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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yea, because locking a guy up who is blatantly threatening witnesses and prosecutors in criminal cases against him- despite numerous warnings not to- is so tyrannical.

If trump wasn’t a rich white ex president, he would have been arrested the night of, held until trial in prison and convicted with in a few months.

The real tyranny here is the dual justice systems in which this idiot walks free despite trying to overturn the government and walking out with some of the nations secrets is treated like kid gloves with nothing happening for over 2 and a half years.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He would have been arrested the night of, held until trial in prison and convicted with in a few months.

The really irritating part is this isn't even conjecture. Over a 1000 convictions have already been secured in connection to January 6th, many of those people were held pending trial, and for fucks sake some of them are already out of prison before Trump has even had his day in court.

Anybody who can't see the hypocrisy in that, and identify how that implicitly constitutes a two tiered justice system is either brainwashed or so full of shit their eyes are brown. Facts matter, accountability matters, democracy is not a given, and it is about god damn time we start taking each of those things seriously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here in the United States of Money, the only money that people take money is money

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what gets me. It's not like he was smart about it. It's not like he tried to hide it. No, he does stuff in broad fucking daylight, openly admits it, and still gets off scot free! Not only that, but his cult of nutjob dumbasses worships him for it, all while acting like it's tHe OtHeR SiDe commiting treason.