Marine sentenced to 10 years for Jan 6 riot

Another feel good story. I love feel good stories.

Make them all admit the stolen election was a big lie, maybe they'll get through to a few, but I doubt it ☹️

String him up. String him up. String him up. String him up.

He sure looks like a MAGA poster boy... The big fathead

So, there is justice for some but, apparently not for ex-presidents.

That outfit and hideous face…. What a loser.

Now this is some dollface shit!

@r5, I like to think it's the big work up to TFG. Start imprisoning the little guys which should really piss them off and work your way up to the bigger guys, so that by the time they get to the top at least a few will think they had it coming for beating the hornet's nest and putting their buddies in jail to begin with

kNot long enough or harsh enough. He should lose his pension, and be forced to pay restitution to the victim.

All of these clowns should have been killed on the spot.

Good times!

Ha ha, stupid shit!!!! Enjoy your prison sentence!!!

1/6 should henceforth be known as Fatso's Uprising.

It always strikes me with disbelief, when I read or hear about these sentences that are being handed down, how absolutely ridiculous and stupid these 1/6 insurrection participants are.

Who? Who in their right mind, ever even for one second, consider participating in something so hateful, based on the ramblings of one of the best known conmen in modern American history?

And even more surprising is that some of these idiots are really well educated. They even convicted a doctor several weeks back.

Now the world knows that at least 30% of Americans can be easily targeted and manipulated in order for interested, nefarious parties to get the exact results they want.

And if DeSantis gets ahead any further in his political career ambitions? We’re toast , as our public education system barely operates properly, even if adequately so.

If DeSantis becomes President there will be no public education, except technical school.

Public executions for treason would be more effective than 10 year prison sentences.

Misspelled moron

As the saying goes, fucked around, found out.

How many chromosomes does he have?

Not nearly enough R19.

Anyone who believes Trump’s bs is fucked. Include all the fools who invested money in Truth Social.

How often do civilians convicted of assaulting a cop get to “choose” when they begin to serve their sentences?

And an ugly bastard too

Well in NY if you kill someone . . .R22

Why were none of the BLM rioters charged? Sick and tired of the double standard.

Is he a top?

and we're sick and tired of Republican/Neo Fascist faux patriotism and faux religious piety, R24. Talk about a double standard.

Just by looking at him I can tell he's guilty.

Ca I get his pension?

FYI, it's been rumored for years that the Marines are the least intelligent of all the military services.

I attached a PDF of a NYT article of two "retarded" Marine recruits who were killed in basic training in 1976. If you can't read it (sorry!), that's the gist of it, so you get the idea.

@r24, "Why were none of the BLM rioters charged? Sick and tired of the double standard. "

Give me one example of a BLM protester who beat up a cop... We'll wait, because if it actually happened he would have been killed on the spot and you know it

@r24, "Why were none of the BLM rioters charged? Sick and tired of the double standard. "

Perhaps Kyle Rittenhouse killed them before they could be charged 🤔

Womp womp.

What a catch. He looks like a cross between Forrest Gump and the dude from “Sling blade.”

Can I have his pension?

I think Trump.should go to jail.

R29, the Marine Corp. recruiters are known to test potential recruits psychologically.

Generally, they want recruits from trouble backgrounds which focus on childhood, family dynamics.

They seek young recruits who were abandoned, neglected and who witnessed or were subjected to child abuse/trauma.

Allegedly, these traits indicate a highly malleable individual, who is seeking to resolve their childhood trauma, via models of strong codependency components.

[quote]Why were none of the BLM rioters charged? Sick and tired of the double standard.

You point out one BLM member who attempted to overthrow our system of government with violence while assaulting a police officer with a weapon and we’ll be glad to arrest them.

I’ll throw in a bonus: They don’t even have to be a BLM member. Show me anyone who attempted that.

Public execution for treason.

Looters and arsonists should have been charged in BLM riots. Just like this guy. He deserves a little more pain for trying to subvert an election.

Nice whataboutism, comrade @R39. Her's a potato.

R38, I disagree about the execution part.

