Tay’lor Smith, 19, was charged with one count of reckless endangerment after the incident. She originally pleaded not guilty in September, however, she was offered a plea deal in February — prompting her to change her plea on March 18. On Aug. 7, 2018, Jordan Holgerson, 16, was pushed off a bridge, just northeast of Vancouver and fell 60 feet. She suffered injuries ranging from broken ribs to punctured lungs.

But after impact statements were read and Smith herself spoke in court, the judge sentenced her to 40 days — 2 days in jail and 38 days of community service on a work crew.  Though prosecutors didn’t explicitly request jail time, the judge decided in favor of it, citing the seriousness of the crime.
— WKRN, 3/28/19

Women crying in court is nothing new but what should be insulting is how women who commit serious crimes are allowed to cry in the courtroom and on the stand in attempt to garner the sympathy of the jury. Some lawyers even utilize this as a direct defense strategy.

Don’t be afraid to cry, if your emotions have clearly reached the boiling point. At this time, the judge will probably call a recess, and you’ll have a chance to pull yourself together.
— Do’s and Don’ts When You’re in Court

The number one reason it’s OK to cry in court: to let the true healing process begin. You’ve finally let your authentic self, your real emotions, wiggle through the legal mortar and bloom on the outside. One serious note of caution: drama has no part in this. Unless those tears come naturally from deep inside, involuntarily, you’re creating drama. Tears that are honest and authentic are not an act. When in court, the judge will be able to tell the difference. More importantly, so will you.
— Divorce Magazine

Women enjoy (and can exploit) the emotional option in court.

Man-crying is not easily accepted by the public at large.

At fifty-three, Brett Kavanaugh is an adult now, or at least no longer young, but after Christine Blasey Ford came forward to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had pinned her to a bed, drunk, when they were teen-agers, covering her mouth so that she couldn’t scream, he gave his own statements after a recess and blubbered like a child. If he would get to don his black robe, he’d do it weepily.
— The New Yorker, 10/4/18

Disparity in sentencing between men and women is a topic for another day, it should also be noted that women who commit violent crime are too often seen crying on the stand. As if the trauma of having to relive their violence is more traumatizing that what their victim(s) went through in the final seconds of their lives. But it doesn’t stop them, even though we ALL KNOW some women (especially the manipulative sociopath) can cry on cue when they believe it may save their guilty asses.

Just last January, unelected conservative “leaders” decided to come out and tell US who we should not support, based on their self-serving definition of what is conservative. As Donald Trump was whittling down the field of Republican candidates, instead of trying to understand his overwhelming appeal to and his expanding the Republican base in ways unseen in the party’s history, a small group of so-called conservatives believed they were right to publicly tear down the frontrunner because he just didn’t meet their qualifications.

Seriously, who were THEY to “stop Trump” and deny him the nomination?

NONE of them have ever run for office and take all that comes with it. Instead of sticking their own necks out, it was much easier for them to stick their hands out and suck off a movement none of them created but were eager to personally profit off of.

Many worked behind-the-scenes to plot was to steal the delegates on the run-up to the RNC Convention in Cleveland. They could give a shit about the voices of millions around the country who remained loyal to Donald Trump as he earned more votes than any Republican in our party’s history.

THEY knew better and were very comfortable with nullifying our votes for the sake of party “purity”. Some even threatened to vote for the eventual Democrat nominee as we didn’t get our minds right and take our orders from them.

Some openly talked down to and/or mocked us.

While we can’t say for sure, some of these conservatives did come around after the RNC Convention and Trump’s accepting the party nomination, not because they had that “Come to Jesus moment” but because further opposition may have started to hit their all-important donor base and if it’s a case of their “principles” or money, what do you think would win?

Almost every one of the principled conservatives hit Fox News and began defending Donald Trump from the liberal media onslaught, at times feigning faux purity when the left dug deep into the mud. But they assumed Trump supporters were so stupid and forgetful, they could now appear to have had his back all along and it was now their job to remind us as well.

There is a #NeverTrump shit list for a reason and it remains relevant to this day.

If we’re to be fair and are dismissing the liberal media because they colluded with Hillary’s campaign, we should also dismiss the conservative media that also worked against Donald Trump but can now hide behind the convenience of being Republicans.

We all are entitled to our opinions and candidates must make their case to get our votes. But to attempt to rig an outcome behind our backs and now act like they were always one of us…?

This is yet another reason why God gave us middle fingers.

8/28/20 UPDATE

It took almost four years, but ONE conservative has finally publicly acknowledged and apologized for his public error in judgment.

