• Inucune@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      “You can’t send me to prison… I’m pregnant and it could be Trump’s or anyone else in his cabinet!”

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      22 hours ago

      I have no idea how you can still believe there’s even the slightest chance that the U.S. justice system would deliver justice.

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        10 hours ago

        No the blame gets tossed down then someone goes to prison. The sacrificial goat.

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        20 hours ago

        He is going to pardon effectively his entire administration on the way out. Nobody in this administration will serve any time.

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          15 hours ago

          What the Democrats should do is what Donvict did - just arrest them anyway and wait for the courts to hash it out.

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          20 hours ago

          Yes, that much is certain, but it’s not at all certain whether there will be a “way out” like you imagine. The reason: If this “administration” were to leave office, everyone involved would likely face prosecution, even in a system as corrupt as that of the U.S.

          They won’t risk that, especially since their first coup attempt last time went unpunished. Now the orange despot has ICE, a secret police force whose budget far exceeds that of all other federal agencies combined—such as the FBI, CIA, etc. There can only be one reason for this, and that is the establishment of a true autocracy with all the constraints that come with it. I am now convinced that the sham democracy the U.S. has been for decades has come to an end.

          I simply cannot understand how American citizens fail to see this, why they still cling to the idea that the U.S. is a country governed by the rule of law—it isn’t; it hasn’t been for a long time.

          Edit: I’m from Germany and we have a history with that kind of thing.