"She also repeated her claim that the last presidential election was stolen."
...and...
"In a Facebook livestream after her sentencing, St Cyr also said she hadn’t filed taxes since 2019, and she encouraged her followers not to pay their taxes."
So she supported the Trump presidency...but refused to pay tax 2 years into his presidency?
No, you don’t get it. Taxes are bad because government, and Trump is good because he’s not government, especially when he was president but also now and forever. And government is communism, so we can’t pay taxes. Obviously!
jfc is this what it feels like to do the mental gymnastics of those kind of people??? I felt like an idiot reading that one over and over lol
Thing is, it's not hard for them to do it. They're so far from reality, such a mentally is THEIR reality.
Reading this gave me an aneurysm. It's even worse knowing people believe it
Sending their best as usual
Unrepentant means she should have a longer sentence.
This is the desired effect of the right wing media echo chamber.
They’re completely detached from reality.
Wow, let's cover some of the gems there.
After her trial, St Cyr had said in a Facebook livestream that she wasn't sure the case would ever move to sentencing because "the truth" would come out before then.
I'm sure "the truth" is coming right after infrastructure month.
"So just keep watching Tucker, keep spreading the truth, keep talking about the corruption, keep sharing, and we will bring the system doooooowwwwn.”
Tucker Carlson's show was canceled.
At her sentencing hearing Wednesday, St Cyr's attorney, Nicole Owens, said her client was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, because of a “misguided sense of duty.”
C'mon don't leave us hanging, who was the source of that misguided sense? Also, getting ice cream on your first date with someone only to find out they're lactose intolerant, that's misguided. Attempting to overthrow the government, that's a few levels past misguided. Just saying.
“I’ve been on a spiritual journey,” St Cyr said. Then she launched into a bizarre 45-minute rant — until the judge cut her off with a stern warning to wrap up — on a series of topics, including her beliefs about the air we breathe, her spiritual being, radio frequencies, her difficult upbringing and a woman she watched being arrested on a playground during the Covid pandemic.
Actually I blame the judge on this one. After sitting for weeks listening to this lady's crazy Facebook streams, figuring "what's the worse that could happen if I let this lady speak freely?", you're just opening yourself up for that.
That said, I'm sure the 45-minute jam packed insane stream of consciousness diatribe was something to behold.
She also talked about her actions during the Capitol riot. She didn’t express regret or accept any responsibility for her actions that day, and she indicated that she wasn’t concerned about the prospect of serving jail time
Shocking. Been a pattern of that with folks who attempted to overthrow the government. It's like these small jail sentences aren't deterrent enough.
“I did the right thing,” St Cyr said about her actions on Jan. 6. “I know it sounds delusional.”
Oh sweetheart, it's a bit past just sounding that way.
In a Facebook livestream after her sentencing, St Cyr also said she hadn’t filed taxes since 2019, and she encouraged her followers not to pay their taxes.
I foresee another court case in her future, just a hunch.
Why the hell did the judge let it go on for 45 minutes?
Because if you step on them in any way they’ll file an appeal claiming you’re a biased judge. Easier to just let her rant and then get sentenced.
Those poor court stenographers
Couldn't look away from the train wreck, probably
I thought the same thing about the 45 mins & the judge at first too, but now I wonder if she’s involved in any other crimes of this type, maybe the 45 min rant could somehow be used as evidence against her. So maybe it was smart in some way? This is my head-canon at least.
“I know it sounds delusional.”
Just the teeniest bit of rationality poking through there.
Well, she did the right thing to get behind bars.
"So, just keep watching Tucker, keep spreading the truth
Now, which one? Tucker or truth? You definitely cannot have both.
She means "Truth", not to be confused with the other kind.
What a fucking dipshit.
How brainwashed could someone be…? - Yes!
Stuff like this basically confirms to me that all religion is made-up bullshit.
People keep saying "they wouldn't have believed it so strongly if it wasn't true!!"
Motherfucker we have VIDEO evidence of Trump lying and people still believe.
