The Rude Pundit: Jailing Donald Trump Until He Faces Trial Is the Best Thing for the Country (Part 1

[babylonsister]

Reality isn't negotiable.

https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2022/02/jailing-donald-trump-until-he-faces.html

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2/02/2022
Jailing Donald Trump Until He Faces Trial Is the Best Thing for the Country (Part 1)


It's genuinely shocking to realize how much of the American electoral process is less about laws and codified procedures and more about elected officials not being dicks. Think about it: The whole idea of a "peaceful transfer of power" is that the loser isn't a dick about it. What we've learned since the 2020 election is that all it takes to start wrecking the entire system is for the loser to decide, "Yeah, I'm gonna be a dick about it" and move ahead with tearing shit apart. And it seems like there's no law that says, "Whoa, whoa, you can't be a dick even if you want to be one."

But the legal system, you know, the whole Law and Order shit, does have a way to put dicks away so that they can't spread their dickishness far and wide.

Check this out. It's from U.S. Magistrate Judge Kimberly C. Priest Johnson in her decision to hold Stewart Rhodes, the one-eyed leader of the band of feculent-brained loons and goons known as the Oath Keepers, in jail without bail pending his trial on seditious conspiracy related to the events of January 6, 2021. She writes, "It is not unusual for Americans to be disappointed by election results or offput by the functioning of federal, state, or local governments. Indeed, the right for such individuals to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances is enshrined in the Constitution and is core to American freedom and our system of governance. Here, the Court is not faced with a peaceable assembly and petitioning, as Defendant’s extraordinary actions and the ripple effects that followed are outside the bounds of protected activities." She's talking about the First Amendment here, saying that Rhodes's calling for halting Congress's certification of the election results, including planning to actually do it, isn't protected because that's how you get fucking anarchy.

The First Amendment is not a suicide pact. It's time we stopped treating it like that. There are responsibilities that go along with freedom of speech, assembly, etc. And one of those is not using it to overthrow the government that is protecting your speech, assembly, etc. because you don't like who won the election. It doesn't fucking matter how much you believe an election was actually stolen. Reality isn't negotiable. A guy who tries to burn down his neighbor's house isn't let off because he sincerely believes his neighbor is Satan.

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In Part 2: "Wait, you're fucking serious about this?" Yeah. Yeah, I am.

[ificandream]

1. Yes, he should be jailed. NOW.

He's a danger to humanity. (Let's put it in terms Magats can understand.)

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. Should have been jailed years ago.

[dweller]

2. C'mon Part II !

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[Haggard Celine]

3. I agree.

He's crossed the threshold to seditious conspiracy in public. He's too dangerous to be free. If they don't want to lock him up in jail, they should confine him to his home and strictly limit his visitors and his communication with the outside world.

[uponit7771]

4. There's no doubt enough to at least charge Putin's Whore with a crime

[ymetca]

6. Naw

he should be in jail not for what he said, but for his financial crimes.

That would suck the wind out of their sails. We don't care what he said. He stole money, so he goes to jail. Period.

And, this should have been done with a LOT more people prior to that grifting con-man ever getting to where he got.

He's the living embodiment of money talks and bullshit walks. Only the flip-side of the equation. See? He's walking free on bullshit because he still has the cash-flow to buy himself some more bullshit.

Only way to shut that motherfucker up is to take all his money. Then the bullshit spigot will start to shut off.

[FakeNoose]

7. Just put him under house arrest with no internet and no TV cameras

He'd die of boredom, and that's fine with me.