The more the SC keeps making preposterous decisions the more layman people start to realize how extremely unhinged it is to have them dictate every aspect of our lives behind their waffling principles and the more we can take active steps to delegitimize that institution. That way when Biden finally fucks off the next batch of candidates needs to have supreme court reform at the top of their agenda because people will finally be fed up.
So this provides some context to the importance of documenting and citing Trump being an asshole/breaking gag orders in court and on Twitter.
Want to piss off churches? Fuck with their grift. They should stay home on Election Day as a protest.
Yes the entire Trump experiment has been very eye opening wrt to christians in this country. In the beginning I would have expected to see more "principled" christians reject him based on his infidelity and complete disregard for the religion. Instead they decided to rationalize and explain away his crassness because it suited their political needs. Sure there has always been a chunk of them thay have been pure charlatans and evangelicals usually topped that list but I thought surely there were also alot that tangibly believed in their religon and would reject Trump because he seems to be the antithesis of it. That hasn't really happened though so it makes those christians that support him impossible to take seriously.
I read once that somebody uses "I appreciate what that means for you" as a response. It's a little cunty even for me, but I've always kept it in my back pocket in case I run into somebody who is being an over-the-top asshole about it.
Pecker’s cooperation agreement was signed with the Manhattan DA’s office in Oct ‘19, two years before Bragg was elected.
Sounds a lot like some normally credible Twitter folks feel the wind is blowing in the direction of Trump in the immunity case. it’s pretty stunning but I guess Trump winning in 2016 was really the Rubicon for American democracy. Even if the ruling is limited to making Trump immune from his crimes this is obviously bad. I’m hopeful Biden would go to the mattresses — the best thing I can think is an “October surprise” where the govt releases a slow trickle of evidence in these federal cases next fall. Strictly for the purpose of fomenting outrage and negative headlines for Trump. The theatrics of the rule of law may do more to save democracy than rule of law itself.
exactly like the BG situation. They both are saying they didn’t know the illegal substance/thing was in there luggage. The difference is one is a black lesbian the other is a white guy.
The problem with your last sentence is normies still aren’t paying attention. Like Dan Pfeiffer said, every one of these trials should get a thousand times the attention the OJ verdict did with the former and possibly future president facing multiple felony convictions, but no one really seems to care.
I think their points that it's not televised and further that it's just hard to get the entire nation to coalesce around one event with how people consume media these days help make sense of why it's not a bigger deal. Also people know Trump is a crook and either don't care and will vote for him anyway or have already reached that conclusion and don't feel the need to pay attention to these. Especially since he always just wriggles out of these situations. No one is going to pay attention until he gets convicted.
In the end their whiteness trumps (pun intended) any of Gods teachings, since they do t really follow any of them anyways.
Went to look to see how much he saved. Maybe he's a shitty trader and his wife doesn't know shit b/c the stock is up 10% since he sold and appears the earnings reports was pretty positive. So fuck him, good
So apparently Pecker said that at one point Trump thanked him for the catch and kill operations in front of Comey. Nothing concerning there
I still believe and you can't change my mind, that what Jim Comey did before the election was the single biggest thing that changed the outcome of the last 8 years and led to where we are today. If that one thing was stopped from happening I think Hillary wins and our entire reality is different.
I hate to say it but Russiagate is likely the reason that no one seems to care. It seemed for 4 years that every other week Trump was about to be impeached/indicted even going back to the infamous Maddow "we got him" shtick that Oliver parodied. It over saturated the news and when nothing ever came from it I think it has caused people to check out even though this time there actually is tangible proof of crimes committed that should send him to jail.
I think blame lies with the right wing media for their propaganda and shitty msm. also, Trump flooding the zone with abhorrent if not criminal behavior happened in 2015 and 2016 so there was already precedent.
Maybe a factor, definitely not the only reason. I would add a fragmented media landscape, mental health, a lack of recognition by basically everyone of the damage the pandemic did to general wellness and people’s lives, every issue being both sidesed, general loss of trust in institutions, but most of all, the Big 10 Universities and everything they stand for.
