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I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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Late Night Addendum Open Thread: Jenna Ryan Is *VERY* Disappointed!

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The First Amendment, tragically, cannot protect you from yourself. Betty Cracker broke this news earlier, but I just had to share this fine specimen of Consequences should only happen to *other* people!!! logic with y’all.

Some backstory:

Apparently there is still some question of whether she will go to jail, but she’s doing her personal best to make sure the authorities have no reason to treat her with particular kindness…

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  2. 2.

    Poe Larity

    Wasn’t Stormy70 from Dallas? Could this not be performance art piece by one of DougJ’s minions?

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    frosty

    Is there a runway at the jail so she can leave on her private jet when she’s finished doing her time? It seems that would be appropriate to her station, no?

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    NotMax

    Yeah, she’s a real peach, isn’t she?

    Her Twitter account had a post in September about her having violated Facebook’s Community Standards for a post in which she said, “Heil Hitler.” Ryan went on to write that “independent thought is a No No on Facebook” and that their move to remove her post “makes me want to say Heil Hitler even louder.”

    Ryan denied having made this post to the Observer, although she did not offer an explanation for how it ended up on her social media.

    “I’m against Hitler; I’m against Nazi Germany; I’m against people being killed,” she said. “But the way I’m being treated right now is how they treated the Jews.” Source

  7. 7.

    LeftCoastYankee

    Hey Peroxide Eva Braun:  you were not “persecuted”, you were “prosecuted”.

    Don’t blame your vocab on CRT neither.

  8. 8.

    Joey Maloney

    Just caught up with the overnight (for me) postings and am thrilled the blog is going ad-free. Where can I set up a recurring donation, via PayPal preferably?

  9. 9.

    Tony Jay

    I was only joking yesterday when I outlined an “I was only being sarcastic to a twitter assailant” defence, but apparently Thriftshop Greene reads BJ. Who knew?

    Got to love the plea to the judge to recognise that she’s not really an entitled racist thug, she just pretends to be one on the Internet for clicks.

    “C’mon, man, I’m setting up a run for fricken Congress here. Can’t we settle on a nice suspended sentence so I can fundraise on my martyrdom from home?”

    I hope the judge has a really big book to throw at her.

  10. 10.

    Cermet

    I remember during the BLM protest that under the Rump, any BLM protesters who damaged federal property faced 10 years in jail; so exactly why are these 1/6 rioters that defaced/destroyed the Capitol not getting 10 years in a federal prison? Of course, because they are white and privileged, of course.

  11. 11.

    sab

    @Tony Jay: I am reading Fiona Hill’s book ” There’s No Place Here for You” Have you read it? I am loving it. She is the Russia expert who testified against Trump in the first impeachment hearings. Originally a coalminer’s daughter from Bishop Auckland.

  12. 12.

    Nicole

    “Scott free.” Heh. Heh heh heh heh heh.

    I don’t think that’s exactly what the prosecutor said, lady.

  13. 13.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    @Cermet: ​
     

    You’re not going to believe this, but Dump was full of shit.

    “I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act.”

    The veteran’s memorial preservation act reads: “public property commemorating the service of any person or persons in the armed forces of the United States shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years.”

    Dump said he would use this on anyone spraying good old fashioned American Graffiti on a federal court house, but court houses aren’t memorials.

    Additionally, what’s great is it only applies to memorials of US soldiers, so it wouldn’t apply to those confederate statutes he was trying to protect.

    Even then, if some prosecutor asked for a 10 year sentence, it’s up to a judge to decide, the penalty is not mandatory.

    So big surprise, Dump was conning his cult.

  14. 14.

    JWR

    Only two months?! She shoulda yelled at the judge, called him Antifa or something, for not handing her a ‘tough blond chick’ sentence. This one, from yesterday, is a bit better, even if only a sentencing rec:

    Federal prosecutors on Wednesday recommended a prison sentence of nearly four years for a New Jersey gym owner who is on track to be the first person sentenced for assaulting a law enforcement officer during the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

    Scott Fairlamb’s sentencing, scheduled for next Wednesday, could guide other judges in deciding the appropriate punishment for dozens of other rioters who engaged in violence at the Capitol that day.

    […]

    If U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth adopts the Justice Department’s recommendation for a 44-month prison term, Fairlamb’s sentence would be the longest for a rioter. An 8-month prison term is the longest sentence among the nearly two dozen rioters who have been sentenced so far. A man who posted threats connected to Jan. 6 but didn’t storm the Capitol was sentenced to 14 months in prison.

  15. 15.

    Mike G

    Impressive how all these “false flag antifa” operatives have impeccable cover stories as Trumpist assholes. They’re really staying in character.

