In 2023, how are these threats not immediately traceable and punished? Even burner phones have to be registered these days, right?
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Considering what happened to the January 6th insurrectionists, even if they're caught, they'll get a slap on the wrist.
What? Many of them are in prison for over a decade.
I'll have to find a tracker, but I think most of the insurrectionists received a very mild sentence, if any...
I think the only big punishment for them was taking away their guns since they're felons now. Though I doubt that will stop them
Maybe the “regular” people, but show me one of the GOP members who has been put in prison? Especially the orange stain himself.
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The cops and FBI are on their side, that's why.
Hell, a decent chunk of the posts are probably from cops.
There is a long history of law enforcement not taking threats of violence seriously, when they come from white conservative groups.
The Secrete Service might. As far as I know they take all threats to the president as pretty serious. But that only helps the president, not the rest of us.
Perhaps in the past, but at least as of a few years ago, the USSS was heavily infiltrated by MAGA fascists.
Carol Leonnig’s book Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service goes into great detail on how compromised that organisation has become.
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some of those who work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Remember when hrc was lambasted for calling these folks deplorable?
I always thought she was right and she should doubled down.
She was proven right in polls about their attitudes soon after.
Unfortunately for her those deplorables vote.
Well, anyone holding deplorable positions was not going to vote for her, no matter what. All the pearl-clutching tone police seem to overlook that when they lecture her...
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Unfortunately, being right doesn't matter in a popularity contest.
I do wonder how things would have panned out if she'd won - I can't help but think Trump would have been replaced by someone better able to overthrow democracy...
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I hope they are doing their best to track each one of these terrorists down and throwing the book at them. All the better to have these thugs wrapped up in the justice system with trials, prison time, etc...give them something to occupy their time, esp. if some other big event calls them (like J6), they can stay away due to serving time or having to show up to trial, etc...
I hope they are doing their best to track each one of these terrorists down and throwing the book at them.
I'm sure justice will be as swift and harsh as it was for the January 6 insurrectionists. Which is to say, they'll slow walk it and hand out insultingly minor sentences when they absolutely have to do anything at all.
Federal judiciary doesn't take kindly to threats. Neither does the FBI.
I sure hope they start taking this all very seriously before the orange blob (or a proxy) is able to seize power.
They won't
FBI is part of it but the us Marshalls oversee Federal courts, they're not super politically biased and will fuck some people up if given a reason. Don't fuck with the federal Marshall service.
Its whack how we have a whole ass terror cell in our government nobody does anything about.
Anyone else remember back in 2020 when the conservative bullshit spewing machine (Fox News) was saying how democrats weren’t going to be able to accept the outcome of the election and that conservatives handle these things with dignity and maturity?
They also tried claiming that Trump not accepting the election results was fine because Hillary didn't accept the results in 2016. This despite definitive proof that Hillary conceded that night. But they can't let something as pesky and minor as facts get in the way of their talking points.
Yeah they just lie, it’s not like the morons will fact check and even if they do stumble upon the truth it defaults to lib conspiracy.
Any conservative who hasn’t walked away from Trump and/or the federalist society never will. They are lost.
Hell, I remember those "Sore Loserman" signs from the 2000 election.
They've hit us with so damn much hypocrisy since then that maybe they just expect us to tune it all out.
So innocent. Right folks?
I highly doubt these mental midgets took care to properly hide their identity when making these calls. I'm fairly confident they could easily be round up and charged with criminal threats against an officer of the law.
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From the moment he was put on this case he knew his life as he previously knew it was over. He knew this was coming. Trump and his followers want to destroy the world if it refuses to conform to their wishes.
Trump already violated Engoron’s gag order twice, costing him $15,000.
I gagged. That’s less than the cheapest car on the market. For violating two gag orders in a civil fraud trial.
Unsurprising. Republicans are cunts like that.
I mean, his rights? Isn't the point of the judicial system to strip away some rights when you do something illegal?
in this case its all about the drawn out appeal. trumps famous not for winning, but for dragging cases out so long it doesnt matter anymore.
in this case, hes already guilty hes just literally throwing tantrums to create noise that might allow for an appeal. and its a longshot, as no one appears to be giving him an inch of appealable activity.
its painful to watch, but its all about the appeal avoidance.
Fucking terrorists plain and simple
Only hundreds?
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