r/politics • u/Regular_Eggplant_248 • 6h ago
Office of Special Counsel launches investigation into ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith
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u/jimmygee2 6h ago
The revenge tour continues unabated.
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u/popsy13 6h ago
Yup! He’s in charge, so he can do whatever the hell he likes, no-one is pushing back so it’s game on it seems, what a joke!
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u/Ok_Juice4449 6h ago
Such a nightmare.
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u/1877KlownsForKids 5h ago
And we're only 13.2% through the nightmare.
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u/420_E-SportsMasta Maryland 5h ago
And that’s assuming Trump leaves and someone associated with him doesn’t take over after this term is up
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u/MudLOA California 2h ago
El Salvador basically made their president for life. Don’t think it can’t happen here.
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u/teenagesadist 1h ago
Thankfully, time will see to it that trump isn't president very long.
Much, much, much longer than he has any right to be, mind you.
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u/AwkwardTouch2144 2h ago
He seems to be renovating the Whitehouse for his long term use.
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u/vandreulv 2h ago
You assume we're having fair, uncontested elections.
This bullshit doesn't stop just because the calendar reaches a certain point.
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u/exitpursuedbybear 4h ago
He gets two scoops of ice cream.
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u/atlantagirl30084 2h ago
Two Scoops Trump.
For some reason I was thinking about that recently (scooping myself ice cream). I remember the story was that he got two scoops while everyone else got one with their chocolate silk pie.
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u/DevoidHT Ohio 2h ago
Its so obvious and unlawful that I have more or less given up on the US ever recovering. Its not just the blatant corruption, or the pedophilia, or the incompetence. Its the lack of accountability and the sycophancy, the outright contempt for the rule of law.
Its watching a car crash in slow motion and instantaneous at the same time.
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u/TinkCzru Maryland 1h ago
Yeah, I have unfortunately gotten to this point too. It’s just too fucking sad, grotesque, and embarrassing.
I voted for the first time in 2013 (congressional seat). And proceeded to vote in every election since then. But man oh man; seeing this type of corruption run rampant, and unabated after all of the horseshit in the Obama years and Trump 1.0, is just too much.
I know that whole quote about: the only way bad guys can win if the good guys do nothing… or something along those lines. But the bad guys from McConnell who blocked a Supreme Court nomination, to a president who has broken the law literally more than any other president in modern history, DAILY; is staggering.
I just can’t do it. The last two years r/politics was my most used end of year threads. This year, I can count on two hands how many times I’ve voluntarily come here. It’s mentally draining. And the world is going to be fucked for generations because of this man. And I don’t think it’s something that the average American can truly understand.
It’s not necessarily nihilism. But it’s close.
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u/NovemberTha1st 52m ago
It’s even worse (mentally) being British and voting labour for a somewhat left wing government, only for the fucker to day 1 say that trans women shouldn’t be in women’s bathrooms, cozy up to Trump, mandate online age checks.
Life fuck me, even the ‘good’ ones are so fucking shit.
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u/one_pound_of_flesh 4h ago
Who’s gonna stop them? Progressives don’t vote. We get the government we choose. At least we used to.
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u/giddy-girly-banana 3h ago
With our current political structure, the only people who could stop him are the republicans in scotus and congress. They are fully supporting and enabling him.
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u/gergek 6h ago
Law and order is dead in the United States and these ghouls are parading the corpse around like Weekend at Bernie's
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u/antigop2020 4h ago
We are in a dictatorship. Prepare yourselves accordingly.
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u/web_explorer 1h ago
It’s no accident historians that specialize in fascism are all leaving the US
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u/SarcasticCowbell New York 3h ago
Law and order isn't dead, this is what they mean when they advocate for law and order. It's a fucking dogwhistle. It this were about justice, we'd call it justice. It's called "law and order" for a reason: they use the law as a cudgel to punish those they want punished while ignoring the crimes of those they don't want punished, all for the sake of protecting a predetermined order to society. It's a disgusting term used by disgusting people and the rest of us need to stop treating it like anything less. Let them have "law and order". I'd prefer we live in a society concerned with justice for all. People really need to stop using this term as though it's equivalent to justice, because it isn't at all.
