@MatthewTyrmand
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www.youtube.com Tyrmand Depo For those who don't know the Russell Brand case...
Imagine being sentenced to 10.5 YEARS in prison for alleged offenses dating back as far as 22 YEARS AGO, in a case where the police say there was zero CCTV footage, zero forensic evidence, and digital enquiries were limited because SOOOOO much time had passed, and prosecutors themselves acknowledge that the passage of time limited the available evidence, and yet STILL a jury convicts you in a case built primarily on testimony, and then you get to sentencing and the judge acknowledges the work you have done helping people overcome addiction, including paying for their treatment, acknowledges that your children will lose the presence of their father, and also accepts that there is no sound evidential basis to conclude you pose a future risk, and still sentences you to 10.5 YEARS in prison, again following convictions reached without CCTV or forensic evidence, and now you’re left asking how the testimony and supporting material established the disputed acts beyond reasonable doubt despite those gaps, and how the court justified a sentence that will take years out of your children’s childhoods for offenses from nearly two decades earlier, which is roughly where Russell Brand is tonight.View quoted post on X
Conservative policies are popular. It’s so-called conservative legislators who lack the will to implement them that are not, and they drag the rest of us down with them.View quoted post on X
It's now or never.View quoted post on X
The “too many groups doing the same thing” argument is just a defense for fewer people trying to solve a REAL problem. Heritage’s own credibility issues don’t magically make the aging GOP pipeline or the socialist left’s success with young voters just go away.View quoted post on X
If the work is a sinecure racket, the market will punish it so. But just dismissing the effort outright because you don’t like the operators or the direction is just status-quo conservatism with extra steps.
