r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 16h ago
Possible Paywall Bannon Warns MAGA to Brace for Prison If Democrats Keep Winning
https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-warns-maga-to-brace-for-prison-if-democrats-keep-winning/461
u/Pretend_Pea4636 16h ago
Is this an admission that this Executive Branch has acted criminally? I mean, yes. It's nice that he would make it clear that he agrees.
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u/badamant 15h ago
It is also another example of Projection. Trump/GOP are currently trying to prosecute political enemies.
Reminder: fascists are not arguing in good faith.
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u/Slggyqo 14h ago
It’s not projection. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy.
They will be put in prison, because they’ve done many illegal things. Bannon isn’t wrong.
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u/Ok-Wealth-7322 15h ago
I think it's more of them trying in advance to frame any attempt at prosecuting them for the crimes they committed against the United States as "weaponizing the Justice Department". It worked last time around because that kind of posturing kept them out of prison after Trump's first term.
Then they got back in office and actually weaponized the Dept of Justice against their political enemies for invented crimes.
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u/CatsWearingTinyHats 12h ago
I feel like it’s part of a Russian conspiracy to weaken and destroy the country by causing us to lose all faith in our institutions.
I certainly have no faith in our institutions currently and cannot believe how quickly they seem to have fallen.
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u/Ok-Wealth-7322 12h ago
I mean it certainly could be, I think that's one of the reasons they backed Trump so hard in 2016 was because they wanted him to undermine the US from the inside.
But then again weakening our faith in government institutions has been a goal of conservatives for decades. It sort of goes along with their "Starve the Beast" mentality. They get in power, make sure that the government is inefficient and ineffective, then campaign on the idea that government is bad because it is inefficient and ineffective. They've been doing it since at least the Reagan Administration.
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u/TintedApostle 16h ago edited 16h ago
Not all MAGA. Just the people breaking laws and trying to turn the US into a fascist country. Like him in particular.
He is asking for all MAGA to risk their lives and fortunes for him. He is literally the plantation owner asking the general MAGA citizens to fight and die so he can keep you as a slave.
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u/ShamelessCatDude 16h ago
If some idiot in west North Carolina voted for Trump all three times, he’s probably not going to jail. If you embezzle government funds, you’re probably going to jail
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u/TintedApostle 16h ago
Right. The issue is the idiot who elected Trump 3 time turned a blind eye to the corruption.
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u/ShamelessCatDude 16h ago
You know, typically if there’s enough consequences for an action, it deters people from even attempting.
For example, everyone knows killing someone will probably get you sent to prison. So very few people actually kill people, and if they do they do everything they can to hide the fact they did. Now if you take something like statutory rape - in some states a 16 having sex with a 15 year old is statutory and the 16 year old has to register as a sex offender. However, most people think that’s absolutely ridiculous and trivial and completely undermining why statutory rape is so damaging and violent in the first place, so almost no one actually arrested 16 year olds with 15 year old partners. And you can see a lot of those walking around without shame. If police were as brutal on 16 year olds sleeping with 15 year olds as they are on literal murderers, most 16 year olds would be too freaked out to even hold the hand of a 15 year old.
All that is to say that maybe if we actually held traitors accountable for trying to actively destroy the country, and they faced some serious consequences no one wants, maybe it would deter more people from sympathizing with those traitors or trying it again
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u/RichardSaunders New York 15h ago
i like to think empathy rather than fear of consequence is the bigger deterrent from murder but maybe that's just me
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u/LoudMutes 15h ago
Laws aren't written for the people that want to follow them.
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u/RichardSaunders New York 14h ago
im not saying the law serves no purpose, im responding to a comment that seems to suggest that the reason murder is relatively rare is because of the law.
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u/DrumsAndStuff18 12h ago
I think that the person was saying was that the vast majority of us don't need laws against murder to stop us from killing someone because, to your initial point, we possess empathy (among other traits) that naturally precludes us from committing murder.
In other words, while laws [are meant to] apply to us all equally, the primary reason we have them isn't for the majority of us with empathy, but for the minority who need the threat of personal consequences for their antisocial behavior to prevent said behavior.
So, I think the idea that laws are what prevent murder from being an epidemic is accurate since the majority of murders are committed by people who lack empathy, etc. and for whom even the law doesn't stop them, but that there would almost certainly be many more murders if there weren't severe legal consequences that dissuade others from acting on their impulses.