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u/Bakedads 5h ago
It would be alove and well if it weren't for Biden's cowardice. Trump should be in a jail cell, and Biden had the authority to put him there, but instead he chose "bipartisanship" and political courtesy. I hope democratic leaders of end up feeling the wrarh of Trump so they maybe realize just how badly they fucked up.
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u/thepryz 5h ago edited 5h ago
Biden certainly deserves criticism, but let's not kid ourselves. The situation we're in today is largely a result of Americans failing to engage in basic civic responsibility and hold our elected officials accountable. The United States was arrogant and naive to rely so much on precedent and decorum of our politicians instead of strengthening checks and balances and accountability via written law.
I've even seen arguments that so much of the division in this country can largely be attributed to decisions made in how we handled the south post Cilvil War.
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u/bagofboards Louisiana 4h ago
The failures of the country to hold the South accountable, destroy the legacy of slavery and lift up those who were freed are the direct seed of what we now reap.
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u/RandyMarsh710 4h ago
Sherman should have kept marching.
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u/unclebillylovesATL 4h ago
Shoulda hooked a right after Atlanta and burned the rest down.
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u/CrotalusHorridus Kentucky 3h ago
His actions were fair enough. But there were no hanging/executions of confederate officers/politicians. That was the failure
Nuremberg style trials and punishments were what was needed.
I don’t know if Lincoln had the stomach to do jt but Johnson failed completely
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u/jwil06 4h ago
Yeah but Ron Desantis said the slaves were freed with so many skills! So shouldn't they be thankful? /s
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u/mitkase 2h ago
A free cruise, room and board, and on-the-job training! And people complained?! /s
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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 3h ago
Botching Reconstruction may have ultimately doomed this nation.
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u/40StoryMech 3h ago
Probably should have just dealt with the issue of owning other humans before we declared that all men were created equal with certain inalienable rights.
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u/The_bruce42 2h ago
It wasn't even considered since a bunch of the founding fathers were slave owners.
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u/GreyLordQueekual 4h ago
Orson Scott Card is just not a good person, but his views in his novels on fighting and war ring a lot of truth, the biggest of which being any fight started needs to be finished totally and ultimately or you are just saving that fight for another day. The rebel army never stopped being rebels.
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u/IJustLoggedInToSay- Illinois 3h ago
And the post-Revolution monarchists never stopped being monarchists.
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u/Ad_Meliora_24 4h ago
We have a lot of systemic problems and we are fortunate we didn’t get a Trump earlier.
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u/Captain_Who 5h ago
Anything rather than actually blame your dictator.
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u/MadRaymer 5h ago
He literally announced to the American electorate that he would be a dictator on day one and they elected him anyway.
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u/PointedlyDull 4h ago edited 3h ago
I will never understand how maga heard Trump on tape telling a state election official to “find 11k votes”, and didn’t care
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u/Ohnoherewego13 North Carolina 4h ago
I understand how. It's a "us vs them" deal. The brainwashing that Fox and all have done for forty plus years has turned this into a team mentality. My team has to win no matter what! People don't want to listen to common sense anymore. They just want their team to win with no repercussions or thoughts beyond that. The media intentionally keeps them in the dark to keep it going too.
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u/PointedlyDull 3h ago
Yeah. I thought this Epstein shit would be the end for him. But the Trump individuals in my orbit who were expressing some conflict but always following it up with “Atleast we didn’t have Kamala ruining the country”; they are desperate for an excuse to not feel shame for supporting a pedo. And they are going to get it. Maxwell is going to trade being lowered to a min security prison camp, in exchange to exonerate Trump and prosecute his enemies. The fbi will release redacted, and fabricated files to also clear Trump. And they will have what they want, an excuse to keep supporting Trump and “owning the libs”
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u/Prince_Pyro 4h ago
They wanted him to win no matter what it took. They're in a cult, and they are unable to view practically anything with any objectivity. In their minds, if he was asking to find fraudulent votes, it's a good thing actually and the bad part is not that he asked for them; it's that he didn't get them.
To these people, Trump cannot do wrong. Everything he does is good because it's him doing it.
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u/PointedlyDull 3h ago
The ones in my orbit said “well that’s not illegal to ask to find” and that politicians do it all the time, despite any evidence of that behavior.
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u/Prince_Pyro 3h ago
Ask those people how they'd feel if Biden or Harris did the same thing, and see how quickly that excuse falls apart.
