Look, I am wholly on your side in matters Desperate Donny and the Mango Messiah, but picking up on this and that point such as you do does nothing - it has gone WAY beyond that.
That gang of fascists thugs don’t give a flying fuck whether or not an act was a crime or a misdemeanour of a civil offence.
An analogy might be the Gestapo in Nazi Germany throwing someone into jail who then complains ‘but you didn’t read me my rights!’ Who, I wonder, will give a fuck?
From where I sit in Europe the US is in FAR bigger trouble than you on the ground might think.
It would NOT be too dramatic to suggest that the current situation with Trump and Miller and Vought, Noem, Hegseth, Bondi, Patel etc can go two ways only and one of those way will conclude in civil war.
Trump is slowly getting his ducks in a row, of which the most crucial was SCOTUS: does he or does he not have a majority of SCOTUS in his pocket? That will be the crunch and it is not looking great.
It’s all very well for court after court to rule against Donny on this or that matter, but the final appeal will be to SCOTUS. And SCOTUS has already crossed a red line by declaring ’a president cannot be held criminally for responsible for a presidential act’.
Here the dangerous weasel phrase is ’presidential act’ - essentially so fucking vague as to be meaningless. And when push comes to shove guess who will judge whether an act was ’presidential’ or not ? Right first time: SCOTUS - which has already crossed that red line.
WWI began, in a sense, by accident. A civil war in the US would - will? - also break out by accident. The country is already starkly and wholly divided down the middle. So set about making sure it does not happen. Take nothing for granted.
Remember, those opposed to Trump also have guns and can also be hotheads. This could get very much out of hand and perhaps we don’t want to be able in 50 years to be able to write history and political science dissertations on ‘Well, who was responsible for it all?’
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