• ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world
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    They feel he tilted the trial? He handled Trump with kid gloves the whole trial while he was throwing constant diaper filled tantrums. If anything he went way too easy on the orange baboon.

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      Fascists always say they were treated unfairly…

      The problem with that is, moderates then treat them with kids gloves, thinking that will stop them from saying it.

      It never does.

      To deal with fascists you throw the book at them, max legal punishment for every crime.

      Because even if you just give them a slap on the wrist, their ideology requires them to say they were treated unfairly and are being persecuted.

      It’s like how they’ll call the most conservative Dem in office a communist. So there’s no point in running a conservative Dem, they’ll fight them as hard as the most progressive.

      There’s no rational reason to compromise before the fight starts.

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        Yeah, it’s the card says moops. They aren’t arguing what they think is true, they’re arguing what they think will get them what they want if they can convince people is true

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      He’s not going to give Trump a prison term. He said as much during Trump’s tenth contempt citation. This is Senators grandstanding so that they can go home and tell their constituents “I fought for your President and I won!” when the outcome was a foregone conclusion. Its all kabuki.

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    MAGA 2016: “Lock her up!”

    MAGA 2020: “Lock him up!”

    MAGA 2024: “The justice department is being politicized against Biden’s enemies!”

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    Because that’s how democracy works right my friends?

    The politicians are supposed to pay for prostitution and stop judges from jailing other politicians.

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      yeah the balance of power through the 3 branches scratching each other backs and the hidden 4th BOP group – money

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          *only

          it’s not like this isn’t the obvious end point (collapse) for any society run by greed and selfishness. continually dousing the statues of ancient Greece in acid will erode them just as surely as ceaseless corporate lobbying and the systematic removal of those who would stand for principles over profit has eroded the system we built on the greek model.

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    Do it. Give him jail time. Because when it comes to politicians we need to hammer in a lesson: not only could it happen to anyone, but it it should happen to almost everyone. They’ll need to be held universally accountable for crimes (for a change), regardless of political party.

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      I worry about Republicans taking power and using the trump trials as an excuse to put together kangaroo courts in places like Texas and Florida to actually do the sorts of politically based prosecutions that they’re whining about now. That should never be a reason to not uphold the law though. We cannot let ourselves be held hostage by what bad actors might do in the future.

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    Biden is OBVIOUSLY overseeing this STATE Judge who told Trump multiple times he would be thrown in Jail but never was DESPITE threatening the Judge’s family and then allowed a Jury to deliberate in private to come to a conclusion based solely off the Evidence provided.

    That is UNFAIR and an ABUSE OF POWER on Joe Biden’s part!

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    Backs completely against the wall. They install their dictator or go down together.

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    The BEST situation would be for the judge to say prison for a first offender is inappropriate. And then sentence the Mango Mussolini to 1000 hours of community service in which he’d pick up trash along the highway etc. And begin the 1000 hours in September.

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      He would absolutely not be in a jumpsuit on the side of the road doing community service. He would be assigned 1000 hours and then “work” with a charity putting his “skills” to use.

      I’m speaking from experience. I had 120 hrs of community service and I did computer work for a well known charity.

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        But you have computer experience. The only things Trump is good at are grifting and lying. Not much community service fodder in that.

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      Don’t put him on a highway chain gang, that gives him too much public exposure. His fanboys will basically flood that place, making the security of the guards a nightmare. Put him in a nice place where he can assemble, clean, or pack something without access to the crowds.

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    Ts, ts, didn’t they all scream that politicians influencing the juridical process is a bad thing just seconds ago?

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        They mean the two-tiered legal system, where the working class is subject to the expected uncaring legal system, and the monied-class can be protected from prosecution (much less incarceration) by the wink-and-a-nod privileged legal system.

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    Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said last month. “I think a lot of these cases [will] work up, and the Supreme Court finally says enough is enough, we’re not a banana republic.”

    I really hope they do Senator. In a Banana Republic, the Glorious Leader is usually not held to account for his crimes. In the US and in functional Republics, we actually hold people to account for the crimes they commit, regardless of their current or former positions. Trump committed a crime, being a former President doesn’t mean he can’t be held to account.