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From researcher and journalist Olga Lautman (see this for her bio: https://olgalautman.com/about/ ), a 3-tweet thread starting here, full text below:
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The people protecting our country get punished, fired, harassed, and called traitors
Trump's criminals get to serve their time out home or have his justice dept intervene to drop cases. Meanwhile Floyd didn't even have the luxury of seeing a court. Nope he was killed while these criminals are walking free after working w a foreign enemy to attack America
A second term of Trump will go after opposition, journalists and silence them by all means. Vote and make sure everyone you know votes. We need to clean house on every level of the government. Federal, state, local
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)2naSalit
(86,074 posts)Ahpook
(2,747 posts)Failed state!
kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)cstanleytech
(26,087 posts)criminal charges and or that have been convicted of them via a new Amendment.
Perhaps redo it so that the President can recommend someone to have their sentence commuted or a pardon granted but the Senate has to approve it with 2/3 of the vote.
KS Toronado
(16,918 posts)JI7
(89,185 posts)KS Toronado
(16,918 posts)This country has gone to HELL in one cycle of fake president.
We can & need to do better.
ancianita
(35,816 posts)betsuni
(25,142 posts)Dan
(3,524 posts)The GOP put party before Nation.
The GOP has failed us, as a Nation, 100%.
highplainsdem
(48,732 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,831 posts)What worried me then and now is voting hasn't counted the way it should. They keep bending and breaking the system to suit the results they want.
BootinUp
(46,928 posts)mdbl
(4,972 posts)When someone is abusing our democracy as seriously as Trump and Barr, it's time to Impeach. Don't wait for an election - you may never get one.
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)We're losing our Republic, if we wait for elections to save us.