I’m very pro-capital punishment, don’t get me wrong, but in this case, languishing for the rest of their wretched lives in a cell without a chance of parole so they can think every day until their last about how stupid they were would please me more.

Thousands of BLM protesters were arrested, r24. You're just exposing yourself as a troll.

R41, yeah good point. I just despise these motherfuckers so much, from basement dwelling q-anons to Trump.

@r41, I agree that life in prison is way worse than execution, but you run the risk of some future asshole Republican President giving them all pardons for their crimes

different strokes for different folks

Where would you be without Murdoch, r45?

As a paying member, this thread has been great for identifying people for me to block!

Good point, r44.

One I truly hadn’t thought about.

r45 is also bashing California and Newsom.

The January 6th insurrection was a completely political, partisan act with the participants interested only in installing an unelected Republican president.

The BLM protests were completely Apolitical, with the intention of protesting against police brutality, racism and social injustice.

Unless perhaps you want to make the argument that the BLM protests *were* actually political, and thereby that the Republican Party is completely uninterested in fighting police brutality, racism and social injustice? Because that's fine too, you know, if you want to just flat out admit it.

Police should have had laser rifles during Jan 6. Then, we wouldn't have this mess, just a few bodies which could be used for dog food.

What's the tally now of people who've been sentenced for their part in J6? How many more to go?

is also bashing California and Newsom.

and R49 What's your point?

^ Um, that you might be an ass to be avoided?

you mean like Newsom and California R54?

but also dangerous R50

More protests R50

HAHAH

Not everyone is sold on CA or Newsom

Oh, it's the same right wing troll with "crime is turning big blue states cities into shitholes" talking points. I'm sure he's posting that from his red state trailer park somewhere with neighbors smoking meth in their mobile lab. Trite and jejune.

Protests for profit

R60= mommy someone doesn't agree with me! It must be a troll!

Russia’s pro-Trump electoral interference campaign in 2016 was “part of a broader, sophisticated, and ongoing information warfare campaign designed to sow discord in American politics and society,” according to a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) report released in 2019.

“No single group” was targeted more on social media by Russian disinformation than black Americans, according to the same report — with the majority of the posts on Russian accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube centering on racial issues.

Much of the content on these accounts focused on police violence. In 2016, Russian accounts also encouraged black Americans not to vote at all or to cast a protest vote for a third-party candidate for president.

According to the SSCI report, in 2016, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a state-backed Russian troll farm and disinformation shop, was particularly focused on issues surrounding race and content aimed at black Americans.

On Facebook, 66% of the IRA ads were related to race, and its location targeting “was principally aimed at African Americans in key metropolitan areas,” according to the report.

In the late 2010s, researchers found that increases in Russian disinformation activity on Twitter were correlated with increases in polarising conversations regarding the Black Lives Matter movement.

One such activity included Russian accounts mimicking Black Lives Matter activists, or supported issues central to the Black Lives Matter cause.

Activities on Facebook include purchasing ads to promote Black Lives Matter.

Reporting by investigative journalists uncovered Russian links with Facebook pages promoting Black Lives Matter.

In one instance, Russian activities on social media led to real-life protests on behalf of Black Lives Matter.

Prior to this development, in 2010, a report commissioned for the United States Senate Intelligence Committee, the Russian firm Internet Research Agency was identified as creating social media accounts as part of a complex campaign to suppress the black American vote.

However, subsequently, investigative journalists found that the Russian firm sought to promote the issue of Black Lives Matter in order to instigate mistrust in US law enforcement and political institutions.

Wow, those riots in LA look terrible, was anyone hanged? 🙄

According to scholars and American investigative journalists, Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections included the promotion of themes relating to Black Lives Matter.

Often, the purpose of these actions included race-baiting.

In 2020, The Internet Research Agency had outsourced to troll farms in Ghana and Nigeria, which created content for audiences on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, the majority of whom were in the United States.

Was this guy in LA to lead the rioters?

Soviet media has criticized racial inequality and violence in the United States since at least 1930s, often using this argument to deflect criticism aimed at the human rights abuses in the USSR, or to create a sense of false moral equivalency between the two states.

