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An addition to our mirth: 'Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years in prison in first punishments for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack' (WAPO) Count them, TAFMers, 18 years!

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Too bad it wasn't the 25 the prosecution asked for. With a terrorism enhancement. But 18 will keep him away long enough he'll be "Stewart Who?" when he's done.

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ANd he'll be old enough that his balls will have shriveled up.

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can we really be sure he has any? I mean, like, this is a tough guy who can't clean his gun without shooting his eye out...

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You make a valid point there. He may not have any. But we don't have to worry about whether he does or doesn't, since after 18 years in the klink, any that exist will have shriveled up.

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jeez, David...you're so LOGICAL!

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Comes from being on the spectrum... well, and partially inherited. My mother actually diagnosed me, in the mid-late '50s, when just about nobody in the US was aware of this. (She didn't tell me. I figure she just didn't know whether it would be helpful or harmful to let me know. She did tell a friend of hers, who told her daughter, who told me decades later, after reading a story I'd written that gave it away in the way I described my toddler self (unbeknownst to me, since I was unaware of it at that time).

https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-home-forum/2020/0805/heeding-her-invitation-six-decades-later

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Thanks for the laugh!

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'A federal judge sentenced Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes to 18 years in prison Thursday and accepted the government's recommendation of an enhancement for terrorism for his role leading a seditious conspiracy to disrupt the certification of President Joe Biden's election victory.'

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Yes - they did it with a 12 year sentence, "enhanced" to 18, rather than the recommended 18 year sentence enhanced to 25. 18 turns out to be long enough, given his age. Assuming he survives in there, he comes out at age 75.

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TC, when I see 75 years of age! Look at the damage being done by some that age and older. Hey, why worry; they may see to it that human beings can longer survive on earth in 15 years! The Supreme Court of the USA has a mighty hand in our sentence for life on earth.

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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Re Rhodes)

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