• Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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      She couldn’t care less. She’s aiming for a Supreme Court pick if Trump gets re-elected. She’d be a perfect replacement for Clarence Thomas.

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        If a reckoning came her way, would it be a supreme Court thing right away? I do worry she’ll skate if it is … but I half worry J. Alito or J. Thomas feel they could simply whack a progressive counterpart and then have no court in which to defend themselves … and thus skate as well to open up space for her.

        Nightmare fuel and nothing more, of course.

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      Considering that right now fascists are gaining power everywhere in the “western world”, it doesn’t seem likely. Well, not until decades and probably a bloody war or two later, at any rate.

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        And she’ll be a footnote, after she’s spent her life ensconced in power and being showered with gifts for serving the cause. She’ll have a much nicer life than people who had integrity and cared about their fellow man, but we’ll be comforted that someday she’ll get her judgement.

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          I doubt she’ll get any judgement in life, and being agnostic I doubt she’ll get any after it.

          Unfortunately, much too often the reward of evil is wealth and power.

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        She probably would not have denied it had the prosecutors had a 3-7 minute conversation with Trump’s defense and had determined they couldn’t have come to an agreement. Prosecutorial arrogance allowed them to just ignore procedure and they figured they could get away with it.

        Also, if the prosecutors have such good evidence, maybe instead of worrying so much about what Trump is speechifying on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, they could just prosecute him? Are they really afraid that a jury is so stupid that they are going to be persuaded by Trump ranting tweets or Xes or whatever they are called now on that enshitified platform? Either they have weak evidence or this is just a power play to try to control Trump’s ability to say what he wants (and ignore the court rules) and they thought they could get away with it.

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        Not much I can do on my end, considering I don’t live in the US. I’ll keep watching the dumpster fire from above.

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          Holy shit, how are things in heaven, and how do I get there?

          Oh wait, you mean space? Same questions!

          j/k just hoping the populist conservatism doesn’t catch hold in Canada.

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            We have angry Milhouse stirring shit up North, so yeah populist conservatism is on the rise.