power on big guy. dont let the bastards grind ya down
I still have to laugh that they really thought they “got him”, then:
I didn’t know what this was, so I looked it up: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/katie-britt-s-face-says-it-all-as-jack-smith-gotcha-moment-falls-apart/ar-AA2deUht
Gop vileness and incompetence on full display (again).
Even the implied accusation is pretty weak.
So he went to a game in the same city where a person you could have plausibly conspired with lives? Like a major sporting event which it is common to travel for?
If he is banned from traveling to any city where a potential conspirator exists then that rules out basically every city in the US, certainly DC is included in that list.
Also I’m not sure if Church Lady there was going to get teed up for piling on with their bullshit conspiracy theory/“gotcha” moment on Jack Smith, but if she was, she sure has a sad now. They really wanted to get him for the “crime” of investigating donnie’s crimes.
She got a front row seat to watch one of donnie’s accomplices punch himself right in the nuts. 🙃
for the “crime” of investigating donnie’s crimes.
It is illegal for them, no doubt
I hope we can use this gif a lot for memes after a blue wave this fall, but we shall see.
I hope all of the GOP get to look like this in a few weeks. 🤣
I know all the polling indicates a blue wave but I’m worried people are getting over confident about it :/. I’m hoping it’s as intense as people are assuming but I’m expecting for them to barley take the majority and still need to bargain on every issue,
Polling hasn’t been accurate for years, I think blue will take it, but it will be close. No wave.
I will be happy if I’m wrong.
Polling hasn’t been accurate for years
gee i wonder why.
sure it has nothing to do with republicans admitted fraud
We have multiple instances of fraud from bOtH pArTiEs
Search on “Democratic party fraud” and “Republican party fraud”. There’s a lot of it.
Polling is not owned by Republicans by any means. Remember when HuffPo announced that Hillary Clinton had a 98% of winning? Republicans don’t own HuffPo.
Yeah, no time for complacency and thinking everyone else has this. People need to turn out in droves.
I always vote, and I encourage you to vote, too.
Because it’s funny. The more people that vote, the funnier it gets.
Seriously, I vote. But I don’t think voting has any chance of reversing our downward decline in USA.
Only going to be a blue wave if people actually vote.
Ironically, this year it could actually be the opposite. Democrats have okay momentum right now (the very best they can to tbh), but Republicans have pretty much no momentum. Conservative voters are likely going to hit the ballot box in record low numbers this November. That’s why a blue wave is expected.
But nobody on the left should relax about it. Campaign as if Trump’s approval rating was at 100%. Don’t underestimate how stupid and/or malicious conservative voters will be.
Ohhh those libs got Trump now!!! jfc.
It’s so wild that Jack Smith is just doing his job the way it’s supposed to be done, and he now seems like the outlier in the public sphere.
Especially when you contrast him with the entire array of conservatives and Republicans and how they are just trying to self-deal and punch down and destroy this country.
I mean at this point it is like he is the leader of a gang committing international and national humanitarian crimes on live TV and no one is doing shit. So yeah one more person saying this doesn’t add much.
and no one is doing shit.
As infuriating as Trump is, the fact that he is being allowed to keep fucking around completely unrestrained is the more frustrating thing to those of us watching in horror from outside the USA’s borders.
Fix your damn country before it kills us all, dammit.
There is no fixing the most destructive country in history. The merciful thing would be to to put it out of its misery. Of course that would require rounding up all the wealthy people of the world first and frankly no one has the guts to do that.
It’s like that because that’s exactly what’s happening, an organized crime syndicate, and not even one with any cool aura at all, is in control of the United States.
Say what you will about the tenets of Cosa Nostra dude, at least they don’t look like bumbling idiots when committing crimes
You want 234 crimes against humanity? I can get you 234 crimes against humanity, Dude. There are ways. You don’t want to know about it, believe me.
He really is like everything bad about the mafia, with none of the good stuff
No one did shit when Biden literally spent more of your tax money to kill more children. As long as people are split into teams and ignore what their team does, nothing will change.
He did a better job of pretending like he didn’t, hence why the “live tv” for Ronald Duck. Also I wouldn’t say more because he has more aptitude for it, more because he was the president at the start of Gazan genocide where killings were even more intense. I would say Trump just continued that and added multiple other international atrocities on top of it included cutting international health fundings which likely resulted in even more deaths. All the while asking for a Nobel peace prize. So yeah very hard to beat him.
