Summary

Former federal prosecutor Sara Levine, fired by Trump, warned on 60 Minutes that the Justice Department is “under attack.”

Levine, who prosecuted January 6 rioters, said she was fired for upholding the law.

Legal expert Peter Keisler criticized Trump’s pardons of Capitol rioters, arguing they signal that crimes committed in support of Trump’s agenda may go unpunished.

These actions undermine the rule of law and discouraging accountability for political violence.

  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 hours ago

    Probably the part where I didn’t receive over a billion dollars in donations to actually get media attention. A lot of people have been campaigning to get people to ditch the Democrats because they’re controlled corporate stooges for the last few decades, I think you were shouting at them for supporting third parties at the time.

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      11 hours ago

      And they should have been shouted at. The current system does not allow for third party viability as disappointing as that is.

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        11 hours ago

        Uh-huh, and how is constantly voting for the lesser evil going for you? What did you seriously expect to happen? We’d just keep slipping towards fascism but never actually reach it?

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          7 hours ago

          You and people like you are the problem, and you’re blaming the people who are being directly affected by the poor decisions you yourself are choosing to make.

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            4 hours ago

            The fact that this is constantly the response from libs being called out is honestly the reason I have given up. I’ve spent the last decade being politically active, trying to motivate Americans to vote in their own self-interest for things that will actually improve their lives, and I’ve received nothing but insults and assumptions from centrists who’ve never done a damn thing to prevent the collapse we’re witnessing now.

            So yeah, fuck it. My informed opinion after campaigning for third parties and leftists for years is that Americans deserve everything that is going to happen to us. You didn’t want a democracy, and now you don’t have one. Congrats!

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              The main difference is one smiles at you while stabbing you in the back, and the other laughs at you while gutting you.

              Either way, you’re dead.

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              4 hours ago

              Honestly, it’s hard to fault politically disconnected people who feel that way. The democrats are just the ratchet strap that keeps us from going any further left while the republicans drag us farther right. The GOP also has a literal firehose of constant media drenching the working class while the democrats just suck on the corporate peepee. I voted for harris this time because it was the lesser evil but i am starting to understand how someone who doesn’t pay attention winds up voting for trump.

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      9 hours ago

      Read up on how Hitler took power in the first place.

      A lot of people hated him, but they hated other politicians more and decided that letting him have a go at it wouldn’t be a bad thing.

      If you thought a third party was going to come to the rescue in 2024 you have my abject sympathy.

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        2 hours ago

        The problem?

        Neither party was ever going to save us.

        Assuming Harris won, she would just keep riding Bidens policy, and chant “I’m not Trump” and pretend it was good enough.

        Until Trump ran again, and again… Dems never changing, except keep moving to the right.

        I mean… Dick Fucking Cheney and her teaming up? Fucking christ.

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          So, you’re saying that Dick Cheney was willing to change a lifetime habit and stand up against fascism but you are going to let Trump keep rolling instead of doing something useful?

          Or do you have a credible 3rd Party that’s on the ballot in all fifty states?

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              1 hour ago

              Or do you have a credible 3rd Party that’s on the ballot in all fifty states?

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                Not what I asked.

                I asked, was he really opposing fascism? You know, the guy who is the reason for a false flag invasion, and the PATRIOT Act? The orchestrator of enhanced interrogation? The founder of Gitmo? Creator of prisoner rendition?

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                  1 hour ago

                  He was voting for Harris, not Trump.

                  And now answer my question. What’s your great plan?

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                    1 hour ago

                    So, you think a fascist voting against another fascist is, in fact, voting to oppose fascism?

                    Boy, are you naive…

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        A third party had no chance of coming to the rescue in 2024 because everyone has attacked third parties in the U.S. for at least the three decades I’ve been alive, and I’m pretty sure for another few decades before that.

        Also, you’re conveniently ignoring the economic conditions of the Weimar Republic that made the rise of Nazism in Germany an inevitability. Just like all the libs ignoring the economic conditions in the U.S. that led to the rise of Trumpism.

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          So, we agree. There was no other option except Harris and people didn’t vote for Harris because they decided it was more important to blame the Dems then fight the actual fascist.

          But yes, I’m sure that the same folks who couldn’t get Bernie nominated in 2016, 2020, and 2024 will become political savants now and organize a powerful third party in less than 24 months.

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            The Dems rightfully got blamed for being genociders.

            They also were rightfully blamed by ignoring the working class demands.

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              And what exactly is your plan going forward?

              Going to build a might 3rd party in less than 24 months?

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                Nope. Arming and training my neighbors; work to grow more food with my neighbors; work on every home having at least a month of food, water and meds; building up our mutual aid networks…

                You know? The things that end up making it so you don’t need a state at all!

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            5 hours ago

            I think you’re looking at it from the wrong angle. The problem is that the moderate libs have consistently shut down third party and leftist options for the last few decades. Since the Democrats haven’t had any competition, they have abandoned their constituency, and now work exclusively for corporate interests. By constantly voting for the “lesser evil”, you have allowed them to blossom into an evil that the average American cannot distinguish from fascism.

            I’m not expecting anyone to organize anything. At this point, I’m just pulling up a chair to watch the collapse. But good job insulting the Bernie Bros who tried to pull you out of this downward spiral, it’s good to know that the center will punch left no matter what.

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              , I’m just pulling up a chair to watch the collapse.

              Sounds like you have a pretty privileged position in the world.

              Don’t have to worry about educating kids, or grandparents losing social security, or anything else.

              BTW, I was a Bernie bro who contributed to him three times. I got to watch that money do nothing because people like you were sitting, waiting for the collapse.

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                  Yes, you certainly sound like the sort of person to take advice from.

                  Good luck with the teenage angst.