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republican george santos appeared in court for among other things allegedly stealing $25,000 on unemployment benefits. he enough a singer 13 count indictment of fraud and money laundering charges. donald trump, on the other hand, is still walking free for his greatest crime, which is the fact that he tried to and the american democratic experiment. he launched the first coup in the country s history, aimed at overturning an election, and the rightful it s not like this actual action has gone in the main unpunished or unprosecuted. get, this over 1000 people have been criminally charged. it s literally the largest investigation in the country s history. over 550 have pled guilty to federal charges. nearly hundred have been convicted at their trials for their role at the january six insurrection. one of them is oath keepers founder stewart rhodes, who was found guilty of the very serious and very rare crime of
republican george santos appeared in court for among other things allegedly stealing $25,000 on unemployment benefits. he enough a singer 13 count indictment of fraud and money laundering charges. donald trump, on the other hand, is still walking free for his greatest crime, which is the fact that he tried to and the american democratic experiment. he launched the first coup in the country s history, aimed at overturning an election, and the rightful it s not like this actual action has gone in the main unpunished or unprosecuted. get, this over 1000 people have been criminally charged. it s literally the largest investigation in the country s history. over 550 have pled guilty to federal charges. nearly hundred have been convicted at their trials for their role at the january six insurrection. one of them is oath keepers founder stewart
flirting with it in a way that doesn t immediately get denounced throughout the political system, like that, there isn t a surprise i think that that s going with the sort of protoo authoritarian movements you re seeing in that party. those things always go together. joy, i think the largest point is exactly right. there s an american democratic experiment, which is not ancient. a couple centuries and still going. but the american democratic experiment is that a country that is made up of all different kinds of people, from all over the place, all get an equal say. and to the extent that freaks you out, it s hard to argue, although some on the right right now are, some in the ultra right are, it s hard to argue we don t want american democracy anymore. democracy is uncomfortable because we don t like everybody having a say. we prefer that just we have a say. it s easier to say, our country has been hijacked by demonic forces and shady people behind the scenes that you can t see. that a
riders stormed the halls of our nation s capital exposing just how fragile the american democratic experiment is. now over a year and a half later congress is finally taking steps to try and protect it. this week the house passed a bipartisan bill focused on modernizing the electoral count act, which is a 19th century law that lays out the presidential certification process. it s full of ambiguous and archaic language which actually made it easy for ex president donald trump and his allies to exploit in their efforts to overturn the 2020 election. among the provisions the new bill clarifies are that the vice presidents role in counting electoral votes maintaining that it is strictly ministerial it also lifts its threshold to force a vote on