i liked this detail in the indictment on golf carts okay wearing their larping tactical gear costumes march around like tough guys and i think there's a woman charge here maybe a couple women and then they dip and they go to olive garden to celebrate okay that was their that was their civil war and then they continue to have this talk on their whatsapp channels and whatever about oh this is just the beginning and we're going to continue and let's go on our recon missions and whatever do they do anything else other than like drive around the capital for to do their pretend fake recon missions no they don't so they have all this talk again and all these preparations for their bloody civil war but when it comes down to it these tough guys who clearly are trying to fill some hole inside of themselves by engaging in all of this like expensive cosplaying um didn't do a whole lot and uh again if this was the most aggressive and well-organized plot to overthrow the republic then i actually feel a lot better that the republic is pretty safe oh i completely agree and like you said nobody's downplaying what these idiots were doing um they were absolutely you know narcissistic larpers in their group chats and clearly were you know bringing ammo and other supplies to washington with the stated intent to actually do something and then as usual with these people when it fizzles what actually happens does not look even close to the tough talk that they usually you know will display amongst themselves the key part here is around the sedition charge which is that sedition is very very difficult to prove i mean in terms of uh what the government would have to prove here is that they were willingly and all and actually had the ability in order to delay the impact of this law now election certification is not a law number one but number two overthrowing the government yeah it may have been what they said you know in terms of their uh their messages but remember the first amendment actually does cover a lot of anti-government rhetoric so they have a very very strong case in order to try and make i find it very difficult to see how they're going to be able to prevail here in court i know there will be under overwhelming pressure against them i don't know why you can't just charge these people with rioting like everybody else i mean that's ultimately what this is about so it looks almost crystal like a political move by the department of justice to mollify the critics saying why have you not brought harder charges against the people and also frankly to try and silence i think people like us who are saying hey if all these ring leaders were there like why have you not charged them you read through the indictment of what we saw here i mean does it rise to the level of what the media portrays like this what actually was you believe that these folks had a real chance at success and that their you know their sort of cosplay preparations translated into their actions on that day and again i i don't want to be i don't want to downplay because what they did caused a lot of harm and pain for the country there's no doubt like this was a horrible day it was you know terrible to watch it was another sign of the deep decline of the nation and this kind of unraveling it was it was painful and and it was a dangerous situation too um obviously there there were
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