The Jan 6th TRAITORS

[Zeedox]

12 years in prison for the other

Nice!

 

[Gomez Adams]

I was hoping he'd get the whole 25, but at 58, 18 is pretty much the duration.

 

[Gomez Adams]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1661767205883609088

 

[Gomez Adams]

Yep. The "find out" stage of the "fuck around and find out" protocol is in full swing.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/26/politics/oath-keepers-jessica-watkins-sentencing/index.html

 

[Zeedox]

The Far Right Is Splintering

In his trial, the Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes turned against other extremists.

www.theatlantic.com

At his sentencing, Rhodes was unrepentant. In a 20-minute speech before the court, he portrayed himself alternately as a character in Kafka’s The Trial; as an “American Solzhenitsyn,” after the Soviet dissident writer who was sent to the gulag; and as a misunderstood advocate for peace.

I actually chuckled about that statement.

And yet Rhodes also unwittingly revealed deepening fissures in the far-right movement that, two years ago, resorted to violence to keep Donald Trump in the White House. The defendant used some of his time to distance himself from the Proud Boys, another extremist organization, with whom he had met in the days before the insurrection. “Unlike other groups like the Proud Boys, who seek conflict and seek to street-fight,” Rhodes explained, “we deter.” I’ve been misunderstood, he was telling the court; the Proud Boys are the ones you want.

Rhodes, it seems, is not entirely in sync with his radical brethren. A unified extremist front is a threat to our democracy—but the story is different when extremists start pointing fingers at one another in the criminal-justice system.

 

[Gomez Adams]

The bigger they are...

Or, rather, the smarter they think they are...