Or … maybe it is.

And no, it isn’t deserving of a laughing emoji on Facebook either, as so many Tina sycophants are wont to do as a first reaction. Because it isn’t funny. It’s arguably the greatest distraction in the recent history of politics.

Raise your hand if you thought a criminal from the Junction would become the biggest player in hiding all the crap government is pulling over the citizens in Mesa County, the state of Colorado and, in all too many cases, at the federal level?

But that’s our Tina, and no one knows about interfering with a government process better than our own local martyr and political penitentiary populator, Peters the Great.

Frankly, the only folks more dangerous are the ones who have glommed on to this criminal, demanding her release, because she has “the goods” on election fraud and cheating, which must be hidden somewhere next to the secret files of Bendini, Lambert & Locke, moving locations daily on a flotilla in the Caribbean.

Seriously, Tina, if you got the goods, please provide them. And don’t do it in a sequel to “Selection Code.” Once is enough for that “Ishtar”-quality “documentary.” Because the country still doesn’t have enough Rotten Tomatoes to throw at it in the stockade of movies that should never have been produced. And that’s even with all the extra rotting tomatoes Trump made available by deporting all the pickers – according to democrats, that is.

And worse, there’d be no one to clean up the mess, according to democrats as well.

And speaking of messes, that’s all we’d get if Terrible (or Terrific, depending on which Tina tickles your tastebuds) Tina transcends the law and her verdict. Yes, she fits this mess to a T. Get it? Sadly, I do as well.

And my biggest problem is I can’t ignore the planks Tina is shoving in our eyes while her supporters pick at bits of sawdust and then claim to see clearly the biggest miscarriage of justice in the history of the Republic.

To that I simply call bull-puckey.

Here’s why Tina should serve out her sentence, and it comes from personal experience. The fact is: Once Tina gets access (again) to power, she will use it in any way to exact revenge on anyone she thinks has ever wronged her. And with Tina’s personality, that’s almost everyone, and it will eventually be you or me. And there’s no getting around it, because in time everyone alive will have a problem with what she will do. Tina is someone who lives life by that code. Heck, her current problems are the result of it.

I mean, who did you think the Stay-Puff Pillow Man was looking to recruit back in the day? Exactly. Someone who’d do anything for a few bucks and a little screen time to stroke their ego while convincing them they were saving the Republic. Again, Tina to a T.

Ask yourself this: Who do you know who is in a position of authority and charged with protecting the sanctity of anything (in Tina’s case, our election process) who then goes out and breaks the law in destroying that protection and sanctity of the thing they are in charge of?

Only a Narcissist is capable of such cognitive dissonance. Tina to a T.

For a few pieces of silver, Tina betrayed herself and you and me in the process. Sadly, I don’t even think it was a hard decision. Not for someone who lives in that world. Once you’ve seen the reflection in the water, no narcissist can unsee it for who they are.

Now, you may ask how I know this. Simple, I’ve seen Tina in action. I met with her a few years back on my whole “how long can I avoid going weekly brain-struggle” season, and Tina’s claim was she’d get me investors and backers if I created a paper designated to put the local daily out of business. She wanted it destroyed. And why? Because she didn’t like what it reported about her.

All it took was two meetings for me to get as far away from Tina as possible.

Ironically, when I previously met with many of the now “Free Tina” totalitarians (so much alliteration, so little column) about my “weekly,” they tended to tip toward this same terrible trend (see?). Many of them came with promises of advertisers and subscribers if I’d only create a “right-wing paper.”

Folks, that’s not what legit, ethical newspapers do. I save my “crazy” for this space while risking advertisers and readers, always have. To paraphrase Fox, in this paper we (and I) write, YOU decide.

Which brings me to the main point of this column. I believe these folks want Tina out of prison for one reason: She’ll do all the damage and mayhem they are afraid to do. And she’ll do it for her freedom, a few bucks and some notoriety as any narcissist would. That’s how Trump got hornswoggled into the pathetic pardon parade. You think Trump’s above being duped? I have two words for you: Covid 19. Yes, Trump’s a narcissist.

I don’t desire Tina to become the Zebra Mussel infestation of America from sea to shining sea. Which is exactly what she’d do. And eventually, she’d invade your living water as well. Tina to a T.

Keep her where she’s at.

In Truth and freedom.

Craig Hall is owner and publisher of The Business Times. Reach him at 424-5133 or publisher@thebusinesstimes.com