Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him"

Jaysyn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist, but I suspect that the Democrats intentionally pressured to delay those prosecutions with the following idea, “If we wait until the last minute, then these prosecutions of crimes, which we 100% know Trump is guilty of, will torpedo Trump’s presidential chances, and the Republicans won’t have any time to boost a different candidate.”

  I think they didn’t expect that the most slam-dunk case, the classified files case, would be pulled by one of the most outlandishly corrupt pro-Trump judges we’ve ever seen, Aileen Cannon.

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  • Jaysyn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t care why they did it. It was either the wrong call or an unforced error. One that we are paying for.

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  • protist@retrofed.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I sincerely disagree with this. I think Merrick Garland genuinely viewed his role and himself as “separate” from or “above” politics or the threat Trump posed. This is honestly more in line with previous DOJs as far as political impartiality, however he was not what we needed in that moment.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Either that, or they thought letting Trump run again would make their candidate a shoe in, so they wouldn’t have to try at all and could run a “Status Quo, everything is fine so nothing is going to change” candidate.

    Either way they put their own desires for power above law and order.

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Know what else would do that? A deep dark military prison cell he’s never allowed out of, or a firing squad.

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• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I will never forgive him for the Gaza Genocide

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  • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was under the impression that it was Israel invading Gaza.

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    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And which country is Pi$$rael the lapdog of? Which country could have ended the genocide with a single phone call? (Not a defense of Reagan btw)

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      • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        From an outsider, the US has always looked like the lapdog tbh. Not that I disagree that Biden (and every other president before and after him) should have been telling Israel to fuck off.

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      • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If Netanyahu just says nope to Trump’s peace plan, why would he say yes to Biden’s?

        And Reagan didn’t achieve shit - Israel carried on building in the occupied territories regardless, and they only abandoned their war in Lebanon because it was going badly. Reagan did telephone the Israeli prime minister but the Israeli cabinet had already voted to stop the campaign that day, but of course Reagan wanted to take credit for that and announced how stern he was on the phone and the American news outlets of course delighted in fluff pieces praising the president for stopping the war. But that’s all it was. Fluff.

        So, no, your “American president can stop Israeli wars with one phone call” is BS,

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    • mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      With usa full support

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• MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As much as I personally would have liked it, I cannot support making the justice department nakedly partisan/political. It’s horrifying that trump has tried to do so and I’m relieved the guardrails are still (basically) holding.

  It’s hard to be the good side. Like how the movie villain gets to throw babies for the hero to rescue (God, Hard Boiled is so good) but we don’t win by becoming the bad guys ourselves.

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  • NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Failing to prosecute a known criminal out of a fear of appearing nakedly partisan/political is, as it turns out, as bad as corrupting the justice dept to make it nakedly partisan/political.

    Biden should have had an AG who went after criminals regardless of the political consequences.

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    • mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If trump went to jail, it would mean every alive presidents could be persecuted including Biden do it will never happen

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    • MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Firing the AG for not prosecuting the cases you want prosecuted, IS nakedly political.

      The DOJ’s independence is one of the strongest guardrails protecting American democracy and why so many decent people have resigned rather than submit.

      Look at trials in Russia (about which there are some amazing albeit depressing documentaries) to see where a coopted justice department ends up.

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      • Jaysyn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Well, your so called guardrails were never anything more than a gentleman’s agreement, that much is plainly obvious.

        The simple fact is Garland’s DoJ completely failed to provide timely justice for the citizens of the USA. Full fucking stop.

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      • NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Agreed. The problem was the appointment.

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