I don’t think they do these things as dry runs, but when somebody pushes an envelope all eyes are definitely on them because it redefines the envelope.
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Abyssian@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I mean… it’s not really taking medical leave when you’re dead. It’s more an issue of open known fraud to keep an election from happening. You know, the sort of thing we all know the Trump team really wants to pull off.
Maybe this is the dry run? If people all know a Senator is dead and that they’re being lied to and that it’s being done to block an election and they don’t riot in the streets over it then the next logical step would be doing that same thing when a President dies. Then maybe all the elections.
It’s like the decades of hearing “innocent until proven guilty” has convinced the people of the country that if there’s even a shred of doubt and we don’t have 100% concrete proof the President raped and killed kids or a Senator is a rotting corpse we shouldn’t do anything about it.
Even though “innocent until proven guilty” isn’t how the US penal system works for most Americans. You don’t get a CSI team pouring over every tiny detail to make sure you’re guilty before you go to prison for decades. If you can’t afford to pay for a lawyer and pay for specialists to analyze the evidence, no one does that. The cops can show up and find your wife dead and you laying in bed with a bloody knife beside you and arrest you. If you’re too poor to afford any defense there could be a dozen confession notes in the house signed and dated by the killed admitting to framing you to see if it would work, and if no one on the prosecuting end happens to find, read, and care about one of them then you’re definitely going to prison.
“It looks like this person did this crime” is enough to send anyone without loads of money to prison for life. If that worked the same on the rich and the political class most of them would be in prison. But they’re “innocent until proven guilty.”
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Lor@leminal.space 11 hours ago
Imagine if a democrat did this? There would be a tribunal that would last for years. The chyron would be omnipresent on fox news. I am sick of it.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Didn’t that orc feinstein do the same thing?
Abyssian@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Sure, Fox News is targeted Republican propaganda. It’s full of lies and bullshit, and even the things they’re not flat out lying about they generally twist the meaning and implication of completely or make up some way for it to be awful.
It would be fantastic if we had genuine effective laws to keep that sort of propaganda from being spread. Seems to be a bad thing in any civilization that wants to be a healthy democracy.
At the moment it seems like the Trump administration continually getting away with bullshit and lies and Tim and his buddies buying up as many media companies as they can has crushed what little spine US reporters had left. I’m not shocked this isn’t big news when he can sit there mocking reporters to their faces over and over in crowded rooms and have no one say a single word about it.
Crowded rooms of people just keep letting that happen. Not one single time have we ever heard someone in the background say anything like “What the fuck is wrong with you?” much less calling him a child rapist or a war criminal or anything else.
That’s enough to tell me that every person in all of those rooms all of those times is far more concerned with themselves and their careers than with things like integrity and morality.