It’s not really in “the direction of trump”. This is the way it was always going to go. The president is going to have immunity for certain acts. It’s just where to draw that line. the problem, and the reason why the delay was such an issue, is that they’re going to kick this back down to the trial court to determine where that line is. And the it will be appealed again. And round and round we go. trump “won” today because of the delay this is causing but he’s not going to win full immunity. He’ll be able to be charged with stuff still. Just the timing will make it ultimately irrelevant.
Delaying and trying to win the election has always been the best strategy for Trump. He committed crimes and collaborated with hostile countries when he wasn’t a trapped rat. There’s zero length he won’t go to this time around. the failings of Mueller will continue to plague us.
Think of how much the guy pushed down the bar of acceptable behavior. The evangelical political leaders sold themselves out to the point they can't even talk about morality without getting laughed at. We all knew it was bullshit but they at least tried to sell the idea that morals mattered. I never thought we'd be susceptible to becoming an actual dictatorship but now we have the supreme court making arguments that certainly sound like they're open to it. It's surreal and fucking depressing.
I mean there's data that backs it up. Comey is either incredibly stupid or he intentionally had his finger on the scale. Does the letter like not even two weeks before the election and he knows Trump is under investigation (and the rest of the world doesn't!) but he doesn't say anything about it
He always came off as someone with a completely naive belief in the system he worked in. Or maybe it was intentional, it sucks either way. Cabals aren’t fantastical. The Federalist Society supported a mad man who could put their Justices in place and now it’s going to be the end of democracy.
That seemed like it was because the targets were conspiring with foreign agents and needed to secretive for the sake of the investigation. im prob making this up just to cope though
Reading the wiki just now and he was advised by justice department lawyers to not release the information because it was inconsistent with department policy. Oh well I guess
It was too late at that point once Trump was in office. This is a really bad take IMO. The media you reference was literally trying to do the right thing and show the crimes. This is what they should be doing. Crimes were committed. If not for Barr and the right wing media covering up the truth I am fairly certain the people you mentioned would have been proven right. All evidence points to it.
I think he knew exactly what he was doing when he did it, and then when he got to know Trump he was like wtf have I done.
Comey is an educated man. I think it was well know Trump is a POS and he’d have been aware of the ongoing investigation.
The auditor of DJT spelled his name 14 different ways in his report, including Ben F Orgers. https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...ifferent-ways-ft-2024-4?utm_source=reddit.com
The calculus isn’t really that difficult to figure it. Hillary was comfortably ahead in the polls at that point. He knew he had agents leaking information to Rudy. If he doesn’t announce it, he’s fighting those leakers for the next four years in front of Jason Chaffetz who would be accusing him of a cover up to favor Clinton.
So he was putting his finger on the scales. Why didn't he release that Trump's campaign was under investigation? Why did the justice department lawyers advise against it?
I'm not saying to not report on it but it was defintely sensationalized to a point where it seemed like every week this was gonna be the final thing that brought him down because the media was more interested in the ratings then the actual implications of holding him accountable. A good chunk of that I will agree is due to Trump being a such a force of awful in that he has done so many terrible things it becomes hard to filter through it. All I'm saying if I'm your regular run of the mill "no politics" shleb and I've seen going on 5 years CNN saying Trump is going to jail next week and he never does its much harder for me to belive this time its real.
Once the Court cancels chevron deference and makes themselves the body capable of making decisions about how the country can be run, they’ll fully be the dictators we were warned about.
The DOJ lawyers advised against it because it was clearly against policy. He disregarded that policy because he incorrectly thought there wasn’t a risk of Trump actually winning, and that not disclosing the new information would pose a threat to the FBI. He didn’t disclose the Trump investigations because Democrats weren’t going to drag the FBI for following policy under a Clinton presidency. He, and just about everyone else in Washington, were just wrong about whether Trump could win.