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That's a pretty optimistic take. You know nothing is gonna happen to these fucks. I do know I'm popping a bottle of champagne when Trump dies. I bet there will literally be spontaneous parties after he dies to celebrate it.
I've already made my peace with the idea that Trump will never see justice and will die a free man, but there are plenty of younger men in his administration who have many years ahead of them, and the crimes they've committed and will commit have consequences that reach far beyond 2028, whether or not they willingly leave office at that time. Sooner or later, someone answers for this horseshit, and I and many others are and will be harassing our representatives to make sure that happens -- me, personally, I'd really like to see Russell Vought and Stephen Miller spend their final years in a cell.
I just have to keep telling myself that in mid-1939, before the war but well after much repression, probably nobody in Germany thought the Nazis would ever be punished for what they were doing to Jewish people.
I also have a nice bottle of wine saved for Trump's death, but I was very tempted to open it if we got McConnell and Graham in the same week. Alas, it was not to be.
Let me preface this with the caveat that I desperately want the ghouls to be lined up and shot. That's not hyperbolic I truly believe they deserve it.
Having said that, I'm just thinking about American history in general. Plenty of people, including former presidents, who have done unconscionable things to others and were never punished or straight up celebrated.
The president that perpetrated the Trail of Tears, a big defining moment of our genocide against the Native Americans who were here before whitey showed up, is literally on our $20 bill. The dude that ignored the Supreme Court order and proceeded to round up tens of thousands of humans that died due to his actions is memorialized on our currency.
I want a currency redesign for our country that doesn't celebrate any presidents at all, let's put other cooler stuff on it than dead white guys. (Yes I know technically that's not all our currency)
It's not surprising Trump hung Jackson's portrait up in the oval office. He really loves that asshole.
This is just one of the many times I've said something and really want to be wrong. Sadly, it seems that most of the time I want to be wrong I'm right even if my prediction is suckville.