• Hegar@fedia.io
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    Those are literally the people who brought us trump.

    Bush’s open illegality and rampant theft begun the institutional decline that his friends in the trump regime sped up. Obama needed to punish the wrongdoing but deliberately chose not to with his “looking forward not backward” policy, cowardly shying away from our last chance to avoid descending into authoritarianism. Clinton’s glaring weaknesses as candidate, her husband’s involvement with the trump-epstein ring and the corrupt insistance of the DNC to run a business-as-usual servant of the rich against a much more shameless servant of the rich neutralized many of the angles of attack that could’ve put 2016 out of trump’s reach. Biden had already seen the first act of authoritarianism in the US, and just sat there, refusing to do anything to prevent it happening again.

    These are the people who had the most power to prevent authoritarianism and the closer it got, the less they did about it.

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        Before being sworn in Republicans accused Biden that he will politicize DOJ and go after events.

        He did everything to prevent that appearance even by choosing a conservative judge for that position.

        Yeah it was a bad idea, as Republicans continued that narrative.

        Though with this blaming I rarely see mentioned SCOTUS, which actually was the biggest reason why it didn’t go anywhere. They kept throwing him lifeline after lifeline, when at one point there was nothing that could save him, they pulled absolute immunity off their ass, because sure as hell it isn’t in the Constitution.

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        How? Trump was charged with two major crimes under Biden’s DOJ.

        Also unless you’re a fascist like Trump you don’t sick your appointment to the US Attorney General position and DOJ on anyone, let alone a political opponent. Garland and the Smith indeed did investigate and ultimately charge Trump – but independently of some sort of Biden directive.

        They couldn’t bring it to trial because Trump had already previously stacked the courts, who blocked Smith at every turn.

        Edit: typo.

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            It’s not; it just has to fall within the purview of the rule of law and also not jeopardize the trial by tainting the jury or getting the case thrown out.

            It’s still all moot because they in fact did charge Trump; the judges were just already stacked.

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    God this is quite possibly the stupidest lib take I have seen in a long time. What the fuck are you saying?

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    What the fuck is this post? Is the DNC paying you?

    And a lot of us hated Trump in the 90s.

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    You know Trump is fucking awful when this fascist-adjacent simpleton Dubya is seen as the good guy.

    Trump only exists as a president because of Dubya.
    Fuck Dubya with a stiff wire brush…

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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    Give all these monsters a decade and a half, and I guarantee you the ones who are still alive will be partying it up with Trump after spending a decade sanewashing him because they all want to do, and have done, just as monstrous things as Trump.