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Could not happen to a more deserving idiot bigot — here’s the Wikipedia entry for ‘Baked Alaska‘, aka Anthime Joseph “Tim” Gionet.


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  2. 2.

    Cameron

    If Professor Moriarty was the Napoleon of Crime, who’s this guy? Sergeant Schultz?

  3. 3.

    debbie

    When that prison door slams shut behind you, Mr. Alaska, you’ll realize you did care all along about that deal.

  4. 4.

    trollhattan

    Here are some other people who believe in “God’s truth.”

    Leaders at a California church said they conducted a ritual to remove “evil spirits” from a 3-year-old girl who later died, according to local media reports. The church, Iglesia Evangelicas Apostoles y Profetas, operates out of the back room of a house in San Jose, KTVU reported. Court documents said that the parents thought their child was possessed because “the victim would wake up and scream or cry periodically,” KTVU reported. After praying for the child overnight, the girl’s mother and uncle drove her to the church, where they were joined by her grandfather, a leader in the congregation, NBC Bay Area reported. The three adults held the child by her legs, waist and neck and triggered her to vomit, saying that it would “get the spirit out,” the outlet reported. The child’s mother told investigators that she repeatedly stuck her hand down the child’s throat, according to NBC Bay Area.

    …The child’s grandfather told The Mercury News that he felt a lot of pain about his granddaughter’s death, but that “it’s the stuff of God, and everything is in the will of God no matter how small or big.”

    …The man and another woman who police say helped him were charged with kidnapping, the Associated Press reported. Members of the church said they were surprised to find out the kidnapper was in their congregation, The Mercury News reported.

    https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article261318582.html#storylink=cpy

    No indication of when the first member of that church plans to run for congress.

  7. 7.

    dr. bloor

    Tracking an amusing thread on Twitter where someone suggested that he has really poor judgment, and that there might be mental health issues underlying his behavior in court that should probably be explored.  As if that set him apart from the rest of the loons storming the gates on 1/6.

  9. 9.

    burnspbesq

    What a maroon. Just wait until he sees the superseding indictment he’s going to get if he doesn’t come to his senses and take the extremely generous deal that DOJ is holding open for him.

    If I were the AUSA on his case, I would have taken the deal off the table instantly. “You fuck with me, I bring the full power of the United States Department of Justice down on your ass.”

    And his defense counsel should be looking at some sort of professional discipline for allowing this Idiot to blow off his own toes.

  13. 13.

    mrmoshpotato

    Gionet livestreamed from the Capitol: “Occupy the Capitol let’s go. We ain’t leaving this bitch”

    I hope this bitch continues punching himself in the dick and gets the book thrown at him.

    I hope that for all of these Dump-humping, fascist shitstains who tried to overthrow the government.

  14. 14.

    LAO

    @burnspbesq: eh, it’s happened to me. As defense counsel, you prepare your client but then, in front of your very eyes, they pull a stunt like this. In my experience, there is a subset of people that are incapable of pleading guilty. They just can’t do it, even if it’s their best interest to do so.

  15. 15.

    Anne Laurie

    @dr. bloor: Let’s just say… while I’m in favor of decriminalizing marijuana, there is considerable evidence that consistent long-term THC abuse does *not* improve one’s higher executive reasoning functions.

    (And you’re right, of course, it might be self-medicating. )

  16. 16.

    Geminid

    Many probably know this already, but Gionet is a celebrity stoner. That’s what the “Baked” in Baked Alaska is about

    Ahh, now I see that his Wikipedia entry covers this.

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    dr. bloor

    @burnspbesq: I agree that Aloi should have been less generous in leaving the deal open.  Disagree about disciplining the defense attorney.  They can’t be held responsible for not wrangling grandiose idiots like Gionet, and they probably walked him through the allocution a jillion times beforehand trying to prevent what happened.

  18. 18.

    Villago Delenda Est

    This whiny little fascist twit should be tossed into prison and the key forgotten.

  21. 21.

    Chacal Charles Caltrop

    @burnspbesq: if criminal defense counsel were disciplined for every stupid stunt their clients pulled they’d be in front of grievance committee every year. Believe me stupid people don’t stop being stupid just because they’ve been arrested and charged.

