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Please allow me to introduce you to Jonathan Allen Frost, a 24 year old who lives just a few miles from where I live. Jonathan is in a mess of trouble.
A Katy man was sentenced to spend five years in federal prison Friday over his role in a white supremacist plot to attack U.S. power grids.
In 2019, Jonathan Allen Frost, 24, planned an attack and recruited, trained and equipped other men with a gun and a “suicide necklace” containing fentanyl as part of the plot, the Justice Department said.
Jonathan is not your typical trailer trash insurrectionist. Jonathan lives in a house on a golf course currently valued at between $1.5 – $1.8 million. I highly suspect it’s his parent’s house because two other people in their 60s are registered to vote at that address.
The parents have voted in every election and every Republican primary since they moved into the house 15 years ago.
Jonathan is not that consistent in voting as his parents. But he votes presidential years and even voted in the 2022 Republican primary.
Under sentencing guidelines he could have gotten 15 years but he reached an agreement of five years, which means he’s white and lives in a ritzy house.
I think we should have let him know that he doesn’t have to mess with the power grid in Texas or fret over taking it down. The Governor does that for us in Texas. I do think that’s why his parents vote Republican.
Money and privilege are clearly no substitute for brains–as Texas and Florida prove over and over and over.
1I bet $20 that his/his parent’s house has a generator, so they’re not concerned about the Texas power grid. No doubt they’ve also got enough gas or diesel to keep it running for a couple of weeks as well.
Well the good news for him is that Sugarland is right next to Houston, so he can get visits from mom and dad.
2Its pretty obvious that the vast majority of the crowd attacking Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 a few years ago have and share “grievances”. This seems to be what keeps the kill engine going. Now what the Sam Hill does this snotty kid have in the way of grievances? He’s got every damn thing and then some. Why the bleep isn’t he deliriously happy?
3Dipshit.
4Maggie @3 why isn’t he happy? maybe because he had too much of “things” and not enough kindness and love that seems to be lacking in the modern repub syndicate made up of people like his parents. maybe his parents should be sharing the same facilities.
5Yes, this also happens with kids of poor parents who can not afford the tools to blow up grid towers so do things on a more restrictive budget.
I think surprise at findng a well-off person at the lynch mob is unwarranted. Well, actual presence is a bit surprising, but he’s young and stupid. Most lynch mobs were organized by local elites, they were almost never spontaneous jacqueries.
The elites did not attend themselves, just as they did not get their hands dirty mucking out the stables. They were just there to ride the horses.
6The Surly Professor @2, “his parent’s house has a generator”:
7On my local Nextdoor, a desperate couple with disabled kids in a nearby neighborhood were begging for help in restoring their electricity, which the power company had just turned off for non-payment.
One of the local known MAGAots got on the thread and sneered that if they had a “home generator” they wouldn’t have to worry about such things. Thereby revealing that he’s even more ignorant than the usual Rethug.
First, if they’re struggling just to get by week to week, the costs of installing, maintaining, and running a home genset [$10-50K+] are clearly beyond their modest means [and the extra expense of the children]; and hardly anyone runs their homes off of a genset, the cost per kwh far exceeds that from an electric company.
Second, they were asking for guidance on local charitable help and how to obtain entry to some of the means of utility assistance that are available even here. Not sniping from aholes like Mr. MAGAot.
You can’t blame young Jonathan for being an intermittent voter — it can take hours to vote in Texas and they keep moving the drop boxes. Running a white supremacist army is a full-time job.
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