• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This surely can only go well. The article doesn’t state much about the protestors angle at all. It just sounds like an authoritarian play using a draconian interpretation of long-standing laws to fuck with people you don’t like. Has nothing to do with actual racketeering or organized criminal activity, just some right-wing thought experiment trying to turn wording against their enemies. Never works in court though, so I don’t get why they keep trying this noise.

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        1 year ago

        Well that’s just idiotic grandstanding if true, because Trump’s plays out the steps EXACTLY on how to catch a RICO charge. It’s like a ‘Criminal Racketeering and Conspiracy to commit 100 Kinds of Fraud: For Dummies’ book.

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          It’s not ‘just’ idiotic grandstanding, it’s also how Republicans are intentionally eroding the power of our institutions.

          Any tool that is brought to bear against them, they’ll try to undermine and abuse so it’s less effective for anything. They want it to look like RICO is just a partisan tool to go after your enemies. That makes democrats look as petty as them - if you ignore reality.

          One of the ways you can tell Republicans are actively trying to destroy our democracy is the way the prefer political strategies that do as much institutional damage as possible.

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        And the governor praised the charges. That mother fucker needs to be removed from office. Republicans and conservatives need to be all removed from society.

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          Would that be the same Georgia governor who, as Georgia Secretary of State, oversaw his own election as governor, whose win against Stacey Abrams was (and will ALWAYS be) suspicious as hell, and who is even now doing everything in his power to make it harder for the people of Georgia to vote, especially people of color? That governor?

          “Needs to be removed from office” is a great start. But if actual justice were applied under the law, that shithead would have a lot more to fear than a simple removal and retirement into mild disgrace.

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        1 year ago

        Thank you. I’ve been waiting for someone to point that out since the story first broke.

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        1 year ago

        Did Trump pass out fliers? Organize a protest? Offend murders by calling them murderers? Was he arrested for wearing a yellow hat? Does he own a curious monkey named George?

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      “Never works in court…”

      If you don’t think dragging someone in to court and having to pay for and deal with all that BS isn’t undue punishment enough, then you’re either heartless all the same or not thinking it through.

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        Yeah the hassle/hardship that a lot of these people will endure due to these trumped up (no pun intended) charges is the real point; that and trying to deter others from using their rights to protest. I seriously doubt the prosecutors think they will actually win in court.