For the love of Pete, stop calling these terrorists "rioters".
Calling them implies that none of this was planned.
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2024
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What bakes my noodle is: that this guy and presumably almost half of voters firmly believe that the 2020 election wasn't accurate. Factor in that like a third of the population doesn't even vote...
I don't know what that adds up to, but I don't like it.
Is it always like this? Does it matter? Idk, bums me out.
Based. He should be permanently barred from going back to the Capitol as well.
4 years huh? Someone remind me how much time people serve for getting caught with pot?
Actually, don't.
Four more years!
In Checkers everybody's expendable except the guy moving the pieces.
These sentences should all be ~10x
*insurrectionist Traitor also works.
They are not rioters
Seems pretty clear cut. Anyone entering that building unlawfully wanted the results to be overturned and all legal options to change the result were exhausted. That's insurrection.
Sparks used social media to promote conspiracy theories about election fraud and advocate for a civil war. “It’s time to drag them out of Congress. It’s tyranny,” he posted on Facebook three days before the riot. [He and a friend] wore tactical vests.
Hard to argue innocence with all that.
Sparks added: “All it’s going to take is one person to go. The rest is following,"
He wasn't wrong.
FOX “News” + the poorly educated + a shameless lying conman = Jan 6
The real tragedy is the main culprit has been given tacit approval by the $upremecy Court.
That’s it? 4 years? He will be out before next insurrection gala
The DOJ asked for 57 months. It’s not a good idea to tell the judge that you’re only remorseful because it didn’t succeed.
No consequences for the assholes that started the lies to get their dumbass voters to raid the capital to overthrow the nation.
Why not? 4 years is only 48 months.
Would love to see some kind of therapy to help de-program his cult veil of what actually happened, and to work through why it's him paying the price right now instead of the cult leader.
That’s a very light sentence for treason.
Indeed. These babies should be happy they weren't put up against the wall like they probably deserve. Same with the people plotting the attempted coup being run at the same time.
Instead we hear about how they are "political prisoners" and so on. Well fuck that noise.