They’re trying to make a violent example of him because they’re running scared. They’re terrified of copycats. They think that projecting an image of fearless anger will distract from the fact that they’re always looking over their shoulders.

Oh, good for them. I missed that.

Whoops, my apologies. I got it from this article, but only because I read too quickly and didn’t catch the “not.”

Good thing they waited until they got down to say this, or their return would’ve been “deprioritized.”

Oligarchs be runnin scared

Well, he entered a guilty plea, so that part is fairly open-and-shut. Of course jury nullification isn’t out of the question, but really this case is most likely to come down to a question of sentencing.

Edit: He didn’t plead guilty.

I have also not voted for a Republican since 2016, though I had already made up my mind about Trump by then and cast my first vote for a Democrat for president that year.

And let me tell you…in the almost-decade since then, I’ve been so radicalized against the GOP I supported full-throatedly for the first 30 years of my life; and mostly because the folks I counted as friends literally threatened my family when I spoke out against Trump.

Since then, and seeing the lies ooze out of the GOP machine in support of Trump, I’ve reflected on the stuff I used to believe and realized just how much of the Republican platform has required lies in order to function. I’m so jaded against Conservatism now that I can’t even stomach the fact that I campaigned for Dubya anymore–because he laid the groundwork for this idiocy.

Anyway, a big part of that has been realizing that the vast majority of Democrats aren’t the evil masterminds that the Conservative political punditry machine told me they were, but instead feckless frauds, well-meaning-at-best.

Schumer knows what he’s doing, yes. But I don’t think he’s choosing the lesser of two evils. I don’t think he’s made any of these choices with any real rational consideration or thought. I think he’s just trying to ride the fraud out to the bitter end, and saying that he “trusted” Republicans is just the latest way to save face and keep the fraud going a little bit longer.

Where was this underdeveloped, misshapen spine when you ruled that he had immunity for all official actions, John?

On both sides, seems like. Trump regrets Roberts, Roberts regrets Trump.

His economic disapproval numbers are at 54%. That’s something that a sane president would be terrified about, because that’s the sort of thing that starts revolutions.

Those are cool old buildings, I’d prefer not to see them destroyed…

Almost all of the “classical” Republicans have already resigned. The best case scenario for the GOP at this point would be enough infighting due to purity tests that everyone who’s left rips each other apart.

The Declaration would be one thing, but the real win would be getting him to read the Constitution.

I’m aware of the feature, it’s been around since before I left. I’m saying that it looks functionally like they coded it to be nothing more than a subreddit named for you, in which you’re the only one allowed to post. They may have put some sort of flashy nonsense over the top of it, but that’s pretty much what it is.

This is actually a feature in Reddit for those unaware.

It looks to me like that’s functionally just posting in a subreddit created with your name, in which you’re the only one allowed to post. So creating a community on Lemmy with your name and you as the only authorized poster would serve the same function.

He melted down in a deranged rant against the governor of Maine, too. The surest sign of weakness is a hairtrigger temper.

I wonder how many of these “credible threats” are actually credible vs. how many of them are actually just made up by Patel to make sure they stay in line.

Well, he only just took office this week, and this crop of death threats have been reported for a month or so now. But I absolutely believe that Patel is going to try to return the FBI to its J. Edgar Hoover days of gathering komprimat on every single person in the country. We’re gonna need another MEDBURG soon.

“Misinterpret” says ye. “Willfully misrepresent” says I. (And, in fairness, the article body says it too; the headline is the outlier here.)

They weren’t. They were responding to the FAFO comments about the people who resigned in protest.

You’re not going to get any argument from me about the scourge of sensationalized headlines.