• stinky [any]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      They’ll also mention how there was widespread opposition to the election results etc. and frame this move as an attempt to prevent Trump from running again for fear of his victory.

      In other words, the way the right wing nutjobs cover the Democratic Party is how Western News and establishments cover “enemy nations”.

      Really says a lot.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They would interview some friendly-looking guys in MAGA hats and call them "pro-democracy activists".

  • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    “We asked an Americanian expert from the Institute for Occidental Studies what they thought, and they said ‘it looks grim for America. Clearly the international community should consider engaging in a limited police action’”.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I hate how acknowledging the reality of this makes me sound like a chud. Trump's getting arrested out of liberal revenge, not some kind of adherence to justice. If it were about the letter of the law being violated, Trump would have been arrested 10 times already. He would have been arrested for trying to overturn to election results in Georgia, or for any of the flagrant violations of the emoluments clause.

    Nope, liberals want to arrest him on some wishy washy charge of maybe kinda violating campaign finance laws 7 years ago.

    Liberals are such weak willed cowards

    • putsthecultinculture [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      It does sound kinda chuddy to say that the libs are abusing the court system to prosecute trump on bunk charges but that’s absolutely what’s happening and honestly critical support for the libs. The Republican Party is an imminent danger to everyone, it’s the modern day version of the nazi party. We’re threatened by it just as much as the libs are, and let’s just hope the libs succeed and these legal proceedings don’t result in Trump gaining public support, which is possible considering Hitler’s prison stint skyrocketed his publicity. I have a feeling though that a 2020 American prison is much worse than a 1920 German one. The best outcome here is Trump dying in prison.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The democrats lack the ruthlessness that is necessary for this to work. They doesn't have the will and skill necessary to completely destroy the republicans and as a consequence they're making martyrs out of them while leaving all their power intact. This will strengthen the republicans in the long run, not weaken them.

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I will eat a hat if Trump spends literally any time in prison whatsoever for a campaign finance violation from seven years ago. Democrats violate campaign finance laws too, they have no interest in setting a precedent that might land their own asses in prison. This is performative "doing something" that won't actually do anything - this is the primary thing Democrats do.

    • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Same vibe as in the UK, where we're allowed to be mad at Boris Johnson for breaking lockdown rules to have a work party, but not any of the truly heinous stuff he's done like completely mismanaging the covid response in the first place.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    The fact that a con man was allowed to run in the first place should have signaled something was wrong with American democracy, but then the country would have zero presidents soooo :shrug-outta-hecks:

    To be more serious, I'm assuming this is all intentional on the part of both Dems and Republicans. Maybe to justify the Dems losing the coming election as "Whoops we accidentally created a martyr for the right, how could we see this coming despite having one of the world's best-funded intel agencies at our disposal? Nope, not our fault. It was worth it to get Trump out of the way tho. Uh oh looks like Desantis is making death camps for trans people, oh well better vote for us next time!"

  • Red_Left_Hand [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Venezuela puts a guy who once kidnapped a minister on live TV under house arrest for another one of his many crimes, therefore all elections are invalid forever, 1-party-state, illiberal democracy, populist autocracy etc.