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Rumors and Ruminations: Trump’s Arrest
So there’s this big rumor going around: Trump gonna be arrested. I don’t know the specifics and I do not care.
This nakedly political oppression under the color of law is just another step in a long series of abuses and usurpations. We see it every day, especially on days close to an election, but really, it’s everywhere, every day.
I don’t know what will happen. Maybe these headlines get packed away in a box to be deployed at a later date. Maybe there’s just some paper moved. I can’t imagine a perp-walk. And anyway, I don’t know what I’ll do. Probably nothing. Maybe something.
Say what you will about Trump and how much you don’t like him, and the charges are valid, and there’s this tape you see… whatever. Democrats do not get so much as threatened with anything, whereas Republicans get impeached, investigated, and prosecuted. I do not care about the specifics. It’s the pattern which matters, and which is undeniable.
I don’t expect to convince anybody of anything — I’m hardly convinced myself — and I certainly won’t begrudge the RTs and the NTs their reluctance to get worked up over this on the particulars. The pattern, however, is probably where we will find more common ground on the right.
Today, the knob on an awful machine is set for Trump. Do they dare fire it?
Wars have started for reasons less directly, less visibly, less obviously a casus belli. We may be in the early throes of the collapse of what has been called “the everything bubble” for the last decade. Bad time to strike a match.
Published in General
I envision a boomer-con with a pillow over his head muttering some mantra about wanting to go back to the Bush years.
This is third world, banana republic type of thing. The country has really fallen. And I say the country because there are enough Democrats who support this. What is their end goal? I guess it draws plenty of donations. I don’t see any other reason.
Agree on classified documents but on this issue what law has he exactly broken? From what I understand it was some sort of agreement to not talk about their affair.
Seems like they’re trying to make the legal issue not that he paid her, but HOW he paid her, from WHAT MONEY she was paid, whatever. Although, as already mentioned, it was lawyer Michael Cohen who actually did the payment and he’s already been prosecuted/disbarred/etc for supposedly paying her from campaign funds or donations or something.
All I can figure is that now they’re trying to say that Trump instructed Cohen to pay her from illegal funds or something. Or maybe that it was a crime that Cohen was reimbursed as a “legal expense” although somehow Hillary calling the Steele Dossier a “legal expense” was fine.
The left, corporate media and the justice system all exhibit the same issues that they accuse Trump of.
Demagogy
Abuse of Power
Controlled by a foreign power (How many have ties to the CCP)
Ok. Thanks.