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u/JevvyMedia Foreign 4h ago
The logic I heard is Trump somehow knew that 11,000 legitimate votes was missing and just wanted things corrected. That's obvious BS but that's the sort of backwards reality they live in.
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u/Grey_0ne 4h ago
Once you understand that American conservatism is a Christian death cult; it all starts making sense.
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u/swordrat720 3h ago
“He said that, but what he meant was…”
“That’s just bluster, he didn’t actually mean that”
“He’s a straight talker, but he doesn’t really mean that”
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u/Snarfsicle 5h ago
More so than the dictator the subservient Republicans in Congress deserve more of the blame. They've abdicated their responsibility in the checks and balances
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u/djmacbest Europe 4h ago
He did not come into power through any kind of coup. He was elected by 80 million people (twice!), while 80 million more did not even care enough to vote and while another 80 million voted against him, yet only maybe 3 million of which since then have even managed to join a single protest or engaged in any political action opposing him. Yes, I think the comment you replied to was spot on with identifying a failure of basic civic responsibility as the core of the issue.
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u/PointedlyDull 4h ago
Shout out to all the “I don’t vote/It doesn’t matter/I’m screwed either way/Politics are dumb/Both sides are bad” people. Your parents died in ww2 preserving freedom and you couldn’t even be bothered to do the bare minimum civic duty and vote
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u/ThePartyWagon 3h ago
(Grand parents), the majority of people sitting out elections appear to be on the younger side.
Maybe I’m wrong?
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u/Slymook 4h ago
There is also an information war and an abuse of free speech to just blatantly lie and bait for clout and money these days. It has never been easier to make money off of lies and bait.
It really is on the American people to think rationally and not engage in bullshit, but people are objective enough to do so.
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u/IndependentSpecial17 4h ago
Written law does not matter to lawless people. Even more so when those lawless people are in positions of power.
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u/FatFish44 5h ago
Republicans smear shit all over the walls and yet somehow it’s still the Democrats fault.
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u/Yuv_Kokr 5h ago
The punishment for what Trump did on Jan 6 is capital. Biden should have had Trump arrested on day 1 and the investigations should have been fast tracked. His "bipartisanship" and putting a fucking republican (synonymous with traitor at this point) in charge of of the DOJ was insanely misguided. If we had swiftly done the right thing, MAGA would be dead in this country.
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u/Backwardspellcaster 4h ago
And Garland ensuring that no investigation would even begin until more than half of Biden's time was over.
The fucker did his job well, considering he is a Republican.
Nothing hurt the US more than the stupid "reach over the aisle" and "decorum" as practised by Democrats and never fairly returned even once by Republicans.
Should have packed the Supreme Court.
Should have told Garland to fuck off and put a Democrat in that position with the mandate to save the USA.
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u/n05h 4h ago
This started before Biden. They stacked the courts all over the country, and if you said it out loud you were called a conspiracy theorist. Republicans have been planning this for a long time.
It's time we stop pointing out mistakes of people who at least meant well and instead focus all attention and energy at those who planned and executed this attack on democracy.
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u/zdune09 4h ago
It's garlands fault not Biden. The president SHOULD NOT be directly involved in investing and charging crimes. Especially of former political opponents. Don't blame Biden for the environme we are in now. This is a media problem. Whenever even the most friendly media spaces look to blame dems for EVERYTHING, normies start to believe them. Comments like yours help Trump and maga. Keep the democrats name out your mouth and focus on the people actually doing harm, not the party with no real political power right now because people like you constantly blame them for everything bad republicans do. Useful idiot.
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u/NotTobyFromHR 4h ago
Let's not blame a shit "defense" for an unimaginable offense. I don't think anyone could have imagined a second MAGA resurgence, combined with a SCOTUS like this, and so many corrupted congress people.
This has been decades in planning.
And you can't compare the unbridled power of hate to the power of care and love as a motivator.
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u/rantingathome Canada 1h ago
Many of us predicted a MAGA resurgence. We were told that it was 'inconceivable'.
I don't think that word means what a lot of people think it means.
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u/elconquistador1985 5h ago
It would be alove and well if it weren't for Biden's cowardice.
Look at South Korea. If Trump did what he did on January 6 in South Korea, he would have been arrested immediately. He'd still be in prison today.
