After the bloat of insurgents were kicked out of the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, some of them went home or to their phones to brag about what they did. In virtually every case, these braggarts then found themselves arrested on various charges of breaking the law. Whether they could comprehend it at the moment or not, they broke a lot of laws. Even the most clueless were no better than pawns in a billionaire elite’s plan to overthrow our democratically elected government.
On Wednesday, one such blowhard, Pennsylvania’s own James Douglas Rahm Jr., was sentenced to one year in prison, three years’ probation, and an order to pay restitution for the damages caused in the attack on Capitol grounds. Rahm is 63 years old and is probably best known as being one of the many insurgents to livestream some of their felonies, and then boast about it online later. In Rahm’s case, he wrote: “Walked right through Pelosi’s office. I should have shit on her chair.”
U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan did not care whether or not Rahm really wanted to defecate on a person’s office chair or not, telling the convict, “Whether you were exaggerating or boasting, I don’t know, but I hope we have learned in this country that words do matter—whether they’re from the president or someone else.”
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According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Rahm’s lawyers tried to downplay all of their client’s talk as “idle” bragging, and Rahm himself told the court: “When I put my foot over that threshold, my stomach dropped to the floor. I knew only a terrorist should be in there.” Of course, as prosecutors and Hogan pointed out, this bad tummy feeling Rahm says he had seemed to clear right up as once inside, he filmed himself saying things like, “We’re in. We’re taking our fucking house back. We’re here. Time to find some brass and kick some frickin’ ass.” He also had all kinds of what some might call the opposite of remorse after the event on Facebook.
Under a comment suggesting he go back inside the building and “(give) Pelosi a kiss,” Rahm writes: “Pissed in her office,” followed by a thumbs-up emoji, court docs show.
Rahm was arrested on Feb. 5, 2021, and charged with violent obstruction of Congress. He was convicted on Oct. 13, 2022, after pleading guilty to “obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony, and four related misdemeanor offenses, including entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.”
Rahm’s lawyers pleaded for only probation and argued he had been punished enough. According to Rahm, his construction business lost clients and now he could only collect trash, and his own mother stopped speaking to him for half a year. Unfortunately for Rahm, he has a history of receiving probation “at least four times after being convicted in the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s in a string of crimes ranging from drug possession to assault.” Hogan seems to believe that doing a little time might be best. Rahm’s adult son went along with his dad and faces similar charges.
The Republican Party seems locked in a death spiral of unpopular anti-American rights policies. They seem to believe that the most important things to America are taking away people’s rights to choose what they do with their bodies and Hunter Biden’s junk. Kerry and Markos were right in their hypothesis about the midterms and they have predictions for the upcoming year and 2024.
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