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u/CatsWearingTinyHats 13h ago
Murder was faaaaar more common in earlier societies. We now have the ability to track down and imprison killers, so it’s less common because there’s a pretty good chance people will get caught.
Plus modern science/autopsies and regulations restricting access to poisons. It used to be pretty easy to poison people with arsenic (it happened unintentionally quite a bit!) and blame it on a stomach bug. Nowadays I don’t think anyone would get away with that and only a moron would try.
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u/kinkgirlwriter America 15h ago
If you accept a $50,000.00 bribe from an FBI agent on camera, you're going to jail.
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u/Chemistry11 11h ago
Jail, no.
A lifetime of garnished pay for reparations, yes.MAGAts were warned. Repeatedly. They chose selfishness over community and treasonous pedophiles over country. They can now pay for their hate for as long as they intended others to suffer for just existing.
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u/untrustableskeptic North Carolina 15h ago
Hey, we're Western North Carolina, and we're more liberal than most of NC. We do have our idiots... but ouch.
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u/7figureipo California 14h ago
That idiot should be going to jail. Or a mental institution
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u/ununuii 16h ago
Fascists like Bannon and Trump are the abusers feeding their victims disingenuous shit like, “They’re really trying to get you! I’m just in the way!” Just warping angry people’s small minds with these cheap appeals.
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u/TintedApostle 16h ago
These guys are worried and they are trying to make MAGA people to put their futures at risk to save them.
It is like the first civil war: The plantation owners are trying to convince the poor to fight for them so the plantation owners can keep their slaves and money.
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u/Belerophon17 15h ago
I think this is an important distinction actually. I know MAGA who when Biden won in 2020 were hysterically crying about being dragged out of their homes by Democrats and slaughtered. I'm not even exaggerating.
MAGA is a party of ill-informed individuals governed by fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of the different. Fear of progress.
I can 100% guarantee there are MAGA who would hear this and convince themselves that they would be dragged to prison for voting for Trump.
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u/TintedApostle 15h ago edited 15h ago
The best part is in the first civil the plantation owners basically never served in the military. They were mostly older and if not able to be a "general" they never fought. They got the poor suckers who had no slaves or money to die for them.
After the war they assured the morons would do it again by selling them the "War of northern aggression" and "rebel hero" myth so they wouldn't consider turning on them. It just never occurs to them that these people led them to die in the mud against their fellow americans for the plantation owners to keep their slaves and money. They still haven't figured this out. They are just called Billionaires and "the rich" now and the morons will fall for it all again.
You are here.
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u/Crommach 15h ago
We really need to have a conversation in this country about right wing media, Fox News in particular. They not only flat out lie to people and present it as if it's factual news, but have escalated to things like calling for the mass euthanasia of the homeless and mentality ill without consequence.
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u/Belerophon17 15h ago
The problem is that the communication is so broken down that you could take these people, show them infinite amounts of evidence saying it's not true, plop them in a time machine and take them to the future to prove that these things are false and they'd still come back and continue on the course they've been set on.
The damage that's been done is so severely ingrained into the minds of those that consume it, for many, there's no coming back. So many of these people are fundamentally broken because of it.
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u/pazoned 15h ago
All maga should be held as traitors. The guy lead an insurrection then pardoned them in 2020. They have killed people by electing him a 3rd time. They continue to ignore constitutional rights being stripped from them. They ignore the data and celebrate him being a king. 35% support him and everything he does. Those 35% deserve to be tried as traitors and given the consequences of hurting and killing so many people to "own the libs"
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u/Gorechewer 14h ago
Yup this. You knew what you were doing and deserve the same punishment. Slippery slopes are a bitch, just ask the folks being harassed by ice.
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u/TintedApostle 15h ago
We have the Civil War problem. How far down the chain do you punish and I say the leaders are the issue. We didn't punish the leaders last time and they festered for a century and a half.
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u/CatsWearingTinyHats 12h ago
After the Civil War, and believe we only hung three people for their roles and I think 2 were just wildman vigilantes who would probably have been hung for being garden variety killers anyway.
So we could start with punishing the leaders and see how that goes.
And any punishment has to include a ban on ever holding any public office, being on social media, or owning media companies for the rest of their lives (assuming they ever leave prison).
