Stephen Colbert directly responsible for Jan 6 2021 Insurrection

oh man, imagine if it was tucker carlson's crew instead of colbert. that would be even more hilarious.

Trying to overthrow the government on the teenth day of june just the fricking worst.

On the one hand, it's ridiculous to call the Stephen Colbert thing an insurrection because they had no intent of taking over the government.

On the other hand, it's also ridiculous to call 1/6 an insurrection because they had no chance of taking over the government. I could plan a better insurrection than that on a short bus ride. (And I do mean "short bus.") Calling something as trivial as that an "insurrection" is an insult to revolutionaries everywhere.

Jesus Christ, people are so fragile nowadays. Not a single government official got decapitated, no government buildings were set on fire (so, less damage than your typical Antifa or BLM event) and I didn't see even a single gutter running full of blood. If that's an "insurrection" then insurrectionists really need to raise their standards. I mean maybe Trump intended it to be an insurrection, but let's just say Trump wouldn't be my first pick if I were starting a chess team.

Really the question is whether intent matters when you're committing a crime, and I don't think it does. Most people have selfish intent in almost everything they do, but they hide their own motivations from themselves so that they can delude themselves into thinking that they're "good" people. The fact that we allow people to get away with this kind of self-delusional behavior instead of punishing them twice as hard when they lie to themselves about their own motivations is the real crime IMO.