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.
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Whenever my rage starts to fade, I remind myself how things would have played out if it’d been Obama and his followers who’d attacked the Capitol.
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.
TBH I'm not sure how would this "obviously political witch hunt /s" affect elections. It could go the other way you'd expect.
Not with a lot of the modern GOP. They're fully convinced the "establishment" is out to get each and every one of them, personally, and Trump being accused of interfering in an election is just fuel on that fire.
Would've, could've, should've. You had several years to do it.
I think if anyone is to blame, and there are people, it's not Jack Smith. I feel he's one that actually did try and got fucked at every turn by corruption and Canon.
Ok, but he wasn't a president when he did the crime. Convict him.
Biden wasn't sworn in yet, Trump was still President.
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.
Imagine believing that this racist system of violence created by literal slave masters is about justice.
Woulda coulda shoulda
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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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.
SCOTUS says this constitutional protections are there. We should totally trust SCOTUS. It’s not like SCOTUS is unbelievably corrupt, doing the bidding of billionaires, or trying to usher in a Conservative wet dream.
Don't wait so long that the criminal can run and win again, before justice gets served then...
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.
Exactly, he served his purpose. He "prosecuted" Trump, he aired the crimes committed and purposely slow walked the investigation. Trump won a second term, Jack will now "fade into obscurity" with a book deal, tv show, and mansion.
This is nonsense. He wouldn't have been convicted and the proof for that was that he wasn't convicted.
It was never going to happen. The timing made sure of it.
A convenient excuse.
My homework would have got an A+ if I had handed it in.
let the records show that i did in fact do my homework. to prove this, i will release it publicly to world. pay no mind to the fact that the deadline has already passed.
Thank you Merrick Garland!
It would be funny now if trumps DOJ threw Garland in jail, would serve him right for not doing his job when he had the chance.
I might break my schadenfreude gland.
All this time and effort and the only person that came close to stopping this madness was Thomas Matthew Crooks.
...and would receive no punishement
Yeah okay sure. And I’d be the Archbishop of Canterbury if it weren’t for those pesky meddling kids too right