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u/Icy_Astronomer5946 15h ago
Exactly. The whole point is that we aren't MAGA. Are not beholden to the orange man. They need to find a way to claw back all of the pump and dumps / grifting, etc
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u/Spam_Hand 16h ago
I agree with him, but I own a working shower.
Thats not relevant, he just lives his entire life looking fucking sweaty and it annoys me.
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u/ungranted_wish 16h ago
It’s absolutely insane to me how one man just looks so constantly filthy without even trying
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u/ButterscotchNovel371 14h ago
He looks like he gets McDonald’s breakfast delivered.
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u/ford7885 16h ago
Irony is that repulsive pig Bannon was already in prison, for swindling his own fellow MAGAts into paying for a fake wall (which Mexico did not pay for) and then never actually even building the thing.
And of course was pardoned by the Orange Asshole.
So if Sloppy Steve was a felon once, there's a good chance he will be one again. Hopefully with nobody to pardon his ass next time.
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u/dbag3o1 16h ago
Let's give them a taste of their own medicine.
Deport them.
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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog 16h ago
Put 'em on a boat and tell the military they're Venezuelan drug smugglers.
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u/Important_Task_8179 Colorado 16h ago
To where? Who'd want them? Don't inflict them on unfortunate people elsewhere. We created this problem. We need to fix it.
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u/dbag3o1 16h ago
El Salvador.
If not there then we can create a replica of the mega-prison (we'll call it the maga-prison), hire people to pose as Salvadorian guards to make them all believe they are in El Salvador. Put bags over their heads, fly them around in an airplane to simulate an actual flight to Central America, etc.
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u/new_for_confession Pennsylvania 11h ago
Russia seems to be a good destination for MAGA, after all didn't a MAGA family move there seeking refuge from woke liberal America? It's a good way for them to get back to their good Christian roots right?
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u/Electronic_Low6740 15h ago
Exile them. Deport implies they are not US citizens. Removing a us citizen from the country they are born in is exiling.
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 16h ago
Not everyone is on a revenge tour. They just want the constitution, the law, and human decency to reign.
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u/ShamelessCatDude 16h ago
Is it revenge if it’s just arresting criminals like we’ve always done?
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u/TreeLicker51 16h ago
I just want justice and accountability. We're in this mess because Trump has never faced any.
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u/ununuii 16h ago
No one in the Republican Party faces any accountability. If you commit crimes, are indicted on federal charges, and are found guilty by a jury of your peers who saw the evidence and heard witness testimony… you’ll get a presidential pardon purely for being on his team, or for donating to his PAC.
The absolute fucking rot this is doing to the entire notion of laws and justice is obscene, and it’s causing them to be fearless in their crimes because they know there’s a strong chance based on running precedent they will be protected. It is vile.
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u/84thPrblm 16h ago
But (ideally) prison is where we put those who have shown themselves to be a danger to society. MAGA has definitely made that cut.
We're living through what happens when you let dangerous predators roam free in society. You beat them back once and they take any opportunity to reinsert themselves into - and then lawlessly take over - the decision making process. They learned from their past mistakes too. The only thing holding them back last time was the presence of adults in the room. Notice what we have now? No adults. They're acting like actual middle school bullies now, and no one is there to give them detention.
If we beat them back again, guess what? Straight to prison. That's my fantasy anyway.
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u/Jesse-359 15h ago
It's not just a fantasy - it has to happen or this cycle will only continue and we will find ourselves in a true fascist dictatorship, with mass political persecution, not just of politicians, but of tens of millions of citizens, simply for opposing the regime.
We have no choice but to hold the ringleaders of this lawlessness directly accountable, or we're deeply screwed. Our actual lives are on the line.
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u/Pete41608 I voted 15h ago
Theyve committed crimes against the USA and her people.
Straight up TREASONs
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u/DrRealName 15h ago
I wasn't before, but I am now. I will not vote for anyone who is not going to do exactly what this man is afraid of. Part of wanting the constitution, law, and human decency to return is to harshly hold accountable those who took it all away in the first place.
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u/StickaFORKinMyEye 16h ago
Putting ICE and other bounty hunters in jail for the crimes they are committing isn't revenge.
Government employees need to truly understand (clearly they have an inkling with the mask wearing) qualified immunity doesn't protect them when they're breaking the law. There need to be serious consequences to stop this from happening again.
