Greetings, Dear Reader,
It’s safe to say that I’ve been fully radicalized on justice these last few years. Call it some combination of growing a family and watching leftist justice officials let hardened criminals walk on violent offenses.
It got me to thinking, what does cruel and unusual actually mean?
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL?
Recently, people started talking about a missing GOP congressman.
Rep. Tom Kean of NJ had been missing votes and hadn’t been seen in DC for quite some time. The reason people started talking is even as he’s been missing votes, he’s still had time to do his financial disclosures, and in those disclosures, you can see he’s been (insider?) trading (as those in Congress do) the entire time he’s been absent.
Kean is running in a tight district Dems hope to flip and Speaker Mike Johnson has defended him, saying it’s a private health matter.
Do I trust the word from either of them? Not even remotely.
The whole flap prompted me to say, in one of my private DC chats, “In my regime, this dude is in the stockade with his bare ass showing.”
My brother told my wife recently that a key indicator I need to be taken home from the bar is when I start sentences loudly with “In my regime.” He’s probably right.
Still, would that be so bad? A tomato-faced Kean getting his buttocks striped by street scamps with the strength to rip switches from nearby trees?
Does that qualify as “cruel and unusual”? What is cruel and unusual, actually?
Here’s a funny tweet I saw just this morning.
Unpacking this joke is not an intensely intellectual exercise. Hyper-liberal western justice systems increasingly take it easy on the worst violent offenders imaginable. Our own federal government is probing two far-left Virginia prosecutors over their penchant for giving murderous migrants a million chances at freedom.
El Salvadorian illegal Marvin Morales-Ortez had his first murder charge dropped in 2021, despite probable cause, by local Fairfax County DA Steve Descano. In September 2025, he attempted to murder someone else and got in a scuffle with local police in the process. He was released, despite an ICE detainer. The next day he actually did murder someone.
Is this unusual? In recent times, no, it’s not. Ortez is one of countless, hundreds, tens of thousands of cases of the American criminal justice system taking it easy on multiple-violent offenders.
Speaking of cruelty: You could ask Iryna Zarutska about this trend, but she died after a guy with 17 felonies slashed her in the throat on public transit.
It’s only when you hold this trend against the backdrop of history that you begin to see where the cruel and unusual actually resides.
Actually, a lot of what we consider cruel and unusual now was widely the norm for hundreds of years. Those years not only brought about peaceful, high-trust societies, they birthed the modes of thinking that cemented western dominance for countless generations.
What’s actually cruel and unusual is allowing the dregs of society to rape joggers, murder commuters, and pummel innocent bystanders because we’ve come under the spell of some neo marxist mumbo jumbo about “power and privilege.” Look around you for five minutes and you see this cruel and unusual judgement happening everywhere. It happens in college admissions when exemplary students with near perfect grades are passed over for being white or asian. That’s not normal. That’s outright cruel.
And it’s all tied back to this moral inversion that only just recently took over our institutions. Judges are literally getting arrested for smuggling violent illegal immigrants away from ICE custody.
That’s not just unusual, it’s outright nuts.
So, yes, yes indeed, I have become fully radicalized. I say we bring back what we now consider cruel and unusual, high and low. Stockades, lashings, hard labor, speedy executions.
We know because it’s been true for hundreds of years that one percent of the population, typically male, is responsible for most of the violent crime. Researchers recently put a number to it: 63% of all violent crime is one percent of the population.
Arrest them. Publicly humiliate them. Punish them physically. Incarcerate them interminably. Detach heads from torsos.
We need to bring back the cruel and unusual to put an end to the cruel and unusual.
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In my regime we punish criminals and we don't coddle them. Judges mete out sentences with an eye towards punishment first and with the goal of deferring others from following a similar path. Criminals fear the judge and know that, if caught, they're screwed...royally.
For the first-time offender, it's harsh - for repeat offenders, life as they knew it is over.