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
This is what I'm talking about.
If @peachfront said, "I'm tired of this and I'm afraid things are going to get worse, even if we voted for Harris" then I'd get it. And we could discuss.
But I'm supposed to believe there was some secret signal from the judge that meant something different than all the political theory and discussion around the point, and submission was required by voters and some plot was surely going to succeed and I'm not supposed to question it, just agree?
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