Lynchings of African Americans were brought up as an embarrassing skeleton in the closet for the U.S., which the Soviets used as a form of rhetorical ammunition when reproached for their own perceived economic and social failings.

This became known as the "And you are lynching Negroes" argument, later described as whataboutism, and continued during the Cold War and beyond.

Just looting, violence and burning R65

The Soviet media frequently covered racial discrimination, financial crises, and unemployment in the United States, which were identified as failings of the capitalist system that had been supposedly erased by state socialism.

Lynchings of African Americans were brought up as an embarrassing skeleton in the closet for the US, which the Soviets used as a form of rhetorical ammunition when reproached for their own perceived economic and social failings.

After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the phrase became widespread as a reference to Russian information-warfare tactics.

Its use subsequently became widespread in Russia to criticize any form of US policy.

That was terrible when those LA rioters overtook the state capitol

'Chaos, violence and widespread destruction'

'Nationwide unrest'

That was terrible when those LA rioters tried to kill Officer Fanone, can you imagine what horrible people they were

According to the SSCI report, in 2016, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a state-backed Russian troll farm and disinformation shop, was particularly focused on issues surrounding race and content aimed at black Americans.

On Facebook, 66% of the IRA ads were related to race, and its location targeting “was principally aimed at African Americans in key metropolitan areas,” according to the report.

A major IRA Facebook page, “Blacktivist,” had over 11 million user engagements.

On Instagram, half of the 10 most popular IRA accounts were aimed at black Americans.

And on YouTube, 96% of the IRA’s activity was focused on “racial issues and police brutality.”

Who needs a cause?

Oh, look, those LA rioters tried to crush Officer Hodges to death

"Evidence shows Capitol (LA) rioters brutally attacked police with flagpoles, fire extinguishers and fists"

He looks mean. Even in photos not from Jan 6 he looks like a miserable, angry person.

LA rioters kill Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick

Those barbaric LA rioters

Summer of Love

Those Seattle protesters injured or killed 134 policemen

Those Seattle protesters really fucked Officer Fanone up

This little MAGA foot soldier has the persistence of a shit fly.

In the late 2010s, researchers found that increases in Russian disinformation activity on Twitter were correlated with increases in polarising conversations regarding the Black Lives Matter movement.

One such activity included Russian accounts mimicking Black Lives Matter activists, or supported issues central to the Black Lives Matter cause.

Activities on Facebook include purchasing ads to promote Black Lives Matter.

Reporting by investigative journalists uncovered Russian links with Facebook pages promoting Black Lives Matter.

In one instance, Russian activities on social media led to real-life protests on behalf of Black Lives Matter.

Prior to this development, in 2010, a report commissioned for the United States Senate Intelligence Committee, the Russian firm Internet Research Agency was identified as creating social media accounts as part of a complex campaign to suppress the black American vote.

However, subsequently, investigative journalists found that the Russian firm sought to promote the issue of Black Lives Matter in order to instigate mistrust in US law enforcement and political institutions.

Oh, look the Capitol rioters have gone to Chicago for the weekend!

2 Officers who responded in Chicago offed themselves...

Those Capitol rioters sure do get around.

While Russian operatives have engaged in an online campaign to encourage supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, their efforts also have included promoting opposition against the group, including inciting violence against the group's supporters.

Russian operatives encouraged American citizens to commit violence against individuals participating in Black Lives Matter protests, claiming that the protesters were 'unpatriotic' and encouraged opponents to use lethal force against protesters.

And just like that another asshole troll on DL disappears... *POOF*

According to scholars, Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections included the promotion of themes relating to Black Lives Matter, as well as the promotion of antagonism toward the movement.

Russian operatives created hundreds of fake personas linked to social media accounts and began posting content that related to two different aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement. On one hand, posts promoted the Black Lives Matter cause by emphasising police brutality in the United States toward minority groups; on the other hand, other posts supported police divisions, strongly criticised any opposition to the police, and denounced the Black Lives Matter movement. In one instance, social media accounts used by Russia's Internet Research Agency simultaneously promoted opposing protests in New York City: one in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the other against it.

In one case, Russian operatives even hired individuals to organise protests.

