Trump's Federal Indictment Prompts Reax From Two Realities

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1. Forget who "they" are, I don't even know what "walls" Boebert is even imagining? Fucking whataboutism at its worst.

   If Republicans want to make America great, then trust in America's systems (courts, laws, etc.) and dump Trump. If they want to make America Trumpfuckistan then they should keep supporting Trump.

    

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2. This is all part and parcel of the Republican philosophy and policy today. They climb up on the Christian cross, wrap themselves in the American flag, proclaim they are here to save America from some nebulous straw man evil, and then proceed to tear down all the institutions we have built and nurtured for our health and safety over the past 250 years.

   Boebert’s tweet is only the latest example. To the so called conservatives, all our public institutions are evil and must be destroyed. The examples abound. Heidi Ganahl’s “furies” was nothing more than a way to undermine public confidence in our public education institutions. Trump is the master of this technique but it has been going on since the early 1980’s in Republican circles. The internet and outlets like FOX News has allowed this cancer to metastasize. Boebert is now telling us we cannot believe in the integrity of the courts. This morning Speaker McCarthy and other Republican House members joined her and broadened the attack to include the executive branch (DOJ and the FBI). In other words, law enforcement agencies and prosecutors can no longer be trusted. Of course all of this – the “furies,” Boebert’s previous statements about Biden, her statements about Trump’s indictment yesterday and McCarthy’s – have been made without offering any proof to back them up. 

   This behavior and mindset is the problem not our public institutions. Unmoored from objective facts, their assertions become delusions and their singular defense is “you can’t prove this isn’t happening,” thus, relieving themselves of any responsibility for offering substantive proof, and worse, for the consequences of their behavior. They have constructed a moral world in a vacuum where the only acceptable outcome is the destruction of our public institutions without the corresponding responsibility for that destruction and the consequences. The rest of the United States should follow Colorado’s lead and destroy the Republican Party at the polls. It no longer serves a legitimate purpose in American society.

    

    

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   1. "To the so called conservatives, all our public institutions are evil and must be destroyed"

      Reminds me of the Cultural Revolution under Chairman Mao. Or what the Khmer Rouge unleashed in "Democratic Kampuchea." 

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3. They climb up on the Christian cross, wrap themselves in the American flag, proclaim they are here to save America from some nebulous straw man evil…                                             
   “When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” –Attributed to Sinclair Lewis

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4. Mark Sumner of Daily Kos opines:

   The Department of Justice on Friday afternoon unsealed the indictment against Donald Trump and his “body man” Walt Nauta. The contents of those documents include 38 counts, including 31 charges of willful retention of national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act. Many of the documents involved appear to be presidential daily briefs that included classified information concerning multiple nations. Many of the documents are so classified that the names are redacted, but one of those not redacted shows that it included classified details about the nuclear arsenal of the United States. It’s an amazing list. ….

   But that’s just the charges.

   The details inside are … something else

   The 49-page document includes some stunning details.  Probably my favorite:

   Once the FBI opened an investigation, the concern about finding a place to stash the boxes increased, but it’s hard to say they got more “serious” when an effort to keep material hidden from both the DOJ and Trump’s attorneys included the possibility of hiding classified documents in a shower.

    

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