Trump throws fits about things and then forgets about them. I mean Tiktok ended up banning him before he could finish banning them. Plus he threw these guys under the bus in his speeches really fast. Right now I think he's in survival mode trying to figure out how he's going to stay out of prison and protect himself from his many creditors and enemies. I think the Capitol terrorists will be forgotten about. Federal prosecutors have near 100% conviction rates. Unlike your local DA they don't fuck around. They don't cut deals with terrorists. These guys are gonna get fucked up the ass so hard they'll be shitting in diapers for the rest of their lives.
Serious question, how is he going to pardon them? His cabinet has resigned. He can’t tweet it. He probably won’t hold a press conference. There’s a story of how he tried to fire his chief of staff. The guy just laughed at him as he left the room. I don’t know the mechanism used to give pardons and I bet he doesn’t either. He gonna write it on a piece of paper and mail it? Send it out on a paper airplane?
A few things to consider: Kamala has a background as a prosecutor with a nasty reputation for putting people way for a long time. They also made rich, powerful, connected white folks feel scared for their lives and made the US government look weak. Biden's time in office is 1.5 weeks away. They could easily hold them on lesser charges and hit them with the big stuff (terrorism, murder, sedition, etc) once Trump is out of office. There's a laundry list of things these guys could be charged with. My money is on them getting torn new assholes. I'm going to enjoy watching it. These fascist/white supremacist pricks always act all tough until they get caught and sent to prison. Then they cry like bitches.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Crying like bitches. Delicious terrorist tears make the best sweet tea. Almost too sweet.
Rudy is probably going to get disbarred over his deranged Trial by Combat speech. It's pretty much textbook sedition. https://www.newsweek.com/bar-associ...er-trial-combat-speech-before-dc-riot-1560263
Alex Jones was one of the main people funding the rally that led up to the attack. Fucking lol. This thing is an absolute massacre for alt-right fuckheads.
Federal prosecutors are considering felony murder charges for many of the terrorist attackers. It's typically used for violent gangs who murder people where all gang members even if they didn't themselves murder someone are charged as murderers. It's serious. A guy on death row was just executed for it. https://wtop.com/dc/2021/01/prosecu...murder-for-rioters-in-capitol-officers-death/
During is divorce case, Alex Jones basically admitted in court that he's not crazy. He plays a character that entertains crazy people. I feel like that is an accurate portrayal of the entire alt-right. Fox News, Alex Jones, Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder they don't really believe in anything, but they make millions riling up crazies that do. I wonder if there will be real consequences or they will all just double down since it's so profitable.
I think that's been obvious to anyone with a functioning brain for awhile now. They give subtle hints all the time that they don't really believe in it and that it's just a grift to get money from crazy people. I think most of these people are going to find that no respectable company will give them a platform after what happened. Alex Jones had already been deplatformed. I think once this Trump/White Nationalist/alt-right/QAnon/whatever (basically Nazi) stuff is off of mainstream platforms like Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook, it will lose a lot of its ability to radicalize otherwise sane, normal people. That it was on the same platforms that people use to share photos of their kids and dogs with grandma was a big part of why this got so out of hand. Most people aren't that resistant to indoctrination and brainwashing. And I think once they're no longer being bombarded with it they will just forget about it. People don't usually follow this stuff to the fringes of the internet.
The judges ruling from Tucker Carlson's last defamation lawsuit a few months ago basically says he can't be sued for lying because his show is satire and his audience is in on the joke.
Fox News needs to get deplatformed next. They played a massive role in inciting this attack, spreading deranged conspiracy theories, and radicalizing MAGA cultists. I think the best way to do that is for cable and satellite networks to drop them. Of course that won't ever happen. Racist old people whose brains have turned to mush from too much Fox News are some of the only people still paying for cable or satellite tv.
The time has come. Will Lord Sidious successfully execute Order 66 and establish the Empire, or will the Jedi Order rescue the Republic?
It looks more like massive tech corporations are going to be executing some sort of plan. They've become way too powerful and are probably enjoying the distraction of throwing out the Orange Man while they "keep us safe" from hurtful words and hold a massive amount of control of the communications of the country without any loyalty to anything but profit.
They're doing what's popular, which is what they have always done. If they cared about preventing people from getting radicalized they would have dumped extremist stuff from their platforms years ago. Trump made them a lot of money, but now he's too dangerous and a potential liability to them so he's gone.
Ironically if twitter banned trump last January he’d probably have won re-election lol. The tech sector is a problem. They are leaving a trail of collateral damage in many different industries because they operate at a loss without anyone batting an eye. I don’t know what the solution is but I do know the incompetent govt won’t be able to solve it.
I'm very impressed with the level of brainwashing of the MAGA cultists who attacked the Capitol. Those were some seriously washed brains. Brains that have been on the sanitize setting. Fox News, right wing pundits, and conspiracy theory nuts have gotten brainwashing down to a science where they can get a brain squeaky clean with no capacity for independent thought. These people were so brainwashed they thought they could just attack the US government without any consequences. I think even Charles Manson or Jim Jones would be impressed. And they had that dead look in their eyes. Like zombies.
Yeah and I don't buy that argument at all. The Fox News audience takes what they say 100% literally and seriously. The delivery is serious. There's nothing to suggest it's satire. The pundits are disingenuous as fuck, and probably don't even believe 95% of the shit they say. But that's not the same thing as satire. Just opportunists preying on gullible people for money.