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There supposed to be his sentencing on 26th, but after he won I doubt it will be anything.

Edit: after looking more into it, looks like he is appealing that president elect has the same rights to do any crime as president based not on Constitution or any law but on the DOJ memo.

Author gave many reasons I saw on social media, especially the top ones she mentioned like economy concerns or that she is a communist which are the opposite of reality.

She concentrated on what people are saying instead of why.

We are living in a world where huge part of population abandoned traditional news such as TV, newspapers and is getting their vote about the world via social media through memes and influencers.

The biggest problem with it is that this unlike traditional media is open to foreign interference. We had report of American bloggers being paid by Kremlin ridiculous amount of money, we have evidence of bots being used to persuade public opinion, astroturfing groups on Facebook and other social media that were traced to Russia.

And we still did nothing to stop it.

Half of America lives in a different reality. And it isn't just America but those efforts are happening also in Europe and other Western countries.

Nobody represents us, so we should represent ourselves: https://runforsomething.net/

Frankly, at this point he might as well do that (trump pardon) because trump will try to do it himself and SCOTUS will say it is constitutional.

It won't convince any MAGA of anything but at least we won't have that precedent.

Frankly, SCOTUS should not allow Ford to issue a blank pardon for Nixon, and say that pardon can only be issued after conviction and sentencing. That would eliminate possibility of so many other pardon shenanigans (blanket pardon, pocket pardon, self pardon, make someone do a crime for you then immediately pardoning them etc)

She has to take current strategy, because people like you are not voting, so in order to win she has to rely on votes of people that you don't agree with.

I read recently "On Freedom" by Timothy Snyder and he mentions that. Billionaires are sucking or wealth and when we suffer, we are told that this is temporary and toward a greater good (which never comes).

Sadly it is successful and a lot of Americans believe that.

It opened my eyes seeing how we are set up to fight each other (blaming minorities) while oligarchs are making our lives more miserable by hoarding country's wealth.

I still don't get how we ignored our own constitution and allowed insurectionist to have a second chance.

WTF America?

We desperately need tax on wealth.

Yeah, it primarily happens when people don't wash their hands, we normally have tons of them in certain place.

So yeah, ew.

In short, oligarchs want to get richer and want more power (there's never enough), you would think that poor conditions would wake people up, but as long as there less fortunate ones as us we are fine with it. It is easy to set us up against each other by telling that our misfortune is because of minorities and immigrants.

There's a book called On Freedom by Timothy Snyder that talks about it. I think everyone should read it. Once you are aware of the mechanisms it is easy to see.

You would think that Republicans breaking social security would surely lose them votes, but it is really easy to manipulate their base and tell them that there's not enough money in SSN because immigrants are getting free money and once again we are fighting with each other and once again oligarchs walk away with more wealth.

As long as DOJ would serve an indictment that would be a huge win.

You would think that maybe he would do photo op volunteering to help the hungry, but working at McDonald's is apparently more hot for politicians right now.