• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    … they could face federal anti-racketeering charges that were designed to bust up organized crime.

    Not even the Onion could come up with something this bat-shit silly.

    It’s now a crime for hurting baby Donnie’s feelings. Oh, poor baby Donnie. Do you need a lollipop baby boy?

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    What a completely stupid waste of resources and degradation of the meaning of law & justice. If the words and application are made up, the whole thing loses meaning. Never mind a sane prosecutor knowing there’s little chance in court.

    People called you a shitty name. Aren’t you supposed to “be a man” and just get over it? Isn’t this just snowflake behavior? /s

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      Trump is (and has always been) “Mr. waste of resources and degradation of the meaning of law & justice.”

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      If the words and application are made up, the whole thing loses meaning

      Almost as if that’s the intention…

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      The point is to waste the other persons resources. Even if / when it’s dismissed it may bankrupt them.

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    Turns out they WILL let him get away with a shooting on 5th Ave in broad daylight. He shot the social contract right in the face 🤷

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      He didin’t just shoot it, he shot it, raped it, threw money at it, and told it to get an abortion.

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        President Camacho was made aware of a major issue and he found the smartest man on earth to fix it.

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            Idiocracy is a relatively heartwarming and cute depiction of the future. If they tried to make it realistic it would feel like a surreal spoof of Downfall.

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    Lets see if they can get a grand jury to indict them. They’ve gotten a bunch of no bills already so one more will be fitting.

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    “Could” face RICO charges but WILL not. Because nothing the protesters did was a violation of any part of the RICO act.

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      Sadly what I’ve seen from the judicial system whenever trump starts to throw laws around hasn’t been a stellar response, so while I’d like to have full faith in said system, I don’t.

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        A grand jury would have to indict them, and DC grand juries are hostile to Trump’s bullshit. Faith has nothing to do with it.

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      True. But Rico sounds scary since it’s always used against gangs and the mob. So they will keep saying it to make it sound scary

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        And it gives their followers something to latch onto, and repeat over and over. It gets traction with their own people. If you were to ask them how their protesting is a RICO issue, they’ll go blank.

        It’s like back when a few podcasters talked about FISA warrants for a few minutes, and suddenly every MAGA thought they had doctorate level expertise on FISA warrants. Now they like to randomly toss that buzzword into a discussion, and get all arrogant when you don’t instantly understand the connection to FISA warrants, because it isn’t relevant at all.

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      Greenpeace just got hit with a bogus private Rico lawsuit in North Dakota brought by the oil companies. They did all of these mailers as well to all the perspective jurors.

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      The DOJ is controlled by Trump. The Supreme Court majority is corrupt. At the federal level, there is no law, only arbitrary use of force, backed by bullshit excuses.

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    Well good thing we have a Constitution to protect us, right everyone? I think we should all be making sure we have hard copies for the future or it too will be destroyed like Wikipedia probably will be.