Used to be errbody on social media would scream "RICO" whenever anybody did anything coordinated. Then errbody on social media would scream "LOLRICO" whenever anybody looked into coordination, because they read that one thread by that one guy about that one thing and since he said he went to law school we all stroked our chins nodded thoughtfully and agreed hmmmmmm yes RICO convictions are very difficult I read it on IFLScience or some shit. Anyone. Who is basing any opinion. On past performance. Is delusional. I don't care what your legal theory is. You are so far off the map your compass is pointing at your car keys. Let her cook.Six days before pro-Trump operatives gained unauthorized access to voting systems, the local elections official who allegedly helped facilitate the breach sent a “written invitation” to attorneys working for Trump, according to text messages obtained by CNN.
Has there ever been a more open and shut case than "Find me the 11,780 votes"? It wasn't like he was oblique about it to try to preserve plausible deniability. He literally said make sure I win this by a single vote or I'm going to make sure you're charged with a crime. I mean, this will likely be a long trial but it should last for maybe like 6, 7 minutes.
I mean "would you like us to hack the voting machines for you" "yes please" is a lot more direct than that. But I'm too busy being reminded that Briscoe Cain exists to have a serious discussion
So far as I can tell, the conservative media sphere has more or less settled on the Sideshow Bob defense of attempted murder being nothing more than a liberal thought crime. WSJ keeps screaming "BUT IT DIDN'T EVEN WORK SO IT CAN'T BE A CRIME!!!!!!!!!"I don't care what your legal theory is. You are so far off the map your compass is pointing at your car keys.
If you prefer, Heather Cox Richardson has the kremlinology take. It's worth looking at Trump through the lens of Russian oligarchy. Nothing that has happened would surprise any Democrat if his name were Deripaska or Navalny.
Right - there are so many exercises in empathy that you can't help but expand your horizons. The problem is that liberals start these things with "what if my president" or "what if the front runner from my political party" without recognizing that the game is entirely different. You have to go "what if my chieftain" or "what if my shaman" or "what if my living god" in order to get there. "What if my chieftain had committed dozens of crimes against the world and my tribe will lose all power if I don't defend him? How can I spin that in the Wall Street Journal?" etc etc etc Democrats have it easy here - because liberals and Democrats spend so much time reasoning out whether or not this or that Democrat is worthy of their support, their rejection muscles are well-toned. "Oh, Al Franken held his hands in front of someone's boobs on a USO flight fifteen years ago? Yeah he's got to go." They don't really grasp just how spiritually, viscerally and completely the Republicans are ensnared. After all, they tried to banish Trump from the tribe for two solid years and he ran through them like clap through a whorehouse. He is the Republican Party, through and through, the big kahuna, the master of disaster, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. You can't unseat a champion through parliamentary procedure what kind of pussy are you? The smart ones know, however, that there will be a power vacuum if the other tribe murders their chief. But the smart ones know, however, that if they are complicit in murdering their chief they will be CAST OUT. Have you noticed how much "hostage language" every unnamed source has been using for the past 7-8 years? They did their best and now they're trapped. But so long as they're trapped, they gotta do what the tribe chooses to do, and the tribe chooses to well ackshully slavery. So they simultaneously spit fire and brimstone at those evil heathens hell bent on murdering their beloved chief while privately praying their chief will be murdered soon for the good of all mankind. I've come around on Mitch McConnell. I think I've realized that he set himself a goal, he knew there was only so much he could get done in his time left on this earth, and he went full nihilism on it. He doesn't give a shit what it will do to the Republican Party to strike down Roe V. Wade, what he cares about is striking it down to say he did, because he's been hell-bent on striking it down since Robert Fucking Bork. Promises made, promises kept, name an airport after me when I'm dead. times every Republican.
With 91 charges you dont actually need any functional legal theory except that that legal system can bankrupt and destroy anyone at scale. Trump is beyond done, it dosent matter even if he were innocent of every charge when the states bring that many lawsuits against you its impossible to defend. I dont think he would be able to get elected before these totally destroy him.