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        And will only get even more bolder as a consequence. It’s quite fascinating how that shit head is exposing so many flaws in the current political system. And yet very little is done about it.

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          I wish it were only the political system, but it is also the social contract that is being broken.

          Not everything in a society can and should be regulated by law. For example, we know not to cough or sneeze in someone else’s face, but to put our arm or hand in front of our face. It’s not a law and yet 99% of people know it and do it and call out people who don’t.

          The US political system worked well for a while because there were do’s and don’ts that weren’t made into law, but every politician respected them to some degree. The GOP no longer respects anyone or anything, not an unwritten rule or even a written law, but they want to be respected, they want their rights to be respected.

          This is not just happening in the US, I see it happening in the UK and Germany for example. Basic respect for each other is being lost more and more, between families, between neighbours, even between politicians. How do you get that back?

          We don’t know how to deal with it as a society. We can’t have a law for everything. We depend on people and politicians to keep within the minimum social rules and follow an unwritten code, and we have nothing to punish them if they don’t and they just ignore these rules and spit on them.

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            This is literally why China adopted a social credit system, which penalizes spitting in general but also includes spitting on rules.

            Not saying it is the best solution, just saying it exists.

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        It’s amazing how many times I’ve seen historians say that this is exactly how historic examples of fascism come about. First people laugh and think 'that would never happen. It’s too absurd. Then as day turns steadily into night you look around and realize it’s there and it’s too late.

        I have zero respect for anyone who continues to support the Republican Party, let alone Donald Trump. I can’t help but see the same gullible, immoral, selfish fools that supported the likes of Hitler in the early 30s.

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          The 100th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch was last week. History doesn’t repeat, but it certainly rhymes.

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            I missed this somehow a year ago. Now with Trump actually in power again it’s more accurate than it would have been if I had replied to this a year ago:

            History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce

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    this should be a clear violation of the gag order. but it wont be. theyll be some hand waving and he wont be held to account. and no, a monetary fine is not justice.

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      The gag order was in reference to court staff only, wasn’t it? Didn’t the judge explicitly leave himself off it? I forget which judge this is, there are so many

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        Trump isn’t a actually stupid. He’s just an asshole and normal people don’t get it.

        But if the judge left himself off, and if Trump can make him adjust the order to add himself, or otherwise indicate that he’s upset that he’s being targeted himself, Trump can and will then argue that the judge is making personal decisions and ask try to make drama about recusing. Which won’t go anywhere, but will ramp his followers up further.

        He knows exactly what he’s doing.

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          No he is just him. There’s no act. There’s no strategy. There’s no subterfuge. What you see is what you get and Trump is a very stupid person.

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            Lots of people are saying he’s the dumbest, maybe the dumbest that’s ever lived. Just the other day he was punching a baby, and the baby miraculously spoke its first words, calling him dumb. If Nobel had a prize for being dumb, he’d win every year. No one else can compare to his ultimate dumbness.

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      Constitution provides gallows. But we see what’s happened, what hasn’t, and to what extent, for whom.

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    The Judge after a Right Wing Terrorist puts a bullet in his head: “Let this $10000 fine be a warning to NOT let this happen again!”

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      If he’s not in America, he’s not much use to Russia. If he fled, the US would freeze his assets and seize his properties. All of his value would shrivel like his penis in a Siberian pool.

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    Remember, guys: defending free speech for Nazis is totally the best way to “preserve democracy”

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    I’m watching a coup so slo mo, it’s dragging out for almost four years, while Congress, the courts and doj do nothing.

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    I don’t know anything about how truthsocial works.

    Is “retruthed” the same thing as “retweeting” (or whatever that’s called now on xitter), or is it closer to “liking” something?

    Regardless, trump now thinks he’s found a loophole in the gag oder by letting other people post it and then boosting it somehow?

    The article was super confusing to me.

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    Hahaha, wow that’s great news. It was always apparent he didn’t understand what was happening around him, but he is really firing both barrels into his own feet here.

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      I believe it when he actually faces consequences for his ballant regard for every aspect of the justice system.

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        He’s facing fines, his family is in court, he’s already been found liable for rape, everyone was saying the same thing before he even went to court. That he would never actually go to court that he would never be found liable for rape, and now he has.

        This one incident isn’t so important except as a cumulative addition to his felonies. But everything added up is important and he is facing actual consequences.

        He’s a rapist. Anybody who votes for Trump or supports Trump is voting for and supporting a rapist. That will not change everyone’s minds, but it’s going to affect how some people vote.

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    The judge created this. By slapping him on the wrist, ever so gently, he is absolutely going to get more of it.

    Wise TF up judge. Jail. No posting anything about the trial, your court, or anyone involved. You are not dealing with a normal person. He’s a demented sociopath. You can not allow this.