Garry Kasparov spot on about Gaetz and the rest of the GOP criminal cabal

[EleanorR]

Last edited Wed Mar 31, 2021, 04:54 PM - Edit history (1)

It's still astounding to me that republicans attempted to overturn a lawful election, their supporters storming the capital, and then they simply went back to work in congress without consequence.

Link to tweet

[spanone]

1. Can only assume that the sex trafficking charge is worse than 25 million extortion charge

[BlueNProud]

2. How many of them really face any consequences?

[DENVERPOPS]

8. the truth is

that probably none of them.........
I believe in Federal Courts, a guilty charge needs all 12 Jurors voting guilty.
Where in the U.S. are trials going to find a jury that doesn't have at least one right wing fanatic Trumphumper on it????

Can any lawyer jump in and tell us about Jury Nullification?????????? Remember OJ??????

[Pepsidog]

12. Criminal juries have a remarkable way of getting the right result-good or bad.

Casey Anthony is a good example. She killed her kid but the State screwed up the prosecution and charges. The jury followed their oaths and acquitted her of murder. It must have really bothered them but they applied the law to the facts in spite of all the evidence of her quilt.

[Elessar Zappa]

13. If the trials are held in DC

there's a pretty good chance of a jury with no Trumpanzees. Only 5% of the people there voted for him.

[lagomorph777]

3. I wonder whether his chess skills could be applied to politics?

Would be interesting to find out!

[leftieNanner]

4. The Chess Skills

mean that he is too smart to dive into that particular swamp!

[EleanorR]

9. He's been involved in politics for quite some time

From his wiki page-

After retiring, he devoted his time to politics and writing. He formed the United Civil Front movement, and joined as a member of The Other Russia, a coalition opposing the administration and policies of Vladimir Putin. In 2008, he announced an intention to run as a candidate in that year's Russian presidential race, but after encountering logistical problems in his campaign for which he blamed "official obstruction", he withdrew.[6][7][8] In the wake of the Russian mass protests that began in 2011, he announced in 2013 that he had left Russia for the immediate future out of fear of prosecution.[9] Since 2014, he holds Croatian citizenship and owns a house in Makarska.[10][11]

Kasparov is currently chairman for the Human Rights Foundation and chairs its International Council. In 2017, he founded the Renew Democracy Initiative (RDI), an American political organization promoting and defending liberal democracy in the U.S. and abroad. He also serves as chairman of the group. Kasparov currently lives in New York City.[12][13]

[lagomorph777]

10. Wow - thanks!

[TheRickles]

16. Most definitely. Here's the Wikipedia summary of his political career after chess:

After retiring, he devoted his time to politics and writing. He formed the United Civil Front movement, and joined as a member of The Other Russia, a coalition opposing the administration and policies of Vladimir Putin. In 2008, he announced an intention to run as a candidate in that year's Russian presidential race, but after encountering logistical problems in his campaign for which he blamed "official obstruction", he withdrew.[6][7][8] In the wake of the Russian mass protests that began in 2011, he announced in 2013 that he had left Russia for the immediate future out of fear of prosecution.[9] Since 2014, he holds Croatian citizenship and owns a house in Makarska.[10][11]

Not sure if that counts as a checkmate, a stalemate, or a King's Gambit, declined.

[ancianita]

5. Kasparov knows well the heart of trumpcult politics.

Love that guy.

[Hugh Bloody Bastards]

6. The Republicans are doing their best. . .

to turn America into a Third World dictatorship, just as Mr Johnson and his cronies are attempting in my country.

[LudwigPastorius]

7. "Sure, I paid for sex with children."

"But, there are NO PICTURES!"

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Politics is like a marriage. You can't share power with someone who refuses to tolerate you.

Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 because they knew how to expel all opposition.

We seem not to know how to do that. If we don't find a way to excise traitors, we could ourselves be the expelled.

[hadEnuf]

14. That's what arrogant Nazis do when they are allowed to do it.

Democrats need to project more of a tough and zero tolerant attitude toward these fascist punks with guns.

[Demovictory9]

15. Garry K has a point

[Hassler]

17. Apparently Roy Moore's mistake was in not bragging about

Hitting on minors.

[oasis]

18. "He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him."