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markodochartaigh

(1,716 posts)
25. During the Trump years
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 03:50 PM
Mar 2024

we often saw the regime's plans frustrated by the Constitution or the courts. The Republicans have been working on a new Constitutional Convention for decades and obviously they have been trying harder and harder to tilt courts at all levels their way. Another Trump term and a couple of states even temporarily taken by Republicans and all bets could be off.

As to the strength of the judicial system, it can be judged by those at the top, who have likely lived lives of social and economic privilege and much of whose self-image is vested in the system; or it can be judged by those at bottom of society when 95% of those incarcerated never received a trial.

K&R Think. Again. Mar 2024 #1
I already don't think the justice system has held LearnedHand Mar 2024 #2
Eight years of Trump and his tactics OUGHT to have removed the gullibility, but, alas... hlthe2b Mar 2024 #3
"Fascists do not tell their followers who to kill, they tell them who to hate, then let human nature take its sop Mar 2024 #4
The justice system has not held. skydive forever Mar 2024 #5
Agreed GAJMac Mar 2024 #7
Agree squared LearnedHand Mar 2024 #9
Hear Hear!! OldBaldy1701E Mar 2024 #13
Agreed. And not just "libruls." Anyone who isn't white, xtian, straight or "disloyal". Plug for M. Cohen. Evolve Dammit Mar 2024 #6
They won't kill Black people who side with them... BWdem4life Mar 2024 #21
No they don't. They'll just Photoshop that sht B.See Mar 2024 #28
Totally. Drumpf and Dad were convicted of housing discrimination in largest case in NYC history. My hope is that Evolve Dammit Mar 2024 #32
Liberals need to SERIOUSLY reconsider their stance on gun ownership NickB79 Mar 2024 #8
+1. Whatever it takes to protect yourself and your family dalton99a Mar 2024 #12
Well remember .... Self defence. Shoot back if you have too Trueblue1968 Mar 2024 #43
Because killing LIBERALS is the Chistian thing to do! ( Sarcasm?) TeamProg Mar 2024 #10
The idea that we progressives would just kairos12 Mar 2024 #11
I wonder how he would feel if we applied his logic to our side of the equation? Ford_Prefect Mar 2024 #14
Anyone who isn't them: Black people, brown people, and women Hekate Mar 2024 #15
Unless they side with them and can be used at rallies etc as props. BWdem4life Mar 2024 #22
Trump got a shitload of the female vote TexasDem69 Mar 2024 #26
Do you think they'll care who NanaCat Mar 2024 #36
here is the quote. i saved it because it was/is my hope too. spike jones Mar 2024 #16
During the Trump years markodochartaigh Mar 2024 #25
What will they do . . . AverageOldGuy Mar 2024 #17
You won't get a pardon lame54 Mar 2024 #19
They will have immunity by proxy lame54 Mar 2024 #18
What is TSF? 33taw Mar 2024 #20
"The Sick Fuck." BWdem4life Mar 2024 #23
It's time to consider MAGA a domestic terrorist group and Trump a terrorist leader tornado34jh Mar 2024 #24
What crime did he commit? TexasDem69 Mar 2024 #27
Do you not think that what he is saying amounts to potential terrorism against his enemies? tornado34jh Mar 2024 #29
"Potential terrorism" isn't a crime TexasDem69 Mar 2024 #31
Well either way, Trump is betting that the justice system is too weak to put him in prison tornado34jh Mar 2024 #33
So ignore the potential terrorism to what the real crime is NanaCat Mar 2024 #37
What crime did Trump commit? TexasDem69 Mar 2024 #39
Another problem: NanaCat Mar 2024 #38
Al Qaeda is a terrorist group because it committed terrorism TexasDem69 Mar 2024 #40
This message was self-deleted by its author BWdem4life Mar 2024 #41
Headed by a guy who didn't fly a plane into a building. BWdem4life Mar 2024 #42
Pol Potbelly wants MAGA to kill and execute anyone outside of the regime. Fuck this violent piece of hog shit. SoFlaBro Mar 2024 #30
He wouldn't be talking like this if he thought he's going to win in November FakeNoose Mar 2024 #34
If you or anyone else here thinks that is true TexasDem69 Mar 2024 #35
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