Biden’s genocide was live streamed, if you didn’t see it on “live tv”, it’s because you didn’t care and avoided it.
Oh I was pretty much calling it a genocide from month 1 so don’t play the “you just didn’t care enough” card on me based on your poor reading of a single message. This sort of unjustified anger and puritism only serves to divide allies. Trump is making AI videos of him investing in a beach front resort in Gaza called Trump Gaza, or him riding jets that drop bombs. Biden was in it for the money and the seat, Trump actually enjoys this because destruction makes him feel strong and potent. So yeah it is two completely different levels.
Jack Smith is one of the few who actually cares about America instead of their own wallet or power. This guy is an actual hero but instead he is painted like he is some criminal and liar by the GOP. Americans should take before they vote what is happening here. They’re trying hard to cover shit up and silence this man or anyone else that want to blow the whistle on them. If you Americans are still too fucking blind to see that and STILL vote for Trump these midterms you guys are fucking lost forever. I have said Fuck America almost everyday since Trump became president. This November is you last fucking shot to put things right.
You had my upvote until the second half when you veered into an unhinged rant as if the vast majority of americans here on the fediverse haven’t already been against this administration all along.
Yeah, they frequently comment things like this, it’s kind of their thing. They also say no one in America is doing anything, completely ignoring what the (bought and paid for) media here avoids reporting on.
I wonder if the global rise of fascism is affecting their country, and if they’re doing anything about it. I’m sure they hold themselves to the same standards, right?
Oh, I’m sure they’re a very proactive member of their community… 🙄 /s
Thank you, exactly. Yelling at Lemmy libs who are altogether more likely to vote against the current administration than any other group I can personally name is a complete own goal, unless they’re actively trying to get genuinely horrified Americans to get discouraged and not vote at all, which is another tactic I’ve seen here and personally called out I can’t even count how many times.
Doesn’t matter. I’m voting anyway, and spending less time where I can see that shit to begin with.
And for anyone who can look at their own country and see a diverse set of individuals, but has no problem with looking at another country and seeing only one great homogeneous caricature – that they then screech at personally because yeah, that’s gonna help so much – I got a bag of dicks they can eat.
. . . while I go vote anything but R, and bring my neighbors too, lol.
Thank you. I feel so discouraged when I see people who should be our supporters, who spout things like ‘fix your country’, pick at an individual who is trying to make things better because they aren’t working on their specific thing.
I just can’t see any flavor of ‘both sides’ as anything but support for the oligarchs. The more people engaged, the more collective power we have and the less a few billionaires can control us. By engagement, I mean more than just voting: Join your local precinct and be or support the delegates that work their way up to the national conventions. This applies to democratic and republican alike.
Anything telling people their votes don’t matter or won’t change things only concentrates power in the people who already have it.
Well said. I could not agree more. And very few of these random “purity tests” – where the liberal candidate is horrible, evil, gonna burn down the world because they do not have the right stance on [pick an issue] – in online conversation ever come across as authentic or genuine to me; rather, they seem to all be using the same playbook and advancing the same talking points, same as it ever was.
For example, I have NEVER, not once, met a fellow American in real life who did not know exactly where they already stood on Trump or Biden by the time the 2024 elections rolled around. Maybe that’s because I’m old, but we’ve all been firehosed with propaganda day in and day out since 2015, and any middle ground had already long disappeared. Maybe such individuals exist, but for me it would be a wild unicorn sighting.
Yet I’m also supposed to believe that people already opposed to Trump would turn on a dime, hold their noses, and vote for him because Kamala = genocide? Hardly. If you genuinely care about genocide you care about people, and in a country where entitled righties were screaming FUCK YOUR FEELINGS at me that was the magical enticement for me or someone like me to stop caring about real people and vote for the one man who very clearly cares about no one but himself at all? Lol, no. I never believed that and I do not now, and anyone who lives here knows why just from their own lived experience.
These new purity tests are just more of the same, and as we get closer to the midterms I am spending less and less time online overall: if we don’t see it, it’s useless to them, oligarch cash wasted, and that just makes my heart glad.
If votes didn’t matter, the oligarchs would not be spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try to change and/or eliminate them.
