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Gov. Tim Walz encourages Minnesotans to film ICE agents for future prosecutions
(minnesotareformer.com)
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Nice story, but January 6th rioters were all eventually given a pass, and that's what the ICE clowns anticipate. Just following orders, etc.
They were...by Trump. He's gone in this scenario.
And in order to prosecute, you need an opposition party win or a republican with a backbone.
opposition party will win. unless democracy in this US is totally subverted (Unfortunately a real possibility). The real question is whether or not this Democrats have learned their lesson from last time, and be swift and bold.
Presidential pardon doesn't cover state offenses.
Jan 6 rioters got a pass because Trump was elected. Once Trump is dead, that's no longer going to be possible.
Well We have Vance just chopping at the bit to be the next Trump and while he does not have following Trump does what he does have it the GOP and the techbros backing him.
Vance may be champing at the bit, but he's also fucking at the couch, and there's no way that MAGA will fall in line behind him.
most of them got slap on the wrist even before the election began, it was clear they dont want to upset the voter base of republicans.
Most of them weren't caught doing anything more than breaking into the capitol building. The ones who actually attacked cops or did something violent got standard prison sentences for those kinds of crimes. Sure, I would have liked longer sentences. But, these were mostly first-time offenders who didn't do a violent crime, so they got sentences that go with that. The aim of the justice department wasn't to try to put them in prison for as long as possible, but to treat them the same as any other criminal. Maybe the idea was that that was going to make the cases harder to overturn on appeal because there wasn't any hint of political bias in the sentencing.
I think it would have had a pretty solid deterrent effect if Trump hadn't come back and commuted their sentences / pardoned them. But, pardoning them is yet another way he's completely throwing away the rule book.
Tons of sociopaths are watching Trump and taking notes. With series reforms to both our society and political system, this will just happen again and with Peter Thiel practically owning JD Vance, it could be sooner than you think.
Trump is a one in a million manipulator. There's a reason this hasn't happened since Hitler and Mussolini. Various others like Marco Rubio, Ron DeSantis, etc. have all tried to use the same playbook and failed completely. If you think MAGA is going to fall in line behind couchfucker JD Vance, you're deluded. A big reason that Trump picked him as VP is that he knew Vance was no threat to him.
Trump picked Vance because he thought Vance was physically good looking enough to be his VP. No joke.
But not charismatic enough to challenge him. That's key.
That's a wild statement to make considering that Putin is a household name these days.
Putin is hardly a charismatic leader. Might as well throw in Maduro or Noriega, or Saddam Hussein if you're going to talk about leaders who ruled through fear and force rather than charisma.
Putin has been more often than not genuinely popular with Russians; he was very successful at creating a persona that worked in his culture to secure and maintain power.
And while Maduro wasn't charismatic, Chavez certainly was
You don't talk about Hitler "more often than not" being popular with Germans. Hitler famously had huge rallies filling stadiums.