Proud Boys Swallowed Their Pride
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🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Two more leaders of the Proud Boys were sentenced yesterday for their roles in the January 6th insurrection. Joe Biggs was sentenced to 17 years in prison while Zachary Rehl was sentenced to 15 years. Plus, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday in the Georgia criminal case where he’s accused of racketeering in his efforts to upend the 2020 presidential election results in the state.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas officially disclosed yesterday that Republican megadonor Harlan Crow footed the bill for his private jet trips in 2022 to both attend a speech in Texas and to vacation at Crow’s home in the Adirondacks. With this disclosure, he also included a statement defending his travel with Crow.
And in headlines: at least 74 people died and more than 50 were injured after a fire broke out in Johannesburg, South Africa, federal student loans will once again start accruing interest, and Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is coming to a movie theater near you this October.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, September 1st. |
| 0:02.9 | I'm Treval Anderson. |
| 0:04.2 | And I'm Priyanka Arabandi, and this is what a day where at least one of us already |
| 0:09.2 | has a ticket for Taylor's eras tour when it comes to movie theaters. |
| 0:13.2 | And another host is saving their money for when Beyoncé does it. |
| 0:16.9 | Yeah, you can make your guess about who is who in that situation, but let me just say, |
| 0:23.2 | like these tickets, they're movie prices, so I can't bring for both. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, Clarence Thomas has formally disclosed what we already knew, |
| 0:35.6 | his billionaire friend, Harlan Crowe, paid for some of his vacations, plus in Texas, |
| 0:40.7 | several new laws go into effect today, including one that restricts trans health care. |
| 0:46.2 | But first, yet another update on white men who were never taught how to lose gracefully. |
| 0:51.8 | Two more leaders of the proud boys were sentenced yesterday for their roles in the January 6th insurrection. |
| 0:57.6 | Convicted of several charges, including the likes of seditious conspiracy, |
| 1:01.8 | and the destruction of government property, Joe Biggs was sentenced to 17 years in prison, |
| 1:07.1 | while Zachary Rio was sentenced to 15 years. |
| 1:10.5 | Now, I know we're supposed to be prison abolitionists and whatnot, |
| 1:14.3 | so we're not supposed to applaud this form of accountability. |
| 1:18.3 | But as the 11th Commandment states, if thou fucketh around, thou shalt findeth out. |
| 1:24.8 | Yeah, I believe that is a direct quote, actually. |
| 1:28.4 | So tell us, how do these sentences compare with the others that have been handed down to insurrectionists so far? |
| 1:34.4 | Yeah, so Biggs's 17-year sentence is currently the second longest prison sentence that's come down, |
| 1:40.4 | the longest being Oathkeeper's Founder steward Rhodes, who got 18 years. |
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