Researchers found that this interference campaign was performed with the following aims: to support Donald Trump's presidential campaign, to weaken Hillary Clinton's campaign, and to undermine public faith in the American democratic system and the electoral process.

Russia’s online disinformation campaign in 2016 had far-reaching influence.

Facebook believes 126 million people may have seen Russian propaganda on its platform connected to 2016.

Twitter has said 1.4 million of its users were exposed to Russian disinformation.

Russian operatives created Facebook groups and organized rallies and demonstrations around these fake groups.

In one case, Russian operatives scheduled dueling protests on the same day in Houston, causing Muslim civil rights activists to square off with anti-Muslim Texas secessionists.

Footage from the event shows an anti-Muslim protestor waving the Confederate flag while others hold a banner that reads “White Lives Matter.”

Russian trolls even created a fake group called “Don’t Shoot Us,” which posed as a Black Lives Matter affiliate and operated on multiple social media platforms.

R90 try poofing yourself Tinkerbell and 2 dozen posts disappear

Maria Butina, the Russia agent who infiltrated the National Rifle Association and charmed several Republican figures before landing an 18-month prison sentence, has emerged as one of Vladimir Putin’s most vocal advocates as Russian forces continue to wreak havoc on Ukraine and its people.

In fact, Butina is so deep in Putin’s propaganda hole that she’s suggesting it’s Ukraine itself, not Russia, laying waste to Ukraine.

“We have tons of evidence that the Russia army does not touch, does not bomb civilian populations,” she told BBC Radio’s Nick Robinson on Wednesday.

To address Russia’s shortage of soldiers to send to war in Ukraine, the Wagner mercenary group seems to be making an offer that it hopes convicted criminals can’t refuse: a get out of jail card.

“After six months [at war] you receive a pardon, and there is no option for you to return to prison,” a man dressed in tan-colored fatigues said, addressing a crowd of Russian inmates standing underneath a poster that read “Choose life.” “Those who arrive [at the front line] and say on Day 1 it’s not for them get shot,” the man added.

Over 40% of Russian mercenaries in Kharkiv Oblast seriously wounded or killed, says General Staff

Yes! I good sentence for this asshole. Pretty substantial..

So much time for a "tourist"....LOL.

imagine how many mansions you could buy for $2B!

This guy was eligible for two pensions. One from the Marines and one from NYPD. NYPD have seven figure pensions. What is his grievance?

What utter morons these MAGAts are, going to jail for an orange carnival barker, a man who could give two shits about ANY of these people.

These fools wouldn't be allowed anywhere near the grounds of MAGA-Lardo!

It's simply Darwinism in action, thinning the herd, etc, etc.

At least he didn't kill the family dog (that we know of)

@r90, "And just like that another asshole troll on DL disappears... *POOF* "

Wow, that was the best block of my life. Turns out you're the biggest shit-poster on DL

I'm going to unblock you just to block you again...

Yes!

QAnon and Dump have certainly poisoned so many peoples minds, especially those who already have severe mental health issues.

It's amazing how one orange maniac has been able to cause all this havoc. Dump has sure brought the crazies out of the woodwork.

The Select Committee has obtained a recording of communications over a walkie-talkie app among Oath Keepers who were inside the Capitol and others who were sharing intelligence from elsewhere.

Listen to how they reacted to President Trump’s 2:38 tweet in real-time.

Oath Keepers membership list reportedly leaked, and those named include law-enforcement officers, elected officials and dozens of current political candidates

Russian operatives created hundreds of fake personas linked to social media accounts and began posting content that related to two different aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement.

On one hand, posts promoted the Black Lives Matter cause by emphasising police brutality in the United States toward minority groups; on the other hand, other posts supported police divisions, strongly criticised any opposition to the police, and denounced the Black Lives Matter movement.

In one instance, social media accounts used by Russia's Internet Research Agency simultaneously promoted opposing protests in New York City: one in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the other against it.

Alia Shoaib January 15, 2022·3 min read Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, has been charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to the Capitol riot.Aaron C. Davis/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, was charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to the Capitol riot.

His estranged wife Tasha Adams said that he is a "complete sociopath."

