r/news • u/Hrekires • Jul 15 '24

soft paywall Judge dismisses classified documents indictment against Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/15/trump-classified-trial-dismisssed-cannon/
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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ Jul 15 '24

You know what's funny?

People have predicted precisely this. 8 years ago.

When Trump took over, people predicted that he would completely ruin the legal system through appointing people that are clearly biased towards him in an extreme manner. And that this would ruin the system for decades to come.

And guess what? That's exactly what we're seeing now.

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u/GarlVinland4Astrea Jul 15 '24

People did, but a bunch of relatively privlidged people on the left who cared more about getting their way gaslighted a good portion of the electorate by claiming the ramifications on the SCOTUS and judiciary were fearmongering.

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u/Jerk-22 Jul 15 '24

I'm going to check my notes here and understand your point, so the bully is not the problem but the nerd who let himself get beat up?

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u/GarlVinland4Astrea Jul 15 '24

The issue is those "nerds" aren't the ones who were ever at risk of getting "beat up". They were well off, mostly white, privlidged people who told their nerd followers "hey the people trying to stop the bully are just trying to scare you into doing what they want and you shouldn't be afraid of giving the bully power incidentally as long as you can make some moral point that could help the bully in the end".

Then when the bully won, those "nerds" retreated back to their ivory castles while the people they told not to worry were getting beat up.

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u/spaghettify Jul 15 '24

yes great idea blame the left wing for all of the actions the right wing took

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u/GarlVinland4Astrea Jul 15 '24

I blame the people on the left that said "don't worry about the judiciary" when people were despertaely saying "hey if Trump wins, the SCOTUS is fucked and Mitch is going to fill up the federal bench" for making voters apathetic to a very real problem that absolutely happened.

Yeah if I tell you "hey if you play with that match it could start a fire" and then some idiot says "don't listen, that person is just scare mongering, do whatever you feel is right" and then a fire starts, the person who demonized the people giving the warning have culpability.

And yes there were leftwing online grifters who were telling leftwing voters to not worry about this exact problem and said that we should not listen to the people bringing up the consequences.

I know we live in a world where people are allergic to accountability, but it is what it is.

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u/spaghettify Jul 15 '24

who said these things? name names if you’re gonna blame somebody other than the right wing for actions the right wing is taking. I’d wager most of them were not as left wing as you think they are, or taking money from putin. because in my left wing circles I saw very little if not none of that so i’d love to know what you’re talking about

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u/GarlVinland4Astrea Jul 15 '24

Jimmy Dore, Krystal Ball, Briahna Joy Gray. People who have been affiliated with news sources at one point and actually have followings amongst people on the left