FondrenRoad

What about ongoing crimes? Say he made a deal 2 weeks ago where he gets Moscow real estate in exchange for giving Putin information. He gives Putin the information prior to the pardon yet doesn't receive the real estate until February. A lot of his financial crimes are years in the making. They arent just going to come to a halt on the 20th. What if on January 19, he tweets "attack Biden on February 7?" Is he in the clear?

Yep. Half these guys would be in jail already in Germany just from the content of their posts. One can't go around openly Nazi-ing in Germany like one can here. But also who knows what a German head of state would be allowed to do. Trump is hard to reach legally at this point.

There should be no such thing as "gun culture." Guns are tools. They are sometimes useful when used for legal purposes. If you believe they are your culture, you should be on a watch list. If you use guns to hunt, you're a "hunter." You may be part of "hunter culture" but in 2021, even that is a stretch since it likely isn't your day job nor is it done out of necessity. You hunt for sport, which is fine, but not a culture. If you use guns for self defense, again that's fine, but not "culture."

DC traffic is horrendous on a random weekday. I can't imagine trying to drive to the inauguration. Id probably be dead or in jail from apolitical road rage way before I got anywhere near it.

Hmm. Maybe if you don't commit terrorist acts, you won't get treated like a terrorist. But really, this is the result of coddling all these assholes. Most of them are pussies. They didn't expect repercussions. Had there been established repercussions from the start instead of hand holding, shitheads like this guy would still be at home in mom's basement. What the fuck do you expect to happen when you try to overthrow a government? Bin Laden would have shot these guys at the original sign up mixer. Wouldn't have even given them their first assignment.

There is a silver lining. It wasn't worse. Also, had the national guard been there, the traitors likely don't enter at all. If that had happened, Trump would still be on Twitter sounding the battle cry. We would be looking at photos of guys wearing tactical gear with zip ties standing outside, and wondering what they had wanted to do instead of actively trying to identify and arrest them. We'd still be waiting for the first domino to drop while all the rhetoric continued to increase exponentially. It does appear that some insurrectionists expected to be able to enter which indicates that they had advance knowledge of the level of police presence. I dont know if it was luck or expected that congress was able to get away entirely. Maybe a little of both. But they did get away.

Should have shot the leader in the Q shirt in the head right at the start. Also, that guy in the Q shirt better see more than unlawful entry charges. Examples have to be set for for those that led the charge, even if they didn't initially come there to do that.

Yeah, there is no way. He isn't a personal risk taker. Right now he is scared shitless. Once he isn't President and loses immunity, he will quiet down significantly. He ain't moving into a cave like Bin Laden or even holing himself up with a bunch of his followers while they are under siege from the FBI. Others will carry on, perhaps in his name, but he won't say a word about it and probably won't even give his endorsement any longer.

I think bin Laden believed what he was selling to others. It was certainly twisted, but he believed it. Bin Laden was a super rich guy who willingly sacrificed quite a bit for his beliefs, twisted as they were. Trump doesn't really have any beliefs. He won't sacrifice for anything. He knowingly lies to people and uses them for personal gain. Trump isn't Christian. At all really. He may actually believe the election was fraudulent, but I have my doubts about that too. The only closely held belief he has is the belief that he is the best person to ever exist. That belief allows him to lie with ease to his followers because he doesn't consider them good enough for the truth. They are just stepping stones which allow him to go where he wants to go.

So, list some things you would like to do or say, but are unable due to political correctness. Be specific.

Boo hoo. Conservatives wanted private companies to run everything. That's what's happening. Personally, I'd love for Twitter to be heavily regulated and controlled. But the "freedom" people don't want that and they got what they wanted. Twitter, a private company, is doing what it wants to do.

They need to split all these assholes up too. Put them in primarily black and Latino cell blocks.

Nothing goes over his head. His reflexes are too fast. He would catch it.

No need for that. Trump records all his calls for Putin anyway. Putin will have to ramp back up his surveillance capacity next month.

Isn't the official POTUS account still up? Does he ever use that one anymore?

And we could have been saved from all of this by a cocaine overdose on one of multiple occasions, I'm sure.

Those same voters have the attention spans of mosquitos. 2 years from now, there will be some other bullshit outrage of the day about Democrats, and they won't care at all about what happens in January/February 2021. Nuremberg was wrapped up in less than a year. No matter what Dems do now, by election day 2022, they'll be complaining about Kamala's outfits, Joe tousling some kid's hair, and Hunter getting a free latte at Starbucks.

Holy shit. Can't believe that was real. This country is toast. May as well just get the civil war started already.

Except in 12 years, our dictator will be Kid Rock instead of Trump.

That's my favorite press photo of all time. It should have won a Pulitzer.

Seems unlikely. I only see that posted on a single twitter account with 2 different pictures, including the one you posted. But should be easy to verify. I'm sure there is a surly poster in Tyler with a subscription.

Yep, or some version of it. There were constitutionality issues with it. Also, something needs to be done about disinformation on social media as well. But moderation efforts are still in their infancy, so maybe Facebook and Twitter will finally figure it out. I don't think Parler will last long either. Conservative tech companies usually suck. At some level, we also need to fix our education system. The fact that so many people fall for disinformation and seemingly don't have the ability to fact check or think critically is a huge problem. If I tell you Jim killed your dog, and you go and kill Jim even though your dog is still alive and Jim has never even met it, how much of that should be my fault?

Of course its radicalization. The problem is that a lot of people still provide cover for it. With other types of radicals, we attempt to muzzle those who radicalize, and this goes for everything from radical Muslims to PETA. Right now, organizers for BLM and Antifa also get a lot of scrutiny, and this keeps them largely on the rails. But with white nationalists, Q anon, and Limbaugh/Jones types, we let them have free rein. And now we have the equivalent of a white supremacist bin Laden as the President of the United States. And while it is difficult to quiet him now as President, he engaged in incitement and radicalization prior to being President and we did nothing then either. All it takes is one "kill the infidels" tweet from an imam and law enforcement is all over them. Trump has had 100s of "kill the infidels" equivalent tweets and nothing. Rush Limbaugh has been fomenting irrational anger and hatred for decades and nothing. Things didn't slowly go off the rails. This train has been slowly derailing since 1987 when the fairness doctrine was scrapped. However, its only in the last decade that we have allowed direct and open incitement and radicalization to occur unchecked.

He can, but he won't. He gains nothing personally from pardoning them. And really, pardoning them would actually further damage him personally. If you want quid pro quo from Trump, you need him to deliver for you first before you deliver for him. Otherwise he is going to stiff you. He doesn't give a shit about them. He already used them up and they have nothing else left to give him.

Encryption is also only as good as the key. Most of Congress is somewhere between 90 and 1000 years old. For half of them, there is probably a post it note stuck to the laptop with their password written on it. For the other half, its probably one of their grandkids' names.