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 @futurebird @thomasjwebb @aaron.rupar
the judge let it be known that he didn't think 34 felonies was a good enough reason to stop a man campaigning for the highest office in the land, if not the world
the trouble is... reality is real
the honest person can't defeat the overwhelming advantage enjoyed by the person allowed to cheat, that's why you don't allow cheaters to enter any game
the game was rigged & the election lost in that moment
I do *not* follow you.
It sounds like you think the judge was signaling election fraud was going to occur?
And you're saying everyone felt they needed to give up and submit? I don't understand why?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, and walk me through it.
I thought people would be like, "oh no, a convicted criminal! Let's vote against him!"
And, if voters thought the judge was corrupt, wouldn't they want to vote out Republicans even more?
reading comprehension-- there was no secret signal from the judge, he openly stood down from doing his job
a man is convicted of multiple felonies, a judge can then hold that person for sentencing in serious situations
but once the judge decides it's cool for the convict to continue to run for public office, it's game over
you can't win in a game when you are playing against a cheat who has license to pull every dirty trick & tell every lie
then what you think doesn't make any sense> how does "let the voters decide" work in the case where the judge & an entire political party has already decided that it's OK for a liar convicted of fraud to run?
the voters can't make decisions based on facts when they are being fed lies by an experienced fraud w/ a license to lie
are they supposed to know by magic that fraud is a serious crime when the judge doesn't think it's serious enough to stop him running for high office?
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