  22. 22.

    Urban Suburbanite

    @dr. bloor: I remember some podcaster (I think it was one on the Capitol attack) dug into his past, and how he started out as a wannabe rapper whose friends had to talk him down from a suicide attempt more than once. Then he fucked over those friends to be a livestreaming for edgy fascists.

  23. 23.

    RSA

    @Geminid: Ahh, now I see that his Wikipedia entry covers this.

    This idiot gets a 2,500-word entry in Wikipedia, with 65 references. That’s in the same ballpark as each of the 2021 winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, for a random comparison. There’s something wrong with our celebrity culture.

    (This isn’t really about your comment–I’d just read his Wikipedia article and was surprised/a bit irritated at how detailed it is.)

  24. 24.

    RSA

    @LAO: Amazingly, not the only incredible, good thing reported in Florida today.

    WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A passenger with no flight experience safely landed a private plane at Palm Beach International Airport Tuesday afternoon after the pilot suffered a medical emergency.

  25. 25.

    LAO

    @RSA: I saw that.  Unbelievable.  Truly Amazing. I know for sure that I could not have landed that plane.

  29. 29.

    Ruckus ??

    @Cameron:

    Sergeant Schultz was your basic enlisted guy. Did what he was told, kept his mouth shut when necessary so as not to end up getting screwed over. Some don’t have the intelligence to accomplish that. In any countries military. I know nothing was as good an answer as it gets, because his “betters” would give him no credit for either completely shutting up or spilling whatever beans he might know.

  34. 34.

    Ruckus ??

    @LAO:

    I flew a small private plane for about 30 minutes once. The owner was in the left seat the entire time. Land it? No Fucking Way, unless crash landing was an option. There is a reason it takes effort and time to get a pilots license. It isn’t that difficult but it isn’t a 30 minute learning curve. Learning to race motorcycles was easier.

  37. 37.

    Kent

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:Why are these pigs getting plea “deals”?

    Because that’s how the criminal justice system works.  When you are guilty and the prosecution has you dead to rights, you cop a plea.  He wasn’t the Oklahoma City Bomber.  We don’t have enough judges, prosecutors, and courtrooms to bring every single case to trial.

  39. 39.

    lowtechcyclist

    @LAO: Good Lord, how brave, and also how alert and quick to react, that first woman was!  She’s my new hero.

    Now I’ve gotta read about this guy who landed the plane.  That sounds pretty amazing.

  40. 40.

    ant

    @LAO: . In my experience, there is a subset of people that are incapable of pleading guilty

     

    cluster B antisocial personality type.

     

    The problem stems from their inability to feel certain emotions: guilt, remorse, regret, grief, sorrow, Etc. These people have an innate talent for confounding lie detector tests. Of course everyone’s ability to feel these emotions varies along a spectrum, but for some, it gets in the way of their ability to recognize that they’ve made a mistake.

    They always blame others for their fuck ups. It’s never their fault.

    Their emotional deficits absolutely stunt their growth into adults because they don’t learn from their mistakes.

    Normal people sometimes confuse the issue with stupidity – and yes, sometimes they ARE stupid – but this is not always the case.

    Psychopaths, Sociopaths, and Narcissists can be highly intelligent, and learn to hide their emotional deficits, and therefore are able to be VARY effective at manipulating others. You’ll see these types be highly successful in sales, often selling scam products.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrZUDZYbtg

  41. 41.

    LAO

    @ant: You may be right and I certainly don’t think Baked Alaska is stupid; he’s an asshole for sure, but not stupid,  In my experience as a defense attorney for the past 20+ years, i represented a lot of people — who just can’t walk themselves into a jail cell — even when they recognize that they are in fact guilty.  And weirdly, when it happens, it always surprises me.

  42. 42.

    ant

    @LAO: 

    Prison is another place where you will find these types in high numbers. These are the ones on the stupid end of the spectrum.

  43. 43.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Ken:  Years after my childhood experience with Hogan’s Heroes, I saw the film Stalag 17 from which it was clearly derived.

    The Sergeant Schultz in the film looks and sounds a lot like the Schultz of TV, but he’s a very different character. A Nazi pretending to be just a friendly guy, the prisoners’ buddy.

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