Anyway I’m sure the people on the subway were happy someone stepped up, but I think the avalanche of gassed up online cheerleaders who want this dude to get the Medal Of Honor are probably excited about something else it’s not as cool to admit.

Or what if Penny wasn’t a marine and didn’t know how to do a chokehold. What if he was coming home from his company softball game and had a bat? Would it be cool for him to “neutralize” Neely by cracking him upside the head with it? I wonder.

Put a different way; say the actions were the same, but instead of a mentally unwell homeless black man, Neely was a coked out stockbroker acting crazy at a fancy martini bar. Would Penny be acquitted and celebrated for choking that dude to death? I kinda think no

To be clear, he is a vile, serially criminal man who may also be the dumbest person alive, and the fact that a bunch of Americans think he’s rad is a sign our cultural taste is in the sewer.