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[billy.pilgrim]

Chelsea Handler for POTUS!

She says that it was the marijuana’s fault

?

That’s her excuse.

“She responded to one person online by saying she’d made a mistake “in the stoned fury of wondering where the hostages are.”

“Because I got high” was not an explanation that appeased her critics.”

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Sarah Silverman for POTUS!

“In an Instagram Story shared with her 2 million followers on October 18, the Jewish comedian reposted a statement by user @elianaeatz.”

‘"Many are saying that it's inhumane that Israel is cutting off water/electricity to Gaza," the post reads. Israel made it pretty simple—'release the hostages and we will turn it back on.' Instead of pleading with Hamas to release civilian hostages which include babies and toddlers there are politicians (cough cough AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]) calling Israel inhumane.”

“ "If that isn't enough for you: Israel does not need to supply Gaza with these resources (which they do, for free). If Hamas didn't spend billions of dollars on terrorism they would be able to build the infrastructure to support themselves."‘

"It's such a complex situation," she said. "But make no mistake - Hamas is a terrorist organization whose main goal is to kill all the Jews. This world breaks my heart.

On October 11, the actress left the Democratic Socialists of America organization after a decade of membership, after the group pledged its support to Palestinians.

"The DSA of which I was a proud lifetime member, has lost me forever,' she posted to Instagram, calling the organization an "arrogant, ignorant, piece of s*** group."

She says that it was the marijuana’s fault

?

That’s her excuse.

“She responded to one person online by saying she’d made a mistake “in the stoned fury of wondering where the hostages are.”

“Because I got high” was not an explanation that appeased her critics.”

... Sarah also backtracked on her initial claim that being stoned was to blame, claiming that she “usually makes very measured decisions” while stoned. "I fucked up," she said, before adding that she's ready to move on regardless of what people think of her.

Admitting error twice is something

[billy.pilgrim]

Doesn’t pot tend to make most people more compassionate?

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Doesn’t pot tend to make most people more compassionate?

Sometimes . . . but then they forget all about what they were being compassionate over

[neoplacebo]

Doesn’t pot tend to make most people more compassionate?

Not necessarily....if someone is an asshole when they're straight, they're probably gonna be an asshole when they're high. Maybe more so. Just like with alcohol; it's well known that redneck syndrome intensifies in direct proportion to how much alcohol the redneck consumes. I base my opinion on many years of direct observations, as well as many years experience in The Business.

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Doesn’t pot tend to make most people more compassionate?

Not necessarily....if someone is an asshole when they're straight, they're probably gonna be an asshole when they're high. Maybe more so. Just like with alcohol; it's well known that redneck syndrome intensifies in direct proportion to how much alcohol the redneck consumes. I base my opinion on many years of direct observations, as well as many years experience in The Business.

What "Business" is that?

Yeah, pot usually just means that one's compassion or assholerly is expressed more slowly The biggest differences that I've noticed is with booze one's inhibitions are reduced and there's the absolute conviction that the drunk is "right", on any topic. Neither seems to occur with stoners


FBI captures three Jan. 6 fugitives at Florida ranch on the third anniversary of the Capitol attack

GoMerrick&ChristopherGo! Extra charges, lock them up!

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Ashli Babbitt's family sues U.S. government over her Jan. 6 shooting death

Unaccountable crybabies and traitors. Where were they when the idiot started down the cultish rabbit hole?

Also, what's up with filing the lawsuit in federal court in Southern California? IF there's any tort it occurred in DC. It makes no difference that she began her treasonous road trip in San Diego.

[neoplacebo]

Doesn’t pot tend to make most people more compassionate?

Not necessarily....if someone is an asshole when they're straight, they're probably gonna be an asshole when they're high. Maybe more so. Just like with alcohol; it's well known that redneck syndrome intensifies in direct proportion to how much alcohol the redneck consumes. I base my opinion on many years of direct observations, as well as many years experience in The Business.

What "Business" is that?

Yeah, pot usually just means that one's compassion or assholerly is expressed more slowly The biggest differences that I've noticed is with booze one's inhibitions are reduced and there's the absolute conviction that the drunk is "right", on any topic. Neither seems to occur with stoners


FBI captures three Jan. 6 fugitives at Florida ranch on the third anniversary of the Capitol attack

GoMerrick&ChristopherGo! Extra charges, lock them up!

I must confess that I appropriated that from Hunter Thompson; he'd now and then refer to The Business when describing why something is obvious to him but maybe not obvious to others.

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Two Capitol Riots. Two Very Different Results.

Monday marks one year since thousands of right-wing protesters draped in the colors of the Brazilian flag stormed into Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court and presidential offices with a violent fury and the goal of overturning an election.

Saturday marked three years since thousands of Americans did just about the same thing....

The parallel attacks have had nearly opposite aftermaths.

In the United States, support is soaring for Donald Trump’s campaign to retake the White House, as he frames his 2020 election loss as the real insurrection and Jan. 6 as “a beautiful day.”

At the same time, his counterpart in Brazil, the far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, has quickly faded into political irrelevance. Six months after he left office last year, electoral officials barred him from running again until 2030, and many right-wing leaders have shunned him.

Among citizens, views on the dual riots — on Jan. 6, 2021, and Jan. 8, 2023 — have also diverged. Recent polls showed that 22% of Americans now say they support the Jan. 6 attack, while in Brazil, just 6% support the Jan. 8 rioters.

So why have there been such contrasting reactions to such similar threats? ...

According to the article the biggest difference is that cons and the Supreme Court are not as stupid, unpatriotic and fascist in Brazil. Sigh.

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A Proud Boys member who wielded an axe handle during the Capitol riot gets over 4 years in prison


This image from the U.S. Capitol Police security video shows William Chrestman ... in a tunnel underneath the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6. 2021, in Washington. Christian has been sentenced ... by U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly on Friday, Jan. 11, 2024.

Timothy J. Kelly was appointed by TRE45QN.

... William Chrestman, a U.S. Army veteran from Olathe, Kansas, brandished an axe handle and threated police with violence after leading other Proud Boys members to the perimeter of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Chrestman pleaded guilty in October to obstructing the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress for certifying the Electoral College vote. He also pleaded guilty to a second felony count of threatening to assault a federal officer during the Capitol riot.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Chrestman to four years and seven months in prison, according to court records.

Prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of five years and three months, arguing that he “played a significant role during the riot due to his presence and conduct at pivotal moments during the day.”

“Indeed, Chrestman regularly presented himself as a leader among the rioters including when he was part of the tip of the spear that created the breach at the Peace Circle, encouraged other rioters to move to the police barricades, told rioters to stop the arrest of a rioter, and thanked them for supporting the Proud Boys,” prosecutors wrote.

Chrestman has been jailed since his arrest in February 2021. He'll get credit for the nearly three years he already has served in custody.

TRE45QN wouldn't spring for his bail? Funny that.

... Also on Friday, a man who briefly ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor of Oregon after storming the Capitol was sentenced to nearly four years in prison. Reed Knox Christensen, 65, charged at a group of police officers outside the Capitol and assaulted five of them before rioters breached the police line, prosecutors said.

Christensen captured less than 1% of the votes cast in Oregon's May 2022 Republican primary for the governor's race. Prosecutors said he used the campaign “to obtain free publicity and brag about his participation in the riot."

Christensen also wrote a self-published book about his “experiences prior to and including January 6,” according to his attorney, Troy Nixon.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced Christensen, an engineer from Hillsboro, Oregon, to three years and 10 months in prison, court records show.

Royce Lamberth was appointed by Reagan.

More than 1,200 people have been charged with Capitol riot-related federal crimes. About 900 of them have pleaded guilty or been convicted after trials decided by a jury or judge. Over 750 of them have been sentenced, with nearly 500 receiving some term of imprisonment, according to data compiled by The Associated Press.

Dozens of Proud Boys leaders, members and associates have been arrested on Jan. 6 charges. The group's former national chairman, Enrique Tarrio, was sentenced to 22 years in prison — the longest for a Capitol riot case so far. A jury convicted Tarrio and three lieutenants of seditious conspiracy charges for a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 election.

GoMerrickGo

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Capitol rioter who assaulted at least 6 police officers is sentenced to 5 years in prison

A Florida man described by prosecutors as one of the most violent rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison, court records show.

Kenneth Bonawitz, a member of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group's Miami chapter, assaulted at least six police officers as he stormed the Capitol with a mob of Donald Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021. He grabbed one of the officers in a chokehold and injured another so severely that the officer had to retire, according to federal prosecutors.

Bonawitz, 58, of Pompano Beach, Florida, carried an eight-inch knife in a sheath on his hip. Police seized the knife from him in between his barrage of attacks on officers.

“His violent, and repeated, assaults on multiple officers are among the worst attacks that occurred that day,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean McCauley wrote in a court filing.

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb sentenced Bonawitz to a five-year term of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release, according to court records.

The Justice Department recommended a prison sentence of five years and 11 months for Bonawitz, who was arrested last January. He pleaded guilty in August to three felonies — one count of civil disorder and two counts of assaulting police....

DC Judge Jia Cobb was appointed by Joltin' Joe It's a lifetime appointment and she's only 43 or 44.


