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   Alexander Karn (xankarn@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:09:56 JST Alexander Karn

   Useful idiot? Bad actor? Sycophant? Coward? We don't really have to choose here.

   Democracies don't do criminal justice at the ballot box. That's to ensure that rule of law does not succumb to rule of men.

   This is insane and dangerous. Gift link.

   https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/opinion/trump-criminal-cases.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bE4.-m_S.P9YGUejadeFX&smid=url-share

   #democracy #law #uspol #fascism

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     Alexander Karn (xankarn@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:09:54 JST Alexander Karn

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     By painting the state and local cases against Trump as weaponization and "law fare," Goldstein is telling readers that the legal system has already been thoroughly corrupted, which makes it disposable, i.e., ready for the scrap heap of history.

     They so badly want you to believe that the system is rotten and degraded. Once the promise of democracy has been undercut, nobody objects to its being discarded.

     False equivalence is fascist gold, and this is indistinguishable from MAGA propaganda.

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     Alexander Karn (xankarn@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:09:55 JST Alexander Karn

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     Wrapped into the main argument here, i.e., justice and law are whatever 75 million completely unqualified voters want, is another jaw-droppingly offensive sentiment:

     No other jurisdiction, state or local, matters, once the federal govt (the executive branch specifically) has been captured by a criminal clique.

     Autocracy is A-OK.

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     Alexander Karn (xankarn@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:09:55 JST Alexander Karn

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     • Anne Applebaum

     I don't ask for much, but if there is a hell, then Thomas Goldstein should have to spend eternity at an @anneapplebaum dinner party.

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     Alexander Karn (xankarn@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:09:55 JST Alexander Karn

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     Again, utterly insane. Judges/courts are partisan, but MAGA red hats can render justice impartially.

     "But the Constitution trusts the judgment of the American people to decide whether the cases against Mr. Trump [...] were political and calculated to stop him from being elected. The people had plenty of opportunities to hear both sides, and they have spoken. That judgment is the critical check we have against the possibility of politically driven prosecutions of presidential candidates."

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     Alexander Karn (xankarn@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:09:55 JST Alexander Karn

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     When Goldstein says "the people have spoken," let's remember that the MAGA bloc is less slightly less than half of those who voted, which is less than half of the population.

     Also, they didn't say a thing about these cases, which they didn't weigh as the law requires; by casting a vote, they just said something about who they want in power.

     Many MAGA voters concede that he is a criminal, but choose to empower him anyway.

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Alexander Karn (xankarn@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:09:56 JST Alexander Karn

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     It's not even lunch, and I really ought to know better, but this has to be today's upper limit on "Ohmyfucking god, America."