Posted on 12/21/2025 12:29:19 AM PST by Morgana
The correlation between moonbattery and mental illness is well established. But is it clinically accurate to say that moonbattery actually is a manifestation of mental illness? The question has legal ramifications.
Gateway Pundit reports on the case of Riddhi Patel…
…a 28-year-old Indian-American leftist activist who identifies as “non-binary”. “They” were born and raised in Bakersfield, California and worked as an Economic Development Coordinator for the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment (CRPE), a nonprofit environmental justice organization that focuses on “supporting low-income and marginalized communities.” In her job, Patel “highlighted intersectionality within environmental justice” and “collective liberation for oppressed communities”. Patel reportedly volunteered for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign as well.
A real moonbat, all right — and like all other moonbats, crazy as a sprayed roach:
In April 2024, Patel appeared at a city council meeting in Bakersfield, California. She stepped up to the microphone and delivered a furious speech about Gaza, metal detectors, oppressors, and revolution. She concluded her remarks with a blunt threat to the elected officials, “We’ll see you at your house, we’ll murder you.”
That’s against the law:
Prosecutors charged her under California Penal Code § 422, which criminalizes willful threats to commit acts that could result in death or great bodily injury, i.e. “terrorism”.
Patel’s lawyers want to refer the case to California’s mental health diversion program — that is, get her off with the insanity defense.
The case has broad implications.
Leftist activists like Patel increasingly act as though they can intimidate, or openly threaten, government officials and conservatives without fear of consequence, particularly when they believe their views are protected by alignment with the media and a dominant political party. Accountability is simply not expected.
Handing out Get Out of Jail Free cards in the name of the insanity defense would make unaccountability official. Presumably this would apply not only to threats but actual violence, which has always been a hallmark of leftism, as Charlie Kirk’s assassination reminds us. But at least it would also make official that leftists are insane.
I've been seeing it all over: the Leftists, because they stole the 2020 election and got away with it, behaving as if the two-party system is past history and their intolerant regime would rule for the foreseeable future. Hence the FBI, State Department, majority blue cities and states disregarding rules, laws and any pretense of fairness...until Donald Trump eluded all their schemes and got re-elected.
That they tried it once means they'll try it again with far greater hatred and viciousness. Their plan must be recognized, destroyed and it's primary leaders made examples of.
Come on! This has to be from the Babylon Bee! Only in California!
Correctly stated.
I am hoping that everyone would work in a way to defeat the leftist impetus. Using any legal way.
Clearly, it is a violence inducing delusion. We don’t want to have to endure Bolshevik Russia again.
Wow. Most crimes will be forgiven if you hate Trump. Good to know.
Unfortunately it’s NOT satire.
What the heck is “moonbattery” Is it a form of lithium-ion?
Moonbatery, tomfoolery...It’s not all the same but the former would have to include the latter.
I’ve heard this word since 1975. It was applied to all democrats in California.
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