Buh-bye, Kenny

[GoCubsGo]

Buh-bye, Kenny

For now. This makes me nervous.

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to take a case challenging how the Justice Department prosecutes January 6 rioters has already put on hold several rioters’ sentencings and could affect hundreds more cases — including Donald Trump’s.

If the challenge is successful, the Supreme Court could potentially wipe away two of the four counts that special counsel Jack Smith has brought against the former president in his federal election interference case, and upend felony convictions for dozens of January 6 rioters.

[billy.pilgrim]

Capitol rioter who assaulted at least 6 police officers is sentenced to 5 years in prison

A Florida man described by prosecutors as one of the most violent rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison, court records show.

Kenneth Bonawitz, a member of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group's Miami chapter, assaulted at least six police officers as he stormed the Capitol with a mob of Donald Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021. He grabbed one of the officers in a chokehold and injured another so severely that the officer had to retire, according to federal prosecutors.

Bonawitz, 58, of Pompano Beach, Florida, carried an eight-inch knife in a sheath on his hip. Police seized the knife from him in between his barrage of attacks on officers.

“His violent, and repeated, assaults on multiple officers are among the worst attacks that occurred that day,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean McCauley wrote in a court filing.

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb sentenced Bonawitz to a five-year term of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release, according to court records.

The Justice Department recommended a prison sentence of five years and 11 months for Bonawitz, who was arrested last January. He pleaded guilty in August to three felonies — one count of civil disorder and two counts of assaulting police....

DC Judge Jia Cobb was appointed by Joltin' Joe It's a lifetime appointment and she's only 43 or 44.


Buh-bye, Kenny

But, but Mr. trump says that this man is an honorable patriotic citizen who is being held hostage by Biden’s illegitimate regime.

[billy.pilgrim]

Buh-bye, Kenny

For now. This makes me nervous.

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to take a case challenging how the Justice Department prosecutes January 6 rioters has already put on hold several rioters’ sentencings and could affect hundreds more cases — including Donald Trump’s.

If the challenge is successful, the Supreme Court could potentially wipe away two of the four counts that special counsel Jack Smith has brought against the former president in his federal election interference case, and upend felony convictions for dozens of January 6 rioters.

Habadabadabadoo says that they have the Boof vote because Boof owes trump.

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Buh-bye, Kenny

For now. This makes me nervous.

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to take a case challenging how the Justice Department prosecutes January 6 rioters has already put on hold several rioters’ sentencings and could affect hundreds more cases — including Donald Trump’s.

If the challenge is successful, the Supreme Court could potentially wipe away two of the four counts that special counsel Jack Smith has brought against the former president in his federal election interference case, and upend felony convictions for dozens of January 6 rioters.

That issue is mostly over "obstructing a federal proceeding". Kenneth Bonawitz "pleaded guilty in August to three felonies — one count of civil disorder and two counts of assaulting police."

According to your link:

... Rioters accused of violence toward police — those more likely to be awaiting their trials and sentencings in jail — are less likely to be affected significantly by the Supreme Court’s obstruction ruling, because of the seriousness of assault charges. Nearly 500 rioters have been charged with assaulting officers at the Capitol....

Keep Kenny locked up! You probably can't help him, Boof and HabbaDabbaDoo

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Habadabadabadoo says that they have the Boof vote because Boof owes trump.

The solution is to convict them of crimes that Barrett, Boof and Gorsuch won't be reviewing.

Proud Boys member sentenced to 6 years in prison for Capitol riot role after berating judge

... Marc Bru repeatedly interrupted Chief Judge James Boasberg before he handed down the sentence, calling him a “clown” and a “fraud" presiding over a “kangaroo court." The judge warned Bru that he could be kicked out of the courtroom if he continued to disrupt the proceedings.

“You can give me 100 years and I'd do it all over again,” said Bru, who was handcuffed and shackled.

“That's the definition of no remorse in my book,” the judge said.

I wonder if the self-satisfied glow from berating the judge will last 6 years.

Prosecutors described Bru as one of the least remorseful rioters who assaulted the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. They say Bru planned for an armed insurrection — a “January 6 2.0” attack — to take over the government in Portland, Oregon, several weeks after the deadly riot in Washington, D.C.

“He wanted a repeat of January 6, only he implied this time would be more violent,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing ahead of his sentencing.

Never happened. Wimp.

Bru has been representing himself with an attorney on standby. He has spewed anti-government rhetoric that appears to be inspired by the sovereign citizen movement.

Figures.

At the start of the hearing, Bru demanded that the judge and a prosecutor turn over five years of their financial records.

Did they?

