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Wait till this person's family also gets a 5 million dollar pay out!
I wonder if there's a higher crime rate among pardoned Capitol rioters than there is among undocumented immigrants...
I feel like I've read that immigrants as a whole commit less crimes per capita than natural born citizens. Which makes sense because of their situation, not wanting to get deported and all.
I have nothing to source that, but I saw it somewhere, and to me it makes sense.
Given undocumented immigrants are being scooped up at court, they have a very good reason to stay out of trouble.
Meanwhile the insurrectionists have been emboldened.
I think you may be onto something here
You hardly have to wonder. Its a simple counting exercise.
And I can't help but suspect getting a free pass on this scale is a huge motivating factor for a lot of these guys. If I got pardoned after J6, I could easily see the delusions gripping me to the point where I assumed I was untouchable, too.
True. I'd be feeling like King of the town
What? They were just peacefully touring the house and picked up some complementary parting gifts.
They're not sending their best.
The type of people to join in on rioting the capital are probably the type of people to...
So thankful for the overwhelming adherence to law and order.
It’s almost like they were a bunch of criminals. Southerners were criminals sent to America from England. They later became confederates. After the civil war they became outlaws in the west. The same criminal elements are with us today, rioters at the US capitol, supporters of a criminal president.