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Don Buckter's avatar

“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.”

Ayn Rand

“President Donald Trump called the prison sentences of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders "ridiculous and excessive". Defending his commutation of their sentences, Trump stated: "These are people who actually love our country, so we thought a pardon would be appropriate". Referring to the defendants charged in the January 6 attack, he also called them "the hostages".

SLMontgo's avatar

I love the country I live in, not the hot mess the Heritage Fascists have constructed using papier mâché and dirty diapers. They have failed. My country has prevailed.

Deborah solleveld's avatar

I pray you are right. We must all vote with that in mind and support those who are fighting the people who want to take everything for themselves.

SLMontgo's avatar

We thought we had enough Blue votes in 2024, but .... So, yes!! We must keep persevering to reclaim what is rightfully the country of We the People.

RJM's avatar

We did have enough votes we just hadn’t protected our tabulation software from hacking. Trump revealed that fact, boasting of it, at his pre-inauguration rally on 1/19/25:

Elon "knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers, those vote-counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania in a landslide. So it was pretty good. He's pretty good. So thank you to Elon." https://www.rev.com/transcripts/trump-rally-ahead-of-inaguration at timestamp 28:03.

Trump exaggerated - no landslide but enough human votes to get Pennsylvania’s electoral college votes. Musk’s computer skills likely worked beyond Penn: all 7 swing states electiral votes went to Trump.

SLMontgo's avatar

As much as I'd like to believe this, my skepticism gene tells me that all our diligent Democracy lawyers would have done something if there were something to be done.

I also have my doubts about alleged Musk coding skills, a guy who throws Nazi salutes and then pretends he's giving a "from the heart" salute. Eff him.

If Marc Elias, the ACLU, Lisa Graves and her various groups and affiliations, not excluding people like Andrew Weissmann, Adam Klasfeld, Neal Katyal, the entirety of LEGAL AF lawyers and above all, J. Michael Luttig didn't see fit to pursue this makes me doubt there was a genuine water-tight case here.

Of course, I am no lawyer or s/w engineer or ugly-ass South Afrikkkaner with gywazzo bucks he does not need or deserve, but if educated, talented, driven-to-preserve-Democracy groups or individuals did not pursue this, I will need more than just a Trump flex and transcript to bring a case that there were indeed enough votes. I would love it to be so, but it's far too late to act on that premise/suspicion.

Therefore, we must press on regardless and get this next job done. Living in the past of election fraud lies has brought us to this moment.

Marc Panaye's avatar

From bad to worse every single day....

"There is nothing I can do..." says the man who has a job in which he is supposed to do stuff.

If Cornyn can do nothing then he's of no use and needs to be discarded together with all the rest of the ex-GOP trash.

Susan Dooha's avatar

Today’s stories hit me hard. A spiked story on Epstein that could have helped us get the files released, if not for the State media lap dogs. The complete learned “helplessness” of Congress that gives away their constitutional rights and role. The persistent organized crime activity of the President and his family and the illegal activities of Banks that might as well be headquartered in Sicily. The men who play at revolution and suffer no consequences.

Charles Welsh's avatar

May I suggest that rather than “missed the scoop”, it appears that CBS “veered hard in the opposite direction to avoid the story.” There must be absolutely incendiary information in the Trump Epstein Files, given the amount of effort expended by his allies to suppress discussion in this manner.

Anna Reuter's avatar

Orwell's dystopian novel "1984" has come to pass. The Ministry of Truth (1984) is now the DOJ.

Loui's avatar

Thank you for doing an excellent report on this important topic. Your reports are always clear and well presented.

Bon's avatar

As I expected, the weasels rolled over for their belly rub from papa trump and gave him exactly what he wanted. WHAT does trump have on these people that their backbones are like jelly even after he destroyed their careers?

Reminds me of the melting cat cartoons... SMFH.