Saturday, January 10, 2026

Ethan Mauck sings the blues

Made a stand for his country, wonders why he has fallout: 

https://www.wdbj7.com/2026/01/06/five-years-later-hometown-jan-6-defendant-reflects-pardon-life-after-capitol-attack/

Article: J6 Pardons Risked Public Safety

 Where is that captain obvious meme when you need it?

https://otherwords.org/how-trumps-january-6-pardons-increased-risks-to-public-safety/

Joseph Schwartz pardoned once, starts prison for more nursing home fraud

 Ironic how Minnesota is such a hotbed of fraud, yet Trump pardoned a fraudster who couldn't get out of his state sentence for fraud: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/31/ny-man-pardoned-by-trump-returns-to-prison-to-serve-2nd-fraud-sentence/87959153007/ 

God forbid you prosecute rioters and insurrectionists

 You'd think prosecutors wouldn't be getting so much heat for prosecuting people who assaulted police, etc from the law and order crowd:

https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/12/18/they-prosecuted-the-capitol-rioters-now-the-rioters-and-the-doj-are-after-them-0835

Roundup: at least 33 Pardoned J6ers charged with other crimes

 6 are charged with child sex crimes

2 Charged with rape

2 allegedly killed people while driving drunk, 3 just caught driving drunk allegedly

Plus weapons violations, and the usual other very fine people types of crimes.  But many will go free:

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/at-least-33-pardoned-insurrectionists-face-other-criminal-charges-but-many-are-now-going-free/

Oxymoron alert: J6er Elias Irizarry hired in Counterterrorism Role at Pentagon

 Qualified, maybe. Patriotic, I think we have a different definition of what constitutes patriotism.  In his defense he was just 19, if you ...