• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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      It’s bizarre to see somebody believe that not only will a former Olympic athlete be sentenced for touching paint but to honestly believe he could be beaten into brain damage and die from it.

      Chances are the guy walks away scot free and then sues the US Government.

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        Sure it’s bizarre to see somebody believe that, but it’s because it is so easy to believe with all the shit going on, not because it’s something difficult to believe.

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        Wait until you find out what the current regime and its supporters thinks about being able to sue for violating the constitution.

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          Frankly, I don’t care what the buffoon thinks.

          We took his name off the Kennedy building, we’re suing comanies for AI racial bias, we blocked his DOJ from collecting trans medical records, and we just told his ICE to fuck off from immigration hearing locations.

          The courts aren’t completely corrupted yet and they are still in charge.

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            The courts aren’t completely corrupted yet and they are still in charge.

            You sure about that? I’d lto have faith in the rule of law, but the trump admin is increasingly ignoring court orders, despite the public wins you mentioned.

            I really feel like we’re going to see the admin trot out the apocryphal Andrew jackson quote of ‘the courts have made their decision, let them enforce it’ in the next year or so.

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        More things that you wouldn’t have thought possible in polite society have been happening in recent years.