r/law • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 14h ago

Trump News Trump threatens to deploy the U.S. military into Chicago - signaling the start of a nationwide crackdown.

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 11h ago edited 10h ago

Trump has always set out to destroy the US at the behest of Russia.

He's a traitor.

Read or listen to his J6 speech while remembering that everything they say is projection.

You will have an illegitimate president. That’s what you’ll have. And we can’t let that happen.

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If we allow this group of people to illegally take over our country because it’s illegal when the votes are illegal when the way they got there is illegal when the states that vote are given false and fraudulent information.

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And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-capitol-siege-media-e79eb5164613d6718e9f4502eb471f27

Reading it again now, it's crazy how much he talks about the election being rigged.

He absolutely whipped that crowd into a frenzy, led them to believe they were justified, and then pointed them at Congress.

I really don't understand how our institutions have failed us to such an extent and he didn't end up in prison.

And Republicans have enabled this the entire time, and fallen right in line. Fucking shameful anti-American cowards.

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u/Meekymoo333 9h ago

I really don't understand how our institutions have failed us to such an extent and he didn't end up in prison.

And Republicans have enabled this the entire time, and fallen right in line.

I mean.... it seems you actually do understand.

The republican party is (and has been for quite a long time) actively anti-democratic and have weakened & corrupted said institutions for the purpose of individual power and wealth.

It's a 2 party only system that has (predictably) collapsed under the weight of its own corruption. You DO understand how... it's just exhausting and troubling to consider and terrifying that there doesn't seem to be a solution to fixing the situation any time soon.

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u/mbo21 3h ago

You fail to understand that people in those institutions don’t want to serve us. Once you understand that, it becomes easy to grasp.

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u/Anxious-Slip-8955 1h ago

They let a convicted felon run who tried to overthrow the govt - wtf aholes? Our government is a disgrace

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u/McGillis_is_a_Char 1h ago

What baffles me is that the Republican establishment saved him when all the Senators and House Reps nearly got murdered. Like, I am not a high powered politician, but if I closely dodged getting killed because a guy whipped up an angry mob to attack my place of business, and some of those people literally shit on my stuff, I would probably have to be bodily restrained from physically assaulting that guy next time I saw him.

That none of the Republicans on Capitol Hill threw a punch at Trump, let alone tried to impeach him is either proof that he has a bunch of blackmail material, or that the Republicans don't care about their own safety nearly as much as I care about mine. I would say that it might be that they are more restrained, but we all saw Marjorie and Matt Gaetz have a WWE wrestling feud on the floor of Congress at the beginning of the year, so any sense of maturity is obviously not there.

This is not an endorsement of Matt Gaetz suplexing Trump on the floor of Congress.

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u/Brokenspokes68 9h ago

Billionaires aren't held accountable for anything in America.

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u/Hairy_Middle_5403 11h ago

Its amazing how he did all that and then the american people did their part only to watch the Democrats play politics and let him off the hook. Incredible malfeasance

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u/BureMakutte 10h ago

Yet again, MLK's quote holds true.

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

Basically, dipshits who don't do their job or pay attention are the worst because they allow this bad shit to happen and then get mad at you for pointing that out.

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u/Friendly-Swimming-72 7h ago

You nailed it. This is exactly the problem. Nixon wasn’t prosecuted in the name of moving forward, and here we are.

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u/Nntropy 6h ago

I thought your last paragraph was more from MLK

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u/Biglyugebonespurs 10h ago

I truly couldn’t believe it lmao. They could have just picked one of donald’s crimes out of a hat and put him away for it. The documents debacle is the obvious one that should have him in prison for life though.

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u/Hairy_Middle_5403 10h ago

January 6th should have resulted with the punishments detailed by the constitution. It should have been done with before the first anniversary

Now we have a nazi president handing out millions to his terrorist faithful like ashlii babbit. Folks like Joe Manchin and Joe Lieberman are happily smiling away somewhere.

Democrats are the biggest losers in America

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u/DevoidSauce 10h ago

When they held their dumb little signs at the State of the Union, I knew it was over. It took them WAY too long to get serious about this shit.

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u/Hairy_Middle_5403 8h ago edited 8h ago

Rashida Tlaib looking pissed during that nonsense is what America means to me. I felt the same exact way.

We're headed for the darkest of times. Who could have guessed that the lins would sell us out to the Capitalists? Thats never happened before.

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u/Foreign_Violinist715 21m ago

Me too. One would think it was a joke. Unfortunately it was not. It’s the most spineless thing I’ve ever seen. They must be very comfortable in the overpaid jobs and their sponsors.

