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comment by OftenBen

There have been no serious consequences for the majority of the domestic terrorists who attacked our Capitol on January 6th.

There will be no consequences for trump. His golf schedule continues unabated.





mk  ·  905 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Actually, I think Georgia has a pretty solid case against him, which is what it takes.

am_Unition  ·  905 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I still almost spittake every time I think of the recording of Trump going "I need you to find... 11,780 votes... ". It's one of the only moments he says something so specific that plausible deniability on his behalf is in serious jeopardy.

IMHO, the biggest hurdle the prosecution will face is proving that Trump doesn't truly believe that the election was stolen. That'll probably be the crux of his legal defense, and it's already basically been floated in some of the "exposé" books. There's enough conflicting content in those stupid books to necessitate closed door, under oath testimony from like 100 people so that they can't keep coordinating their lies.

And no one has yet even remotely explained wtf happened with Trump and the DoD leading up to and on Jan. 6. That's gonna be interesting.

OftenBen  ·  905 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where such things happen.

kleinbl00  ·  905 days ago  ·  link  ·  
OftenBen  ·  905 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If I bothered to print every article about how "if trump faces consequences, could be bigly!!!" I could build my own trump tower.

Its all hot air. We do not hold oligarchs responsible for their actions.

kleinbl00  ·  905 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Naaah dawg I know the game. You go "everything is terrible the world is ending democrats are to blame and I hold you all personally responsible for not adopting a position of 100% pure nihilism" and I go "actually things aren't quite as bad as you think" and you go "things are always worse than you think and your evidence that it isn't is actually evidence that it is my hair is a bird worms are delicious yummy yummy" and depending on my level of giveafuckitude I'll either rub your nose in it or not.

I just do it because I know the only way you know you're alive is if someone responds to your trolling and I'd rather it be someone who cares about you than someone who doesn't.

OftenBen  ·  905 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is definitely going to be the last straw.

Sure it will. I wait with bated breath.