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.
I have been in the mental state of “I guess if I’m living through significant history that people will read about decades from now, I should at least pay attention and appreciate the weight of it, in addition to trying to actually help people” for about two orders of magnitude longer than the duration our brains evolved to handle.
It would be really, really swell if that could stop for a while and not constantly grind in a worse and worse direction.