Nooo!!! I'm shocked! SHOCKED!!

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[–] 116 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You mean to tell me that Donald Trumps former personal defense attorney does not have my best interest in mind since becoming the AG, especially in matters directly involving his former client, Donald Trump?

I am shocked! Who could have seen this coming? If only there were previous actions and patterns of behavior that could have warned us of this.

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Every single congressperson who allowed this to happen belongs in prison. They just keep spitting in your face, and you keep voting for them.

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  • [–] 52 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    A promise means nothing, it's just words. A contract has meaning, they should have gotten assurances in writing. Republicans are so easily scammed.

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  • [–] 54 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    False, they only made him promise that stuff for electoral cover so they could pull a Susan Collins and be dramatically shocked. They have no morals and they won't be impacted by the problems they are causing.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They're wiping their assess with the constitution written words mean nothing to them either.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    It means nothing because there are no repercussions ... not for trump, not for them, as long as they sit there.

    They are part of the whole charade of theatrics to appease the common folk into believing there is a functional democratic government.

    One can but only watch the curtains go up and showing the layer of depravity that appears when the elections are close.

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    [–] 45 points 3 months ago

    The GOP knew exactly what Blanche would do, they just wanted a reason to pretend to clutch their pearls about it afterward. Its all a big "democracy" reality show.

    Lindsey Graham would be proud, if he wasnt being eaten by worms right now.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago

    Blanche’s latest move reflects poorly on all of the Republicans who voted to confirm him—but especially Senators Bill Cassidy, John Cornyn, and Tom Tillis, who bought into the attorney general’s promises to limit the scope of a different immunity for the president.

    No it doesn't. And no they didn't.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago

    They knew full well it wasn't a promise. It was plausible deniability.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    The weaponize fund and tax evasion agreement will be back and made law before the end of the month.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    It's not a law unless both houses of Congress pass it with a majority (or 60% for the self-imposed Senate anti-filabustering rule) and the President signs it (or both houses overturn his veto with a ⅔ majority).

    I mean, if Trump declares it and his minions carry out his orders, it hardly makes much difference.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    President Lumpty Trumpty and the Heritage Foundation has unlocked the secret to undermine democracy. The secret being is you just do it. Congress is spineless when it's your party in power, the entire US government was built on the honor code, and if you have no shame, nothing matters!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    hey, that's not fair, it's also spineless when the democrats are in power!

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago*

    Sure but dont you prefer the democrats marketing to the republicans marketing? With the dems you get a hispanic guy dressed up to look like a native american shedding a single tear on tv for every issue they fail to deliver on, and with the republicans you get an openly pedophile hitler figure sort of shouting demands and also some weird incel parades with tiki torches after they murder people.

    It wont change the actual outcomes, but we need to band together and get the Dem marketing back.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    None of these memos really mean much if a brave American or two just shoots these fascist scum in the head.

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  • [+] -11 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Wow, look at you, being the livestock they want you to be. Go munch some grass.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Legitimate ask by them. If you're gonna say you should shoot someone but won't do it yourself, how are you not a coward?

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  • [+] -8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Counter ask, if you're not willing to say these people need shot, how are you not livestock? Personally, I'm willing to shoot someone, but not alone because that's just pointless martyrdom. Actually calling it martyrdom implies a greater effect than what it would have.

    And on that point, how is accusing someone being an "officer" and then trying to radicalize that singular individual, instead of encouraging them to organize within their communities not the real fedposting?

    Like you guys are so scared of calling it like it is, you won't even do it on non-corporate forums lol. And you're calling them a coward? Naw that's bullshit, I think you might be looking in a mirror.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    These statements are meant to push someone else to do violence for you. If it makes you feel bad to be a coward, I dunno what to say. Deal with it? You are afraid of the consequences of the actions, so you want someone else to fire the first shot. That is cowardice, even if it's self-preservation. Sorry.

    Basically, what is the difference between a provocateur and a coward telling someone else to shoot? Not a lot.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    No these statements are meant for someone to do violence with me. To do it together, because the only way we win is to organize and then counter their violence with our own. They need to fear us for there to be liberty again, they need to fear us because people are being disappeared and taken to Concentration Camps.

    And frankly, if you don't think its time for violence, then I encourage you to volunteer to stay in one. Prove to us that it isn't time for violence, because the people who seem like cowards are the ones telling people "Hey, just take it, or kill yourself!". Absolute disgrace and frankly sociopathy.

    And honestly your side is the only side telling people to go it alone, and waste their life instead of working together. That's far more dangerous, and you know it. So until you're willing to suffer the same as those who have already suffered at the hands of our government, then your opinion is as worthless to me as it is to your oligarchic masters that see you as nothing but a sheep in their Flock.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I would partially disagree with that. I just don't think you have enough people willing to join you yet. I'd argue that you're better off telling people to join whatever their closest mutual aid group or even leftist militia group then trying to find people over the internet to do violence with you, especially because anyone here could be trying to push you to do crimes for multiple nefarious purposes.

    For the most part, I feel like the people trying to tell people to do crimes they are not doing on here do not fundamentally have anyone's best interests at heart. So, I'll apologize for being antagonistic.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Friend you nailed it in the first half and then dropped it. The idea here is to create various groups through the spread of ideas, a singular leader would just be taken out and possibly replaced. The best thing that could happen is multiple spontaneous cells being grown throughout the U.S.. There aren't enough people ready, for this which is why the ideas have to spread both online and IRL, which I do in both spaces. Whether they join their local militia, or create their own from likeminded individuals is what I've been trying to encourage without using the word "militia" since I find many are allergic to the label thanks to right-winged chuds.

    Before ideas can become group action, they must be spread through words. Those are literally the foundation for any organizing that follows. So yeah I find your kind of rhetoric far more harmful because it essentially defends the status quo, and encourages people to continue taking abuse. Abusers love it when their targets don't fight back, and back off once they do. In fact the only way to make them understand to back off is to use their "language" against them. Feel free to ask how I know from personal experience.

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    There is no surprise. No one is shocked. This is the playbook. This was the intention from the beginning.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm sure there will be consequences! They might even write a strongly worded letter.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    LOL, this is a real bear shits in the woods kind of story...

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    Promise? He didn't make a promise. He gave sworn testimony under oath and subject to penalty for perjury.

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    can't the next ag just undo it? thats been happening this whole time

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Oh course he did. Anybody who believes these assholes is living like a tick somewhere on the crook/asshole sliding scale.

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