Here’s another guy advocating for the approach that all decent Americans favor: treat Trump the same way you or I would be treated if the FBI found classified documents in our homes, i.e., we’d be immediately arrested and charged with an array of felonies.
From CNN: Donald Trump has repeatedly called for lengthy jail sentences for those who he claimed mishandled classified information. We recall the debates with Hillary Clinton where this was a very big deal indeed.
At issue here is the fact that Trump has never, not once in his entire life, been held accountable for his criminal acts, and thus he understandably believes that he can do whatever he wants with impunity.
Fortunately, the Department of Justice has no choice other than to indict him, because ignoring his actions here would be tantamount to telling all future presidents that the law doesn’t apply to them.
Here’s a reminder that the United States is the only country in the developed world whose citizens routinely die of treatable disease.
As anyone could have foreseen, the State of California’s ban on sales of new gas- and diesel-powered cars starting in 2035 has revved up the Big Oil machine that manufactures and disseminates malicious lies on electric transportation.
The truth, which has been in place for decades: All consumers of electricity in most of the 50 states are asked to use less between 4 PM and 9 PM when demand is highest.
Going into the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton made a huge political mistake by referring to Trump supporters as “deplorables.” Thinking something and saying it on camera are two different things.
Yet, as the late Leonard Cohen points out here, one thing that is attractive about progressives is that they are not “the other side,” i.e., hateful, uneducated conspiracy theorists who have neither the capacity to nor the interest in distinguishing truth from the torrent of BS they are being fed by the former president.
“Pitiable” is a better word than “deplorable.”
There seems to be a recurring theme with Trump supporters: a) It is discovered that Trump did something illegal, b) the justice system reacts, c) Trump supporters are outraged that their guy is under attack by the Deep State, d) more facts emerge on the details of the crime, and finally, e) crickets.
The stolen documents at Mar-a-Lago represent a good example, but the January 6th insurrection is just as solid. Initially, Trump supporters were pulling their hair out. Isn’t it obvious??? All of this was set into motion by Antifa and Black Lives Matter!!!
A year later, more than 800 people have been arrested, tried, and convicted, every single one of whom is a Trump supporter, carrying out the direct orders that the hateful morons received from the then-President of the United States.
Today, how much coverage does the insurrection receive on Fox News? Zippo.
I object to the sarcasm at the end of this meme; I do feel some level of sorrow for these gullible fools who followed the direct orders they received from the President of the United States.
Be this is as it may, every time one of these hateful morons gets sentenced to prison, it builds the case, at least in my mind, for holding Trump accountable, and charging him with seditious conspiracy, a law that was written specifically to address cases like this.
The Texas fossil fuel companies have been effective in getting the state legislature to pass a law that bans state and local government entities from doing businesses with companies that have environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) focus, or are divesting from fossil fuels.
If you think it’s going to be easy pulling the U.S. economy away from coal, oil and gas, you’re sadly mistaken. These people play for blood–ours.
Donald Trump’s pardoning a war criminal who was sentenced to prison in 2019 by the U.S. Marine Corp for stripping an Iraqi prisoner naked, interrogating him without authorization, and then shooting him twice. This angered the vast majority of active-duty and veteran military personnel, not to mention the majority of U.S. voters, because the act was rightfully seen as a slap in the face to the entire military justice apparatus, and a statement that lawlessness should prevail if that’s the way Trump wants it.
Now, Trump and his power to pardon criminals is back in focus. More than 800 insurrectionists have been arrested, tried, and found guilty of an array of crimes. Many are now felons, serving prison terms of up to eight years.
Trump’s re-election will bring a great deal of joy to all these people, not to mention the millions of people who may get caught up in the justice system if they riot when their leader is indicted on charges of fraud, espionage, election tampering, witness intimidation, obstruction of justice, seditious conspiracy, or treason.
Dominion Voting Systems recently deposed Tucker Carlson at Fox News, and Sean Hannity and others are scheduled for a date in the near future. All this is prep work for the upcoming, much-ballyhooed jury trial in which the plaintiff alleges that the defendant defamed Dominion’s reputation.
I’d love to read the transcripts, if only to see how well the plaintiff’s attorney’s line of questioning jibes with my own instincts.
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