First, I don’t care about your upvote. Second, I don’t know what the spread amongst the American people is here. 1 third voted for Trump, another third didn’t vote, the last third voted against Trump (give or take) Third, if you agree with the first part you should have been offended by the second part.
Accepting the steel of the midterms is just as bad as not voting. That’s rolling over and die
First, I don’t care about your uninformed opinion, nor do I care about you saying fuck America everyday. Second, guess what? Most of us here say fuck America every day, too. Shocking, I know. Third, fascism is in your country right now. I’m sure you’re doing something about that. You wouldn’t be constantly saying that Americans are doing nothing while also not doing anything in your own country, right?
Everybody sees what’s happening in your country. The greatest country on earth. Land of the free, country of the brave. Policing the fucking planet. Making the world save for democracy. If you put yourself out there as the greatest fucking country, be the bravest, be the greatest, make the world save for democracy. All you guys are is fucking posers. Just keep doomscrolling Instagram and stfu r do something about your situation. What I’m doing? Protesting against climate change. Protesting against Israelian genocide.
I, and most Americans here on Lemmy, have never thought any of the things you just said about America being free, the greatest country on earth, etc, were true. That has always been propaganda. Propaganda that you seem to being using against the victims of the administration.
I’ve been to many massive protests about climate change and the Gaza genocide. It’s almost like you have no idea what is going on here and are relying on billionaire propaganda to know what’s happening, so you think nothing is happening. To me, you’re the poser. Posing to be better than everyone here who has been against fascism and done the exact same actions as you. You’re not any better, you don’t hold yourself to the same standard as others.
Your country has fascism in it, and you’re doing nothing about it because you’re hyper fixated on shitting on other victims of fascism.
I’m sure you know this, but just for clarification’s sake: Trump is not on the ballot, he’ll still be president after November. What IS on the ballot is his party’s stranglehold on congress and the senate, and his ability to act with complete impunity.
Half the leftists here think Jack Smith is the enemy because he didn’t charge, convict and personally execute Trump before america collectively decided to vote him in again.
I’ve seen people complaining about Biden and Garland slow walking the prosecution. I haven’t seen anyone complaining about Smith.
I have to agree with them on Garland and Biden. Those two fucked the pooch by being partisan in an attempt to appear nonpartisan.
There are definitely some people who try to blame Jack Smith too. I’ve personally argued with a few. Usually .ml users.
Lay out all the facts for them, and they’ll just double down. They’re not rational people.
Jack Smith might get a pass from me if Robert Mueller didn’t royally fuck up his investigation in full view of Smith for pretty much the same reasons. Smith definitely saw the way that played out and still waited 3 years too long to say stuff like what is quoted in this headline. Good for him for saying it eventually but if he wanted it to matter he’s way too late taking his stand and he should have known that better than anyone.
Jack Smith has been saying the right things all along, you just haven’t been paying attention.
And if you expected him to make public announcements about it when he was still conducting the investigation, then you don’t understand how the US legal system works because that kind of shit can get solid evidence thrown out in court. He had to cross every t and dot every i in this case, and he did his due diligence. The only place it broke down was when the scotus punted the trial till after the election.
In other words, nothing at all happened
In other words, you continue to fail to comprehend the situation
The plan you support failed miserably. Being completely convinced it was still the right move seems insane to me, but do what you want
He was preparing a case to go to trial, one of the most important cases in American history. It’s not a reality show. There was never an opportunity back then to make the statements he made this week. Frankly, most of that would have been the content of his opening statement to the court. When was the last time you heard a prosecutor give his opening statement to the media BEFORE he gave it to the court?
He never got the chance to say this stuff, mostly because Biden and Garland dithered and slow-walked the whole thing, compounded by Trump doing the one thing he’s good at: manipulating the court schedule. That allowed MAGA to run out the clock, so Trump could cheat his way back into office and kill the investigations.
They should have gone after the 14th Amendment, Section 3 first, and disqualified him from holding office (as well as any other MAGA that supported him), and then gone after the criminal charges.
Yes, but also he should’ve seen what was happening and realized the court of public opinion was his only shot of making it to a real one. Yes, adopting their dirty tactics is “unethical” or whatever, but exigent circumstances…
That’s not how the courts work. Relying on the “court of public opinion” can literally get your entire case thrown out in a real court.
I agree with most of what you said. However, I find it odd that you called it “one of the most important cases in American history” but also seem to be defending their decision to treat it much like any other case.