  16. 16.

    JWR

    Kirsten Gillibrand was on Amanpour and Co last night, and when asked “WTF is up with Joe Manchin?”, she said he’s not against paid family leave, per se, but thinks it can be done in a bipartisan way, (thereby forcing employees to earn credits to that end), and sure enough, that’s just what he said today. So I guess his latest stalling tactic involves taking each provision of the bill and running it past his Ten Republican Friends?

  17. 17.

    Betty Cracker

    Apparently there is still some question of whether she will go to jail…

    Is there? How so?

  18. 18.

    opiejeanne

    @JWR: Those ten Republican friends who won’t vote for it anyway?

    I don’t understand how that earned points would work. Would they have to work x number of months before they could use it? Just like sick leave and paid vacations didn’t start accruing for x months most places my husband worked?

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    Tracking the unfriendly skies.

    The Federal Aviation Administration says it has referred 37 cases involving unruly airline passengers to the FBI for possible criminal prosecution since the number of disruptions on flights began to spike in January.
    [snip]
    The FAA said the cases referred to the FBI are among 227 this year in which it has begun enforcement action that could lead to civil penalties against passengers.
    [snip]
    The FAA said it has launched 950 investigations into passenger behavior on flights this year. That is the highest total since the agency started keeping track in 1995. In the five years from 2016 through 2020, the agency averaged 136 investigations a year. Source

  25. 25.

    Betty Cracker

    @OzarkHillbilly: I thought she was sentenced on the charge she pleaded guilty to? I’m not a lawyer, but I think the grounds for appeal are fairly limited in that circumstance. It’s a pity the court didn’t order to her to jail immediately.

  27. 27.

    p.a.

    Jeet Heer

    @HeerJeet

    Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” This seems increasingly true.

  29. 29.

    PST

    @LeftCoastYankee:

    Hey Peroxide Eva Braun: you were not “persecuted”, you were “prosecuted”.

    And while we’re at it, I think you mean “fazed” not “phased.” Some people bring out the pedantic twit in me.

  30. 30.

    Tony Jay

    @sab:

    I haven’t read it, but I saw you mentioning her last night and it brought back memories of being very impressed with her when she was being grilled by the Senate.

    It’s beautiful country up Durham way. You can see why the Vikings liked it so much.

  35. 35.

    Searcher

    “I would like a pardon from the President of the United States.” Dallas area realtor Jenna Ryan is the 2nd D.C. riot participant to ask for one.

    … do they expect Joe Biden to be so magnanimous as to pardon them, or do they think Trump still can?

  36. 36.

    El-Man

    Am I a bad person for thinking the best response to this jail sentence comes from Nelson Muntz?

  39. 39.

    Kristine

    Still finding it funny how the members of the Party of Personal Responsibility  refuse to take any.

    Each of them should get the xkcd 1st amendment explainer tattooed in reverse on their forehead so they can read it every time they look in the mirror. Failing that, a laminated wallet/handbag copy.

  42. 42.

    Johnny Gentle (famous crooner)

    Guarantee: Give it one or two election cycles and she’ll be in the Texas legislature, if not Congress.

    If she wasn’t a right-wing celebrity before, she certainly is now. You know how once they get a taste, these lampreys can’t unlatch themselves from the sweet, sweet grift of wingnut dollars. Heck, that bag of dicks in Missouri who waved his rifle at protestors is running for the Senate, and he isn’t half the “martyr” Jenna Ryan is.

    Relatedly, I also give it one or two election cycles before it’s sina qua non for ALL republican candidates to embrace the insurrectionists as great American patriots. The hope that people like Josh Hawley might be ostracized and pushed aside because of their support for the riot  lasted, what, a couple weeks?

  43. 43.

    dnfree

    @Tony Jay: my eldest daughter spent a year at Durham for college in the 1990s.  We visited her there, and it is indeed beautiful.  She was there for the 900th anniversary of the cathedral.

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    J R in WV

    I’m disappointed with this fascist criminal’s light sentence… she should probably be getting at least a couple of years for her self-promotion and support of the big lie on top of her participation in an insurrection that sought to overturn the lawfully elected government of the USA.

    Reading the linked sentencing report makes me sick.

    And Senator Joe Manchin drives a Maserati around DC, probably has his own parking space near where his yacht is moored. What a man of the WV people!! Amazing that he doesn’t understand the need for family leave — not!? Who is he kidding, he won’t ever take family leave to help care for someone, he doesn’t give a shit for anyone else.

  46. 46.

    MoCaAce

    @El-Man:

    Am I a bad person for thinking the best response to this jail sentence comes from Nelson Muntz?

    You would be a bad person if you didn’t.

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