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Trump orders attorney general to prosecute his political enemies straight away
(www.independent.co.uk)
Donald Trump should just go fuck himself instead.
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Uh oh, you just insulted the memory of Charlie Kirk. The secret service is on their way now because free speech is dead and this is what the U.S. voted for.
Well, only half voted for it. But the diplomatic, nonviolent half are somehow domestic terrorists now so...
Not even that. Trump straight up admitted multiple times that it was rigged.
1/3.
It will require about 150 million people acting not clicking to do what needs to be done here.
I mean, Trump's a pretty bad president, but under the system, as it stands, if an unjust prosecution happens, the courts are expected to shoot it down. That's why one has a court system. It shouldn't fall over just because he demands prosecution of political opponents.
In Japan, you have a system where prosecuted cases virtually always lead to a conviction, where for practical purposes, the "filter" happens at the decision to prosecute:
MURAOKA: The conviction rate in most countries, including those with plea bargain systems, is generally over 90 percent. Many trials do end in acquittals, though. By comparison, Japan’s 99.9 percent conviction rate is unnaturally high.
Prosecutors in any country generally pursue cases where they are confident of a positive outcome. However, they are still required to prove the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Japan’s conviction rate creeping toward 100 percent has raised red flags among legal scholars overseas who question whether judges are actually ruling according to the law or are merely deferring to the prosecution.
But that's not how the US works.
There's a legitimate issue in that a prosecution can cause a defender to incur legal fees
and maybe it's the case that we should try to mitigate than more than is the case today. Or maybe nuisance. Trump certainly has managed to fire people in the Executive Branch who he was angry at. But I'm not especially worried that Trump is going to be just running around convicting people of crimes because he doesn't like them. Trump was prosecuted and convicted because he broke the law. He is, no doubt, pissed off about that. But it doesn't mean that he can just readily go out and have people convicted who he personally doesn't like who haven't broken the law.
I'd also add that even past judges acting to throw out cases that flagrantly don't have any merit or to rule in favor of a defendant, even if you could somehow compromise a judge, the common-law system has the right to a jury trial to add yet another barrier to a compromised government attempting to misuse prosecution.
Finally, there's the pardon, something that Trump has used himself very vigorously to remove punishment from people who he liked, which can come from a future administration.
This is something that the system is already designed to handle. It doesn't need out-of-band involvement.
You're going to have to spell it out. What needs to be done here?
The type of non-violent protestation we see in a single European city in all the major US cities at once tied to a general strike.
We need to be in the public space en masse little to no violence and just sit the fuck down and refuse to participate in the economy while being in the public space.
Just sit down and say, "I would prefer not to until things change."
I'm with you, but realistically we aren't there yet. Look at the protests that are happening now, we still need to energize people to get close the number we need.
No kings 2 should be enlightening
I'm guessing the user you're responding to is thinking of things like a general strike.
Well then, I'm all for it.
So act. Sheesh, this crap is tiring.
We are. It's not enough, we need more people. That's why we're still talking about it. Fuck out of here with this shit.
Take it from me it’s hard to fuck yourself with a short dick.
his penis is teeny tiny
Well you see, he got away with this his entire life.
Pedo narcissist Trump really thinks he never did anything wrong & the DoJ going after him was politically motivated. He cannot fathom why his DoJ isn't doing the same thing.
Seems like the treasons are coming faster every day
It's only treason if he gets punished for it.
Ok who else has a gun?
Eh... I would recommend explosives my dude.
I sure wish that stroke would hurry up.
Trump fucked up: it was supposed to be a DM, but he's too fucking stupid to figure it out.
I don't think that's true, I think it's written so that everyone that works for him and his messaging followers can get on the same page. It's a lazy man's proclamation.
Bondi after 2028:
God I hope so for all of them
Don’t you have the impression this should be a private message sent by mistake publicly?
No, cause tRump is a coward. He relies on his hateful band of red-hat dipshits to pressure his allies and threaten his enemies. He did this so they would do the dirty work and he can claim plausible deniability.
trump demands, her ivanka-lookalike, cross wearing pam bondi to target his political enemies.
You already hired the best person, like you always do, so this is the best possible, no?
It's gonna be a wild ride of justice if AOC-style democrats ever get this kind of power. I just cannot believe that a party that has held 50% (+-5) of the power for centuries can lose all of it. That kinda base doesn't just go away unless somebody actually destroys it.
It’s gone too far.
There’s no way to jail the fascists, they’ll try their case in public and foment violence. You can’t leave the fascists unpunished, because they’ll continue to corrupt, lie, propagandize, and block everything. It’s like the Civil War, if they’d jailed or executed those that had rebelled it would probably be a much different country today.
There’s only one way to get rid of fascists.
The interesting thing about narcissists is that they don't know what they are. The world is a very hostile and confusing place for someone who has something like dementia or narcissism. We shouldn't lose our humanity and compassion for anybody but we can't have this. At the very least it's obviously unsustainable to have mental orange grandpa and his handpicked stooges at the helm. It's not a question of if but when this regime collapses under its own weight of bullshit.
I have no compassion for fascists, and neither should you
No compassion for fascism but every fascist was once a small child, seeking love and attention. They didn't deserve to be mistreated but they eventually became a monstrous person that we now have to defend against without also losing our own humanity in the process.