The Jan. 6 Select Committee has reportedly discussed recommending potential legislative changes to the Insurrection Act as it continues to learn the extent former President Trump and his allies were willing to go to subvert the 2020 election results.
I sincerely hope that the J6 Committee goes beyond recommending “potential legislative changes to the Insurrection Act,” and provides all their information to the DOJ and pushes them hard for indictments and convictions of the scofflaws – all of them.
I think they should also look at mandating prison for continuing to propagate unfounded claims about election fraud as well.
Errr, and what law would that be prosecuted under?
I’m all for throwing the book at the assholes, but “Lock 'em up because they crossed us” doesn’t cut it. We need laws broken, indictments and successful prosecutions.
I’m actually very chuffed by the news this afternoon that Alex Jones is fishing for a deal. I don’t think he’s deep in the bowels of the insurrection, but could well drag a few more folks into the blender, who in turn could do the deed.
At one point I thought I’d start saving some links to all the posts from the “gloom and doomers” who swear “nothing will be done, we’re all going to end up slaves, we’re DOOMED!”, but then I told myself - “Nah, they’re not worth it.”
I do think we’re going to be okay. If nothing else, Putin is doomed, and he’s been behind a metric shit tonne of this garbage, so we can expect things to start calming down at some point just because he’s going to get “aligned with history”. But I do recognize there’s still some significant danger, but hey - we knew the job was dangerous when we took it… 
Well, I think that’s the point, if the current laws don’t quite cover this behavior, maybe we should change the laws. Perhaps the house should convene a committee to look into it.
It’s tricky, and needs to be thought through carefully. Perhaps a series of televised hearings going over what exactly happened on Jan 6 would be a good place to start…
You’re in luck, it’s already been compiled here:
You can tweak these acts and that’s certainly welcome but the fundamental problem was a president and a party willing to overturn election outcomes they didn’t like and to use the military against protests the right to which is guaranteed by the Constitution. I don’t know of a solution to that except for holding the line politically until demographics force everyone to accept that we’re a diverse society and we have to figure out how to live with other folks who differ from us in some way. And the “how” doesn’t involve smashing the system that guarantees civil rights and replacing it with authoritarianism.
I thought friends of mine were grossly overreacting three years ago when they starting looking for a house in Spain. Now that they are buying a house in the Bordeaux region to move to permanently and I’m thinking they are right.
What happens if or when someone worse than Le Pen wins? MHO is that no matter where you live, there is great potential for horrible governments. Solution? Cultivate your own garden with care and mindfulness. Wherever you grow.