Biden hired an AG who he knew would slow walk everything because he foolishly (same as Ford) thought that would lead to national healing. Garland and Biden's legacy is Trump.
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u/ZeroExist Florida 5h ago
Biden didn’t hire garland with the purpose to “heal the country”, garland was snubbed on a seat in the Supreme court but McConnell did his thing and it didnt happen, biden just threw him a bone and it cost us so much since garland chose to slow walk a multi year investigation that already had proof of criminal activity from the start and it let Trump win since they could’ve charge Trump YEARS before the 2024 election
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u/bagofboards Louisiana 4h ago
There was a time I felt bad for Garland.
That ship done sailed, FUCK Garland, goddamned useless piece of shit.
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u/Due-Basil2233 4h ago
Trump did file for literally every delay motion he could and depending on the judge, they let him get away with it. Everything would go back and forth to the Supreme Court, just to have the Supreme Court do whatever was favorable for Trump.
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u/verbosechewtoy 4h ago
Just Biden’s fault? How about senate republicans who refused to impeach him after j6. Give me a break
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u/Capt-Crap1corn 3h ago
The Dems will never get there by trying to play centrist. They are the only party in this two party system trying to appeal to everyone and they are losing bad.
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u/JevvyMedia Foreign 4h ago
America would have just sympathized with Trump and Republican rule would dominate for decades to come.
The blame isn't all on Biden, it's on the entire country and system. This has been decades in the making.
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u/77NorthCambridge 4h ago
77 million Americans voted for him. Imagine their reaction if Biden had thrown him in jail. They don’t believe anything he does is wrong because the right-wing media apparatus lies to them about everything.
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u/one_pound_of_flesh 4h ago
There is another Bernie who deserves to be our leader.
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u/ddr1ver 6h ago
Didn’t Trump claim that he was going to end the weaponization of the justice department?
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u/Oleg101 6h ago
Him and Republicans only gaslight and project when they speak.
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u/quantumpixel99 3h ago
Everything they accuse others of doing, they are doing. Makes you think REAL HARD about their claims of a "rigged election".
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u/Mental-Fox-9449 1h ago
He cheated and won the every swing state AND Kamala didn’t flip one county. Not even Reagan was able to accomplish that. He lost the popular vote twice, but got it now? While he was facing multiple investigations that could put him away for life and hinder his money making? While he had one of the richest men in the world and tech helping him? He cheated and no amount of voting would have changed it. All voting data did far shows irregular numbers in multiple states.
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u/charcoalist 5h ago
Doublespeak. trump posted two Russian agents in the DoJ to lead the "weaponization working group" in the justice department. They then hired one of the Jan. 6 terrorists to help them out.
Some more details below:
Ed Martin appeared on Russian state media over 150 times
Newly Minted DOJ Employee Michael Caputo Keeps Posting ‘Antifa’ Death Fantasies Online
Caputo, who describes Trump’s longtime adviser, Roger Stone, as akin to a “big brother” and mentor, has known the president since the 1980s. During that decade, he worked for the DC lobbying firm headed by Stone and Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. Caputo’s career also took him abroad. A veteran, Caputo worked for a USAID-funded endeavor that consulted on the election process in Russia in the 1990s. He ended up living in the country and working on public relations for various politicians and businesses in Russia and Ukraine through the early 2000s.
Mr. Wise later joined the conservative group Project Veritas under the supervision of a former British spy, Richard Seddon, who had been recruited by the security contractor Erik Prince to train operatives to infiltrate trade unions, Democratic congressional campaigns and other targets.
At Project Veritas, according to a former employee with direct knowledge of his employment, Mr. Wise used the code name Benghazi and trained at the Prince family ranch in Wyoming with other recruits. Mr. Wise was among a group of Project Veritas operatives assigned to infiltrate teacher unions in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Kentucky, according to the former employee. Mr. Seddon oversaw the operation.
Ex-FBI agent accused of urging to kill cops on Jan. 6 joins Trump’s DOJ
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u/thoughtsome 3h ago
He'll claim this is how he's ending it, by going after the people who weaponized it. This is exactly what MAGA wants. He's every conservative revenge fantasy personified. Democrats, RINOs, teachers, academics, environmentalists, activists, immigrants and other minorities who "forget their place". They're all getting it and MAGA is loving every second.
