seektravelinfo wrote:
It’s astonishing how naive they are.
It really reminds me of when I was a kid and I would get caught at something red handed and I would desperately try the most convoluted lie possible to get out of trouble but it would always fail because the adults in my life were kids once as well and they could demand I answer their questions.
These guys don't have to testify in their defense. They seem to think they can explain themselves and use their natural charms to get away with it. But they have no charms beyond the pantomime, folksy patriot veneer they have given themselves and that just does not hold up to any real questioning.
The Butt-Wipe Doorknob guy, Thomas Caldwell, talked about how attacking a crowd of "Democrats" with suppressed AR-15s would kill about 25 people before anyone even knew they were being shot.
He claimed he was talking about getting suppressors for his friends granddaughter who was a competition shooter and suppressors were "different" than silencers. He then asked the prosecutor if he wanted him to explain the difference between the two.
The prosecutor did not want to hear a defendant provide a definition. He would go by the US National Firearms Act of 1934 which defined "Silencer" (NFA-1934 definition says reduction of noise is a silencer based on a commercial product called "Maxim Silencer" which was the "Kleenex" of suppressors at the time) and it was like Caldwell had never had his bullshit challenged ever. So much so he probably did not even believe it was bullshit.
But he did know you cannot go around planning to do a mass shooting of Democrats in DC.
What was funny is that the Prosecution did not even enter his planned, random massacre as evidence before he agreed to take the stand. The massacre of Democrats was not part of the January 6th insurrection so not relevant, but it was relevant to countering his claims of being nice, misunderstood disabled veteran.
Imagine if a high school student did that kind of talk about a Mall or classmates? He would still be locked up to this day. This guy was actually let off the hook for planning a mass killing with his buddies via Signal.
MAGA is violent. MAGA thinks people who disagree with them are "The Enemy" and they want the Enemy to die. It's just that they are such authoritarians that they want someone to give them permission to do it.