... Prosecutors had warned the court that Bru intended to disrupt his sentencing. On Tuesday, he called in to a nightly vigil outside the jail where he and other rioters are being held.

"nightly"? How many? Little chilly lately?

He told supporters of the detained Jan. 6 defendants that he would “try to put on a good show” at his sentencing.

Does an impotent temper tantrum count?

Boasberg convicted Bru of seven charges, including two felonies, after hearing trial testimony without a jury in October.

Prosecutors recommended a prison sentence of seven years and three months for Bru, a resident of Washington state.

... Bru absconded before his trial, skipped two court hearings and "defiantly boasted via Twitter that the government would have to come get him if it wanted him.”

“Approximately a month later, it did,” prosecutors added.

... Bru grabbed a barricade and shoved it against police officers. He later joined other rioters inside the Capitol and entered the Senate gallery, where he flashed a hand gesture associated with the Proud Boys as he posed for selfie photos. He spent roughly 13 minutes inside the building.

Ummm, revolutions take more than 13 minutes, wimp. Roughly 6 months per minute sounds about right.

Several weeks after the riot, Bru exchanged text messages with a friend about buying gas masks in bulk. He also texted a Proud Boys recruit and indicated that he wanted to “repeat the violence and lawlessness of January 6 in Portland in order to take over the local government,” prosecutors said.

“In fact, those text messages indicate that Bru’s chief takeaway from January 6 is that it was not violent enough or not sufficiently dedicated to overthrowing the government,” prosecutors wrote. “In other words, in the aftermath of January 6, Bru was plotting an armed insurrection, not feeling remorseful.”

Too stupid to disguise his comms, figures.

The FBI initially arrested Bru in March 2021 in Vancouver, Washington. After his pretrial release, Bru was charged with separate drunken driving-related offenses in Idaho and Montana.

In July, Bru was secretly living in Montana when a drunken driver hit his car. Police officers who responded to the collision arrested Bru on a warrant stemming from his failure to appear in court before trial....

The victim of a drunken driver goes to jail. Some RW morons just can't catch a break. Maybe there is a god, she's a liberal, and drunks are her tools of vengeance.

More than 1,200 people have been charged with Capitol riot-related crimes. About 900 have pleaded guilty or been convicted after trials. Over 750 have been sentenced, with roughly two-thirds receiving some term of imprisonment, according to data compiled by The Associated Press.

GoMerrickGo.

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Still a gullible, America-hating, MAGAt idiot (redundant, I know):

GOP Rep Who Called for ‘Marshall Law’ Days Before Inauguration Only Has One Regret
Kaitlan Collins grills Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) on his call for military intervention days before Biden’s inauguration

"2000 Mules"

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'You can't have engaged in insurrection': (Three former GOP governors ask) Supreme Court to keep Trump off ballot (video)

Three former GOP governors have urged the Supreme Court to keep Donald Trump off of the presidential ballot in 2024. One of those governors, former Republican Gov. Marc Racicot of Montana, joins Joy Reid to discuss.

Bill Weld (MA)
Christine Todd Whitman (NJ)
Marc Racicot (MT)

Make no mistake about it,
Racicot was an asshole as Gov;
Racicot really was an asshole when he led the 2000 legal team that stole FL for Shrub from Gore;
Racicot was an asshole complicit in war crimes as RNC Chair and then Chair of Shrub's 2004 re-election campaign.

However, this defense of the Constitution makes me proud of him and Montana. Also:

... Racicot has been harshly critical of Donald Trump, and endorsed Joe Biden over Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election. This led to the Montana Republican Party censuring him in 2023, and declaring that they no longer considered him a Republican.

Cultist crybabies.

I can't help noticing the irony between Racicot's work on behalf of the 2000 insurrection and his objection to the 2020 insurrection. Is he seeking karmic balance?

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But, but Mr. trump says that this man is an honorable patriotic citizen who is being held hostage by Biden’s illegitimate regime.

Another "honorable patriotic" terrorist cultist:

US official arrested in 6 January Capitol riot probe

... Kevin Alstrup, who worked for the State Department during the 2021 incident, now faces four misdemeanour charges.

The charges range from entering and remaining in a restricted building to disorderly and disruptive conduct....

He previously served as "a third-party contractor providing uniformed officer services for the State Department", a spokesperson said in a statement shared with media outlets.

Mr Alstrup "was employed by the United States Department of State as a Diplomatic Security Officer" during the attacks, according to an FBI affidavit.

Because of his position, Mr Alstrup would have been "familiar with providing security and protection for high-ranking government officials or sensitive locations", the FBI said....

LOCK HIM UP!

[GoCubsGo]

Someone hasn't learned their lesson and really wants another pardon.

Plus he's off the rails and batshit crazy.