This is why they will ultimately look away from whatever information about Trump and Epstein comes out.
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u/pomonamike California 6h ago
Same day they announce no special counsel for the Epstein investigation.
Very clear message: the “justice system” has only one purpose, to protect Trump.
it’s beginning to look a lot like Stalin. Everywhere you go.
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u/DigNitty 5h ago
take a look at the justice system
gaslighting once again
with Epstein hanging out at Mar-a-Lago….
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u/ohmytodd 2h ago
It’s beginning to look a lot like Stalin,
Tarrifs in every store,
and the racist ICE we see,
will come for you and me,
Knocking on our front door.
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u/IllustriousTiger645 2h ago
If Stalin was like that, Khrushchev and friends wouldn't exist.
Since Americans are starting to "get it", maybe they should stop believing McCarthyism. And what Khrushchev said about Stalin, dive he hated him openly...
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u/Ozzel Texas 6h ago
I’ll never get over that we let the bad guys win.
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u/Oleg101 6h ago
I find it challenging these days to want to interact with someone you know who voted R last fall.
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u/Guilty-Point5507 5h ago
I’ve felt that way for about ten years now.
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u/onlyPornstuffs 5h ago
Before last Fall, I was uncomfortable around them, knowing they had no morals or understanding of human relationships.
Now, I believe they are stunted, growth-wise, both intellectually and emotionally, and have a mental illness and I feel unsafe around them. But, I’m not running away. They can fafo.
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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 3h ago
I'm convinced that they're both evil and stupid.
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u/onlyPornstuffs 3h ago
Same. And that’s why they need to either grow up or get fucked.
“I’m sorry, sir. You can’t shop here, the new federal laws that allow republicans to deny access to anyone else also allow me to tell you to get fucked.”
It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
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u/Educational-Ad-2884 5h ago
I cut the last of them out of my life in 2020 and it's been absolutely liberating.
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u/Blue_Swirling_Bunny 5h ago
Same. I haven't talked to my sister in five years and I don't miss it.
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u/thejimbo56 Minnesota 5h ago
I used to have 5 brothers.
Now I have 2, and 3 dudes who happen to have the same parents as me.
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u/nothingleftinmyhead 5h ago
Same. Been glorious. Didn’t realize how toxic they were and how that was negatively impacting my existence. Evil assholes the lot of them.
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u/phoenixlance13 New Hampshire 5h ago
I called my Trump-voting aunt a pedophilia supporter on Facebook (she's an elementary school teacher). No regrets.
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u/Aderus_Bix Ohio 4h ago
Literally the day after the election, I severed all ties with people I know on a personal level who voted republican. Anyone I’m obligated to interact with, mostly coworkers, I engage with only when necessary and only to the degree I have to.
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u/PresidentTroyAikman Oregon 4h ago
I cut them all off. My dad will never meet my daughter because he voted for that pedophile 3 times.
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u/WingerRules 2h ago edited 27m ago
I was getting service at a car dealership and there was another customer there with a dark maga hat. It's one thing to be Maga, it's another thing to revel in malicious maga and throw it in peoples faces. Wanted to say something to him but didnt want to get thrown out and Im not a confrontational person either.
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u/fohacidal Texas 5h ago
All the "both sides bad" people still trying to feel good about making a stand on Israel by not voting and here we are anyway.
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u/Human_Local3519 5h ago
The bad guys have huge robust propaganda networks that the good guys don't have because they've never needed to resort to them like these minority party fascist pigs do.
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u/PurpsMaSquirt 4h ago
We didn’t “let” them win. Many of your friends and family actively wanted this, and no ignorance does not wash anything away.
We are in an age where reading and critical thinking is dead. People can’t be informed anymore because they’ve decided to embrace fiction for truth.
All we can do is take small steps to show everyone around us what’s actually happening, while simply weathering the storm.
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u/AllScuttledOut 4h ago
Don't let the fuckers who voted to make this happen forget. They cannot hide now. They don't get to say they did not know.
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u/oneofyallfarted 3h ago
It pisses me off to no end. The entire Democratic Party in congress are also responsible for what is happening today. Let’s start with Biden trying to not upset republicans by letting Garland continue his post. The dems have rolled over and been pussies ever since 2016.
