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(DIR) Post #AWWaXLOse9I9h4johM by leo@twit.social
2023-06-09T19:30:06Z
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This is an historic day: Jack Smith has taken the first steps on a path that will put a former US president in jail. I vividly remember the Watergate hearings when I was in college. It’s important that the whole country see justice being served. Trust in the rule of law is the glue that holds our Republic together.
(DIR) Post #AWWambItnebVMTDOiG by markb@universeodon.com
2023-06-09T19:32:52Z
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@leo hear, hear
(DIR) Post #AWWasGUO6LLsXkI1qq by jaykass@universeodon.com
2023-06-09T19:33:54Z
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@leo chances of a conviction feels high. Chances of a prison sentence feels low.
(DIR) Post #AWWattfXutI2LbHrlY by Ahakim@twit.social
2023-06-09T19:34:11Z
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@leo nobody will throw a bigger party than me if trump goes to prison. I have absolutely no faith that will ever happen though.
(DIR) Post #AWWavJu7rPEy0Imki0 by Chimaera@mastodon.world
2023-06-09T19:34:11Z
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@leo I really hope you’re right. So much has changed since Watergate in the way that people consume their “news.”
(DIR) Post #AWWb2HTpGutEVpnqgy by monorailtimes@worldkey.io
2023-06-09T19:35:43Z
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@leo more like Mar-a-Lago house arrest, then he dies from a Big Mac heart attack
(DIR) Post #AWWb8J7Q5nBvKeCEgy by johndgriffith@twit.social
2023-06-09T19:36:47Z
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@leoNixon never served a day of prison time. I trust that we won't make that mistake again.
(DIR) Post #AWWbpfhA1swXntajaa by rpardee@hachyderm.io
2023-06-09T19:44:37Z
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@leo from your keyboard to god's feed.It feels like a necessary step for the US also b/c it's no longer really tenable to view SCOTUS as anything other than a collection of politicians in robes. That doesn't really pass the straight-face test anymore unfortunately.At least the criminal law is only ridiculously slow and inefficient, not altogether broken where the overprivileged are concerned.
(DIR) Post #AWWf58cn3INfjWc7Si by mlanger@mastodon.world
2023-06-09T20:21:02Z
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@leo I'd love nothing more than to see TFG in an orange jumpsuit, but we all know it just ain't gonna happen.
(DIR) Post #AWWixYpc8DWUVpFpvE by mausmalone@mastodon.social
2023-06-09T21:04:29Z
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@leo I wish that right now I had both your trust and your optimism. I really do hope this results in prison but the indictment is, at least, a good step.
(DIR) Post #AWWmtokFQJWwWdDO4W by Runyan50@newsie.social
2023-06-09T21:48:36Z
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@leo @danvanmoll Yes! This trial should be televised.
(DIR) Post #AWWn5qtxEOYSglUflw by shortwavesurfer2009@digitaldarkage.cc
2023-06-09T21:50:47Z
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@leo we dont need to have this sham of a dictatorship held together. Just likd our social media the US needs to break up into much smaller regions where the "politicians" (thugs) can be easier to hold to account for their criminal actions
(DIR) Post #AWWwSPR8PU6JkvqPi4 by scottmatter@aus.social
2023-06-09T23:35:42Z
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@leo Yes.And, maybe it would be a next step along the path towards a future where- no one is above the law (not even the wealthy, the influential, and the corporate persons)- the law is not a mechanism for producing structural inequality- the law is fairly and justly applied to all, rather than applied in ways that reveal racial, socio-economic, and other forms of discrimination Trust in that sort of rule of law might produce a far better Republic.
(DIR) Post #AWWxdrOQuPqZbJbYki by ClaudeStewart2001@twit.social
2023-06-09T23:49:00Z
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@leo I remember it as it was happening and thinking how terrible it was. But this was so much more awful. Back then I don't remember there being factions that would follow Nixon through thick and thin. I think people were just happy to get rid of him.
(DIR) Post #AWXAXLmOphSLDi2bs8 by martlund@mastodon.online
2023-06-10T02:13:29Z
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@leo I fear the sleazy donald with jump bail.
(DIR) Post #AWaOI0vW3yBh2ClZk8 by kurrywaine@social.linux.pizza
2023-06-11T15:31:42Z
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@leo guess I’m unfollowing you too. I didn’t realize you’d be posting biased political content.