The GQP Protects Their Own, Even When A Man Is Killed

South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has pleaded not guilty to three misdemeanors … misdemeanors … related to a deadly car crash last Fall when Ravnsborg struck and killed Joseph Boever, but drove away because, he claimed, he thought he’d hit a deer.

Boever’s body was discovered the next day, and accidents happen, and people get confused about it all, but …

Investigators discovered that Ravnsborg, a RepubliQAnon, was reading websites containing conspiracy theories about President Joe Biden on his phone … while driving … right before the impact.

When authorities made that information public, the judge in the case, John Brown, ordered state officials to remove it from state-controlled internet sites. That order ultimately gave South Dakota GQPs an excuse to stop Ravnsbotg's impeachment proceedings.

Ravnsborg signed papers to indicate he understood his statutory and constitutional rights. He is charged with (1) operating a motor vehicle while using a mobile electronic device; (2) improper lane driving; and (3) careless driving. Each charge is a Class 2 Misdemeanor carrying a possible penalty of 30 days in a county jail and a fine of $500.

Notice he is not charged with vehicular manslaughter because I guess Joseph Boever’s life doesn’t matter to GQP’s in South Dakota,

The facts: Ravnsborg was traveling approximately 70 miles per hour and looking at his phone when he collided with Boever. He continued driving, but then pulled over a distance away and reported the incident to the local sheriff, who personally showed up to investigate. The sheriff issued Ravnsborg a “deer tag” to account for damage to his vehicle and loaned the attorney general a personal car to continue on his way. Ravnsborg said he didn’t see Boever’s body until the next day when he was returning the car to the sheriff. The sheriff apparently didn’t see Boever’s body, either, but … Joseph Boever’s glasses were found inside Ravnsborg’s car because Joseph Boever’s head came through the windshield.

But again if you’re a RepubliQAnon in South Dakota you don’t get charged with manslaughter. You get smacked for being on your phone and driving carelessly and making an improper lane change.

I hope to the goddess that Joseph Boever has family that files a multi-million-dollar civil suit against Ravnsborg especially since officials in South Dakota seem intent on protecting this killer.

This Is All Far From Over ...

... but, for now, five Michigan officials have just been charged with involuntary manslaughter for their roles in the Flint water crisis.

Good. Nick Lyon, Michigan’s health department director, Lyon is the highest-ranking member of Governor Rick Snyder’s administration to be charged, along with former Flint Emergency Manager Darnell Earley, former Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Drinking Water Chief Liane Shekter-Smith, Water Supervisor Stephen Busch and former Flint Water Department Manager Howard Croft.

The five were indicted for not telling the public about an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, which has been linked to the Flint water crisis. Governor Snyder’s administration switched the water supply to the Flint River to save money, leading to 12 deaths and 79 people sickened with Legionnaires’ disease in 2014-15.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said further charges against Snyder and his administration could be forthcoming. Good; these white men, in an effort to save money, poisoned an entire community of low income people and minorities. Snyder and his administration—the whole lot—need to be held accountable for they did just to save a buck.

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Ethan Couch, After Killing Four People And Not Being Punished, Has Run Off With His Mommy, Tonya Couch

Back on June 15, 2013, a sixteen-year-old Ethan Couch and some of his friends stole beer from a local Wal-Mart; they drank it all and then, with Couch behind the wheel, began driving around.

That same night Breanna Mitchell was driving home and her car broke down. Brian Jennings, a youth pastor, was driving by and stopped to help, as Breanna was calling a friend, Shelby Boyles, and her mother, Hollie, to come get her.

A drunken Ethan Couch plowed into the four of them, killing them, all; several others suffered severe injuries, including two passengers thrown from the bed of Couch's truck. Two of Ethan Couch's friends were critically injured; one was paralyzed for life. And three hours ... three hours ... after the crash a Breathalyzer test showed that Ethan Couch’s blood alcohol level was 0.24, nearly three times the legal limit.

Ethan Couch went on trial for the killing of four people with his car — though not for injuring and paralyzing his friends — and the judge in the case, Judge Jean Boyd [left], whom I must believe was paid off in some way, listened to the defense argument that Ethan Couch suffered from “affluenza.”

Yes, he was too rich, too spoiled, too unsupervised, to know that drinking a case of beer and then driving a car was wrong, and so Judge Boyd sentenced him to ten years … probation.

He killed four people, and injured three others, and he got probation; oh, and he never once, before the trial, during the trial, or after the trial, apologized to the families of the people he killed. He simply went back home.

Now two years later, and after a video turns up on social media showing Ethan Couch at a party playing beer pong — part of the child’s sentence was that he not drink at all — Ethan Couch has vanished, violating his parole.

And rumor has it that his mother, Tonya Couch, the woman who couldn't be bothered to parent her own son so that he grew up knowing that drinking and driving was wrong, or that if you kill four people you might wanna express some remorse, helped Ethan Couch flee. And, if found, and I so hope to the universe he and that mother are found, now, finally, Ethan Couch may actually have to go to jail for ten years; not for killing four innocent people, but for running away, mind you.

A warrant has been issued for Couch, and his idiot mother, with now both the FBI and U.S. Marshals joining local authorities to hunt Ethan and his mommy down. A $5,000 reward was offered for information leading to the arrest of Couch.

But Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson is worried that Mommy and Son have left the country, since they have the means to do so, and a little bit of a head start. But Ethan Couch, even while on probation, loved his social media, and loved posting his picture online, so there is the hope that this little mother—boy will be caught and punished; and this time punished hard.

So, if anyone who reads this, anywhere in the world, happens to come across Ethan Couch, that little bastard, that murdering little prick, and Tonya Couch, that miserable excuse for a mother ... and that's the ugly duo up there at the top ... do the right thing: call the authorities and make Ethan pay for killing people, and make his mother pay for being a horrible excuse for a parent.

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