Trump is the best example there is that norms and precedent don’t mean much. He loves using the system against his opponents and Smith didn’t fight back against that at all. Again, he should have expected Trump’s deny and delay tactics and took some action.
Fighting an opponent who uses the rules against you requires being creative with the rules. Instead of the bold action we needed we got timid deference to procedure. If Biden and Garland were the hold up then stand in front of the media and say that directly to the world. Force them to either get off their ass or fire you. Anything less is equivalent to letting Trump run out the clock, which is exactly what happened.
He’s proving right now that he knows how to do this, which is why it’s so frustrating that he didn’t do it when it might have mattered.
In reality not treating it with norms would immediately give Trump ammo to torpedo the entire thing and rightfully call it unfair. You can argue for reform but unilaterally imposing changes to how the process works for a single individual, during the investigation, is not a thing.
Your conclusion is that letting Trump walk was the right call so I’ll never agree with that argument. Dress it up how you like but it’s still bullshit.
Maybe not but there are some of us that actually pay attention.
Just because the Biden admin didn’t do shit doesn’t mean leftists think they’re the enemy
We can be mad about them not getting shit done in four fucking years and that doesn’t mean we think he should fucking be on trial by the people he failed to convict.
Your post, however, is a great example of what we mean when we say “lib take”
I’m not playing team sports here. Merrick Garland and Joe Biden were incredibly limp-dicked on this and are the reason we are where we are. They could have stopped this but they were afraid they would lose and they would be targeted for it. They were incredible cowards. Jack Smith put in the work but was ultimately silenced by his boss. He didn’t have to comply but that’s an even bigger risk to himself. None of this makes any of them the enemy.
Anyone who calls anything a lib take doesn’t have a thing to contribute to a conversation.
Why does it matter that “half the leftists here” blablabla? You do know where you are right? This ain’t reddit homeboy 😂
I’d make that argument for Robert Mueller, maybe, but not Smith
Thanks for letting us know about your deadline.
I put it on my calendar. I wasn’t going to vote, but now that I got this ultimatum from a stranger on the internet, I will be sure not to let them down.
Getting downvoted for saying you’re GOING TO VOTE calls this online tactic out for exactly what it is, lol.
I’ll be right there at the polls with you. This just makes me want to vote even more than I already do, which is not something I believed actually possible.
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Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Looks like he’s about to accidentally fall out of a window.
With this administration it’d be on the first floor.
One of those basement apartment windows where the bottom of the window is at the level of the sidewalk.
I’ll take “Who painted a target on their back” for 200 Alex.
Better to die on your feet then live on your knees.
Don’t TELL your enemy what you are GOING to do, JUST DO IT!
Here’s what I did. I painted a target on MY back in the very small, very RED town. I’m still here.
Who’s building is that?
Mine, I did it.
So you painted swastikas all over your own property in a deep red area… in protest?
It’s a long story but, yes.
I originally put a real American flag upside down on the front of the house. It was there for two weeks then somebody STOLE it.
I was violated! WHO steals an American flag from an American (me)? Answer: Not an American. Maybe a Nazi?
So I painted the flag on the house so no one can steal it and I added a message to the thief about what I thought of him. I think he’s a Nazi. I think America has been Nazified.
It’s a message to the real thief not you. I would like to believe he’s fuming right now. What he did made it worse and anything he does will also make it worse. He can only make it worse. I have “exposed” him for what he actually is. A terrorist. He doesn’t belong in America.
I have change the wall a few times now. Here is the latest. I used the Israeli flag as the blue field.
Huh. I want to make something very clear: I’m not trying to tone police - please, by all means, paint whatever you want on your own property. Free speech and all that.
However, if I saw that in an area that I knew was deep red, I don’t know that my first thought would be “hell yeah, that dude’s protesting Nazism/Zionism” 😬
Holy shit! I know exactly where this is at. I remember seeing it when I was getting some tacos at the food cart right across the street.
You aren’t kidding, that town is deeeeep red.
There is another house on the south side of town, near the gas station, that has a ton of anti-trump flags and signs in their front yard.
Stay safe! Some real wackadoodles in that town.
You sound like my wife 😒
Your wife sounds awesome. Is she single?
Nah, she has a boyfriend.
Is he orange?
Aw shucks
At least he has a pair
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