A true shaman will get advised on navigating so that she or he doesn't need a defense in the first place. And also shows common sense and care for people. I see none of that in his behavior. Let alone his demeanor.
I'm surprised (not) the judge bought any of this asshole's bullshit "repentance" routine, but hey, he's working on his book deal and rehab publicity tour, which he will likely start when he's released in less than half the sentence time.
I would love it if they kept track of who disavowed the Big Lie in court, and then retracted it the minute their sentence was done. No one is forcing them to make political statements; this is all on them.
Seems to me if you hold your word and your character so cheaply, you will fall for anything. It's not just mental health treatment (I don't think these anti-vaxxers/Organic Q-cranks would be down with taking meds, though) ...
And it's not just lead and other pollutants in our environment, nor our broken-down education system.
It's about our values: what we uphold, and what we accept. Who is 'famous' (or infamous) is now more important than being a good person, like a teacher or a doctor. Being rich is the best of all.
How can we ask anyone to be a good citizens with Bannon-fodder and dumpsump and Tucktail running around showing us all that words don't matter, honor doesn't matter, or the health and well-bring of a nation, i.e. other people don't matter? "When you're rich and famous, and they just let you do it."
Until we can defenestrate these authoritarian malcontents, the rehabilitation of No-Chance Chansley and his lost tribalism is a lost cause. He will simply point to his famous and pseudo-powerful heroes and say: "If they don't have to change their ways, or tell the truth, what reason should I have to?" It's a fair question.
There's a man who really loves to hear himself talk and expects you to love hearing him talk too.
"Yeah, I do this since that one case back in, oh, twenty years ago, well, maybe more than that, though it could've been less, or "fewer" if you hold with these pedantic grammarians, which I really don't, since I knew one of them back maybe thirty two years ago, or maybe it was thirty three - no, it was thirty two, I remember because that was the same year my sister-in-law broke her foot running out of the house that Thanksgiving when I asked her if she wanted to hear about that time when I was fresh out of law school and got this case where a chicken had broken out of its pen and crossed the road - that was before they were paved in that town of course, and the Western Auto store was still on that block..."
Wait till he tastes the organic prison loaf.
And helicopter gunships.
Spanish name, Jesus...
Yes send him to jail but also endorse what he did.
There is no justice in Amerikkka.
I consider it G2 intelligence gathering. I want to know what they are saying to each other.
why should anyone in the same socio-economic and geographic area as them get a better education? that isn't fair *whiiiiinnnnnnnneeeee*
They were definitely cheap, regardless of their cost.
Thus focusing the difference between "having a criminal record" and "being a criminal."
They'll be out before we get our democracy back.
I question that. The neurodivergent community is relentlessly logical, but not stupid.
Emotional issues, substance abuse, and entitlement issues would explain it better, to me.
A true shaman will get advised on navigating so that she or he doesn't need a defense in the first place. And also shows common sense and care for people. I see none of that in his behavior. Let alone his demeanor.
I'm surprised (not) the judge bought any of this asshole's bullshit "repentance" routine, but hey, he's working on his book deal and rehab publicity tour, which he will likely start when he's released in less than half the sentence time.
I would love it if they kept track of who disavowed the Big Lie in court, and then retracted it the minute their sentence was done. No one is forcing them to make political statements; this is all on them.
Seems to me if you hold your word and your character so cheaply, you will fall for anything. It's not just mental health treatment (I don't think these anti-vaxxers/Organic Q-cranks would be down with taking meds, though) ...
And it's not just lead and other pollutants in our environment, nor our broken-down education system.
It's about our values: what we uphold, and what we accept. Who is 'famous' (or infamous) is now more important than being a good person, like a teacher or a doctor. Being rich is the best of all.
How can we ask anyone to be a good citizens with Bannon-fodder and dumpsump and Tucktail running around showing us all that words don't matter, honor doesn't matter, or the health and well-bring of a nation, i.e. other people don't matter? "When you're rich and famous, and they just let you do it."
Until we can defenestrate these authoritarian malcontents, the rehabilitation of No-Chance Chansley and his lost tribalism is a lost cause. He will simply point to his famous and pseudo-powerful heroes and say: "If they don't have to change their ways, or tell the truth, what reason should I have to?" It's a fair question.
There's a man who really loves to hear himself talk and expects you to love hearing him talk too.
"Yeah, I do this since that one case back in, oh, twenty years ago, well, maybe more than that, though it could've been less, or "fewer" if you hold with these pedantic grammarians, which I really don't, since I knew one of them back maybe thirty two years ago, or maybe it was thirty three - no, it was thirty two, I remember because that was the same year my sister-in-law broke her foot running out of the house that Thanksgiving when I asked her if she wanted to hear about that time when I was fresh out of law school and got this case where a chicken had broken out of its pen and crossed the road - that was before they were paved in that town of course, and the Western Auto store was still on that block..."
Let the lemmings do their thing! I believe that includes following the scapegoats over the cliff.
"Parts of those remarks are akin to the kinds of things Martin Luther King would have said."
Well, they contain some of the same letters King would have used. Just in a very different order.