America seems to be getting more dark and silly:

Attorney for Capitol defendant Anthony Antonio said his client had “Foxitus” and “Foxmania” from watching six months of Fox News and started “believing what was being fed to him” by Fox News and the president. pic.twitter.com/aHMppeb1yc

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) May 6, 2021

Anthony Antonio’s story today from above is folded unhingedly into the tale of another insurrectionist arrested after the Jan. 6 US Capitol onslaught — a nutcase of a case presented via Law&Crime this evening:

A man alleged to have taken part in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol Complex was ordered to undergo a mental competency evaluation by a federal judge on Thursday after a series of increasingly bizarre and outrageous in-court outbursts that spiraled out of control — with a reference to former president Donald Trump adding to the mayhem.

“You can’t get me if you want me, ” Landon Kenneth Copeland shouted during a digital hearing. “You can’t kill me if you want to.”

Copeland, 33, was arrested on April 29 by federal agents. The Utah resident was charged with numerous crimes related to the events of the abortive pro-Trump putsch — including attacking police and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder.

“Copeland and other people had grabbed a metal fence serving as a barricade, and were trying to pull the barricade away from law enforcement officers,” federal prosecutors alleged in a late April criminal complaint.
“Based on their uniforms, these officers appeared to be from the U.S. Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department. One or more officers deployed OC spray against members of the crowd, including Copeland. In response, Copeland pushed or threw the fence toward multiple law enforcement officers.”

During a series of digital hearings for various capitol riot defendants, Copeland shouted and repeatedly interrupted court proceedings.

“I’m in my car,” Copeland shouted well before any of the hearings began, according to Inner City Press.
“I have nothing to hide!”
…
But that was just the beginning.

When a defense attorney for fellow alleged rioter Anthony Antonio said his client had “Fox-itus” and “Fox-mania” after watching Fox News for months under lockdown while recently unemployed — and that he began to believe the programming spread by Fox News and Trump — Copeland took great offense and let all of the participants know it.

“I would like to object!” Copeland screamed.
“That’s not pertinent!”

The day’s denouement came when it was Copeland’s turn to address the court.
And, for macabre court watchers, he did not disappoint.

“You people fucked this up,” he told Judge Meriweather.

The defendant continued in this vein for awhile.

“How long can I postpone this?” he asked.
“I’m a vet. You owe this to me. You’ve all fucked this up. You’re a robot to me. You can’t come get me if I don’t want you to. Fuck all of you. Fuck all of you.”

“You’re going to give me a psych eval,” Copeland added at one point — somewhat presciently as it turned out.
“I don’t like 70-percent of my income going to the government.”

The top federal income tax bracket is 37-percent. California has the highest state income tax bracket at 13.3-percent.

At a certain point during the Zoom meeting, the defendant was placed in a “breakout room” where he was able to confer with his defense attorney — and be kept quiet.

“I wanna talk in open court you motherfuckers,” Copeland said as he was muted by the court.

He was eventually ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation. Go read the whole post as it contains tweets galore of those attending the hearing. Also further details from Inner City Press, as attributed above.
The lying horror of Fox News and Newsmax and One America News is there’s a full-broadcast organ for the GQP’s bullshit and they sling it 24/7 without a stop — unless they’re threatened/stopped by legal means.
Even then the momentum only slows for awhile, then resumes its pace quickly forward.

And is America a racist country? In reality, yes and down through history it has been, but reportedly a good dose of  ‘Foxitus‘ or ‘Foxmania‘ can disgorge the racism:

The "I don't think so Principal Kaepernick!" line got me ??? https://t.co/iWkoKX2tMa

— C_OB (@NotFakeC_OB) May 6, 2021

And so it goes…

(Illustration: Edvard Munch‘s ‘The Scream,’ lithograph version, found here).