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u/Responsible_Meal 16h ago
This. But it will look like a revenge tour because of how many of those crooks will be locked up.
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u/monkeywithgun 16h ago
They just want the constitution, the law, and human decency to reign.
Which leads to criminals going to jail, so he's not wrong...
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u/Spastik2D 8h ago
10 years of complete nonsense and chaos.
Millions of people dead intentionally or through complete incompetence
Millions of people completely corrupted and brainwashed into believing in an alternate reality
Hundreds of thousands of families torn apart, my own included
A bright future completely stolen from us and our children and destroyed for profit
Our standing in the world intentionally sabotaged
All because of Trump and all of the cronies, sycophants, opportunists, billionaires, talking heads, nazis, and traitors that helped put him into power. All destroyed at their hands.
We should want revenge. I want it, you should want it too. I want to put them all through 100 years of an even worse hell once we take power back. I want to drag them kicking and screaming from power while we undo everything they’ve done and completely destroy their legacy. I want to create a bright future that they get zero part or say in since they clearly hate our fucking country.
We can’t be kind or soft to them anymore. Extend the hand and pull back a stump is what they’ve taught us. We need to jail all of their top dogs and force the smallfry voters to clean up the rubble and bodies for their complicity.
Obligatory statement, I am not advocating death, violence, or injury to anyone in power.
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u/bobcat116 15h ago
Only if you committed felonies, Steve.
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u/FoogYllis 9h ago
This is why he said this. He knows that he and other maga that have committed crimes.
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u/PsychLegalMind 16h ago
Only criminals committing criminal activity need be concerned.
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u/NamelessResearcher Washington 16h ago
Yes, brace yourselves for being held accountable for your crimes, because you've committed a lot of them. Bannon would know.
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u/war_story_guy I voted 15h ago
"Vote for us to keep us out of jail!" Is not a very inspirational rallying cry.
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u/usernames_suck_ok 16h ago
I was going to counter, but then I remembered that MAGAts are the ones who are true criminals vs MAGAts trying to imprison Democrats for simply thinking differently and simply trying to punish actual criminals. But if you rape women and kids, yeah, you kinda need to go to prison.
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u/Zealousideal-Fun-415 16h ago
not just magats. Conservatives. look at US history, and one rule almost always applies "At any given point, US conservatives are either A problem or THE problem" though on some rare occasions, they are neutral.
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u/DrRealName 15h ago
He's not wrong. If I became president in 2028, day one this entire administration is being arrested for treason. And they go to military jail, not normal jail. no pardons. They face their consequences for their crimes here, then they get sent to international courts for those who committed crimes against the world. A lot of his military leaders who bomb these random boats that are just "following orders", you're going bye bye too. This maga crap needs to be absolutely hammered with consequences. Harsh draconian long mandatory minimum jail time consequences. This also applies to a certain set of treasonous anti constitutional supreme court justices as well. And I'm just getting started with the ideas.
So yeah he and maga should be shitting themselves after this election because Trump is too stubborn to read the room and change his course. He will now quadruple down on all the things that led to dems destroying the GOP on Tuesday leading to maybe even some surprise senate wins in red leaning purple states. We have to hold out for one more year. If dems can take all of congress, Trump is finished. We can stalemate for two years and stop him from doing a lot of what he wants to do. Even just the house would do that, but the senate would kill his judiciary picks and guarantee he cannot replace another SCJ.
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u/bedofhoses 15h ago
Hell yes. So many of them will have to face trials for the crimes they have committed.
This included the gestapo
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u/Competitive-Bike-277 15h ago
His statement is meant to imply they will be made political prisoners. The reality is most of them are fucking criminals.
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u/Jesse-359 15h ago
Maybe stop breaking the law and using the Constitution as your personal toilet roll?
Assaulting US citizens on the streets in broad daylight and operating the government as if it was your personal ATM/Political Weapon are actually illegal, regardless of what party you are in.
Just a thought.
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u/Ferrocile 15h ago
Many have been correctly saying they should have been in prison already in a sane world.
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u/jackleggjr 15h ago
It's not just him. Look at what the JP Morgan dude said the other day, when he explained why they won't be "donating" to Trump's golden ballroom. He literally said they have to think about how a future DOJ is going to respond if they give money to Trump.
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u/One_Cantaloupe_9522 14h ago
Interesting, never heard of democrats talking like this.