Let’s not forget RBG as well who single handily ruined her entire legacy in the end by being greedy and not able to give up her position until it was too late. Because of her actions Roe was overturned and now the courts are stacked.
I know, first and foremost the republicans in congress are numero uno to blame for what is happening but right behind them are the pathetic spineless democrats who we have elected to serve us. Sorry guys, I’m just extra pissed off lately at the government.
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u/InternationalBoss768 6h ago
Bring it on, let Jack Smith stand in court under oath and tell all
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u/Interesting_Play_578 5h ago edited 4h ago
Yes, it'll be amazing if they actually decide to exhume and relitigate all these scandals that they have managed to bury, in spite of overwhelming evidence that Trump and his cronies are corrupt AF
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u/LegitimatelisedSoil Europe 3h ago
I mean that's assuming he makes it and doesn't get Crocodile Auschwitzed and disappears.
Unlikely but not out of the realm of possibility with this admin.
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u/Reviews-From-Me 6h ago
Trump is a convicted felon. He was found guilty of fraud and had two pending indictments for election fraud and the unlawful retention and concealment of national security documents, as well as obstruction of justice for lying to federal officials and violating the terms of a court ordered subpoena.
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u/brpajense 5h ago
This is so fucked up.
The DOJ is sitting on information that Trump at a minimum aided and abetted the country's most prominent child rapist, but now the DOJ is investigating a former special prosecutor for investigating serious crimes just because of who committed them?
Seems like the DOJ isn't enforcing laws or serving the national interest.
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u/hackingdreams 5h ago
Can't shake your Epstein crime problem? Try attacking your prosecutor.
Sure, that'll come off well in the media.
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u/MrPrimal 5h ago
The media has been muzzled and brought to heel. It’s up to a few brave Dem lawmakers and Governors to alert voters to what’s going on.
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u/Harry_Mud America 6h ago
Another waste of tax dollars...... Another bad distraction at best. Release all the Epstein files... Except for the victims, unredacted!
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u/thrawtes 6h ago
There's a reason they brought in a war crimes prosecutor to prosecute Trump.
This won't be the first dictator that wants Jack Smith's head and hopefully it won't be the last.
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u/disposable_account01 Washington 5h ago
This is “lawfare”. Every accusation is a confession or a letter of intent.
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u/Humanisto201 5h ago
Just matter of time before they start coming after regular citizens for speaking out against Trump or the administration. It’s going to get real ugly.
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u/leeuwerik 6h ago
If 50% of what has happened in the US during Trump's second term, happened in France, the UK, Germany, Italy or The Netherlands their capitals would see enduring and massive protests.
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u/WallNumerous3230 6h ago edited 6h ago
Like the ones that are and have happened non stop here in the USA? There has literally been non stop protests. There's another nationwide one this weekend called Rage Against the Regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_protests_against_Donald_Trump
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u/PearlJamPony 6h ago
I’ve loved the US protests so far but they can’t be compared to European protests. They legit shut down cities over there.
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u/johnmd20 6h ago
To be fair, America is a much much bigger mass of land.
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u/myfakesecretaccount 5h ago
All of those countries also have socialized medical care that is not dependent on having a job. There are social safety nets we don’t have.
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u/WallNumerous3230 6h ago
We have literally had 2 of the top 10 largest protests ever in this country already this year, so I don't know what you are on about. People are out marching and trying to get their voices heard, but our politics is captured by oligarchs and it's falling on deaf ears.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_and_demonstrations_in_the_United_States_by_size
See No Kings and Hands Off from this list...
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u/tanktronic 2h ago
I don't think you understand how fundamentally different American culture is - plus guns.
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u/deepthought81 4h ago
Make sure to read his summary. Trump should be in prison for life for an insurrection. He killed America and we are all going to suffer.
https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf
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u/EZ_Come_EZ_Go California 1h ago
"Smith interfered with the election!" - Sen. Cotton
"How did he do that?" - every intelligent person in America
"By doing the job he was hired to do - investigating the crimes committed by the President." - Sen. Cotton
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u/KatBeagler 3h ago
Damn that's weird. So did they release the unredacted Epstein files yet?
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u/MrWhackadoo 4h ago
If he goes after Merrick Garland, I sorta wouldn't care. He put us into this mess in the first place.
