Summary

Former federal prosecutor Sara Levine, fired by Trump, warned on 60 Minutes that the Justice Department is “under attack.”

Levine, who prosecuted January 6 rioters, said she was fired for upholding the law.

Legal expert Peter Keisler criticized Trump’s pardons of Capitol rioters, arguing they signal that crimes committed in support of Trump’s agenda may go unpunished.

These actions undermine the rule of law and discouraging accountability for political violence.

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    6 hours ago

    This is what pisses me off about all the people who kept talking about how the Democrats were failing to get voters engaged in 2024.

    If the Dems weren’t doing the job, what was keeping you from stepping up?

    Its like there was a fire going on and people were complaining the firemen weren’t doing enough instead of jumping in and helping.

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      1 hour ago

      My analogy is that it was like someone threw a molotov cocktail through your window, but you let the house burn down because the window didn’t stop the bottle.

    • WagyuSneakers@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      I’m not a politician. I developed an entirely different set of skills. Throwing away my career at the potential of reskilling is absurd.

      And Dems weren’t doing their job. I’m tired of people pretending like that’s acceptable. I canvass. I get people ready to vote. I do my part.

      I can’t even tell you the last time a Dem policy benefitted me directly. What I have in common with them really just boils down to them being the only opposition right now. I pushed Harris like we had to and I’ll never forgive them for running such an unlovable candidate. They knew what they were doing. The second there’s another serious option I’m gone. Dems complete lack of opposition makes them complicit in everything that’s happening.

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        AOC and Omar have entered the chat.

        If you don’t like the Dems that are in power now, you can primary them. If we get another election.

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          Lmao if you get a primary. Trump wasnt the one who took that away from you last time, and he wasnt the one who screwed over bernie before that. Good job pointing to the two token progressives as if that doesnt prove the other guy’s point.

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      The Harris campaign spent a billion and a half dollars on “getting voters engaged” and she still lost anyway. All the phone-banking and door-knocking in the world can’t overcome the fundamental problem of refusing to adopt policies the people actually want!

      So please, explain to me exactly what the fuck kind of “stepping up” you expect randos from the Internet, who had no ability to affect the campaign’s platform, to actually fucking do?!

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          42 minutes ago

          That wasn’t enough for the grandparent commenter, who was trying to shame people for not getting other people to vote too.

    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Probably the part where I didn’t receive over a billion dollars in donations to actually get media attention. A lot of people have been campaigning to get people to ditch the Democrats because they’re controlled corporate stooges for the last few decades, I think you were shouting at them for supporting third parties at the time.

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        2 hours ago

        Read up on how Hitler took power in the first place.

        A lot of people hated him, but they hated other politicians more and decided that letting him have a go at it wouldn’t be a bad thing.

        If you thought a third party was going to come to the rescue in 2024 you have my abject sympathy.

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          A third party had no chance of coming to the rescue in 2024 because everyone has attacked third parties in the U.S. for at least the three decades I’ve been alive, and I’m pretty sure for another few decades before that.

          Also, you’re conveniently ignoring the economic conditions of the Weimar Republic that made the rise of Nazism in Germany an inevitability. Just like all the libs ignoring the economic conditions in the U.S. that led to the rise of Trumpism.

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        And they should have been shouted at. The current system does not allow for third party viability as disappointing as that is.

        • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          4 hours ago

          Uh-huh, and how is constantly voting for the lesser evil going for you? What did you seriously expect to happen? We’d just keep slipping towards fascism but never actually reach it?

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            18 minutes ago

            You and people like you are the problem, and you’re blaming the people who are being directly affected by the poor decisions you yourself are choosing to make.