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[–] [email protected] 155 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not only is he alive, he is not even in prison and is looking to run again...

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

The mind truly boggles

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also find it odd that his best chance of going to prison isn't even related to the fact he tried to stage a coup.
Any other person, it would've been treason and locked up for life (if not a death sentence) for even trying - no question needed.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, there's also a weirdly huge number of people in places of power that're on his side, and there's nothing to be done about it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is, but we don't have the stomach for it. France did it once.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We could have the stomach for it, but we'd have to get through a shitload of rednecks, good ol' boys, and the military & police.

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

That's funny because that's also what you will say the next time he will be in power and won't leave. Y'all need to revolt before you pikachu face into a dictature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hasn't France had like 5 revolutions lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention that a lot of federal judges are people he literally put in power

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Sounds like quite the flaw in the system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's typically how a coup takes place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Presumably because he's somewhere in the bush with his so called "revolutionary rebel army".

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

Somewhere in the George W Bush?

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

Among the bushes.

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

Dan quale is running again ?

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

Stacy Abraham running again ?

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because he’s right wing? This isn’t that complicated. People only get killed for actually threatening the gravy train. If this were another country the US would have backed the coup. Im still not convinced this will end with anything more serious than Trump getting a vacation in rich people jail.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

Trump getting a vacation in rich people jail.

You've got pretty high hopes for the land of the greed.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think he will never set foot in jail, the u.s government won't allow it. He'll be pardoned, or at the very best he'll be convicted but will spend the rest of his life appealing, until he dies by big Mac overdose

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The president can't pardon state level charges

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That state's future governor can.

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

Not in Georgia.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If the president could pardon state level crimes, I could see Joe Biden pardoning Donald Trump in order to "let the nation heal"

And Trump would thank him by calling him "No Go Joe" and demanding that second amendment people do something about him.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Which is exactly why I know the whole "Clintons murdering people" is a conspiracy.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Conservatives know this is a lie. They only make such accusations as it would suit them to be true, in order to justify what they plan to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What train of logic led from "Trump is still alive" to "the Clintons must be murdering people"?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe what they mean is "If the Clintons really are having people killed then what the fuck is Trumpleton doing still walking around?" And seriously, if anything righties cook up in their fear-addled minds was remotely true there'd be so many more dead people in both the citizenry and amongst politicians.

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

They said that they know it's a conspiracy, which means they believe that it's happening.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I think the word 'conspiracy' here is being conflated to mean 'ridiculous, and false, conspiracy theory'. Conspiracies happen, but the word itself has the association with those who theorize and speculate on the absurd. I can say I don't know for sure what the original commenter meant, but I think it is implied they meant they 'know the Clinton's murdering people isn't true'.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think they mean that if the Clintons were actually murderers, trump wouldn’t be alive post-coup attempt.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I think they mean that if it were actually true and Republicans could prove it the Clintons would be dead? Not sure it's a little hard to parse.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

That isnt good reasoning. It is a big club and you're not in it, Clinton and Trump knew each other.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately America is way too concerned with decorum in order to actually follow the rule of law. There is this idea that if we just simply pretend that everything is fine and that are enemies simply have different ideas instead of actively Desiring our debts, that everything will work itself out in the end.

If we had a functioning government that actually gave a shit about criminal justice and stamping out corruption, they would have slapped the cuffs on Donald Trump on January 6th, and his public hanging would have been a ratings extravaganza.

I am not advocating for violence against Donald trump, I merely stating that our constitution says that if a president refuses to give up power or behaves in a treasonous manner, hanging is how you deal with that.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tell me you're a white, racist bigot without telling me you're a white, racist bigot. Edit: Oh yes downvote me that will change the fact that you're a white, racist bigot.