25 AM
Aug 2021

Possibly creating another coup attempt.

Plus, when has Trump been held accountable and faced consequences?

Hugin

(33,120 posts)
7. Regarding TFG, it's been over 50 years...
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 11:30 AM
Aug 2021

You'd think due diligence would have caught up with him by now.

Many of the others are as bad or worse.

dlk

(11,552 posts)
4. Of course, they'll be back
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 08:59 AM
Aug 2021

If the leaders of the failed Republican coup aren’t held accountable, with serious consequences, why wouldn’t they try again?

Hugin

(33,120 posts)
6. Very very few consequences faced...
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 11:27 AM
Aug 2021

If it were any of us, we'd be branded with a "D" on our foreheads long ago.

FakeNoose

(32,633 posts)
8. A lot of the Jan. 6th assholes are in jail, or under house arrest
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 11:41 AM
Aug 2021

I believe you're talking about the organizers - they're the ones that haven't been arrested yet.

Maybe Repuke leaders think they can pull this off, but the idiots who came to Washington in January saw what happened to them last time. Who's going to voluntarily put their own head on the chopping block? They're sadder but wiser now.

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