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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 196 points 8 months ago

Yup.

You can kiss Trump ever seeing consequences for his crimes goodbye.

Welcome to the new America.

Elections have consequences and Americans are simply too stupid to maintain a democracy. So we won't have one much longer.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 52 points 8 months ago

Trump didn't see any consequences in the old America either.

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[-] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Relevant username is relevant.

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

A couple of people gave it a shot.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Not happening at all, but the only hope for accountability is a massive blue wave in 2026 followed by an immediate impeachment. Even then that's just early retirement.

[-] Lennny@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago

We are well and truly fucked.

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[-] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Yeah that's it, the third impeachment will definitely do it!

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[-] prole 10 points 8 months ago

Elections did have consequences. Going forward? Not likely

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[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 112 points 8 months ago

But why?

Make the fascist fire you.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 105 points 8 months ago
  • Because his job will now never be completed
  • Because this also slightly diminishes the possibility that he’ll be politically prosecuted by the incoming admin - though to be clear, I fully expect the Trump DoJ to make Smith’s life a living hell, and to throw him in jail if they can, and perhaps even execute him if they can figure out how to kangaroo court things to that degree. That is not a joke. This is an entirely serious comment.
[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 8 months ago

Why have a trial? SCOTUS already ruled President Trump is a king and can kill anyone so long as it's an official act.

We are entering the beginning stages of fascism people. Hold onto your butts.

[-] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

I understand the sentiment, but it will never happen. Killing "Whites", especially whites named "Jack Smith" is bad for optics. Now Letitia James and Fani Willis is another story entirely. If I was either one of them I'd be getting my ass on a plane to someplace with a non-extradition treaty post haste.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Nazis make new in-groups and out-groups all the time. Loyalty way overshadows race in this case.

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[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 78 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Actual reasons from an actual lawyer here https://youtu.be/wFEo9YJjGA0?si=-tQmsAGUSC4-H4jw

Tldr; Every other possibility ends in dismissal with prejudice. Dropping it leaves it potentially reviewable in 4 years. It's still highly unlikely anything happens.

[-] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

Came here to post this. Legal Eagle breaks it down proper here.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Thanks for this.

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[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago

The Fascists will fire people with firing squads, there's no shame in an act of self preservation when resigning from a job you can't do might keep you alive.

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

just wait till Jack see's all the new crimes trump is gonna commit, he'll be back in business in a few years

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 25 points 8 months ago

Dog.... just stop with the copium. It's embarrassing. Trump will never answer for his crimes, period. This should be abundantly clear after 8 years of flopped motions against him.

No Mueller report, no special council, no hush money case.... is ever going to stop this guy.

Give up on the idea of justice against this dude and start preparing for his dictatorship.

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[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 97 points 8 months ago

Leave it up to moderate liberals to roll over and die. Way to signal his kingship guys, fucking top notch pick, that Merrick Galand. To think this ineffective dipshit was considered for SCOTUS. Literally a direct historical correlation to the rise of Hitler through ineffective and complacent liberalism from the socialist party. I guess when you construct a DOJ that doesn't prosecute billionaires the whole thing short circuits when the tyrant is one.. who could have predicted that except every leftist and historian?

[-] SkyeStarfall 24 points 8 months ago

Guess this election really was the nail in the coffin for me regarding how people were so blind and meek regarding Hitler's rise to power. Guess anyone that's not a leftist really does just let it happen, and the left is turned ineffective due to being labeled too extreme

History will think of today's USA the same way we thought about nazi Germany: wondering why nobody just put a bullet through Hitler's skull

[-] Blum0108@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

We have a socialist party?

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 28 points 8 months ago

The Republicans sure think so lmao

[-] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"COMMUNIST MARXIST FASCISTS" are our preferred pronouns according to Shitler.

[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

No, and neither did Germany.

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 56 points 8 months ago

The Darkest Brandon move would be to remove the DOJ policy on not investigating sitting Presidents. Many of these cases were clearly not under Presidential Immunity, and some weren't even done while Trump was President. That should have consequences regardless of getting the job back or not.

[-] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 33 points 8 months ago

Darkest Brandon should have Trump [redacted]

[-] JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

He's an obvious national security threat. Biden could claim immunity since it would be an official act to protect the country.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 28 points 8 months ago

I still don't understand how this is an official DOJ policy. I always see it referenced as a DOJ memo from the 70s. Who gives a shit about memos? This is supposed to be a country of laws, not 50 year old memos.

But yeah, would love Garland to issue a new memo overturning that policy. Let Trump's first official act be to overturn an existing policy to prevent him from being investigated. Not saying he would even hesitate to do it, just saying I'd like to make it an explicit step he has to take.

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[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 22 points 8 months ago

The darkest Brandon would be [redacted]

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 44 points 8 months ago

Why? Prosecutors dogged Clinton for 8 years.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

from the article:

In late October, Trump said in a radio interview that he would immediately fire Smith as special counsel if re-elected. “It’s so easy — I would fire him within two seconds,” Trump said, adding that he got “immunity at the Supreme Court.”

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

I hope Smith made arrangements to hide all the documents related to the case. It's shame the US voters have thrown justice out of 6th floor window.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Alternatively, he could find a judge willing to publish every single one, unredacted.

[-] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

I hear that storing sensitive government documents in bathrooms is totally cool and not prosecutable. So he could just do that.

[-] ProIsh@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Thanks for all your hard work. Very meaningful.

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