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    Alternate headline: Bannon tells GOP they’ve been doing just an absolute fuckton of crimes.

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    You mean the people who betrayed America and let hundred of thousand of Americans needlessly die in the pandemic?

    Then cut aid to foreign governments so they could bail out their authoritarian friends causing hundreds of thousands more people around the world to die needlessly?

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    Bannon is a piece of shit ghoul but of MAGAs most influential assholes he’s ones of the few that has enough guile to understand what will happen if they somehow lose the gambit they’ve embarked upon. Things are only going to escalate from here after the big loses they suffered Tuesday and as the economy continues to ride a unicycle on a 2x4 across the Grand Canyon

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      Bannon is a piece of shit ghoul but of MAGAs most influential assholes he’s ones of the few that has enough guile to understand what will happen if they somehow lose the gambit they’ve embarked upon.

      I wonder if Bannon and trump internally refer to this future state as being Bolsonaro’d.

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        The system will not deliver justice. People’s justice might not be as kind as what Bolsonaro’s getting.

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      I found the book mindfuck so interesting listening through who bannon was when the guy first met him and the journey to what he became.

      We tend to assume these pieces of shit were always as bad as they currently are, so listening to stories like that are quite valuable to understanding how we get to where we are/were. The way this kind of awful can grow in the right person.

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    These people have been gleefully plotting to form hunting parties to track and murder minorities and anyone who’s against their agenda. Prison would be too lenient.

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    If a 2028 Democratic presidential candidate has any platform other than arresting Republican figureheads, I will not support them. Lawbreakers and criminals belong in prison.

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      I’ll be honest, I would not have had the left campaigning on “lock him up” but I’m not sure there can be any other option.

      If they cop out with some unity bullshit it will just happen again in 4 years when people forget or decide they need a change or whatever.

      Yay 2 party systems.

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        Both lock them up and make america better should be campaign. With all the specifics of course

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    If you have to change the way the country works so you don’t go to prison, you should already be there.

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    Don’t worry Bannon, Democrat leadership doesn’t exactly have the best track record of holding criminals and actual enemies of the people accountable for their crimes.

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      Exactly. I’ll eat my hat if any of the key people gave any consequences at all when all this is over. It will be all, “we have to look forward, not backward.” I wouldn’t be shocked if an elected Democratic president pardoned Trump and his goons so that we can “heal as a nation.”

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        Garland’s understandable desire to appear a-political in the Jan 6th and Trump cases will be a stick the left use to beat the moderates in the Democrat party for decades, and rightly so.

        If Garland hadn’t wasted 15 months working from the bottom (rioters) up Trump would probably be in prison now. I think he was well intentioned but didn’t have the bottle to be the guy who put the wheels in motion for banging up a President.

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          He was a republican, and that’s why he dragged his feet for 4 years. It was either too hard for him, or he was one of them all along. In either case, a complete fail of a man, who deserves all the contempt and loathing that I have for him. Garland is the reason we have Donny 2 Inches as president, and not in jail where he actually belongs. History should have Garland right up there with Benedict Arnold.

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      We’re going to have to demand they do. When the time comes, we cannot let it go. We must insist these people face justice. Be as annoying about it as we are about the Epstein files.

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      The only good outcome is a revolution and starting the Untied States over from scratch

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        No revolution, but you really need reforms to the power structure and the way elections work. Starting with the current division of presidential power between a Prime Minister (or Chancellor) and a President. If you already had this separation of powers, you would never have been paralysed the way you are now; if representatives failed to reach an agreement to approve the 2026 federal budget proposed by the prime minister, the president would simply dismiss the government and call for new elections.

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            Ah, it’s really easy to wish for the destruction of other people’s countries.

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              The Donny 2 Inches government is fucking the entire world, mate. The whole world wishes this destruction on you, at this time. Elect better people, stop being run by and for criminals, and stop fucking over other countries and their people, maybe?

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                I’m not American either. That’s why I first said “you” instead of “we”.

                I assumed the other guy was American and you assumed I was American, quite funny, isn’t it? 🤣

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    It’s a good thing for them that I don’t get to make the decisions, because prison would not be what I decide.

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      You need to show your political power is greater than his political power for the institutions to listen.

      Every political figure has their own unique mana bar, their own special following of varying degrees of power, but Trump’s mana bar is different.

      Trump’s base is not remotely the American majority, but they are the most mana-dense group out there. They are pure, raw, power to exert political will. Not as individuals, they’re stupider than soggy drywall as individuals. As a group, they have all the cards because they are:

      United no matter who is part of the group. No entry requirements other than loyalty.

      Guaranteed loyal. Trump can tell them to jump, they jump. Trump eats a baby on TV, they will wear “Eat the baby” T-shirts the next day. Trump says “storm the capitol” to prove to Congress and Senate that he has them on a leash and they even do that.

      Patriotic, they carry the flag. The left is largely anti-jingoism, but in the world-stage, flags have power. Patriotism is team-power. When we abandoned the flag we gave up a large swath of power.

      Armed and are violent. Again, you see this as anti-social and harmful, and on a community level it often is, but in the political landscape where there is no actual such thing as “law” having an armed group of loyalists is how nations have been built and preserved for literally thousands of years.

      The longer Trump’s cabinet and administration can hold onto this group, the more they can do to pilfer the reserves and get their backers and sponsors filled with sweet, sweet sacks of cash in the form of deregulation and tax breaks.

      The thing is, like with so many cases like this in history, it’s entirely constructed on the shaky foundation of one person’s “charm” and ability to hold onto their attention spans or lack thereof.

      As soon as Trump keels over, which could literally be at any moment, this political mana will start to disperse. This is why you’re starting to see a lot more Vance on programs, a lot more Bannon and Miller, a lot more of the generals and enablers each trying to secure some fleeting drop of that mana. I do not think people like Vance are going to be able to control even a fraction of the power that Trump commanded, but it could be a long, long time before any of them face any consequence if they do at all.

      Congratulations, you now understand “political capital” in the nerdiest way I can explain it.

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        We award you no points. In your rant you mentioned Steve Bannon once. Like so many others that suffer from “Trump derangement syndrome.” You veered off topic to relate everything to Trump. And now im talking about him again dang it. I dont like it either.

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          As soon as Trump keels over, which could literally be at any moment, this political mana will start to disperse. This is why you’re starting to see a lot more Vance on programs, a lot more Bannon and Miller,

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              “he?”

              You need to slow down entirely my friend. Just slow down. Life isn’t a race to the end of every comment, every conversation, every internet debate, etc.

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                Im actually gas lighting you.bim my original comment i said that he(shezilla) didn’t mention Steve Bannon, but then I edited my comment to say that he(shezilla) mentioned him once. But I hadnt… I dunno… im a self doubting asshole.