1). I am feeling so humbled this week. I feel truly horrible for the things I said and believed in 2016 about @realDonaldTrump . I believed the worst politically, which he proved me wrong at almost every turn. In the most dramatic cases (life/Israel/China/authoritarian) cont

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 28, 2020

Don’t hold your breath for any of the other arrogant “leaders” to follow suit.

American Enterprise Institute
Cato Institute
Citizens in Charge Foundation
Club for Growth
CNS News
Commentary Magazine
Conservative Review‎
Correll Law Firm
Courageous Conservatives PAC
Daniel Pipes: Middle East Forum
Delegates Unbound
First Things
Free the Delegates
Jordan Winery
Levin TV
Media Research Center
National Affairs
National Review
New Republic
NewsBusters
#NeverTrump Conservatives
#NeverTrump “closed” groups on Facebook
Never Means Never PAC
Our Principles PAC
RedState
Regina Thomson’s Knee Surgery
Southern Baptist Convention
Tea Party Patriots
The Blaze
The Federalist
The Weekly Standard
Townhall

Unelected “conservative leaders” told us, in no uncertain terms, who THEY decided was worthy of Republican support… who was not and why.

The list of intellectually-superior, arrogant conservatives is long.

#NeverTrump “conservatives”
Mitt Romney, Ted Cruz, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Megyn Kelly, Reince Priebus, Speaker Paul Ryan, Mark Helprin, Steven F. Hayward, Dana Loesch, L. Brent Bozell, William Kristol, Ron Kaufman, Jenny Beth Martin, Charles Krauthammer, Katie Pavlich, Cal Thomas, Mark Cuban, Thomas Sowell, Edwin Meese III, Russell Moore, Sen. Mark Kirk, Sen. John Barrasso, Thomas Sowell, Jeb!, David French, David Limbaugh, Sen. Ron Johnson, Sen. Mitch McConnell, David Boaz, Mona Charen, Ben Domenech, Ken Cuccinelli, Erick Erickson, Yuval Levin, Sheri Jacobus, George Will, Andrew C. McCarthy, David McIntosh, Michael Medved, Michael B. Mukasey, John Podhoretz, R. R. Reno, Ben Sasse….

6/25/16 — The #NeverTrump forces are proceeding full speed ahead with their scorched-earth attempt to unbind the delegates Donald Trump earned by winning the Republican primary process with historic popular vote numbers.

Hillary supporters are clearly afraid of Donald Trump while ego-driven, so-called “conservatives” have gotten with the Democrats’ program.

Appeal to GOP delegates: Please save your party from Trump — you still can
What Republican leadership failed to understand was that this voting bloc wasn’t stupid enough to not notice that the GOP was selling them a bill of goods it had no plan to actually deliver. The Supreme Court, Executive Branch and Democratic Party were never going to allow the United States to roll backwards into the outright legal bigotry of the early 1900s. While Republican voters thought they were electing James Dobson, the GOP was really selling Joel Osteen to them in a Pat Robertson mask.
— Salon, 6/25/16

These same anti-Trump delegates were perfectly happy with popular votes when it came to them getting elected, and should they succeed in stealing the bound delegates from Trump in Cleveland, these so-called (ex)”principled conservatives” will demand voters “unite” behind the candidate they select and then threaten to blame Trump supporters if Hillary becomes the next president because they sat out the election (as hypocritical pro-Cruz “conservatives” threatened).

If any such delegate notifies the secretary of his or her intent to cast a vote of conscience, whether personal or religious, each such delegate shall be unbound and unconstrained by these rules on any given vote, including the first ballot for the selection of the president of the United States, without the risk of challenge, sanction or retribution by the Republican National Committee.
— Colorado delegate Kendal Unruh letter to RNC Rules Committee

Here’s the hypocritical “Free the Delegates” ad called “Keep Your Word“.

After the Republican National Convention, Trump destroyed his credibility and cannot win the Presidency. It’s time Trump lives up to his word, resign the nomination, and allow the RNC to replace him under Rule 9 of National Party Rules.

Like the ad? Help keep this ad running: http://freethedelegates.com/contribute

DISCLAIMER: Free the Delegates is a Super PAC dedicated to defeating Hillary by blocking and reversing Donald Trump’s political ascent. Our focus is on using unconventional and cost-effective tactics, as opposed to stereotypical high-cost, limited-yield methods with the objective of providing maximum donor value.

PAID FOR BY FREE THE DELEGATES.
NOT AUTHORIZED BY ANY CANDIDATE OR CANDIDATE’S COMMITTEE.

Hypocritical because these misguided “conservatives” demand Donald Trump keep his word while looking the other way when their messiah Ted Cruz broke his.

