• peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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    21 days ago

    What’s that sort of government you get when you prosecute political enemies for doing completely legal and ethical work that just so happens to undermine your position of power?

    Oh right, Authoritarianism. Tyranny, monarchy, fascism, it’s almost like these all have a problem in common.

  • ileftreddit@piefed.social
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    21 days ago

    Trump during Bidens administration: “he’s weaponizing the justice system, waaahhhhh”

    Trump now: “weaponize this baby, let’s fuckin go”

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      These people spent years mewling about “lawfare”. Just like they bitched about “free speech”, “cancel culture” and “making comedy legal again”.

      And what do they do the minute they get (more) power? They start up with tons of legal action against virtually every facet of society. They worked to actually cancel comedy.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    21 days ago

    Remember when dems were wringing their hands about prosecuting Trump because that’d invite tit-for-tat retribution? some_guy remembers.

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      21 days ago

      It might be that, but I don’t think that makes it any less dangerous as a path to set precedent to start going after any political group that they don’t like.

      Couple that with an illegal, but unchallenged executive order (not implemented yet) to prevent candidates from running, or appearing on ballots who are ‘under investigation’, and the mid-terms could be completely derailed by bogus charges on key candidates, cementing the current administrations strangle-hold.

      They’ve already shown they have to problem doing the exact things they accused the Democrats of doing, so I wouldn’t put this past them at all.

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        There are multiple ways they’re ratfucking the 2026 elections already. I’m sure what you describe iw on their menu. Don’t forget taco said he only won PA because, “Elon knows how those vote counting machines work.”

  • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 days ago

    In spite of the staggering number of competitors, I think Tulsi Gabbard is quite possibly the least principled politician I’ve ever seen.

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      21 days ago

      All the people that tried to convince me over the last decade that she was somehow an intelligent principled candidate. Where are they now LOL. She was worse than even I implied at the time.

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        21 days ago

        During what time period? I remember when she was trying to enter the presidential primary, I looked into her. She seems great on the surface, but you don’t have to go much beneath the surface to see differently, and the further you looked, the worse it got

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    21 days ago

    Let’s see… 2025-2016 = past the statute of limitations. So, more attempted distractions from the EPSTEIN PEDO FILES.