He can confess to multiple murders and show the bodies on stage and nothing will happen. The US "justice" system only applies to poor people.
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And Democrats. You're going to see the DOJ move at light speed now. Moved at glacial pace with the previous administration but now that vindictive retaliation is on the menu they're going to give Sonic a run for his money.
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Here we go again. Even when he's literally found guilty, it makes no difference because there's just not the will to make it stick.
Get the message: the system will not save us from Trump.
We need a Luigi.
Ding ding ding. Constitution? Basically a system. Justice department? A system. They have failed. We keep pretending like a super hero is gonna show up, correct it all then vanish again for another 50 years.
Rise Washington rise! Welp I tried.
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It doesn't fucking matter. He can splatter an infant against a tree like an old testament god and nothing will ever happen then either.
None of this defeatist bullshit. It matters.
https://lemmy.world/c/keeptrack
Keep track. Or don't keep track and keep it out of your head for your health.
Just no defeatist bullshit.
Oh come on... Maybe in 2020 you could get away with this blind positivity but at this point you're just denying reality.
Keep track has existed pretty much since Trump first showed up, "we've" accomplished fuck-all. We did however elect a feckless piece of shit who picked another feckless piece of shit to run the DOJ and together they also accomplished fuck-all.
Trump is going to get away with literally everything, as he already has, save for some state level civil b.s he can't use the DOJ to make go away.
Defeatist or blind positivity, none of it matters. We have no control. You can, as I have, and many others, shout from the rooftops of all the shit we've kept track of, but as long as fox news exists, as long as Elon keeps buying social media to control, we will have next to 0 impact getting people to realize.
Honestly keeping with what I've just said, even this means nothing and has no real purpose. I think "keep track" just triggered me. It's all useless.
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Sorry, we can't prosecute a sitting president. It's tradition.
Fiddler on the roof intensifies
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Remember Trump and Johnson’s “secret plan” to win the election?
I ‘member.
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"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers, those vote-counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.
Except that Elon actually doesn't know shit about computers. Trump is just rambling delusionally like usual.
I wish people would stop conceding even that about Elon. The guy is not some technical whiz at anything that I can discern.
Does he even have a real degree?
Virtually all of the self-created myth about Elon seems to be complete bullshit.
Elon musk is great at buying companies that could be promising and getting them to massively grow. It's likely mostly about being able to secure funding, but it's something I guess.
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Elon dazzels Trump with tales of setting the correct time on all sorts of video players.
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Cool, doesn't matter
Right, who's going to hold a cabal of the richest men on Earth accountable?
"He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers, those vote-counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."
Trump is so old he probably means human computers. They were still around when he was a young man. Right? He meant the people counting the votes, right? Heaven forbid he actually tried to monkey with the voting machines. Because that would be illegal, and totally unthinkable for someone with a stainless reputation like His Orangeness...
Don't assume there's anything meaningful behind what he says. His algorithm is mind-numbingly simple: say stupid shit. If it gets attention, double down.
That's all there is. There is no thought and no feeling. He has no more inner life than a cockroach.
say stupid shit. If it gets attention, double down.
And that's exactly how he gets away with all the stuff he does: people simply assume he's talking crap, until they realize he wasn't.
Trump should not be allowed to say anything remotely controversial without meeting fact-checking and extreme resistance at each and every step. Either that'll teach him to be careful with what he says, or he'll eventually get caught incriminating himself. If people let him say any old thing because of the sheer volume of bullshit coming out of his piehole, he's gonna keep getting away with everything.
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The one thing I know in my heart and in my soul is these guys will fuck something up so badly that their own base will demand they be torn to shreds before these 4 years are up.
As he said, many years ago now, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
These people do not care about rules, they do not care about law, they do not care what is good for them and those they care about. They care about owning the dems.
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Yeah remember that analysis by some data scientists that said there was some fishy shit going on?
Do you have a source? I don't remember it and I'm not turning much up by searching.
Here is the article that was published about it.
Take it with a grain of salt. But the dots are starting to line up.
It looked reasonable on the surface, largely because of the "factual" claims he made. But as soon as you start peeking into the publicly available numbers, it falls apart. He said 11% bullet ballots in NC. It was around 2.2%. That's the one I verified myself.
In North Carolina, which saw 11% of votes for Trump cast as bullet votes.
NC had 5.67m presidential votes. NC had 5.54m gubernatorial votes. A difference of 128k. 128k/5.67m = 2.257%
I checked a couple other NC races as well. It doesn't get close. Not to mention places like NYC went more red too. Do we think they cheated in NYC too? Did they cheat literally everywhere?
Of course the bullet ballot guy makes the claim that the swing states and the surrounding states are different, but they really weren't. His numbers are just lies.
That guy neverehad a source to make the claims that he did. Rebecca Watson addressed this guy's claims
It's only day 1. I can't wrap my head around 4 more years of this shit.
It didn't help it's already been 8 years of this shit. Even losing he never shut the fuck up. Ever.
Therefore it would be technically impossible to hack voting machines since the paper trail would not match up. Wishful thinking though."
Yeah if you ask for a recount. The one the DNC never bothered with.
Some people may think that, but from the video it is not clear. He just mentions Elon knows computers very well. There will be enough real news with president Trump, we don’t need this kind of journalism.
It sounds like standard demented Trump. Musk -> Technology -> Computers -> Voting Machines -> Hey, everybody remember, how I won the election?!
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Pretty sure nothing can or will be done about it.
In this case, unfortunately, the past is indeed indicative of the future. Oh and by the way, fuck you Merrick Garland you useless quisling and coward.
Oh good. Because that matters.
good thing he's, by law, above the law
Pennsylvania alone would not have flipped it.
312 to 226.
Flip Pennsylvania:
293 to 245.
Still 25 short of a win. PA+MI+WI were required and she blew all three, just like Clinton did.
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