Here’s a nice little side note I hadn’t expected. Many of the January 6th rioters are using fundraising sites to raise money for their defense. No problem, there. They probably need a lot. Collectively, the rioters have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. BUT…they’re not using the money they raise for their defense. They create a “defense” fund, collect the money, then keep the money and use a public defender. I suspect they got the idea from the Former Guy, who did the same thing to them. The difference, of course, is Former put the money in his PAC, effectively laundering it, so no one could reach it. His acolytes? They don’t even HAVE PACs.

These guys sell their need for legal defense based on the notion that they’re really heroic patriots, being persecuted by the big, bad gubmint. I imagine it’s pretty easy to feel persecuted while you’re being prosecuted. I continue to be surprised at the number of people who support the insurrectionists thinking they were, after all, just doing what their President asked them to do. I don’t think that should work as a defense. People are responsible for their own actions. I DO, however, think every time one of those Bozos uses that particular line, it should be added to the evidence against Trump that he was, in fact, the ringleader of the traitorous January 6th coup attempt…

Anyway, I wrote all that to write this: the government (or gubmint, if that’s all you got) is trying to claw back any money these swindlers raise for their legal defense that they don’t use for their legal defense. Prosecutors are asking judges for fines equal to amounts raised, but not used, for defense. Prosecutors think the traitors shouldn’t be allowed to use their notoriety for personal gain. I agree.

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Ah, June. Summer! After a long, cold, wet winter, a little summer will be nice. But it’s also when the Robert’s Supremely Kangaroo Court recesses for it’s summer break. They take three months off. They need that extra down time to process and enjoy all the bribes they happily receive. But this particular crowd of cowards also manages to issue it’s most disgusting and damaging ideological “opinions” as they abscond. I wonder which segment of Americans they plan to attack as they slink away this time. Last time it was women. This time? It will likely be people of color and children. You know…whomever is most vulnerable.

The cons used to complain about how bad it would be if America suffered under ideological, activist judges who ruled based on personal preferences rather than the law. Since it wasn’t happening when the cons were whining about it, I didn’t pay much attention. Now, the cons are quiet (of course) while it actually goes on but I’ve got to give them this: they were right. Ideological justices who care nothing for the law nor precedent ARE bad…

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So…the cons fell deeply in love with a sexual predator and “elected” him “President.” Thinking Americans thought that was not a good thing. As usual, Americans were aghast at the depths to which the cons will stoop just to get more stoop-ed. The cons, of course, just like that loving their sexual predator bothers thinking Americans but someone, somewhere realized that sexually predatory behavior could become a campaign issue – so they found a Democrat they don’t like and had someone point a finger at him. They marched out Tara Reade who claimed Joe Biden once pushed her against a wall in a public corridor and sexually assaulted her.

I’ve always been suspicious. Biden is a freaking gaffe machine and we all know about the weird hair sniffing thing but – unlike their sexual predator(s) – there have been no other reports of sexual assaults surrounding the guy. Just one conservative obsequious zealot with no evidence in a she said/she said again. Uh-huh.

You know what else cons think they love? Russia. It’s easy for them, not actually living in Russia and allowing themselves to love their trumped up fantasy delusion of what Russia might be, instead. I doubt they’ve noticed the number of Putin’s enemies who have suddenly “fallen out of windows” or otherwise met unexpected ends. Now the two things have come together.

Accuser Tara Reade has gleefully exclaimed that she has recently defected to Russia. She says NOW she feels “safe.” She also said her dream is to live in both places but acknowledged that might not be realistic. Gee, you think?

I’ll tell you this: At some point, I expect she’ll start to miss US freedom and want to come back. I hope they don’t let her. Or, since they likely will as a public relations coup, tell her that when she defected, she surrendered her Social Security number and all payments made to date. Issue her another one and make her start again.

Jeez, I guess I’m feeling a bit punitive…