Tucker Carlson is Arguing With Fog
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Tucker Carlson is Arguing With Fog
but let's clear some of that fog with court documents and see what's there
What did Jacob Chansley do? What did the government say he did?
Chansley was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison, to be followed by 36 months of supervised release — a total of six and a half of years of punishment. Tucker Carlson maintains, with video to support his description, that Chansley did nothing much to earn that sentence: He walked through the Capitol with police who didn’t try to stop him. But what’s the other side of the argument?
It’s close to nothing.
The charges against Chansley were repeatedly documented in a series of court records. Here’s the first, a “Statement of Facts” from USCP Special Agent James Soltes, filed in court with a charge sheet on January 8:
It’s mostly not about Chansley. From a paragraph on pg. 1:
With the joint session underway and with Vice President Mike Pence presiding, a large crowd gathered outside the U.S. Capitol….At approximately 2:00 p.m., certain individuals in the crowd forced their way through, up, and over the barricades and officers of the U.S. Capitol Police, and the crowd advanced to the exterior façade of the building….shortly after 2:00 p.m., individuals in the crowd forced entry into the U.S. Capitol, including by breaking windows.
And so on. There’s a crowd; it’s breaking windows and forcing its way over barricades. Chansley doesn’t appear in any of this action. Then, suddenly, Chansley is on stage — without having entered from the wings. “Media coverage of these events showed one of the rioters who entered the Capitol building dressed in horns, a bearskin headdress, red, white and blue face paint, shirtless, and tan pants,” the statement says. Then, on pg. 3, “on January 7, 2021, CHANSLEY called in to the Washington Field Office of the FBI, to voluntarily speak with law enforcement. Your affiant and an FBI agent spoke on the phone with CHANSLEY, who confirmed that he was the male in the face paint and headdress in the Vice President’s chair in the Senate.”
That’s it. “Certain individuals” and “a large crowd” pushed and fought; Jacob Chansley was photographed by media in the Senate chambers, and told us he was the person in the pictures. Read it if you doubt it, but you will not find a description of Jacob Chansley using force, engaging in violence, or actually doing literally anything but standing there. Other people push and shove; Chansley appears.
Then he was indicted by a federal grand jury. Here’s the indictment, filed on January 11:
The grand jury says that Chansley impeded official business by “forcing his way inside the United States Capitol,” and that Chansley committed the act of “threatening Congressional officials,” but it doesn’t name the place or the manner by which he forced his way in, and it doesn’t name any officials who he threatened. Beyond that, the indictment says that Chansley was….there.
He was present. He picketed. Remember: six and a half years of prison plus supervised release.
Finally, Chansley himself signed a plea statement in which he agreed to a narrative describing what he had done. Here it is:
Again, Chansley often isn’t on center stage in his own plea statement:
This is Jacob Chansley’s plea agreement, for crying out loud, and it says, “individuals in the crowd forced entry into the U.S. Capitol, including by breaking windows and assaulting members of law enforcement.” It does not say — flatly does not say — that Jacob Chansley broke windows and assaulted police officers, in a statement of fact about Jacob Chansley that describes broken windows and assaults on police officers.
A lion killed a man while Chris Bray ate a croissant nearby; we must never forget what Chris Bray did to that poor man.
And the rest — in a statement Chansley signed — is clearly misleading, as when it describes what Chansley said from the Senate dais but omits his prayer of thanks for Capitol police.
Bottom line: The government depicts Chansley as an obstreperous trespasser, not a violent insurgent.
He’s not innocent. They had him dead to rights on charges that should have resulted in federal probation or several weeks of jail time, but then they pumped a being-obnoxious-while-trespassing case full of hot air in the news media to put on a political show.
Compare the actions described in the court documents to the sentence, and remember what you’ve seen on video. Make up your own mind.
Tucker Carlson is Arguing With Fog
We have learned so much in the past 8-9 years. We know that COVID came from a Chinese wet market when an anteater was licked by a bat. We know that ivermectin is just horse paste. We know that masks work. And that six feet between people on the x-axis, but not on the y- or z-axes will keep you from getting COVID, unless you are eating dinner in which case no social distancing invented by a high school science fair participant is needed. Vaccines are highly effective and risk free. Clearly Donald Trump is a Russian agent and he started WWIII and probably all the other wars in history. He also caused the train crash in East Palestine. Anybody who voted for him is a Nazi racist science denier who pretends that the sea levels won’t drown us by St. Patrick’s day. And obviously they deserve to be in prison and refused medical care and shunned by polite society, which is composed of virtuous, highly intelligent people, all of whom seem to get paid by China. Today we learned that Ukrainian Navy Seals blew up the Nordstream pipeline, because everybody knows the Ukrainian Navy is a force to be reckoned with, not to mention their advanced underwater technological capabilities. Of course, the Germans who relied on the pipeline for heat and industry can’t wait to give the nude musical comic genius their tanks and moral support. And we need to just give him a blank check because we just do.
Look, the government senior management lies and laughs in our faces all day long, every day. Now, all the good people in government are just waiting for the perfect time to spring into action, because the rank and file all love the country and are very concerned about the waste, fraud, genocide, and fiscal abuse everywhere they look, but just can’t seem to find the right moment to spill the beans, defend the Constitution and fulfill their civic obligations. Uh huh.
The government does not care what we think, if we live or die, are happy or unhappy. It matters not. The government is for .... the government. And you’re gonna pay for it. And the rest is not your concern. So pay your taxes and stay out of their hair, and maybe they won’t hurt you ( more), but probably they will, but that’s how it goes. Now, did you hear about how Donald Trump’s mean tweets about Mexico resulted in millions of pounds of fentanyl killing hundreds of thousands of Americans and causing millions of criminal immigrants to flood across the border? Yup. It was on TV.
The behavior around all of this is just...sketchy. It’s possible that the event was traumatic for all involved, but then the democrats built an entire platform off of it, so they literally can not allow the story to crumble. Say what you want about Tucker, he’s standing on his own out there, and I’m literally praying he survives it.