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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Sure. Intent is huge. But if intent were all, most of the thousands
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 02:30 PM
Oct 2021

who came on Jan 6 would not be guilty of intending insurrection. Because they didn't. A lot of them, including ones who ended up going inside with others, came to protest. Some at most came to create delay and help foil the Democrats' attempt to steal the election, but to save, not overthrow, the government.

Whatever. Someone who helped rob a bank but honestly thought the money belonged to their friend and was his to take still robbed a bank.

So now we're diagnosing him with dementia? AZSkiffyGeek Oct 2021 #1
Whatever malaise Oct 2021 #2
Same, Malaise obamanut2012 Oct 2021 #11
Actually, I thought he seems calm and measured Patton French Oct 2021 #3
Garland is answering like a lawyer and is being very precise LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 #4
A number of the insurrectionists are being charged in a way Tomconroy Oct 2021 #5
Sure. Intent is huge. But if intent were all, most of the thousands Hortensis Oct 2021 #6
Wasn't Gaetz Zorro Oct 2021 #7
I SAW NONE OF THAT. spanone Oct 2021 #8
Same. There is no reason for him to go into specifics for hypothetical situations or situations chowder66 Oct 2021 #10
..... obamanut2012 Oct 2021 #9
Oh boy. BlackSkimmer Oct 2021 #12
He didn't seem so to me. MineralMan Oct 2021 #13
So so tired of arm chair politics!! Geez PortTack Oct 2021 #14
Words matter. Raven123 Oct 2021 #15
He was neither. Far from it. George II Oct 2021 #22
.... lapucelle Oct 2021 #16
He doesn't seem that way to me. nt Kahuna Oct 2021 #17
I can't even stillcool Oct 2021 #18
I'm so tiered of mamby pamby infullview Oct 2021 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author Torchlight Oct 2021 #25
Gee, so glad people on social media know so much about the law mcar Oct 2021 #20
He didn't announce he was throwing Trump in jail without bail AZSkiffyGeek Oct 2021 #23
See, it's all perfectly logical mcar Oct 2021 #27
Merrick Garland is far from frail and even more further from being senile. I've been watching... George II Oct 2021 #21
I don't think so at all. Elessar Zappa Oct 2021 #24
Yikes! nt ecstatic Oct 2021 #26
Hit and run. lamp_shade Oct 2021 #28
Yawn Dorian Gray Oct 2021 #29
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