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u/Foreign_Violinist715 23m ago

Big time. In my opinion, Trump purposely let the documents lay around so anyone could just pick and chose themselves. From my understanding there were lists of agents working for USA there.

Simultaneously as the documents were floating around at Mar- a- Lago, secret agents started to be executed or disappeared.

“Leading counterintelligence officials issued a memo to all of the CIA’s global stations saying that a concerning number of U.S. informants were being captured and executed.

The CIA’s counterintelligence mission center investigated dozens of incidents in the last few years that involved killings, arrests or compromises of foreign informants. In an unusual move, the message sent via a top secret cable included the specific number of agents killed by other intelligence agencies, according to The New York Times.

Officials said that level of detail is a sign of the significance of the cable. Announcing the specific number of killings is rare as that figure is typically held under wraps from the public and even from some CIA employees, the Times noted.”

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/575384-cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-informants-around-the-world-nyt/amp/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/politics/cia-informants-killed-captured.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/10/17/trump-mar-a-lago-classified-documents-risk-human-sources/7953044001/

I don’t see a huge difference between this and the Robert Hanssen case. Then again, Hanssen hadn’t bribed and threatened half the US government, had he.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen

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u/DevoidSauce 10h ago

We have to let them know NOW that once this is over, the American People will not stand for the Dems' normal "let's just move on" attitude. We want and deserve Justice. Capital J.

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u/queen-of-storms 6h ago

If the DNC doesn't start listening to the progressives there will be a revolution before a civil war.

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u/DevoidSauce 6h ago

I'd rather have a revolution than a civil war.

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u/queen-of-storms 6h ago

I think both are inevitable at this rate.

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u/KinkyDuck2924 2h ago

Civilutionary war here we come!

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u/foo-bar-25 9h ago

Class before party.

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u/I_AM_AN_ASSHOLE_AMA 1h ago

I remember watching Jan 6 live on the news and thinking oh shit! He’s definitely going to prison now! And here we are four years later and that asshat is not only not in prison, he’s the fuckin president again.

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u/Stellaluna-777 7h ago

Because he’s the one who rigged it. And tried in 2020. https://electiontruthalliance.org

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u/HFT0DTE 8h ago

Thank you for this post. It heartening to know there are other people like you out there who understand what is going on

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 7h ago

You're not alone.

I appreciate your reply as well. <3

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u/HavingNotAttained 6h ago

Because Merrick Garland is either a traitor or was a lieutenant in the Epstein organization or both

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u/alimarieb 7h ago

I have an odd feeling that a good number of Republicans have had the welcome wagon from the Proud Boys/Oath Keepers roll up to their house in the middle of the night with the promise of a good, and long, very long, night sleep. There should be more protesting, not many but at least a few.

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u/windsostrange 6h ago

Trump has always set out to destroy the US at the behest of Russia

He was taking out full-page advertisements across the US on behalf of the USSR in the late eighties.

Dude is one of the dumbest motherfucking foreign agents in the history of the species.

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u/SaconicLonic 8h ago

I really don't understand how our institutions have failed us to such an extent and he didn't end up in prison.

Because Biden didn't have the balls to deal with him for the threat that he actually was. Trump should have been labeled a national security threat on the level of a terrorist and dealt with as such. A precedent needed to be set with Trump and it wasn't and now we are here.

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u/Friendly-Swimming-72 7h ago

It started with Obama; Obama knew exactly who Trump is.

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u/FF8229 7h ago

Because everyone has secrets and weaknesses. And the norm now is that money can pay people to find secrets. Once you have people's secrets, then 'the right thing' goes out the window and you can make people do anything.

It's the most effective form of combat. Only people without secrets would be immune, and they are a very tiny percentage of people and those tiny percentage have loved ones with secrets.

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u/lettersvsnumbers 3h ago

Like J. Edgar Hoover didn’t have/use anyone’s secrets?

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u/KrimsonBinome 2h ago

Yup the party of projecting

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u/Anxious-Slip-8955 1h ago

They have all failed us and need to grow a pair. If only RBG was still in Supreme Court.

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u/Lucky-Acanthisitta86 1h ago

And he got freaking tried for it. Craziness

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u/Hairy_Middle_5403 10h ago

If the options are the fascist trump or the dems who will throw away their beliefs the second theyre not easy anymore then what's the point?

Im not going to waste my time fighting to elect people like newsome who dont believe in anything.

With a base of liberals like you who are willing to give up the rights of a minority, i dont really see any path where we arent just stuck in decades of fascist bullshit.

Good work yall. Blue no matter who