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he robbed banks
AND
and was free to rob another bank…wow.
Also, how does a 71 year old man speak for 5 days? Did he eat, did he go to the bathroom, did he sleep? Did anyone else?
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I was equally curious about the practical details.
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Technically not a filibuster; round about 20 hours total, spread over five days, including lunch breaks, coffee breaks…
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Well, actually (cf. XKCD), So long as he holds the floor while court is in session, it would count as a filibuster. Nothing in the US Senate rules require a filibuster to be uninterrupted AFAIK. OTOH, seeing as he’s not putting off a vote per se, just putting off the start of his term in prison, I’m not sure it counts.
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Well, he’s not Jimmy Stewart, so it probably doesn’t count as anything anyway.
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Welcome to the world outside USA where jail times are a lot shorter and the prison population correspondingly smaller. Germany has an incarceration rate about a tenth of USA.
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Maybe he was given an overdose of truth serum.
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Hey Germany, here’s a new one for you to try: “You may have a final word before we adjourn, for a maximum of 10 minutes. The timer starts now.”
“Großvater war ein Bankräuber…”
Only if it’s the type of truth serum you can snort.
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