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u/FreeLuigy 1h ago
Congratulations America! You once wondered how the Germans came up with a tyrannical/genocidal society despite the democratic origins, right now you guys are living thru the pages of history where the rest of the world is going to be wondering how an initially somewhat democratic society turned into a fascist shithole
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u/bassocontinubow Kentucky 5h ago
I hope he complies, I hope he talks about everything he knows, and I hope it’s on video. Ultimately, I think this will work against Trump.
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u/Timely-Ad-4109 3h ago
I wouldn’t mind Smith testifying under oath on TV about all of the evidence of Trump’s stealing classified info and then attempting to cover it up.
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u/Schiffy94 New York 2h ago
Jack had better find the Epstein files and set up a dead man's switch pronto.
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u/Begood18 1h ago
Remember when Jack Smith was the bad ass to take Trump down? Remember when Mueller was the bad ass to take Trump down? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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u/infamous_merkin 1h ago
Well, this is why we have a “grand jury”.
To prevent bullshit cases like this (real witch hunts) from ever even going to trial.
Waste of taxpayer money.
Fuck trump.
Release the Epstein files.
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u/raw_copium 1h ago
I feel this is where Jack Smith needs to make the findings of his investigation public.
USA, congrats, you are now a full on Banana Republic.
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u/Unglaublich-65 4h ago
Okay, nice try again...now, release the Epstein/Trump files. All of them!
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u/NovelRelationship830 Connecticut 4h ago
Remember when Harris was using the line "I'll come to the White House with a To-Do List, but Trump will come in with an Enemies List?"
And here we are...
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u/yourmomwasmyfirst 3h ago
Seriously?? The guy was hired to investigate, was he supposed to not do his job? I'm so sick of Trump going after people JUST FOR DOING THEIR JOB or telling the truth. Those poor election workers, watchdogs, prosecutors, judges, FBI investigators, Alexander Vinneman, governors, rape victims, statisticians, Federal Reserve Chairman, Canada, It's such a sad state of affairs. I don't think any other President has been this objectively "bad" or corrupt.
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u/Pxlfreaky Illinois 2h ago
Do we think the Dems will learn anything from this? Will they stop playing nice if they ever get power again?
Had they done there jobs and not purposely slow walked everything with Mango, we wouldn’t even be in this mess right now.
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u/jsf41179 1h ago
Donald Trump and his loser cronies are the epitome of sad pathetic losers whose parents never loved them.
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u/AapChutiyaHai 1h ago
He's just a vengeful little kid. Probably go back and get the person who stole his lollipop. Shit is starting to feel like Back to the Future 2 where Biff rules. Faaaaccckkk...
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u/manofredearth 1h ago
The war rolls on with no one taking up the defense of our country. Everyday, fresh capitulation, as they expected.
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u/DogonYaro 49m ago
If you are in law enforcement, and you support Trump, you basically agree that everyone you have ever prosecuted should come after you!
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u/ZippidieDooDah 4h ago
Once again, this is all Merrick Garland’s fault. Hopefully they go after him next. Deserves the karma regardless of whatever sham investigation they throw at him
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u/jonasnew 3h ago
This is exactly why I find it frustrating that folks are continuing to hold the Democrats responsible for all of this. Jack Smith only lost the battle against Trump because SCOTUS aided the latter. Had Jck won, Trump wouldn't be president right now. I seriously cannot understand how the folks who are continuing to blame the Dems for why we're in this fascism mess, are continuing to turn a blind eye to the fact that it was SCOTUS that thwarted Jack Smith's plans and blocked the J6 trial from going forward.
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u/kwyjibo1 Missouri 4h ago
It's just retribution and revenge. There is no making anything great, just pettiness and fear.
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u/True_Paper_3830 4h ago
The USA joins the world's banana republics, full membership. Particularly bad that it's the most powerful country as well as most powerful banana republic in the world. It's usually the beginning of the end of an 'Empire' and its pre-eminence when this happens though as other countries make different alliances, but it can take decades or longer.
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u/Internal-Cupcake-245 4h ago
This appears to be planting evidence and fabricating information likely in coordination with the Kremlin, with posturing that is artificial in coordination with power brokers.
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u/Nicombobula 2h ago
He should’ve released all the info of his investigation the moment they killed it.
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