Well great job dragging your asses and never getting this out in time to save the USA. Now we get at least 4 more years of terror, hopefully we're all still here after.
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Yeah, no shit. Words can't describe how furious I am about Jan. 6 and the utter lack of accountability for the powerful people responsible for it. Including the GOP bootlickers in power at the time and still to this day.
This memo that the DOJ prepared one time decades ago that asserts an opinion that sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted, has somehow brought us to this.
I know it's all too late to do anything remotely constructive, but if a democratically-minded AG at any time under Obama or Biden had thought, "Gee, that doesn't seem right. It's crazy to think anyone is above the law and this gives an overwhelming incentive to be evil. Let's trash and redo that memo," it's possible Trump would not have had the incentive to run again, or that the DOJ wouldn't have taken so much time to prosecute.
I just think sometimes about how many infinitesimal probabilities had to align - how dedicated and consistently wrong so many actors had to be at so many crucial decision points - to create this uniquely, thoroughly awful result.
Biden should have stolen something minor, like, for example, an ice cream sandwich, and the Republicans would have flopped over and ratified the bill.
They didn't align by chance. Republicans have been pushing and shoving since Nixon to get as many lined up as they can.
I wish there was some sort of organization that would push back against them, maybe like some kind of political party that emphasizes a democratic approach to politics
I always thought that memo meant something entirely different. It's not that sitting Presidents have some sort of immunity, but rather a recognition that there can never be an impartial investigation of the person who is in charge of the investigators.
Let's say that memo wasn't there, and the President was accused of some sort of crime -- but upon investigating, the DoJ decided not to press charges. Could we really ever be sure he was innocent? Woudnt the conspiracy theory always exist that the President quashed it? The proper thing to do would be to either wait until he is out of office, or appoint someone with some statutory independence, who is able to make decisions without interference. I always thought that memo was simply an attempt to preserve the integrity of the DoJ by keeping it out of an obvious conflict of interest.
Of course, the Supreme Court weighed in with their totally bonkers interpretation of it, giving the President free reign to do whatever the hell he wants. Their opinion matters more than mine, unfortunately.
appoint someone with some statutory independence, who is able to make decisions without interference
That's what they did. Twice. Robert Muller and Jack Smith performed independent investigations and recommended criminal prosecution.
But then the rest of government killed it.
Look at them trying to convince us there's rule of law. Don't worry guys, the system that isn't completely corrupt to its core WOULD have worked. Source: Trust me bro.
Ok, but he wasn't a president when he did the crime. Convict him.
Imagine believing that this racist system of violence created by literal slave masters is about justice.
Jack Smith better be getting him and his family the fuck out of the U.S. and to a country without an extradition treaty because their lives are worth nothing in America now.
Unfortunately, that doesn't leave him with a lot of great options.
I'm not saying it isn't correct, but the US having an extradition treaty with Cuba is a bit suspicious.
You can live pretty well in China. They call themselves expats when they live there.
With what he knows? They would interrogate the fuck out of him and keep him under constant surveillance.
Nah they'd hire him.
Y'all thinking anything is going to happen to Jack are going to be surprised when nothing happens to him and he writes his book and gets his TV show and just coasts into retirement in a gated community.
"It's a big club and you ain't in it." but Jack and Don both are.
Yeah, Trump would have to get pretty bored to go after Jack Smith... maybe -MAYBE- a Gaetz DOJ would have gone after him like a cat offering a dead mouse at Trump's front door, but I don't really see Trump world caring about this any longer. All the FNC talking heads have stopped, well, talking about Jack Smith.
Aw shucks, that’s a bummer. Good try though, fellas! You gave it your all and I’m sure you’ll gettem next time!
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Thank you Merrick Garland!
Don't wait so long that the criminal can run and win again, before justice gets served then...
What is the constitutional protection for sitting presidents? You mean that part in the constitution which says presidents are basically kings and they are above the law and they can do whatever they want? Oh yeah, that part. That part that totally exists and totally says that.
All this time and effort and the only person that came close to stopping this madness was Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Yeah okay sure. And I’d be the Archbishop of Canterbury if it weren’t for those pesky meddling kids too right
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