Taranto, who was found with illegal guns and ammunition near Obama’s house, was convicted of those charges in May. In their memo Tuesday, Valdivia and White, asked a judge to sentence Taranto to 27 months in prison.

Laying out the factual background of their request, Valdivia and White told the court Taranto participated in the Jan. 6 attack and subsequently spread conspiracy theories about it.

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    I was wondering what you were referring to as ‘they’, so I reread my comment and it occurs to me I should have worded it, ‘a course on governmental collapse, taught in European universities.

    Hopefully that’s clarifying.

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        Or the likes of Bannon hope to have a fascist takeover of Europe, too. You know, to “save” Western culture while actually destroying everything good about Western culture, disrupting any Enlightenment and bringing about a “dark enlightenment” (WTAF).