Religion, MAGA... It's just all cults from top to bottom.
I am also not a big fan of religion, but I wouldn’t put this in the same basket. This is more like a cult or a sect, where members are blindly believing what their master says.
This reminds me more of Jim Jones and his followers, resulting in the Jonestown massacre, rather than the average religious person (except radical evangelicals, taliban and such extremists).
And the distinction between those two is???? A religion is merely a cult that has gathered enough followers to go mainstream.
There are many religious people (at least in Europe) who are occasionally going to church, but other than that harmless, while the other ones are dangerous, because fanatic in their beliefs.
So religion is a mostly apathetic cult?
My parents spent their entire lives running around after the church handing out leaflets, setting up or taking down after the various events, organising childcare duties so that people could basically dump their snotty brats on them for a day.
They never did get any thanks for it. Cults use people, so did the church, they tried to guilt trip my parents into thinking they had to do these things for the church, the fact that it wasn't overtly evil is mostly simply because it's been around for so long it's got boring.
The church is rolling in money why can't they pay people to do this stuff? Oh yeah, that's right because they don't have to because they have brainwashed people into thinking that it's about community or something well if it was really about community they'd say thanks at least.
Also some of the sermons the pastor gave bordered on religious fanatic. Fortunately he's about 98 and therefore not really a major ongoing concern. But still, the things he advocates for are cultish.
These people are just plain dangerous.
Lead poisoning
if she still thinks she did the right thing, the locking her away from civilised society is the right thing to do.
Doesn't that mean her only regret is to being caught? She'll be the same person in 2.5 years.
She's deranged looking. A byproduct of America's culture of excess, greed, and stupidity. You can see it in her eyes. She's never had to fight for anything in her entire life, and she lacks any critical thinking skills. She literally thought she could overthrow the US government with an iphone.
so sad. so brainwashed.
and no on seems to be holding fox news accountable for the damage theyve done to so many vulnerable humans.
When I was little I went to a small school. All of us were in all of the same classes. We had to go at the pace of the slowest kids. I hated it then, and welcomed going into faster tracks when I hit high school.
Sadly, life is like those early classrooms...the dimmer bulbs will always hold us up.
Someone canonized cheese?
Honestly, this is the most respectable thing they could do. If the US were facing widespread election tampering, it’s your civic duty to do something about that (ideally not by jan. 6ing it, but if you believe they’re perpetuating fraud against the country, I can see how people who worship Thomas Jefferson are swayed to revolution…).
The ones who apologize and say they weren’t a true believer were I guess just there to fuck things up? That’s definitely worse imo.
Being able to admit you were wrong when faced with the facts would be the better position.
If it was truly about believing that there was fraud, and not just that they had to take action because their guy lost, they should've broken away at some point with loss after loss after loss in trying to uncover that fraud.
If they’re reasonable, logical people, but not everyone is. I’m willing to believe that there’s been a concerted effort to brainwash half the country, but if they’re smart enough to see the fake now, I think they should have been smart enough not to go all in on revolution then.
Perhaps I should rephrase it: I actually believe this person might have believed they were doing the right thing. The ones who immediately changed their minds? Not at all.
but if they’re smart enough to see the fake now, I think they should have been smart enough not to go all in on revolution then.
It might be this idea that keeps some people from publicly stating they were wrong.
That’s fair. To be honest, I don’t know how to have this conversation in a way that doesn’t reinforce these beliefs.
How/can we talk about whether these people were deceived or are themselves grifters and/or violent people looking for an excuse without reinforcing those beliefs?
Also, any tips for talking to your regular old MAGA head who wasn’t at Jan. 6 about politics? Because what I’m doing isn’t working, but I tend to phrase things bluntly/aggressively (not sure of the word, but it’s not my intent to be as off putting as it seems to come across), so that’s probably on me.
I can see how people who worship Thomas Jefferson are swayed to revolution
Bold of you to think they remember even a little of their high school history classes.
Oh, they have no idea about anything that actually happened, they just like Glenn Beck’s interpretation of Jefferson
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