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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • OR here’s a thought — now hear me out — you don’t because those charitable donations are a treatment of a symptomatic issue reflective of failed government policy to begin with. So if you really want to address the root cause and actually reshape the party from a top-down approach, then I encourage you follow my strategy.

    Or you know, you can donate to both.

    • The more money that goes to AOC, the greater her voice in the Democratic party.
    • The greater her voice, the greater the progressive shift in the Democratic party.
    • The greater the progressive shift in progressive economic populism, the better outcomes for Women’s and LGBTQ+ rights.


  • It’s easy to volunteer other people, but these are civil servants who inherently believe in the rule of law by default. That programming in itself makes it hard to go against this lifelong belief in doing things by the book.

    I hope they can do what they can to resist, but I also don’t believe this is on them either. If the former President in a position of power couldn’t put the brakes on this shit; if we as a society couldn’t put the brakes on this on November 5th… Well, my expectations are very low. Things will have to come crashing down hard until the apathetic and ignorant wake up, I suspect.


    • He walks into his office late January, 2021.
    • They immediately begin what is literally the largest criminal investigation and prosecution in the DOJ’s history, going after Jan 6th insurrectionists.
    • They continue getting confessions, plea deals, and building a bottom-up investigation that builds corroborating evidence

    These under the constraints of:

    • Federal judges including SCOTUS stacked with Trump-appointed corrupt judges.
    • Garland going up against an organized crime syndicate with an entire party and propaganda apparatus and effectively unlimited money to put up in defense.
    • A jury pool almost impossible to be untainted while Defense need only convince 1 idiot on the jury.
    • By 2022, the Congressional Jan 6th hearings went all the way through summer and into October. If you’re Garland, you observe and gather more evidence because why not? Just keep strengthening the case. You’ll need it.
    • Garland hands off to Jack Smith literally the day after Trump formally files to run for President again (again, to avoid technicalities on conflict of interest).
    • As late as 2023, Smith gets massive testimonies from the likes of Trump’s Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows. Valuable enough to grant immunity.

    It seems very obvious to me that this was a classic bottom-up case you see similar to RICO cases in white collar or organized crime syndicates. Garland had to ensure his case was extremely tight given the nature of going after a former President and the courts.

    Let’s instead blame:

    • The courts who were ones proven to actually obstruct.
    • The voters who many saw what happened and still chose to sit out or still vote for the felon.

    I’d rather he have done it right and not get a verdict than rush it and Trump gets vindicated by a technicality or a Not Guilty.

    I know a lot of people are frustrated, but using Garland or Smith as the scapegoat makes zero sense. Just because it didn’t go as quickly as we as the general public and legal laypersons wished doesn’t mean he delayed. There is no actual evidence he delayed anything. In fact I’ll go so far as to say Garland did everything perfectly and it was pretty much an impossible feat given the cards stacked against him.