laughing dog
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Completely unabridged? LOL.
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Predict Trump's first revenge prosecutions!
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Elixir
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He probably knows that list by heart- likely sat next them all at one time or another.
Some of his people are going to be on that!
ideologyhunter
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Trump said he would protect American women. The plan seems to be that Kash will attend the first cabinet meeting and arrest every other secretary in a major sting op. Promise made, promise kept.
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Nah, it's just half the list will be blacked out with a sharpie (that you can still kinda see the original text past).
The depressing part is that there is a non zero chance of that happening.
ideologyhunter
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From tonight's news, he'll start fuming about the BCF (Biden Crime Family) all over again and never run out of ammo. I don't want to hear it. We're in for a bushel of faux Republican outrage (I'd call it FRO but that's not a good look for Repubs, ever.) How are Joe and Donald ever gonna share the same bleachers on Jan. 20??
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As defined by 18 U.S. Code § 2339B with final review by the district courts. See Sec 4 (F).
I suppose in the interim it is a tool for harassment.
marc
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Will Trump try to go after Biden? And if so will he find that presidential immunity will prevent any kind of lawsuit (never mind that anything they accuse him of will be totally fictional)?
Guilty until proven innocent.
Republicans are more, "give us a name and we'll find the crime". Guilty and innocence mean fuck all to these cunts.
Colonel Sanders
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Yep. I don't know that I'd call it encouraging, but the recognition of the serious potential end of due process by liberals here is so much more in touch with reality than younger libs and liberal podcasts.
I've heard them say that Some Law is going to prevent Trump from doing X horrible thing, so everyone need not sweat it. Meanwhile, I honestly don't know if we're ever going to get to vote again while the lib-sphere thinks is going to be business as usual.
I hope the they're right, but to me it's just more evidence of the especially limp dickery that the Dems have displayed over the past 8+ years.
TV and credit cards
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To not be able to vote again would be too much of a shock. Hell, even Russians get to vote. Between creative law writing and befuddling court decisions, the Republicans will boil the frog.
Swammerdami
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Yeah, the fascists will probably try to keep up a pretense of democracy. But there are many MANY tricks they can deploy. Note, for example, that the North Carolina legislature has just stripped the Democratic Governor and other state officials of much of their powers. The sitting governor used to get 3-of-5 election officials to be of his own Party; now it's 2-of-5. 12 of the last 16 years had D as POTUS, yet the Supreme Court has been packed 6-to-3 for the Reds. Truth-telling news organizations will be punished: the fascists have already said as much. NY Times and Washington Post are now pay-to-view so many are stuck with "free" right-wing media. Et cetera, et cetera.
By "will boil the frog" do you refer to the metaphor where heating is gradual, and the frog doesn't sense its own doom until it's too late? Apt analogy! We're already there: Harris would have won a truly free election.
Colonel Sanders
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Maybe, but I see it as their opportunity to hold phony elections like Saddam Hussein used to do and what all dictatorships thinly posing as democracies do.
These rule of law and due process concepts could be shitcanned in a matter of months. It's become crystal clear that we don't have the guardrails or integrity to prevent that from becoming a reality.
Election interference is a crime, but SCOTUS has ruled that a POTUS can't be held responsible for criminal activity while in office. Instead, we have to rely on Trump's integrity. I'd laugh my ass off about that if it wasn't such a legitimate threat to American democracy.
Elixir
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Their eagerness to do that is already palpable. And already vocally endorsed by the maggots.
Shadowy Man
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If they can perfect voter suppression then they can win in “legitimate” elections.
Elixir
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They might have to get violent about it for the first time or two, but people will settle in, like in Russia. They know better than to raise a fuss about it.
ideologyhunter
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Trump improved his % last month on basically all the demographics. His voters enlarged his base substantially. None of these folks were put off by his conduct during the 1/6 riot, his foul mouth, his marketing of shoes, cologne, Chinese Bibles, and whatever else is coming from the Trump Store -- you know, just like Jimmy Carter marketed Peanut Barbie, back in '77. They don't see or care that he lies incessantly and that so many of his lies betray his racist mind. They don't care that under him, 7 years ago, we were assigning toddlers, preteens, and teens to detention camps down in Texas, turning thousands of them into orphans. That's coming back. They don't care that he seeks to emulate Xi, Putin, and Orban.
Who is to say this isn't the emerging American identity? We like this brand of semi-literate, profane hooliganism in our leaders. Trump is us. The Repubs won't have to break any laws to keep their winning edge.
Who is to say this isn't the emerging American identity? We like this brand of semi-literate, profane hooliganism in our leaders. Trump is us. The Repubs won't have to break any laws to keep their winning edge.
Elixir
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They also won’t have to follow any laws.
That’s a huge part of their appeal.