I wish there was more bite to the sentence, however. This particular Traitor Joe only got time served (6 mos.) and a $500 fine.
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Flashback Friday!
Sept. 17, 2020
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And Jane did a great piece on what this is really about, who is involved, and it’s a melange of the usual suspects. There’s original John Bircher’s money, Tea Party activist Cleta Mitchel, and Freedom works.
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Because she’s not running for office.
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Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red and yellow, black & white
They are precious in His sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world
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You know he was mumbling under his breath in court – in spite of his hapless public defender pleading with him to be silent – calling her a traitor b-word to be dealt with once Trump is reinstated any day now. These are not reality based people and there’s ultimately no arguing with them.
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What I remember about 2004 was a RW slander campaign amplified by FOX to levels Led Zeppelin would have envied that was so destructive it actually created a new name for an underhanded tactic - “swiftboating” - that was so successful it has become standard Republican artillery. Added to that was a focused smear campaign about LGBTQ issues, especially gay marriage, also amplified to level 12 by FOX, Limbaugh and others, and you pretty much have the Republican strategy for 2004.
I do detest the bothsiderism of a lot of mainstream media, but I see it as a weak and ineffective reaction to 24/7 hate propaganda by FOX, not as the actual cause of the problem.
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“Whatsoever you do to the least of my people. that you do unto me.”
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What has frequently annoyed me is the apparent belief by some right-wingers that their politics gives them a monopoly on patriotism and the right to define it for the rest of us.
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that we don’t live in a diverse society, nor world. And however much their mommies told them, they are not the center of the universe.
Personally, I’m annoyed more by their usurping and redefining the word “freedom” to be the right to tell the rest of us how to live our lives. It’s pathological and it eating away at the foundations of our society.
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came here to say this
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Did you see this profile of the lawyer who sometimes submits book reports from her clients? The depth of ignorance revealed was quite astounding.
“ Defense attorney Heather Shaner said her first client from Jan. 6 wanted to invoke “the Constitution from 1776.″ When she tried to explain that the document was ratified years later, the man told her he had done his research and she was incorrect.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/07/31/capitol-riot-lawyer-books-defense/
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Did your read that somewhere -ie is it true? Or are you just kind of assuming…
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Krugman’s latest is right on “ My answer is that when people on the right talk about “freedom” what they actually mean is closer to “defense of privilege” — specifically the right of certain people (generally white male Christians) to do whatever they want.
Not incidentally, if you go back to the roots of modern conservatism, you find people like Barry Goldwater defending the right of businesses to discriminate against Black Americans. In the name of freedom, of course. A lot, though not all, of the recent panic about “cancel culture” is about protecting the right of powerful men to mistreat women. And so on.”
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Assuming, inferring, extrapolating. They’ve yet to prove me wrong.
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They really do exist in their own parallel universe.
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On a roll today mattinpa
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There’s a lot of words I try to use at least once every five years lest I forget them. 
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We know nothing of the kind. You sound just like the MAGAts.
What we know is that he pled guilty, gave an allocution, and, IIRC, he’s the one who’s expressed embarrassment and some shame over his acts.
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