Originally published at: Trump’s Retribution Cases Are Fundamentally Weak
How Low Can They Go? Three major developments in Donald Trump’s retribution campaign yesterday that laid bare more than ever before — as hard as that may be to believe — the depths to which the Justice Department will go under acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to do the president’s bidding. And yet … amid…
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Big if true.
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In DC at least, prosecutors are REQUIRED to provide exculpatory evidence (if it exists) to the grand jury.
The SPLC’s attorneys went so far as to send an April 17 letter to federal prosecutors imploring them to inform the grand jury of six categories of exculpatory evidence. Prosecutors did not respond to the letter. The indictment was issued on April 21.
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Authoritarians employ authoritarian tactics. Fascists employ fascist tactics. Instilling fear is their game.
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How far will Toddler Blanche go? We’ll find out….
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It’s hard to call it Nazism or Fascism…this double-speak of traitors screaming that regular, innocent politicians are actually the traitors and NatSec threats. It has happened in every kind of monarchy, dictatorship, communist, and authoritarian environment. But it should be so obvious to people of this era…we have all seen countless retellings of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, Castro, and famous monarchs where vile traitors resort to this in cartoonish and laughable ways.
I have lost hope, though, that anything more than the core of Dem voters in this country are even paying attention, let alone able to sift through this garbage.
Our NatSec has been dead and half-buried behind the pole barn these last 11 years. Whatever is now masquerading as NatSec needs to be put down and something new created, ASAP.
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Charles also made a boffo French and Indian Wars joke. It slayed them at the Georgetown History Department.
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War of 1812? not French and Indian Wars?
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Chump doesn’t even know there was an 1814. There were previous centuries…who knew?
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Senescent Pique? I’ve found my new band name. It really is shameful, how the “sanewashing” continues. He’s out of his mind! I am not a psychiatrist, nor have I examined him, I just watch what he says on national TV. He’s crazy as a bedbug. 86 47.
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Trump violates protocol (of course). Maybe he didn’t recognize some of “his” cabinet members.
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I’ve been reading about and seeing examples of language from the Manosphere showing up in Official statements from the administration particularly the DoW. It’s not surprising for a number of reasons:
- The {Current Occupant} campaign made a concerted effort to recruit this voting block, and rewarded the influencers from it with positions with the administration.
- Department of Daydrinking secretary’s church sounds like an attempt to put a religious gloss the Manosphere’s grievances.
- This administration is drawn to shiny if you’re already beholden to the Manosphere you probably want to adopt their language to keep them engaged. Using their language is an easy adaptation.
On the other hand it’s pretty cartoonish language. Should we return the favor, and use the Manosphere’s linguistic tics as a means of mockery? For example:
- Thuggery-maxxing - {Current Occupant} grievance driven prosecutions, pretty much all ICE actions.
- Dottage-maxxing - Disconnected ramblings about “stuff”.
- Idiocy-maxxing - The Iran war as but one example.
I welcome contributions.
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I payed $4.60 per gallon the other day for regular, most ever. Damn that Biden economy!
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district.
Thread.
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Remember, the study of History is one of those "Liberal Arts’ we don’t need to teach.
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Joyce Vance adds another voice to the “they may have a problem prosecuting the shooter” as a shooter.
That whole “friendly fire” issue.
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Absolutely War of 1812, wherein the British in 1814 burned down the White House.
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