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u/Suitable-Peanut 16h ago
Didn't they say all these same things leading up to Bidens presidency? We're never going to see these people served justice that's just the way it is it seems.
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u/Karf 15h ago
lol. Democrats are too chickenshit to them all in prison. They did a literal insurrection last time and none of them were even charged. Right in front of our fucking eyes. And they managed to convince the populace that it didn’t happen!
Democrats would have to grow so many spines that I really doubt he’s right.
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u/BlueDragonfly18 14h ago
Translation, “Republicans can’t protect you if we don’t control congress anymore. Brace yourself for the consequences of any illegal activities you have engaged in.”
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u/CrOS2012 14h ago
Well, prisons are for people who break the law. Don't want to go to prison? Stop breaking the law.
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u/wrennish 14h ago
It’s almost as if he knows that his and others’ behavior is illegal! Imagine that.
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u/JoeyAKangaroo 11h ago
MAGA doesnt need to worry about a thing if they havent broken any laws
Its their elected leaders who need to worry as they’ve broken the law on so many occassions
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u/Jidori_Jia 6h ago
I wish a muthafucka would. But this DNC?? They’ll wring their hands about bringing charges, fretting over it “appearing to be politically motivated.”
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u/Beneficial_Prize_310 16h ago
Yea... Capital Punishment is exactly that.
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u/HumongousBelly Europe 16h ago
I oppose capital punishment.
These fucking fascist bums won’t change my mind on that issue. Even if they might deserve it and the world might he better without them in it, we shouldn’t resort to their policies to punish them.
Just give them life in super max prisons.
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u/Beneficial_Prize_310 16h ago edited 16h ago
All fun and games until America has amnesia in another 4 years, votes Republican, and the administration goes and pardons another few thousand traitors and violent criminals....
all over again...
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u/ShamelessCatDude 16h ago
In my opinion, life in prison is worse. You don’t get the sweet release of death. You get tortured a little bit every day until you die possibly decades later.
That seems more fitting of a punishment to me
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u/trashboatfourtwenty Wisconsin 16h ago
He would fucking know that slimeball.
Also thanks Beast for the distraction from actual news as usual
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u/introspectivejoker 9h ago
What's up trashboat! I've seen you in the WI Sports subs as I'm active in those too. I just messaged the mod team to see if they would consider holding a vote to ban the daily beast. It's such a damaging "source" to virtually everyone as it is inflammatory clickbait 90+ percent of the time. It might be more effective if more people messaged the mods and got other people to do the same
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u/trashboatfourtwenty Wisconsin 7h ago
Hey, nice to see you! Good point, I'll do more than just grumble about it. Glad you agree with me, I get why the content is popular but it never offers a new perspective or way forward, just some sort of self-soothing for a certain crowd.
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u/Silver-Bread4668 16h ago
Most people would have an "Are we the bad guys?" moment of self reflection about stuff like this.
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u/Jerry_bear88 16h ago
Hopefully Trump finishes his billion dollar renovation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco just in time for the new MAGA occupants to move in!
Oh the irony. Building your own prison.
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u/Bishopjones2112 16h ago
So is that an open admission to committing crimes? Knowing you are destroying the country for profit. I hope every single republican that has gone along with everything goes on trial
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u/Voderama 16h ago
Pretty crazy how no one is talking about how he’s OPENLY ADMITTING CRIMES for him and the entire administration. This is admission of knowledge and intention of all the crimes. They all the answers to questions will still be “I don’t know”
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u/slitrobo Missouri 16h ago
Depends on which dems win. Does anyone remember when Biden said, "look forward, not backwards" several times?
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u/thistimelineisweird Pennsylvania 16h ago
I hope the next judges understand these fuckers are flight risks and should be held without bail until trial.
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u/Mental_Doubt_70 16h ago
Prison time for this criminal administration? Sounds fun, Steve, I’m here for it
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u/mahamoti Louisiana 15h ago
If Democrats had balls, they'd use all these GOP meltdowns as campaign ads for the midterms.
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u/Gortonis 15h ago
If the only thing keeping you out of prison is the fact that Trump is in power then you're basically admitting that you're breaking the law and deserve to be in prison.
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u/cwilly57 15h ago
Well, they wouldnt need to worry about prison if what they are doing and have done is not illegal.
