Shaman to continue his investigation of Comet Ping Pong from behind bars

Au revoir, seditionist:

Jacob Chansley, the so-called “QAnon Shaman,” was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in the US Capitol riot.The Justice Department had asked for Chansley to receive a harsh sentence as a way to set an example among the January 6 rioters, and prosecutors have positioned Chansley as emblematic of a barbaric crowd.Since then, Chansley gained fame as the “QAnon Shaman,” a figure known in the fringe online movement and for widely shared photos that captured him wearing face paint and a headdress inside the Senate chamber.

Judge Royce Lamberth has had Chansley held in jail since his arrest, despite his multiple attempts to gain sympathy and his release.

While Chansley was an on-the-ground leader of the putsch, though, we must never forget that he was also a stooge for an election-stealing conspiracy that went to the top of the Republican Party:

To understand Jan 6, you have to think in terms of an inside game and an outside game. The inside game was to have Pence steal the election procedurally, the outside game was to terrorize potentially recalcitrant GOP reps into going along with the theft. https://t.co/mMGVAWNxBZ— Lindsay Beyerstein (@beyerstein) November 14, 2021