Yesterday, a federal judge sentenced former proud boys leader Enrique Tariot to 22 years in federal prison

for the seditious conspiracy that he supposedly perpetrated on January 6th,

the day of the light of democracy almost vanished from the world.

January 6th, a day on which Tariot not only did not enter the U.S. Capitol,

but on which he wasn't even in Washington, DC.

Nonetheless, Judge Timothy Kelly said Tariot's absence from the alleged insurrection to which none of

the supposed insurrectionists brought weapons, quote, does not do anything to detract from the severity

of his conduct. Even from many miles away, Tariot objected to the certification of the obviously

rigged election, and so now the government is going to imprison him for more than two decades.

Tariot did not commit any violent crimes. He's not even accused of committing a violent crime.

He wasn't even in the city. 22 years. The average sentence for rape in the United States is

less than 15 years, meaning that Tariot faces 50% more jail time than the average rapist,

but really he probably faces more than that, because while right wingers have had the book thrown

at them in recent years, most non-political prisoners don't spend anywhere near their full sentence

behind bars. Do you know the average time served by convicted human traffickers in the United

States? Less than 10 and a half years. About the time on average served by child traffickers,

16 years. How about the average time served by murderers in the Goodall US of A? Just 17 and a half

years, but the guy who ran the right wing drinking club is getting 22 years for sending politically

incorrect texts and social media posts. Is texting out protest messages from a hotel room really

worse than rape, human trafficking, child trafficking, and murder? Objectively no.

But subjectively, from the perspective of a regime that is struggling to maintain legitimacy

among a public that on both sides, it's not just the conservatives, on the left too,

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