Episode 12 - January 6th: Wherein we discuss the events of January 6, 2021 and whether it has any import on today.
00:11 - Introductions
01:22 - Hakeem Jeffries dig at election deniers
02:51 - Our resident Republican's take
03:30 - Election oddities
05:49 - Election foul play or vibes?
08:29 - 2020 COVID vibes
09:44 - Violence vs legitimate protest
11:00 - The irony of storming the Capitol to keep Fauci in power
13:33 - Difference between Summer 2020 riots and J6
14:01 - Mob psychology
14:42 - Who stirred up the mob?
15:16 - What did Trump actually believe about the 2020 election results?
18:13 - From a legal standpoint, it doesn't really matter what he believed...
20:55 - What happened to people prosecuted during riots of the Summer 2020?
22:39 - Jurisdictional issues (State vs Federal) complicated things
23:34 - Should J6ers be pardoned?
25:45 - How do we feel about the criminal justice system as a whole?
27:26 - Testimony from a DC cop
30:59 - The differences in police response to Summer 2020 riots and J6
35:14 - J6 felt distinct from other riots at the time
37:10 - Let's talk about Trump's role in J6
38:27 - Trump was the Flava Flav of J6
39:53 - A failure of leadership...?
42:56 - The 14th Amendment
44:33 - We had four years to get to the bottom of all this
45:26 - Our justice system failed...
48:53 - Why didn't this go to trial earlier?
54:18 - Normalizing bad behavior
57:07 - Well, he wasn't ever convicted of anything, so let's move past it...
59:21 - Our government faced a trial and came through it
1:02:01 - We gotta save our energy for the battles to come
1:03:59 - What's been making us happy
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