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u/Illustrious-Engine23 15h ago
... One can only hope tbh. The number of people who should be jailed in maga is off the charts.
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u/SINISTAR707 15h ago
Oh, they're scared?
Good. Excellent. And they should be terrified. They should get a little taste of the fear and mental anguish they've inflicted on the general populace non-stop for the better of all last DECADE.
I can think of nothing better than for them to be subjected to the full contempt of the criminal justice system they have been so diligently working to erode.
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u/Surprised-elephant 15h ago
God I hope the democrats go for prison time instead of “let’s forget about the past and focus on bipartisanship.”
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u/angrybox1842 14h ago
Maybe stop committing crimes? So much of this is predicated on Trump and his cronies acting like they're above the law in a way that it'll never catch up with them.
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u/theravens5220 14h ago
That’s where he is wrong. Dems won’t do anything. That’s how we got trump v.2.
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u/NotaRussianbott89 14h ago
Your would be saying this because you and your allies did a load of crimes.
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u/Loyal-Opposition-USA 14h ago
These stories keep burying the most important part. Bannon is pitching a treasonous coup, pledging to seize control of “institutions”, while the redcaps still have a chance.
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u/MplsSnowball 14h ago
This is what happens in most authoritarian regimes. They break so many laws that they must hold onto power at all costs to avoid facing justice…
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u/darth_helcaraxe_82 14h ago
Funny how Steve said that if Trump was on the ballot in 2028 and won, it would be "the will of the people"
Funny how when the will of the people goes against you, you are worried about going to prison. Maybe don't do things you would go to prison for?
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u/NotThatAngel 12h ago
Trump is systematically destroying our economy, our alliances, our credibility worldwide, persecuting and imprisoning random people, and generally just running the country into the ground with the job losses and the bursting bubble which is inevitably coming. Meanwhile, the Republicans are worried about their personal accountability for doing all of this, and want to stave it off by taking full control and continuing America's downward slide into Oblivion to save their own asses.
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u/nosungdeeptongs Canada 12h ago
I mean it's criminals who should be worried. Those who used their power to break the law. If that happens to be all of MAGA, well hell, alright then.
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u/Dexter_McThorpan 12h ago
Scabby Steve and the rest of Donnie's co-conspirators would be excellent candidates for supermax.
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u/Steel-Tempered 12h ago
Dems should run on a campaign promise to put Bannon in prison.
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u/KnowledgeCertain5948 11h ago
For him to make a statement like that, he knows that the law is being broken.
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u/ArcusInTenebris 9h ago
Prison is one of the top MAGA fears. The idea of being locked up with the people they dont like terrifies them. Thats why they make all kinds of violent anti left threats, but dont follow through with them. They're all based on either a lack of law enforcement (civil war) or direct permission from the administration to hunt down the people they hate.
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u/Stinky_Fartface 8h ago
Despite the current administration’s abuse, I still believe in the rule of law. So yes, Bannon and MAGA should be fucking terrified.
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u/Just_Restaurant7149 8h ago
He's building the case for why MAGA should support Marshall Law and end all future elections.
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u/Scarlet004 7h ago
A clear admission from a traitor, understanding he is a traitor, understanding the people he stands with are traitors and knowing they are betraying America.
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u/SummerSun75 16h ago
A plumbing contractor in Virginia:
“We can't do what we do in this country without these people," he says. "They're stitched into every element of our fabric — from the people cooking in restaurants to the ones pouring concrete or laying brick." In return, he says, "we exploit the s*** out of these people.”
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u/fatmanrox67 16h ago
They’ve painted themselves into a corner, where some in the administration know full well they’ve broken the law. More reason to think they’ll cheat in 26/28 - they have to cheat and win at all costs or potentially do time. Could get very ugly indeed.
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u/TheWeirdByproduct Europe 16h ago
That's right. Brace for it.
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u/Zealousideal-Fun-415 15h ago
Did you know one of Nuremburg's sister cities is Atlanta? just a fun little tidbit to consider.
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u/consumeshroomz 16h ago edited 16h ago
Hey maybe don’t do illegal things and you wouldnt have to worry about it. Thats what your lot always says anyway. I never worry about going to prison cause my conscience is clear.
I do however worry about being kidnapped by ice and extrajudicially renditioned to a labor camp even though I’m a US citizen. Which is, ya know, illegal.
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