A jailed member of the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison for his role in a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol three years ago, court records show.
William Chrestman, a U.S. Army veteran from Olathe, Kansas, brandished an axe handle and threated police with violence after leading other Proud Boys members to the perimeter of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Chrestman pleaded guilty in October to obstructing the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress for certifying the Electoral College vote. He also pleaded guilty to a second felony count of threatening to assault a federal officer during the Capitol riot.
You know, I would like to believe that these people are going to learn their lesson while in jail, but for some reason I doubt it. I don’t know, maybe it’s the fact that after everything trumpty dumpty has said and done, including saying he’s going to be a dictator, and half the country still wants to hand him the country on a silver platter (like everything else in his life)? I don’t understand it.
Not to mention that 4 years for insurrection and assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer is a joke of a sentence.
We’ve seen black men who were unarmed executed without judge, trial and jury.
I’d say hd deserves some credit for forgetting the head
A club is still a deadly weapon, though.
We don’t do rehabilitation in America. We do punishment and recidivism.
At least we can look forward to a lot of felon in possession of firearm charges once they’re released.
That’ll happen when the sitting president doesn’t do anything meaningful to address poverty.
But, we gave Democrats two years of near total power and all they did with it was find more money for other countries’ wars.
You gave the Democrats 48 seats, the Republicans 49 and independents 3.
That’s enough power to filibuster, not enact change.
Get back to the rest of us when we see anything close to a supermajority for the democrats and you can call that “total power”.
You’ve given the Democrats some power and it’s done you some good. The inflation act is not bad for a 1 seat majority.
Try upping it a bit and you’ll do more than just keep the lights on and avoid government shutdowns.
Or don’t turn up at the polls and hand an on the record fascist the white house.
Watching from outside the first Trump term was a bizarre result. But he lost the popular vote and won on a personality cult in some key demographics, while idiots decided Hilary Clinton wasn’t good enough to turnout for.
If Trump actually wins while his personality and politics are laid bare, after a disastrous 4 years in office domestically and in foreign policy. I honestly don’t know what I’ll think of the USA.
I’d certainly support any cessation from the states that actually fuel your economy and want to keep democracy.
If only American families could eat excuses, no one would ever go hungry.
>That’s enough power to filibuster, not enact change.
the senate filibuster rule can be abolished by a bare majority.
They’re just gonna ignore that.
You wouldn’t even need to get rid of it. Just make people actually filibuster instead of threatening one.
You mean a bare majority that would necessarily need to include Manchin and Sinema? Why would they vote to abolish the filibuster?
There are always enough Manchins.
it wouldn’t need either of them.
Exactly how would the Democrats get a majority when the Senate was 50/50 and two Democrats wouldn’t vote for it. You do know that 50 + the Vice President = Majority, not 48 and the Vice President couldn’t do shit, right?
creative timing meant to exclude the full Senate from participating in the vote could accomplish it. or offering a deal to the Republicans.
Please name exactly when this creative timing could have achieved or what deal the Republicans would have accepted to agree to vote to end the filibuster.