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Botany

(70,504 posts)
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 08:58 AM Dec 2022

Elmer Rhodes might very well die in prison or he is going to be very old when he gets out.

WASHINGTON — Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia group, was found guilty on Tuesday, Nov. 29, of seditious conspiracy for last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to overturn then-President Donald
Trump's 2020 election loss — an important victory for the Justice Department.

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Four other Oath Keepers members charged with seditious conspiracy are due to go to trial in December. Members of another right-wing group called the Proud Boys, including its former chairman Enrique Tarrio, also are due to head to trial on seditious conspiracy charges in December.

https://www.dglobe.com/news/national/oath-keepers-founder-convicted-of-sedition-in-capitol-attack-plot

Seditious conspiracy is up to 20 years, he is facing another 40 years on his other convictions, and since I THINK
this was in a federal court you have to do much of your time before you are up for parole. I hope U.S. District
Judge Amit Mehta thinks of Officer Sicknick when sentencing Elmer.



Elmer and Alex Jones

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Elmer Rhodes might very well die in prison or he is going to be very old when he gets out. (Original Post) Botany Dec 2022 OP
So heartbreaking Hugh_Lebowski Dec 2022 #1
Elmer is 54 years old right now. Botany Dec 2022 #2
I did not know that. And yeah, it's gonna be a rough ride for the guy Hugh_Lebowski Dec 2022 #3
I read he worked for Ron Paul rpannier Dec 2022 #4
The Three Losers rpannier Dec 2022 #5
This so called warriers who thought nothing of making our hard earned votes worthless by SWBTATTReg Dec 2022 #6
Putin was more successful than his wildest dreams in installing Trump into the White House in .. Botany Dec 2022 #8
He won't die in prison gab13by13 Dec 2022 #7
Pardoning these traitors would be politically suicide. fightforfreedom Dec 2022 #9
A GOP president would wait until the end of his term to pardon these traitors? Irish_Dem Dec 2022 #10
You are giving Magats too much respect gab13by13 Dec 2022 #11

Botany

(70,504 posts)
2. Elmer is 54 years old right now.
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 09:07 AM
Dec 2022

I hope those "Proud Boys" assholes get the same sort of time too. BTW did you know that Elmer
worked for Ron Paul and was disbarred in Montana?

Assholes who screamed into the mics, downloaded their twisted right wing shit onto "the internets,"
those christo fascist pastors and GOPers, and "those perky blonds and hate talkers" selling their lies
on Fox are cancers on America.

I expect the GOP and their supporting billionaires to keep pushing their crap through a new group of
hate talkers.




rpannier

(24,329 posts)
4. I read he worked for Ron Paul
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 09:14 AM
Dec 2022

Not surprised
Every time I see Ron Paul's name, it's either pushing the collapse of the U.S. economy, so buy silver, or it's associated with some new government conspiracy that he's cooked up

SWBTATTReg

(22,121 posts)
6. This so called warriers who thought nothing of making our hard earned votes worthless by
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 09:42 AM
Dec 2022

their thuggish tactics on 1/6 and corruptly taking over the government and replacing it w/ djt and his failed regime deserve every bit of their punishment.

What is left is the last domino to fall, djt himself, who instigated the whole scheme. My bottle of wine still sits on my wine rack, until he's finally indicted for crimes against the U.S. One day, one day...

Botany

(70,504 posts)
8. Putin was more successful than his wildest dreams in installing Trump into the White House in ..
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 10:03 AM
Dec 2022

... order to cause division in America. If we had stopped him from installing Trump in 2016
we would not have had Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the global C-19 pandemic. I have
wondered just how deep Russia and Putin's tie to America's right wing and organizations
such as Fox are? Every time I hear, "Hunter Biden's lap top" my brain goes to Russian talking
point.*

* https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

 

fightforfreedom

(4,913 posts)
9. Pardoning these traitors would be politically suicide.
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 10:36 AM
Dec 2022

Any Republican who runs for president and says they will pardon the traitors will not win the presidency.

gab13by13

(21,337 posts)
11. You are giving Magats too much respect
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 10:58 AM
Dec 2022

What people still call the Republican party is an anti-democratic party comprised of White supremacists and bigoted racists. Mitt Romney gets a pass.

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