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If you had a choice between 3 months (if that) for pleading guilty or up to 20 years if we have to go to court, which would you choose?

You may want to mention where you're staying. I've seen a ton of roadside shops that sell this kind of cement furniture. As I recall, they usually have a bunch of gaudy painted rooster statues in various sizes up front. Up to 10' tall and taller... But that may be me conflating eclectic roadside shops in Thailand.

If you've been following these cases (not just this one), the gist is that they offer short sentences for the ones that plead guilty and even shorter sentences to those who roll over and say bad things about the others. That's all a guilty plea means. It's pretty common (albeit sad) for innocent people to plead guilty to avoid the risk of a long sentence. Especially in a political prosecution.

The difference is that I'm knobby on my own dime. The knobs in the MSM and gub'ment and NGOs are getting paid to advance their propaganda.

Start here on AP. Go down the rabbit hole as far as you want... (Sorry I still can't get links to work, but I'm sure this will be enough to Google it) Entrapment in play as appeals court looks at plot to kidnap Michigan governor | AP News It may be a while before Kash Patel gets around to investigating this case. His plate is rather full. So is Bondi's. Here's a snippet... “They were talking about doing this before they ever met the informants,” he said. “Adam Fox said we need to take our tyrants as hostages two weeks before he had ever met a government informant. Barry Croft had been talking about it much longer.” They were talking about it before they met the informants. But they never did anything about it until the FBI stepped in and helped.

That's kinda the theme of the thread. It's in the title.

Wasn't that the FBI operation that took a group of misfits that couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery and walked them through the entire plot, holding their hands and providing support all along the way?

A) Until someone shows me an actual accounting, I have no clue whether they've saved any money. Neither do the knobs reporting that they do know. We won't know for at least a few quarters. B) Show me a politician that doesn't put a favorable spin on their programs and forecast rainbows and lollypops. C) (And this is the most important one). How does that justify vandalism and burning stuff down and swatting and other acts of violence?

My post was poorly worded in a hurry out the door and I apologize for that. But the point still stands, if only based on dozens of posts just here on AN lamented that Crooks wasn't a better shot. Meanwhile, conservative influencers are being swatted (risking not only their lives, but the LEOs being sent), property is being vandalized, companies are being targeted (that have thousands of employees and even more stockholders). Because some people don't like Bad Orange Man or (by association) Musk. I guaranty you that there are millions of lefties that will be hoping that Space-X fails, that Trump keels over, and that the economy collapses on his watch. Like they were hoping out loud that the next would be assassin wouldn't fail. All because they can't stand the possibility that they'll succeed. That's the state of many on the left in America today. They resort to violence, vandalism and thuggery if they don't get their way. Personally, I'd prefer and end to gub'ment waste and corruption, a balanced budget and prosperity for more Americans.

And I'll bet you'll be one of the millions of lefties crossing your fingers and hoping they crash when Space-X launches their mission to rescue the astronauts stranded up there by the previous administration. Just to get back at Musk.

Kinda like little kids can be amused for hours playing peek-a-boo.

Or, the immigrants may win and impose Sharia Law.

And that throwing American tax money is the only solution. Take Twitter (X) as an example. Musk eliminated 80% of the employees, cut overhead by about the same, and still delivers a better product. He got rid of the cliques working at odds to the company's goals. That's what needs to happen across the gub'ment. Get rid of the cliques working against the interests of the American citizenry. On an aside, I'd bet the program was riddled with DEI and gender pandering. At a huge cost and deleterious effect. It needs to be reconstituted without all that.

Here I thought the thread was going to be about the woke mind virus.

That phenomenon goes a long way to explaining why Trump won, why he appointed Hegseth and why Hegseth has invited DOGE into the Pentagon.

But they're not. They're cancelling a bloated, over-expensive plane that's years behind in scheduling deliveries. It's like if I cancelled that pizza I ordered to watch the game 2 hours ago, then blamed it on Trump. No. It's not Trump. The game's over and my buddies already left.

I wonder how many times you can post a photo of the same billboard before you have to pay royalties?

Feral dogs must be profitable, because I see so many of them being raised all over LOS.

That's not what the OP titles say. Nor the lefties crying in almost every single thread in this section. Even the threads about problems in Europe and Asia are Trump's fault. TBH, it's gotten rather tedious. And sad.

So what you're saying is that it's not probably really about Trump?

Meanwhile, in the least prosperous country in Western Europe: Portugal, Western Europe’s least affluent nation, is on the brink of yet another government shake-up, fueled largely by rising discontent over immigration. The country has become a magnet for digital nomads and affluent expatriates, leading to surging living costs and growing support for the far-right. Maybe they just can't afford them any more?

Perhaps he realized that being popular while his adopted country swirled down the toilet wasn't as important as helping to stop the swirling.

Seems like it's all going according to plan. Not the people's plan, of course. But someone's.

If we're knuckle draggers, how is it that you geniuses lost? The White House, the Senate and the House. That takes next level stupidity, to lose to a 34x convicted felon.

It's going to be fun to see them finally get held to account for their crimes. And no doubt AOC and Maxine will be advocating a bail fund. Like they did for the mostly peaceful city burnings.