How will we ever get to the point of treating g foreign nationals like people if we can’t even treat our own people like people? I hope she pursues this to the extent of the law

I agree that justice seems out of reach: many of the perpetrators are ultra wealthy who are apparently above the law. Even if Trump were prosecuted, he likely would be able to delay it beyond his remaining life

But these villains don’t act on their own. They’re supported by legions of opportunists who believe an evil sponsor makes them above the law as well. That’s where the opportunity lies. If those minions and those enriching themselves and those offering bribes face actual justice, maybe it will have a deterrent effect next time. It’s not justice but maybe the best opportunity to restore law and prevent the next attempt at tyranny

For the wealthy sponsors, perhaps the best opportunity is prosecuting bribery. While there have always been too many loopholes for the wealthy, they really seem to be getting careless with their bribes. It’s not good business when the dictator-wannabe won’t shut up about being bribed

But in this specific case, those directly responsible for false investigation and civil rights violations should be brought to justice …. In 2.5 years, since we know presidential pardons are for sale and they have no shame in who they pardon

No, and not necessary. Democrats should pursue normal, legal justice.

Someone issued a warrant swearing there was sufficient evidence and some judge said “sounds good”. If there wasn’t, that’s a crime, that’s violating civil rights, and considering the blather from the administration, quite likely a racial hate crime.

Someone’s name is on a warrant and some judge signed off. They can be brought to justice in 2.5 years

How is it not the defense wanting to exclude this evidence, to keep from a longer sentence as a hate crime?

Yeah I can see that but realistically the goal is more likely to terrorize brown skinned people from voting.

Thats even their excuse, that they’re preventing undocumented immigrants from voting. Too bad that’s almost non-existent plus you can’t tell by the color of peoples skin

Please no. LLMs can usually string together coherent sentences and have a much tighter grasp of reality

I was going to smugly reply “not in Massachusetts”, but “….EVEN IN MASSACHUSETTS?”

Let’s do it! Seems like another win for the environment from Captain “taco” Planet, speeding up adoption of EVs

Whatever happened to “we’re broke, we can’t afford handouts”? We begrudge a few Pennie’s to keep kids from starving, but this handout is ok?

Lowercase instead of capitalized isn’t obvious enough I guess

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Well, do you have blue hair?

I’m having trouble translating how big your cabinet is …… given the list of equipment similar to yours (nas, switch, router, ports), how many mini-pc’s fit?

But this is the closest thing to make sense. He doesn’t say meanest, but toughest. There are a lot of desperate people falling out of the modern world, seeing no way out.

Most of us would look to stop the class war, increase jobs and education, strengthen safety nets, etc

They correctly see these things as unwieldy so think a “tough guy” is the only chance. That makes some sense. Somehow he made them believe he was a tough guy rather than just a grifter. Somehow he made them believe he would act in other than personal self-interest. Most importantly he was able to stoke their outrage and identify subgroups to hate, while somehow getting them to ignore reality, history, facts

It still doesn’t make sense that Trump won. By all logic it should not have been close. However the best explanation is he successfully played outrage media to convince gullible, low information and racists that he was what he wanted, and somehow turned it into a personality cult. The bombast and bs was strong with that one

But Vance’s main qualification is lack of shame. That doesn’t turn into a personality cult. Neither does submissive loyalty to the cult leader. Neither has there been any public sign of him rising in the cult

Wait, wtf? I didn’t know it was resurrected as a green slimy zombie. How can the equal time rule apply to comedy but not news? That’s the complete opposite of how it always worked

The MAGAt party has plenty of evil people, but very few with the personality to take over as cult leader

Why won’t that organization go away, at least out of the news.

…… my youngest just discovered there is a tpusa chapter at his university and at least one member 😠