• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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    23 hours ago

    Gee, whyever would he think that? Could it be because he’s been breaking the law for years and years, and nobody’s done anything about it? Because he staged a fucking coup, and the DoJ rolled over? That he’s essentially been issuing open threats to anyone who opposes him, and everyone’s capitulating? That he’s openly accepting bribes and everyone’s just opening their wallets? No, couldn’t be any of those things.

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      Meanwhile, anyone who has previously opposed him has stepped down or stepped away from their roles in basically full and utter shame after accomplishing nothing. Years of bluster and screaming about smoking guns, all swept away because they wouldn’t do anything. They wanted their role and positions of power, and when it mattered, retreated to be nothing more than a cowardly footnote soon to be deleted from history by the current regime.

      How to Ruin your Legacy 101: Written by Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, and Co.

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          Smith had his own shortcomings, but agreed not nearly on level with fuckin Garland. He was a face of the Trump opposition who also resigned without results or prosecution, though. The clock was on the wall, and whether or not it was moving too fast or too slow is neither here nor there. I don’t think we will remember the details of appeals or tactics used in time, but the result of the case and the return of Trump to power. Whether those details are lost or deleted remain to be seen.

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      Yeah, but u know, Biden did what every other sitting president including trump did by supporting Israel, so they’re basically the same

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      Yep, he’s been breaking the law since the 70s and hasn’t faced any accountability for all this time.

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      Yeah, and a bunch of people voted for him. They did that because a bunch of social media psyops convinced them of a bunch of nonsense. So I don’t think they want what he will do. But, he wouldn’t be wrong to conclude he has a mandate to break the law. I think if you asked the average Trump voter if Trump can break the law, they would say, “Of course.”

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    22 hours ago

    And lets also not forget he repeatedly claimed he knew nothing about Project 2025. Not the policies. Not the people behind it.

    Now he’s claiming a mandate to execute the plan he denied having any knowledge of.

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      You mean Republicans by not voting for removal after successful impeachment BOTH TIMES and thus barring him from office, right???

      We didn’t even have to get here and it’s not the Dems fault we did.

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    He does. He is a criminal, he said before he will do criminal things, he promised again he will do criminal things, the people that elected him want him to do criminal things.

    Why would anyone expect him not to do criminal things?

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    Why wouldn’t he? He’s been let off Scott free for everything. Good for him if we are too stupid to stop him.

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      Not true, they also started a bunch of limp wristed investigations with agonizing, unforgivable slowness, and pardoned a bunch of their friends when it inevitably didn’t work.

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          My guess would be that a lot of people have an understandable dislike of anything that singles out the Democrats as the reason for Trump, as opposed to blaming Trump, the spineless Republicans as a whole, the media, the voters, the Russians, the educational system, the legalized corruption of our government as a whole, or any number of other institutional or individual factors that might have shit the bed and let Hitler come to power in the US. Blaming Democrats is the only target out of those that also depresses support for the most possible likely bulwark against him in our fairly sad system, and often seems to come from suspect sources. But you’re not wrong.

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          Because, despite the accuracy of your statement, the party members cannot stand criticism or accept that there is room for improvement.

          I left the Democratic party. Done. I may continue to vote for the candidates, but I’ve become a DSA member. I want progress, not procrastination.

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        Would be nice if we could, but all I’m hearing from Democrats is buck-passing. As if the voters are responsible for the party’s poor electoral game.

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          So stop giving them the attention they want. If everyone refused to participate in that discussion, the conversation would change.

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              Most of us are excluded from political discussion, by design. We could talk about how to make life difficult for the people who make policy and control the government.