But that will teach them that free stuff is good which will make them communists who love big government!!1! I want children to hunt for their own food like in the good old days. Didn’t catch anything? Too bad little Timmy, guess you won’t eat tonight because we don’t got no welfare state!
Also I believe in protecting the children and am pro-life.
This is one of the extremely rare instances where I can almost sympathize with the man. Making inflammatory statements is his whole shtick. It’s all he knows. To him, being told not to make inflammatory statements is like being told not to talk at all.
(Personally, I’d be perfectly happy if I never heard from him again, but that’s beside the point.)
Stories about police abusing their authority and breaking the law have become like stories about mass shootings. They happen constantly, everyone wrings their hands, but no one is willing to actually do anything about the problem.
It’s what the poorly titled “Defund the Police” movement was/is about. The police serve no other purpose than to harass people and enforce the will of rich and politicians. So they need to be vastly scaled back.
Unfortunately, we elected a president who pledged to raise their funding. They’re not only corrupt, violent, and out of control, they’re getting rewarded for it.
Imagine being a cop raiding the home of a 98 year old woman as she sits there crying and thinking, “I’m doing a good job. This is the right thing to do.” Then after she dies later that day from the shock of what you just did, you think to yourself, “well, that’s what she gets for being a liberal.”
Imagine being a cop raiding the home of a 98 year old woman as she sits there crying and thinking, “I’m doing a good job. This is the right thing to do.”
He may be doing this intentionally. He and his team may be looking for a judicial reaction in order to use it as grounds to move the trial to another location citing unfair bias.
Speeding up the trial would be a good move. The judge still needs to be careful so that she doesn't give grounds for appeal. I vote for huge fines.
If anyone is aware of a legal defense fund specifically for this, please share. Dollars and cents will serve the journalists better than thoughts and prayers.
The court absolutely needs to drag Trump back down to Earth and demonstrate that no one is above the law. At the same time, Judges are supposed to be impartial and part of Judge Chutkan’s statement, “It’s a blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day” could be seen as prejudicial. Whether or not she acts in an unbiased way is an entirely separate issue. The appearance of bias will open the door to an appeal of any verdict against Trump.
Ya, Trump belongs in prison; but, it’s going to need to be done in the most scrupulous way possible to keep him from wiggling out of accountability.
Because, by pushing the ideal we do make progress. It’s easy to look at our current situation and bemoan the fact that we aren’t there yet, and we still have progr ess to make. But, the truly false statement is “we make no progress towards making it true”. Pick up a history book and spend some time critically reading. What happens today is a far cry from even 50 years ago,. Is it perfect? Not even close. But it is better. Throwing up our hands in defeat, because we aren’t there yet, serves only to allow things to stagnate. We are pushing forward, but yes, progress is painfully slow. It always has been, and probably always will be. But, that doesn’t mean we should stop pushing.
All ideals are false. The entire point of ideals is to strive to change the world to meet them.
And whether those efforts see fruition this year, this decade, or even in your lifetime, is beside the point. Ideals are a multigenerational project, with all the ups and downs that implies.
Garland said “we will follow up on everyone regardless of who they are”. We know now for a fact he was lying.
Every judge says they’re going to treat him like any other defendant. We are in the process of learning that they are lying.
I’m not saying Chutkan is going to obviously spike the case like Cannon or Judge Rittenhouse, I think she’s going to try to run a decent trial if it gets to that point.
But pre-trial punishment? Not a snowflake’s chance in hell. These judges all still want to be invited to cocktail parties and given country club memberships. The elite is loyal to the elite.
Part of the problem is that he wants badly for them to find him in contempt - to his followers it will be absolute proof that it’s a witch hunt. I can already read the headlines about how they locked him up to silence him and BS like that.
I’m not necessarily saying that means they still shouldnt do it, but there are more reasons than corruption to tread softly here
why would the opinion of his followers even matter tho? this is a court case, not an election. even if it were an election, they’d vote for him regardless.
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