• bquintb@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    I think jailing the Orange Menace will snap a lot of them out of it. A few will probably be ballsy enough to take some kind of action, but they'll be the minority and look like thugs. It just sucks that people are probably going to get hurt over this. I say just let the justice system do its thing.

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      1 year ago

      Let's hope so. Some are threatening civil war if he's convicted and sent to prison, but then again, we're also talking about Snack Team 6. So I don't assume there's any bite behind that bark. I just know that after January 6th, they're absolutely going to try again.

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        1 year ago

        Meal Team [January] 6, you mean? But going by how the insurrection went, I see an attempt at repeating something like that going over like a lead balloon. On the other hand, I can absolutely see a significant spike in domestic terror happening

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      I think that jailing him is likely to lead to riots and violence from his supporters in the streets, stoked by his partners in government