well, well. a yahoo from my hometown arrested for 1/6.

[mopinko]

Aurora Man Indicted for Assaulting Officer During Jan. 6 Capitol Attack

"James Robert Elliott, also known as Jim Bob, was taken into custody in Batavia on Monday and indicted on a total of six charges: civil disorder, assaulting an officer, entering a restricted building with a weapon, disorderly conduct in a restricted building with a weapon, engaging in violence in a restricted building with a weapon and engaging in an act of physical violence in the Capitol, according to the indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Five of those six charges are felonies, officials said."

https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/aurora-man-indicted-for-assaulting-officer-during-jan-6-capitol-attack/2713163/?fbclid=IwAR2M1_miQ7q_SkP62W26xDDVGSFRGpAWSm-lHW_JTC4X9bC5HX_KqbERUhc

sounds like a real winner.

[Retired Engineer Bob]

1. "Jim Bob" says all I need to know, lock him up!

[mopinko]

2. ikr?

honestly, i dont know what's happening out there.
i left long ago, and it has grown to the 2nd largest city in il. but it seems to have quite the contingent of rednecks these days. didnt used to be like that.
tbh, tho, it was mostly white when i left, and it sure isnt now.

[cate94]

8. I lived there for a while 40 yrs ago

However, I still live in the Chicago suburbs. If someone introduced me to a guy named Jim Bob, I’d have a hard time not laughing. Seriously?

[mopinko]

9. that's about when i left.

whole fam thought i nuts to move to the big city from 'such a great little town'.
dont recall any jim bobs when i was there. wouldnt expect them in the kind of rock and roll dives i used to hang at, tho.

[blueinredohio]

12. "Jim Bob" seems about right.

[mopinko]

4. not funny.

[Paladin]

5. Happy now? (nt)

[mopinko]

6. yes. thank you.

[Joinfortmill]

7. Good news.

[Emile]

10. The stupid things brainwashed people will do for Trump's entertainment.

[gratuitous]

11. Five of the six charges are felonies

Jim Bob may not be able to carry his bang-bangs when this is over. A crying shame. {Giggle}

[mopinko]

13. yeah, i noticed that too.

even if these clowns dont do serious time, i still love that they have to kiss their penis extensions goodbye.

[greenjar_01]

14. "also known as Jim Bob"

That's all you need to know here.

[mopinko]

15. that was the bit that made me post it.

ya cant make this shit up.

[malaise]

22. And that's the truth

[homegirl]

16. Who's next?

Last week, Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney hinted at potential criminal charges for former president Donald Trump stemming from a congressional investigation into the Capitol insurrection.

Specifically, Cheney questioned whether Trump "through action or inaction corruptly sought to obstruct or impede Congress' official proceeding to count electoral votes" on Jan. 6.

Appearing on MSNBC on Tuesday night, former acting U.S. solicitor general Neal Katyal explained that Cheney was referring to a federal statute that makes it a felony, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, to obstruct an official proceeding.

Katyal noted that three judges, including two nominated by Trump, have recently found that Capitol rioters potentially violated the statute, regardless of whether they intended violence, merely by endeavoring to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's victory.

"The other thing she's saying is, it's not just Trump's action, but his inaction," Katyal added. "Trump is saying, I guess his defense is, 'Look, I didn't light the match.' But what Cheney is saying is, 'Look, at least you sat in front of the fire truck toasting marshmallows if you didn't light the match.'"

"He wasn't exactly advocating the crowd to march to the Capitol and, like, count the votes," Katyal said. "He was urging them to stop that count, and so that runs you squarely into a federal crime. That's why Cheney's remarks are so important, and why Donald Trump this week has been, even by his own standards, more off the rails than usual." who's next?

[mopinko]

18. i have to wonder at the long term impact for that party if all the foot soldiers go to prison

but all the generals skate.
you'd think they'd be worried about that. they know their followers are stupid, but in no army did the grunts ever fail to notice shit like that.

[homegirl]

19. Long term impact?

Hopefully the GOP will become a minority party for 50 years. Giving the allegedly richest, most democratic country in the history of the world to catch up with the Social Democracies of the world.

[mopinko]

20. hopefully. in any fair system, they're howling in the wilderness til my grandkids retire.

and i have no grandchildren as of yet.

but reality is so slippery these days.

[BeckyDem]

17. +1

[Skittles]

21. haha

I hope he has been shitting bricks for almost a year