If you want to see some weapons grade (pun not intended but I will leave it) sane washing this interview on the "moderate" bulwark network had my jaw on the floor.
There is something creepy about the calm, smart and sane (sounding) people talking about US foreign policy as if it isn't outrageous.
This kind of inability to recognize a crisis, a violation of the social order, a crime is what has us in this mess.
It's every person who thought "well he won't run again no need to put him in prison that's so extreme and makes me feel bad"
Some of it really felt like "but you know, maybe the trains will run on time soon" to me.
@futurebird @thomasjwebb @aaron.rupar
Not sure I follow. Every person with any power to put him in prison was hammering home win after win to put him quite firmly into prison. It was like clockwork.
@todymotmot @thomasjwebb @aaron.rupar
I think the biggest killer were the delays. They waited to the last moment to bring the cases, the last credible moment where it might still work and then ... oh no ... it failed. Was that intentional? Just fear? I can't read minds. I do not agree that there was focus.
@futurebird @thomasjwebb @aaron.rupar
Think about what you're saying. Set aside Jack Smith and how fast his team was flying. Trump was already convicted of *34* felonies. A prison sentence was already locked in, the judge specifically delayed sentencing *for the election.*
Trump's prison sentence was literally placed in our hands. We all knew it.
But somehow the real problem is that someone was supposed to give us a good feeling about voting? But they couldn't because delays?
@todymotmot @thomasjwebb @aaron.rupar
The election was another point of failure. Though I've heard many people say things like "if he committed so many crimes why isn't he in prison?" which doesn't excuse not being informed, but it also makes a kind of sense.
Republicans in congress deserve the most blame. They could have stopped this, should have stopped this but did not. But, there are other enablers beyond them.
@futurebird @thomasjwebb @aaron.rupar
"If he committed so many crimes, why isn't he in prison?" That's the part I'm talking about.
Yes, Republicans deserve some blame. But I'm trying to highlight the emotional insanity of voters.
We were handed the keys to a progressive utopia, on a pretty plate with a bow. The power to end genocides, put Trump in prison, build rural economies, continue global peace processes that worked, dramatic steps to make the military fully woke...
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@futurebird @thomasjwebb @aaron.rupar
But we couldn't, because feelings.
It felt last minute, it felt rushed, it felt like we didn't have control, it even felt like Biden didn't really get nearly 200 billion forgiven in student loans.
We have got to figure out why the @# we were feeling all that.
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@futurebird @thomasjwebb @aaron.rupar
You said it "kind of made sense" to ask why Trump wasn't already in prison.
But Trump wasn't in prison *specifically* because the system protects voter power. It should be a shocking question, if not horrifying, coming from an adult. The system gives people, not courts, the greatest power over the POTUS.
Every media outlet should have printed headlines like, "Judge delays sentencing, voters to help decide Trump's fate."
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@todymotmot @thomasjwebb @aaron.rupar
How much do you know about Aileen Cannon the judge he appointed who did not recuse herself?
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