• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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      2 years 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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      2 years ago

      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.

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        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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            There were SO many irregularities and non-standard events in both elections it’s hard to remember them all now, but no single smoking gun.

            But his primary method has always been voter suppression, as Secretary of State it was his job to oversee elections, and by no coincidence, the votes he suppressed through questionable electoral practices (like removing all polling places in a densely populated district except one, making it illegal to drive others to polling places, etc) almost always take place in economically depressed areas and high concentrations of people of color: the people who would vote for Stacey Abrams in a landslide.

            To start, check out the Wikipedia page for Fair Fight Action and the related groups that Stacey Abrams formed to fight voter suppression in Georgia, as what they are fighting tends to be what amounts to Kemp’s standard operating procedure.

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              Is still putting up a fight? Because I love for her to become Georgia governor. She shut down that cop city I am sure.

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      2 years ago

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

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      2 years 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?