The Wages of Lawlessness and the Laws of Wages

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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An analysis of the most “sympathetic” January 6th rioters hardly supports their innocence. Plus, have we been measuring economic progress all wrong? Allison Schrager, of Bloomberg and the Manhattan Institute, says, “Kind of, yeah.” Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.5	It's Monday, January 6th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.
0:37.6	It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska.
0:39.4	January 6th, a day that will live in infamy, or the upcoming president, incoming president
0:44.6	has his way, a day that will be erased, or at least the consequences thereof will.
0:49.8	It has always been President Trump's assertion that he will be giving pardons for the January 6th rioters.
0:56.3	Now, what I wanted to do was not just think about the worst of the rioters, though I did
1:01.7	follow their cases closely. And four oathkeepers were found guilty of seditious conspiracy,
1:07.0	including Stuart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs and some proud boys were found guilty of seditious conspiracy.
1:13.6	Rico Tarrio among them.
1:15.7	Like I said, I read those cases closely.
1:17.3	There is some legal dispute.
1:20.3	It's colorable, as a lawyer would say, if that charge would have always stuck in every jurisdiction.
1:26.3	We'll stick on appeal.
1:27.4	There are other
1:27.8	charges like obstructing Congress's certification of the electoral victory and obstructing law
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