8/30/16 UPDATE

Sean Hannity puts the #NeverTrumpers on notice.

Of course, we’re talking about the division within the Republican Party because of the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump. The one talking point repeated by most is that he “can’t be bought”. There’s more to that.

Campaign Leeches

You’d have to live close to The Beltway to understand how the Donald Trump campaign has upset the standard operating procedure of Washington, D.C. and the consultant, political operative class. The easiest way to describe the filth that exists here is with an analogy.

Let’s say we’re talking about the NFL Playoffs and on a given weekend, eight teams played and four were defeated; their season ended. What would we be saying about the dedication and loyalty to the fans if players on the losing teams started sending their resumes to the teams that were beating them before the game was even over? That NEVER happens in sports but it DOES in politics because these staffers have no loyalty to a candidate or his or her supporters; ONLY to themselves and how much donor cash they can suck into their own bank accounts.

That’s why we saw Reagan-Bush people working on the McCain campaign, Reagan-Bush-McCain people working on the Romney campaign, and now Reagan-Bush-McCain-Romney people working on today’s campaigns, not to mention all of the other primary loser’s people.

That is, except on the Trump campaign.

Donald Trump has dared use his own money and selected a team from people he obviously knows and trust; not from the large pool of proven, experienced win-or-losers who care more about the paycheck than the the American people, and THAT is one reason why the establishment hates Trump. He hasn’t opened his checkbook to them as he was supposed to.

And that brings us to…

Conservative Media ‘Leaders’

We have all these so-called “conservative” leaders who no one elected, have never run for a political office (thus really sticking their necks out), defining conservatism as they so deem, and anyone who dares not follow their lead will incur their wrath, for all that’s really worth.

So, who the hell are THEY?

Has any one of you ever voted for Dana Loesch to be a “leader”? How about Erick Erickson or Brent Bozell or Katie Pavlich or Jenny Beth Martin or Rich Lowry, as well as any of the others who work at glorified, top-heavy nonprofit blogs dependent on big money donors or the charitable donations of retirees?

NOTE: We don’t mean to dash any inflated egos but there are tens of millions of good Republicans out there who’ve never heard of RedState, the Media Research Center, Townhall, the Heritage Foundation, National Review, and/or the myriad of self-important blogs that believe they are oh-so influential with Republican politicians.

Do Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Michael Medved, or Hugh Hewitt remember what happened to the Oprah Winfrey empire once she publicly chose sides with the black guy and rubbed it in the face of her audience members that supported the white woman? To say her empire tanked without recovery would be an understatement, and the arrogance of these so-called conservatives to believe the audience they presently insult will beg to come back home once the general election dust clears is .

I believe Rush Limbaugh remembers, which is why he’s observing the competition and not favoring one opponent over another.

They Believe They’re Immune From Backlash

Self-anointed conservative leaders sure believe they’re your representatives and have come right out and said that anyone who supports Donald Trump is an ignoramus, has mental issues, or worse. Mark Levin arrogantly continues to rant for Ted Cruz, redefining conservatism and rewriting the creds of Ronald Reagan, hoping his listeners won’t know they’re being played.

Some of these blogs and/or nonprofits hit up Donald Trump for money, were turned down, and are having a collective “tude” whenever possible on Fox News, because knowing some of them as I do (as well as their “conservative” convictions), had they received that big check from The Donald, their tune would be 180 degrees opposite.

The unelected “conservative” leaders are as intolerant as black Democrats who banish family members who (oh, Lawd) rebel and vote Republican and feel justified in using the taboo racial slurs against them. A vote for someone who hasn’t paid his dues and spread donor money to the party leech apparatus is misguided, and anyone who votes Trump is thought to be unworthy of intellectual consideration and is insulted on-air with the arrogance conservatives have attacked liberals about for years.

The presidential campaign of Donald Trump has turned the sunlight on the process. Not only are we witnessing the attempt by the Republican Party (and their has-beens) to nullify the will of the people, we are seeing the political whore class exposed for the disloyal, money grubbers they are.

Donald Trump is NOT with the refined, scripted, phony consultant-class program, is still winning, and that just pisses them off, while millions of others are delighted that “change” isn’t something exclusive to the left.

As a public service, Donald Trump didn’t give the leeches his money. Taken as a declaration of war by the campaign staff class, the Republican donor class has poured millions of dollars into these bruised-egos and their value (or lack their of) is being revealed to the world.

So, let the RNC and the others try and meddle with the will of the people. You KNOW, Mr. Trump has an app ready for that and he’ll make sure it hurts.