A federal judge reportedly rebuked former President Trump’s election fraud falsehoods while delivering the verdict in the trial of a Jan. 6 insurrectionist who claimed he was following “presidential orders” when storming the Capitol and endangering lawmakers’ lives.
Judge Walton deserves to have a candy bar named after him.
“I think our democracy is in trouble because, unfortunately, we have charlatans like our former president who doesn’t, in my view, really care about democracy but only about power,” Walton said
Your view is shared by all true Americans, Judge.
" Judge Rips Trump In Jan. 6 Trial: ‘Democracy Is In Trouble’ Because Of ‘Charlatans’ Like Trump"
Sad. Not even this judge gets it. Democracy is not in trouble. It is gone. The project is no longer saving it, but re-establishing it.
Walton: « Goodnight, Democracy »
Well, that and the spittle-flecked, Kremlin-loving racist vidiots who support them.
(I’m so old, I can remember when Floyd R. Turbo was fictional!)
Based on the results so far, there is little doubt in the minds of most judges tho have heard cases about Jan. 6 that it was an “insurrection” rather than a peaceful political protest. Any little victory for rationality helps.
And also the enablers! Hoo boy, don’t forget the enablers. Such enablers!
I keep hearing voices from my youth saying, “So if a large orange man told you to jump off a cliff, you’d do it?” Smh
Surely the number of JanSix insurrectionists claiming that they were “ordered” by that former guy (the LOSER) ought to be further evidence that he had some influence? Acted to incite? Fomented insurrection?
We can’t just kick back and say “IOKIYAAR!” and let this one pass. At some point, “fashionable cynicism” becomes cowardly indolence.
With the number of late breaking stories on the front page, I am guessing this is all we get until Monday or Tuesday.
We should remember that demagogues and wannabe autocrats like Trump aren’t deliberately trying to undermine and destroy democracy because they hate it and think it’s a bad system of government. That would be to ascribe to them more sophistication than they generally possess. No, they don’t care what system of government is in place, so long as they get to run it and run it as they see fit, and if democracy stands in that path, that’s when they try to destroy it. Put another way, they’re not so much anti-democracy as they’re pro-themselves being autocrats, and destroying democracy is part of their plan for making that happen. So we’re not really dealing with an ideological crisis where there’s this powerful right wing ideology-based movement to replace democracy with autocracy. Rather, we’re dealing with wannabe autocrats doing whatever they can to obtain maximal power for themselves. Not the same thing and in a way better than the other thing.
Enablers are those who will do nothing.
There will be no conquering nation invading and ridding us of the fascists. We know who the opposition is and they won’t help us either.
That leaves us.
Well, like Candidate Obama once said “We are the people we have been waiting for.”
"Besides being ordered by the President to go to the Capitol, I don’t know what I was thinking,” Thompson told the jury, according to CNN. “I was caught up in the moment.”
Balderdash, sir. Stuff and nonsense.
Trump and the core of the GOP realize they are unlikely to suffer punishment if they commit criminal acts that subvert democratic principles.
Sometimes on the weekends, this place seems a bit like a school playground … all the bats and balls and jump-ropes and miscellaneous items are put away … but some of the kids still gather to make their own fun with the stuff that is left out / can’t be put away.
Yep. Just ask @drtv.
“There’s always one kid …”
Well we’ll see about that. They’re playing a rigged slot machine and hope no one notices and fixes it.
Mobsters … primitive …thuggish mobsters