Some of us do. I fear not enough this time.

Despite a long track record of anti-LGBTQ+ comments and advocacy, he has insisted he can’t be a hateful person because he’s a Christian.

I think he’s got it backwards. He can’t be a Christian because he’s a hateful person.

Ohio has a naval academy?

Clearly “Pimp President”

Morally or financially?

Both, right?

Why the quotes around the word fake in the article?

Then they realize that they are the only ones cheating

Do they?

Either they never believed the bullshit, or they’re so completely deluded by it that they just believe it’s unfair that they are the only ones being punished when the other side “does so much worse”

I think the article makes it seem different than it is.

He was going to get a lighter sentence because he was showing remorse by playing guilty. Then his behavior between the plea and the sentencing showed that he wasn’t actually remorseful, so they go back to what they would have sentenced him.

It’s like if you get offered a discount on a bill if you pay early, then you pay late instead and have to pay the full amount. They aren’t charging you more, they’re just not offering the early discount because you didn’t hold your end of the bargain up.

So, he’s getting the sentence he deserved without credit for showing that he knows what he did was wrong.

Lesson for other defendants: the time to return to being an asshole is after everything has been settled.

If McCarthy hadn’t tried to provide himself cover from the fascist right by throwing Biden under the (bullshit) impeachment bus, Democrats might have prevented his ouster.

Another way of looking at it is he didn’t compromise enough.