Adams said that she felt Rhodes was personally dangerous to her and her family, and also to the country.

The estranged wife of Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right group Oath Keepers, said he is a "complete sociopath."

Rhodes' wife Tasha Adams made the comments in an interview with CNN on Friday, a day after Rhodes was charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to the Capitol riot.

Insider's Oma Seddiq and Sonam Sheth wrote that it's the most significant arrest yet and marks the first time that federal prosecutors have brought sedition charges in connection to the Justice Department's sprawling investigation into the deadly January 6, 2021, Capitol siege.

Adams said she was relieved to hear he was indicted, as she "lived in fear" of him showing up at her house.

"Knowing we were safe and my kids were safe and my kids' school doesn't have to worry, that was a relief I didn't know existed," she said.

Adams told CNN host John Berman that she felt Rhodes was dangerous to her and her family, and the country.

"He is very dangerous. He lives very much in his own head," Adams said on CNN.

"He sees himself as a great leader. He almost has his own mythology of himself and I think he almost made it come true, seeing himself as some sort of figure in history, and it sort of happened."

"He's a complete sociopath. He does not feel empathy for anyone around him at all," she added.

[quote] "He is very dangerous. He lives very much in his own head," Adams said on CNN.

He needs a better abode.

👍 Awesome !

Elmer Stewart Rhodes — a 56-year-old former U.S. Army paratrooper and Yale Law School graduate from Granbury, Texas — founded the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia group, in 2009 in response to the election of President Barack Obama.

With a signature patch covering an eye he lost from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound, Rhodes rose to prominence as a guest on Alex Jones's Infowars program.

He also came into the national spotlight in 2014 when the Oath Keepers took part in the armed confrontation between supporters of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and federal law enforcement at Bundy's Nevada ranch.

U.S. rangers are rounding up Bundy's cattle, claiming he has been illegally grazing his herds on 600,000 acres of federal lands for two decades. The Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, said Bundy's unpaid land use fees total more than $1 million.

Bundy said he doesn't have to pay because he has no contract with the federal government.

Bundy claims his herd of roughly 900 cattle have grazed on the land along the riverbed near Bunkerville, 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas, since 1870 and threatened a "range war" against the BLM on the Bundy Ranch website after one of his sons was arrested while protesting the removal of the cattle.

Bundy advocated for limited federal government involvement in local affairs, particularly in ranching.

Bundy supported the ideas of the sovereign citizen movement. Many of the adherents of the movement argue that the federal government is illegitimate and does not have jurisdiction over individuals, meaning that laws do not apply to them.

Bundy had asked for the support of members of the Oath Keepers, the White Mountain Militia, and the Praetorian Guard.

Cliven Bundy has said he does not recognize federal police power over land that he believes belongs to the "sovereign state of Nevada."

An Anti-Defamation League project has exposed people who registered as members of the violent paramilitary group ... and their public-facing professions.

You're squatting on government lands and refuse to pay for access to the lands and the water.

You are a deadbeat and a welfare queen.

Wish every MAGA asshole who was in DC on Jan 6th could be locked up.

That would teach these easily swayed morons a lesson, don't believe a failed real estate mogul, an evil delusional man who is nothing but a grifter.

Drumpf is a disgusting vile man who is always trying to enrich his own life through using others. That's been his MO for his entire life. This creep even cheated in school. All his gains have been through using others.

Drumpf is nothing but a hateful orange menace who does not give a shit about his followers or even his own family.

Those proud boys at it again!

Igor Lanis, a suburban Detroit auto industry employee, was arguing with his wife, Tina Lanis, 56, and daughter Rachel Lanis, 25, early Sunday when the two women were about to drive away from their home — but not before he opened fire with a shotgun, Rebecca Lanis said.

[quote] How often do civilians convicted of assaulting a cop get to “choose” when they begin to serve their sentences?

This is common practice in federal court. They choose a date down the road for you to surrender yourself to a facility.

[quote]He looks mean. Even in photos not from Jan 6 he looks like a miserable, angry person.

And he was a cop for 20 years. Think about that.

[quote]NYPD have seven figure pensions.

You must be including the decimal point.

Seven figures?