Trumpers fold like cards -- you just have to stand up to them

[Nevilledog]

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Amanda Marcotte
@AmandaMarcotte
Don't be afraid to stand up to Trump or to authoritarians in general! The past week shows that they quite frequently lose or even run away — but only if you stand up to them. Merrick Garland is running out of excuses.

salon.com
Trumpers fold like cards — you just have to stand up to them
Justin Trudeau and Tish James proved that authoritarians are weenies who cave the second they face consequences
11:24 AM · Feb 22, 2022

https://www.salon.com/2022/02/22/trumpers-fold-like-cards--you-just-have-to-stand-up-to-them/

In the end, the Ottawa occupiers were left literally waving white flags.

After weeks of holding the Canadian capital hostage — with relentless honking and other abuse of the residents — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally brought an end to what pretended to be an uprising by truckers opposing vaccine mandates but was really a fringe minority trying to recruit more followers into a fascist movement. There had been a great deal of trepidation about violent resistance from the occupiers, who were big into chest-thumping and acting tough. Instead, they pulled out the most notorious symbol of surrender.

"By midday Saturday, protest leaders had thrown up the white flag figuratively and literally — organizer Pat King told his followers, quite wrongly, that waving a white flag meant they could not be arrested under international law," Paul McLeod of Buzzfeed reported.

They were lurking behind the tough "trucker" facade, but the truth is the protest was organized by far-right conspiracy theorists and was denounced by the Teamsters, the main trucker union. In the end, the weenieness of the occupiers got downright comical. The 911 line was flooded by protesters whining about being told to leave. Organizers kept saying unintentionally funny things like, "The vast majority of the truckers do want to withdraw, but it is an individual choice for any trucker." The official "Freedom Convoy" Twitter account released a statement not declaring any intent to stand firm but asking if they could just have a little more time to clear out since trucks are big and hard to move.

"Despite cries of 'Hold the line', the mood among protesters was dire Saturday, as they didn't even manage to hold the line until lunch," Mack Lamoureux of Vice reported.

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[secondwind]

1. I think Merrick Garland is doing a fantastic job.

We don’t need to tear him down.

Just sayin’.

[comradebillyboy]

4. Sure wish he didn't keep such a low profile because it leads

people to assume he's doing nothing.

[Hortensis]

2. She's equating dysfunctional authoritarian FOLLOWERS without a leader to

McConnell for instance, other ruthless authoritarian leaders busy plotting the destruction of our democracy?

Inept attempt to turn us on our Democratic leaders. Apparently she thinks we're as dumb as the truckers.

Authoritarians who are pathetic, foldable losers without a leader will destroy whatever government they're pointed out, attack old women and children on orders, burn down the town they're in on order, and murder hundreds, thousands, millions on orders from the ruthless "strongman" leaders they adore.

[Ohio Joe]

3. Another day, another Garland bashing thread with the same nonsense...

First lets go with the Mark Meadows bullshit none of the complainers want to address. I made a handy thread so I don't have to keep typing it all out:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216378643

Feel free to keep ignoring the facts though.

Next up (And I should make handy thread for this nonsense as well):

"Trump incited the riot on live TV and so far, not only has he not been arrested but there is no real sign of any Justice Department-led investigation that would lead to such an arrest."

We have what? 700 or so low-level thugs already arrested. Then we have 11 arrested for seditious conspiracy. And then in the next step up the ladder we have at least 8 (that we know of for sure) under investigation. They are:

TOM BARRACK
RUDY GIULIANI
ROBERT COSTELLO
SIDNEY POWELL
MARK MEADOWS
ALEX JONES
ROGER STONE
ERIK PRINCE

https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/02/08/the-eight-trump-associates-whom-doj-is-investigating/

But hey... Lets go ahead and just arrest TFG and who cares if the case will stand up in court. There is a reason John Gotti kept getting off, they kept going directly for him instead of treating the case like a mob case... When they did, he went down. TFG is a mob boss and the case needs to be treated like one.