The insurrectionist in the picture is the self-styled QAnon Shaman, Jacob Chansley. He’s a convicted felon who spent 27 months in the slammer for his crimes. He claimed to be repentant at the time, but it was all bluster and bullshit.
Chansley is not a Shaman but he’s also not a shy man as this astonishing news shows:
Jacob Chansley, the Arizona man who gained notoriety as the “QAnon Shaman” who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, filed paperwork to run for Congress as a Libertarian candidate in the battleground state’s 8th Congressional District.
Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., announced last month that she won’t seek re-election.
Repeat after me: I am not making this up.
Arizona has become one of the most interesting states in our politics. Thanks to the Kaiser of Chaos, Arizona is now a swing state. Election denialism helped elect a Democratic Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State as well as ensuring Captain Senator Mark Kelly’s reelection.
I expect that someone in the Grand Canyon State will slap Chansley with a Disqualification Clause suit sometime soon. DQ is not just for Dairy Queen anymore. Mmm, DQ Blizzard.
There’s only one word to describe Chansley’s nascent candidacy: CHUTZPAH.
As the song goes, Chansley is “marooned in a blizzard of lies.”
The last word goes to Susannah McCorkle:
