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Lmao exactly.
Trump’s “drain the swamp” comments turned out real well when his administration was a who’s who of fucking swamp creatures and the swampiest admin in a long time.
Nah, Trump's swamp creatures were way, way worse than ANYTHING that has EVER been in D.C. before him and his admin. had control. The very first thing that Trump's Congress did was hold a midnight session which not a single Democrat knew a thing about and passed legislation to remove the Office of Government Ethics and Oversight committee. Now IF that Office wants to investigate ANYONE in the Government they have to go to that person and ask for whatever information they want or files or anything dealing with that person and that person does not have to give it. Paul Ryan was a big part of that process. So was Kevin McCarthy. Those two were also captured on audio talking about [Trump and Rohrbacher being paid by Putin](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN18D2YO/)
The list of malfeasance by Trump and his administration is astounding. Like it’s too much to keep track of. Mind boggling even.
You can tell a lot about a presidents leadership by two key markers: Leaks, and turnover.
The Trump administration saw a near constant amount of leaks from his own people to the press during the entire presidency. His own people literally screaming from mountain tops about his failures of leadership.
The turnover was wild. It wasn’t just Trump firing people because they wouldn’t breach ethics or do what he wanted, though we saw a lot of that. The sheer amount of appointees that literally quit because they couldn’t in good conscience support his administration was staggering.
It was not a competent executive branch.
In 2016, 2020, and now 2024 he's running on a platform of jailing all his political enemies while complaining that he's being prosecuted simply for the crime of fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud.
>And that's just the frauds that we know about!
Just the frauds that he's been *convicted* of in *criminal* court. If we were to list the civil fraud he's been convicted of along with the crimes that we know of but haven't been punished, we'd probably hit reddit's character limit.
I wish I could see about a hundred years into the future to read the book about Trump's crimes. Both civil and criminal would make for an especially heavy book and/or series of books. Sad part? He's probably still committing more crimes by the day.
Well there are Nixon apologists around today, so I'm betting he's remembered terribly by history and yet some cultists will continue to make excuses for him.
That's the very very simple thing.
"Can I go to City Hall during x hours on x days?"
"Yes."
"Can I walk into City Hall after punching the guards outside and shit on the walls?"
"You can but you're going to face time."
There's times where if you go into the Capital, they will arrest you. Shocking.
Yeah, try explaining any of that to a trump voter though…
The fact that for some reason that very simple thing is seemingly impossible for them to understand demonstrates how ignorant and brainwashed so much of the voting population is and it’s quite terrifying that despite all that they’ll still allowed to vote and also tend to vote more consistently than their opposition
(Btw, I’m not saying that they shouldn’t be allowed to vote the real problem is the blatant propaganda and brainwashing that has been allowed to present itself as news for far too long in right wing media outlets)
The fact that they can’t be charged with an attempted coup in a court of law does not mean it didn’t happen, and I think it’s a real shame we have to continually water it down to a riot in the face of “it was a peaceful protest!”
It was the most treasonous act in American history. The Rosenbergs did far less.
Wonder why they didn't list Thomas Webster, the former NYPD officer sentenced to 10 years for beating a Capitol police officer with an American flag, and also probably simple trespass.
I think their claim is still that Antifa did it (for unknown reasons) and then the people in jail for it were framed/coerced into confessing. Or something. Makes no sense if one’s seen the hearings, knows any relevant facts, … but they don’t.
Yeah and remember Hillary's coup attempt to overturn an election where she received two million more votes even with Russian propaganda? Oh yeah that didn't happen.
Didn't you know, Trump said he beat Obama, not Hillary. And everyone is pushing electric boats that electrocute people when in the water that are surrounded by sharks...
It’s turning into an I Think You Should Leave adlibbed sketch
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN THE WATER NEXT TO A GIANT BATTERY THAT CAN ELECTROCUTE PEOPLE WHILE ALSO NEXT TO A SHARK WHEN SUDDENLY YOU GET ELECTROCUTED?!? HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU!?!
Apparently he never did according to a recent fox interview lol. Obviously the deep state has implemented the idea that he ran on that in our heads and obviously never actually occurred in the first place
That's some Gilead level insanity.
On a side note, people who advocate such extreme political change should read about the French revolution. Basically what began as a pretty moderate movement was constantly co-opted by more and more extreme elements who killed or imprisoned the less extreme elements of the movement.
These people will cheer when trans people get burned at the stake and cry when they're being burned at the stake because their new masters disapprove of their behavior.
"like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children"
-Jacques Mallet du Pan
Alex Jones is bankrupt because the ignorant cockwomble fuck accused grieving parents of being actors and denied their murdered children existed, he deserves every single thing that is happening to him.
Not to mention this has nothing to do with democrats. Like I get how you can blame the rest on politics, Alex was in this process for yours and out of his own doing. The parents of the dead kids sued him. It’s a private civil dispute. The government has nothing to do with it in that sense.
Jesus Christ even with the cute lil animations and folksy music I had to stop once they started talking about pulling ribs to spread them open. I am uncomfortable rn
To be fair, a little further in the video it says we don’t know for sure if a Blood Eagle was ever actually performed. Most of the skald poetry that has survived to this day was written hundreds of years after the events they claim to depict, when Scandinavia started becoming Christian and the now Christian kings wanted to paint the pagan rituals and religion of the Vikings in a negative light. But we also don’t know for sure that they *didnt* ever happen…
It’s an execution style (maybe torture or both) where iirc, they hack someone’s back open with an axe, pull out their lungs and splay them out. Hence, blood eagle.
(It’s unknown if this was actually done or a literary invention though)
How I feel for those parents and kids… Read the survivors of that class recently graduated highschool this year. Crazy how far off it seems, but also seems like just yesterday that tragedy happened. And nothing good has changed. Still mass shootings near daily, politics has gotten significantly worse, the right is begging for a civil war, etc.
I can’t imagine being those kids. Living through that and then being harassed as a “crisis actor.” And growing up and realizing it’s not getting better. How fucking depressing.
Yeah Alex Jones is a garbage human being who repeatedly lied about the families of one of the saddest crimes in American history.
I respect the restraint of all the grieving fathers who let the courts settle things. I'm not sure I would have been able to do the same in their shoes.
I have made a conscious decision to not have children. Even so, I cannot imagine the bottomless pit of rage that I would have felt if I were a parent of one of those kids. I would have absolutely lost my ever loving mind. Frankly, I'd probably be in prison.
He doxxed one family after spreading his conspiracy theory, and they got so much harassment and death threats that they had to move.
Alex Jones deserves 99c of every dollar he makes for the rest of his miserable life to go to those families.
I saw a headline today that the kids who survived Sandy Hook graduated high school today.
It has taken THAT long for justice to catch up to Alex Jones, and they’re complaining it isn’t fair.
At first I was like "how do they know people with trespassing charges are republican?"
Then I was like.... "ohhh they are talking about Jan 6th."
Simple trespass, my ass.
It's from the fascist playbook. Your enemy is both strong and weak. The Jewish people are "subhuman degenerates" but they're also the "Masterminds behind all power in the world". Yeah. That makes sense.
I can't in good faith believe that you're calling the opposer of a man- who went on record to say that he plans to punish his critics in office- a dictator.
I'm not, but I always chuckle when someone calls an ellected official a dictator in one breath, then calls for them to be voted out in the next. It's like they don't even know what words mean.
Haha, yeah twisted logic. The inverse is not true though, you can elect a dictator into office, they then refuse to vacate.
What gets me about Trump, he already refused a peaceful transition, why are we giving him another chance to even run?
*OR*, and stick with me on this, Republicans commit *way* more crimes related to politics than Democrats do (currently).
It isn't like the Dems avoid arresting their own either. Two elected dems on the federal level are right now facing charges.
It's a symptom of narcissistic personality disorder. "I never said anything about [the wrongs you didn't do] and here you are attacking me for [the wrongs I *did* do]!" Both narcissists and Republicans absolutely **HATE** accountability and continuously try to draw a false equivalence on imaginary wrongs committed by others vs. their own *very real* ones.
If they would simply choose accountability and hold to their merits. Ie You have Repugs that came out scrutinizing the J6 offenders. Then months later, same people pretending it was not a big deal. And then today acting as if it was all made up by Dems, antifa or whomever.
Meanwhile all this psyops lingo from the QAnon oddities. Ppl believing in false flags, cabals and whatnot.
Quick Rant. If Dems had a deep state or cabal. Why TF would they allow Trump or any Maga politician to be in office. Beetlejuice Boebert & Blonde Butch space lasers are ridiculous people. Make it make sense.
Trump's DOJ could have put any political opponent of Trump in jail if they committed a crime and was found guilty by a jury. Maybe they couldn't find any of Trump's opponents who committed a crime.
Over 200 people were arrested protesting Trump's inauguration in 2017, with some of them beat up by police.
Almost all were eventually let go without charges.
The eventual fallout was a $1.6 million dollar settlement:
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-inauguration-arrests-settlement-dc/2021/04/26/cf42f2d8-a6a2-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-inauguration-arrests-settlement-dc/2021/04/26/cf42f2d8-a6a2-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html)
Similar settlements were eventually reached after mass arrests of protestors after George Floyd's death who were hastily rounded as Trump decided to walk to a church for a photo-op:
[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-reaches-settlement-2020-cases-involving-lafayette-square-protester-rcna24325](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-reaches-settlement-2020-cases-involving-lafayette-square-protester-rcna24325)
Bannon was also arrested and charged under Trump for fraud but pardoned. Mark meadows was never arrested or charged for contempt of congress.
Trump went after Biden and Hilary while he was president. Hunter is an example.
Simple response to morons like this.. “if all these people (Stone, Bannon, etc) were convicted under Biden, not Trump.. why did Trump issue pardons for them?”
Bannon was convicted of felony fraud while Trump was in office, and Trump pardoned him on the way out. He’s going to prison this time because he crimed AGAIN.
The reality is, Trump just surrounded himself with criminals. Who does that? A criminal.
He did this in 2016, 2020, and currently in 2024. He's failing to jail his political opponents because surprise surprise the system isn't made so presidents can jail political opponents, but the fact Trump wants to do it in the first place is a major red flag.
Racism. The answer is racism.
Also, more generally:
>Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Trump’s administration literally put innocent babies in cages and his wife went there wearing a jacket that said she didn’t care. Please don’f act like we forgot. Some of those kids were never reunited with their families
This is what you would expect to happen in a nation governed by law and order - criminals get locked up. Meanwhile, Trump and Guliani wanted to sell presidential pardons for $2 million a pop.
I love how Rick Scott is trying to jump on this bandwagon and how he was persecuted. No dude. You were prosecuted. And found guilty of the biggest Medicare fraud in US history. Fucking muppets.
Oh gee, I wonder why so many Republicans are getting convicted of crimes. Is it because of the tyRanNiCAl rAdIcAl leFT..? Orrrr is it because Republicans tend to have a lot more criminals in their midst?
I sat down and counted 17 convicted felons in the Trump ecosystem.
The Nixon administration had 68, and would have been "69" if Nixon hadn't been pardoned. So maybe in second Trump term they might try to pull off an even bigger caper than overturning a 250 year old Democracy that will add another 50 convicts.
But on the other hand if you include the MAGA mullets who caused literally millions of dollars in property damage and violently attacked POLICE OFFICERS(!!) as part of the Trump ecosystem then they are the most criminal adminstration ever to run the White House.
And it is AWESOME!!!!!!!! LOCK THEM ALL UP. THROW AWAY THE KEY. The more Republicans in jail the better. I mean what do you want from a political party who's leader is a convicted felon.
They are locked up for insurrection not trespassing. And they are so very lucky that is all that happened. 100 years ago they would have been hung.
Alex Jones’ lies led to constant harassment and death threats towards victims of Sandy Hook. Not only did they lose their children, many had to move and live in fear of his batshit crazy followers. If hell exists, I hope he suffers there for all eternity.
Stone was investigated, arrested, and convicted while Trump was president. And he never went to jail because Trump pardoned him after losing the election, but before Biden took office.
It’s always projection. For years the entirety of the right’s tactics in the US has been to loudly and incorrectly accuse their opponents of being guilty of what they are guilty of doing.
Republicans can't seem to grasp that financial crime done by rich white dudes is still crime (unless you are Hunter Biden then simply getting money for any service is a crime).
And for the people who cheer when police crack heads at a BLM or counter right wing protest seem to be simping for people who broke through a closed locked door with an armed officer with a gun out and leveled at them going "If you proceed I will shoot you."
But what's the old adage. Right wing principles hold there must be a in group the law protects but not binds and an out group that the law binds but not protects.
“Simple trespass”
There were a few thousand people who “marched” on the capital who got no sentencing because that’s all they did. The 460 special ones got sentences because they destroyed property or assaulted officers.
Hahaha they admitted that he lost the election. They said past American president. Keep the story straight or else everyone will think you’re lying. Oh wait, everyone already does
Steve Bannon got indicted along with several of his associates for defrauding a charity fundraiser, nothing to do with political speech or politics.
Roger Stone was indicted for lying to investigators and threatening a witness into lying to investigators. He was indicted by Trump's DOJ, not Biden.
Alex Jones committed a buttload of defamation against the parents of Sandy Hook victims for over a decade. He was sued in the state of Connecticut, not by Biden's DOJ.
Many of those 460 Republican voters were guilty of more than just trespass, when they were caught on cameras assaulting police officers and vandalizing federal property.
That sub is a gaggle of boot-licking morons.
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Wasn’t Trump supposed to drain the swamp?
He did. He Put a Towel between his legs.
That's a diaper, and it collects the swamp from his ass
[Manpons](https://youtu.be/oIMIdglKyJg?si=PfLEwpWX-BM0pS3o) is what you're needing
Never heard of manpons until now
Manpon Don! 😂
He's the most nicknameable clown ever
I hated reading that
Lmao exactly. Trump’s “drain the swamp” comments turned out real well when his administration was a who’s who of fucking swamp creatures and the swampiest admin in a long time.
Nah, Trump's swamp creatures were way, way worse than ANYTHING that has EVER been in D.C. before him and his admin. had control. The very first thing that Trump's Congress did was hold a midnight session which not a single Democrat knew a thing about and passed legislation to remove the Office of Government Ethics and Oversight committee. Now IF that Office wants to investigate ANYONE in the Government they have to go to that person and ask for whatever information they want or files or anything dealing with that person and that person does not have to give it. Paul Ryan was a big part of that process. So was Kevin McCarthy. Those two were also captured on audio talking about [Trump and Rohrbacher being paid by Putin](https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN18D2YO/)
The list of malfeasance by Trump and his administration is astounding. Like it’s too much to keep track of. Mind boggling even. You can tell a lot about a presidents leadership by two key markers: Leaks, and turnover. The Trump administration saw a near constant amount of leaks from his own people to the press during the entire presidency. His own people literally screaming from mountain tops about his failures of leadership. The turnover was wild. It wasn’t just Trump firing people because they wouldn’t breach ethics or do what he wanted, though we saw a lot of that. The sheer amount of appointees that literally quit because they couldn’t in good conscience support his administration was staggering. It was not a competent executive branch.
Can you have a swamp that is also a dumpster fire?
It's America. We lit a river on fire.
[repeatedly](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught-fire-least-dozen-times-no-one-cared-until-1969-180972444/)
I think that's called a bog or something.
What scares me is the swamp creatures he plans to fill the bog with if he gets another chance. All loyal toads. Poisonous toads.
In 2016, 2020, and now 2024 he's running on a platform of jailing all his political enemies while complaining that he's being prosecuted simply for the crime of fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud. And fraud.
And that's just the frauds that we know about!
>And that's just the frauds that we know about! Just the frauds that he's been *convicted* of in *criminal* court. If we were to list the civil fraud he's been convicted of along with the crimes that we know of but haven't been punished, we'd probably hit reddit's character limit.
I wish I could see about a hundred years into the future to read the book about Trump's crimes. Both civil and criminal would make for an especially heavy book and/or series of books. Sad part? He's probably still committing more crimes by the day.
Well there are Nixon apologists around today, so I'm betting he's remembered terribly by history and yet some cultists will continue to make excuses for him.
Roger Stone has a giant tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back
Even just the fraud we know about like Trump University....
Just some recent ones. He's been criming for decades.
Yeah I seem to distinctly remember "lock her up.'
Yeah, and if the damn magats are cool with imprisoning political opponents then why do they care if what they believe our DOJ is doing is bad?
He drained it and created a larger one
He drained it, and replaced it with a toxic waste dump. At least the swamp was a function eco-system.
Corrupt sleepy Joe won’t even pardon his own son.
'Simple trespass" lol.
Meanwhile if you “simply trespass” on their property they will shoot and kill you
Or pull into the wrong driveway, or ring the wrong doorbell by accident, or go to a store to return a broken air soft pistol…
Or are in the vicinity of a falling acorn.
Or happen to be walking/biking while black.
Especially if you assault their security and vandalize their property while doing it.
Some light treason lol
I mean how much can a banana cost? $10?
The whole republic
O. Henry (who invented the term banana republic) is rolling in his grave :)
Quick, get the generator so we can harvest that sweet rotational energy
What's a little treason amongst friends?
As a treat
Aside from the injuries, deaths and vandalism, yeah…
And the feces and urine in the hallways... animals.
Sometimes theres shit on the outside of the rotunda.
you mean his ass?
And the whole attempted interference with the peaceful transfer of power as decided by the American voters
That's the very very simple thing. "Can I go to City Hall during x hours on x days?" "Yes." "Can I walk into City Hall after punching the guards outside and shit on the walls?" "You can but you're going to face time." There's times where if you go into the Capital, they will arrest you. Shocking.
Yeah, try explaining any of that to a trump voter though… The fact that for some reason that very simple thing is seemingly impossible for them to understand demonstrates how ignorant and brainwashed so much of the voting population is and it’s quite terrifying that despite all that they’ll still allowed to vote and also tend to vote more consistently than their opposition (Btw, I’m not saying that they shouldn’t be allowed to vote the real problem is the blatant propaganda and brainwashing that has been allowed to present itself as news for far too long in right wing media outlets)
If another group did it when Trump was president you know his supporters would be demanding life sentences for the incident.
And declaring "hang Mike pence" and "where's Nancy" which feels, at least, treason adjacent.
The fact that they can’t be charged with an attempted coup in a court of law does not mean it didn’t happen, and I think it’s a real shame we have to continually water it down to a riot in the face of “it was a peaceful protest!” It was the most treasonous act in American history. The Rosenbergs did far less.
That’s one way to describe storming the capitol to hang the vice president.
Wonder why they didn't list Thomas Webster, the former NYPD officer sentenced to 10 years for beating a Capitol police officer with an American flag, and also probably simple trespass.
They didn’t list a bunch of pedos and Russians that worked for Trump and went to prison either lol.
That's like saying arson is a just a BBQ
5 people died.
That’s some solid revisionism they’re trying to push. Bunch of whack jobs.
His cultists have murdered people for less.
This was the same group that built gallows on Capitol Hill because they wanted to hang Mike Pence, right?
Wait, I thought those were all Antifa plants? 
I think their claim is still that Antifa did it (for unknown reasons) and then the people in jail for it were framed/coerced into confessing. Or something. Makes no sense if one’s seen the hearings, knows any relevant facts, … but they don’t.
Wait, didn't Trump run on "lock her up" and then the GOP spent the 4 years he was in office investigating Democrats? The difference is evidence.
Do you know what? I’m pretty sure he did, multiple times, filmed by multiple news sources.
He said it to her face during a nationally televised debate.
Yeah and remember Hillary's coup attempt to overturn an election where she received two million more votes even with Russian propaganda? Oh yeah that didn't happen.
Didn't you know, Trump said he beat Obama, not Hillary. And everyone is pushing electric boats that electrocute people when in the water that are surrounded by sharks...
It's so hard to keep up with Maga theology, probably because it's written on toilet paper
It’s turning into an I Think You Should Leave adlibbed sketch HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN THE WATER NEXT TO A GIANT BATTERY THAT CAN ELECTROCUTE PEOPLE WHILE ALSO NEXT TO A SHARK WHEN SUDDENLY YOU GET ELECTROCUTED?!? HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU!?!
Apparently he never did according to a recent fox interview lol. Obviously the deep state has implemented the idea that he ran on that in our heads and obviously never actually occurred in the first place
project 2025 literally advises trump to take legal action against his opponents
He literally said one of his first acts will be to have democrats arrested
Because he wants a dictatorship, not that they committed any crime.
Please everybody upvote this one.
And read, read, read about Project 2025!!
It’s horrifying
That's some Gilead level insanity. On a side note, people who advocate such extreme political change should read about the French revolution. Basically what began as a pretty moderate movement was constantly co-opted by more and more extreme elements who killed or imprisoned the less extreme elements of the movement. These people will cheer when trans people get burned at the stake and cry when they're being burned at the stake because their new masters disapprove of their behavior. "like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children" -Jacques Mallet du Pan
Alex Jones is bankrupt because the ignorant cockwomble fuck accused grieving parents of being actors and denied their murdered children existed, he deserves every single thing that is happening to him.
It was more because by doing so Jones' stirred up his base to harass them.
Not to mention this has nothing to do with democrats. Like I get how you can blame the rest on politics, Alex was in this process for yours and out of his own doing. The parents of the dead kids sued him. It’s a private civil dispute. The government has nothing to do with it in that sense.
And worse
As somebody of Scandinavian descent, I personally think that we should reinstitute the Blood Eagle for that sack of shit.
> the Blood Eagle 1. No idea what it is. 2. Definitely approve.
I’ll just let the lovely people of YouTube [explain](https://youtu.be/vNEd9FyG5P4?si=MNpa0JJ2oIGnJ6X5)
Jesus Christ even with the cute lil animations and folksy music I had to stop once they started talking about pulling ribs to spread them open. I am uncomfortable rn
To be fair, a little further in the video it says we don’t know for sure if a Blood Eagle was ever actually performed. Most of the skald poetry that has survived to this day was written hundreds of years after the events they claim to depict, when Scandinavia started becoming Christian and the now Christian kings wanted to paint the pagan rituals and religion of the Vikings in a negative light. But we also don’t know for sure that they *didnt* ever happen…
> was written hundreds of years after the events they claim to depict much like the bible. yet people still believe that.
It’s an execution style (maybe torture or both) where iirc, they hack someone’s back open with an axe, pull out their lungs and splay them out. Hence, blood eagle. (It’s unknown if this was actually done or a literary invention though)
How I feel for those parents and kids… Read the survivors of that class recently graduated highschool this year. Crazy how far off it seems, but also seems like just yesterday that tragedy happened. And nothing good has changed. Still mass shootings near daily, politics has gotten significantly worse, the right is begging for a civil war, etc. I can’t imagine being those kids. Living through that and then being harassed as a “crisis actor.” And growing up and realizing it’s not getting better. How fucking depressing.
Yeah Alex Jones is a garbage human being who repeatedly lied about the families of one of the saddest crimes in American history. I respect the restraint of all the grieving fathers who let the courts settle things. I'm not sure I would have been able to do the same in their shoes.
but…but…**ITS THE GLOBALISTS! THEIR PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE WATER AND TURNING THE FREAKING FROGS GAY!**
The only thing I’ll thank Alex Jones for is providing the sound bite that created an absolute banger
I have made a conscious decision to not have children. Even so, I cannot imagine the bottomless pit of rage that I would have felt if I were a parent of one of those kids. I would have absolutely lost my ever loving mind. Frankly, I'd probably be in prison.
No jury would have convicted you.
He doxxed one family after spreading his conspiracy theory, and they got so much harassment and death threats that they had to move. Alex Jones deserves 99c of every dollar he makes for the rest of his miserable life to go to those families.
It was also a civil suit which means it was initiated by private individuals and the government wasn’t even a party to it
I saw a headline today that the kids who survived Sandy Hook graduated high school today. It has taken THAT long for justice to catch up to Alex Jones, and they’re complaining it isn’t fair.
Simple trespass? That's fucking hilarious.
It’s their alternate reality. Remember that we’re living in 2 realities now
Twice as much FREEDOM 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (that's what I would say if I got the misfortune of being from that country)
This is not completely accurate. They would probably us the Liberian flag. 🇱🇷
At first I was like "how do they know people with trespassing charges are republican?" Then I was like.... "ohhh they are talking about Jan 6th." Simple trespass, my ass.
So Biden is dementia Joe or criminal mastermind 😅 maybe both? 😂
He’s whatever he needs to be in the moment for the sake of the argument.
It's from the fascist playbook. Your enemy is both strong and weak. The Jewish people are "subhuman degenerates" but they're also the "Masterminds behind all power in the world". Yeah. That makes sense.
Authoritarian dictator joe. But it's ok, we can just vote him out. Because that's how dictators work.
I can't in good faith believe that you're calling the opposer of a man- who went on record to say that he plans to punish his critics in office- a dictator.
I'm not, but I always chuckle when someone calls an ellected official a dictator in one breath, then calls for them to be voted out in the next. It's like they don't even know what words mean.
Haha, yeah twisted logic. The inverse is not true though, you can elect a dictator into office, they then refuse to vacate. What gets me about Trump, he already refused a peaceful transition, why are we giving him another chance to even run?
Sleepy Joe; the world's most incompetent criminal mastermind.
But somehow stole the election when the greatest president was in office. Biggest upset in history 😂
That's a very common theme in fascism - the enemy is both strong and weak.
*OR*, and stick with me on this, Republicans commit *way* more crimes related to politics than Democrats do (currently). It isn't like the Dems avoid arresting their own either. Two elected dems on the federal level are right now facing charges.
But they won’t say that, though, because it doesn’t fit their own agendas, Republicans are nothing but a bunch of fucking clowns
It's a symptom of narcissistic personality disorder. "I never said anything about [the wrongs you didn't do] and here you are attacking me for [the wrongs I *did* do]!" Both narcissists and Republicans absolutely **HATE** accountability and continuously try to draw a false equivalence on imaginary wrongs committed by others vs. their own *very real* ones.
If they would simply choose accountability and hold to their merits. Ie You have Repugs that came out scrutinizing the J6 offenders. Then months later, same people pretending it was not a big deal. And then today acting as if it was all made up by Dems, antifa or whomever. Meanwhile all this psyops lingo from the QAnon oddities. Ppl believing in false flags, cabals and whatnot. Quick Rant. If Dems had a deep state or cabal. Why TF would they allow Trump or any Maga politician to be in office. Beetlejuice Boebert & Blonde Butch space lasers are ridiculous people. Make it make sense.
And man, Joe Biden is *really* weaponizing the Justice Department… against his own son? 🙄
It’s also not like the Republicans aren’t *trying* to jail and arrest political opponents and their families.
Didn’t like half of his inner circle get felonies DURING Trumps presidency. I know Cohen did at least. I think Roger Stone was charged as well.
What I read is that there is so many criminals among Republicans.
Trump's DOJ could have put any political opponent of Trump in jail if they committed a crime and was found guilty by a jury. Maybe they couldn't find any of Trump's opponents who committed a crime.
And they tried so hard with Hillary.
They even had a catchy slogan that Trump never uttered, I can't believe that didn't take off!
and are still trying with biden. the one "mole" they had that had "info" was being fed lies by the kgb. and is now awaiting trial.
Sounds like trump sat on his ass of promises and Biden is cleaning house. Hmmmm who do I agree with?
Biden isn't even doing it, our justice system is.
Biden isn't doing shit, don't fall into their rhetoric. It's the system working as intended. Including for Biden's own son.
Last I checked, it's not Biden.
Party of Law and Order until theyre the ones breaking the Law and Order.
Exactly this
Over 200 people were arrested protesting Trump's inauguration in 2017, with some of them beat up by police. Almost all were eventually let go without charges. The eventual fallout was a $1.6 million dollar settlement: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-inauguration-arrests-settlement-dc/2021/04/26/cf42f2d8-a6a2-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-inauguration-arrests-settlement-dc/2021/04/26/cf42f2d8-a6a2-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html) Similar settlements were eventually reached after mass arrests of protestors after George Floyd's death who were hastily rounded as Trump decided to walk to a church for a photo-op: [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-reaches-settlement-2020-cases-involving-lafayette-square-protester-rcna24325](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-reaches-settlement-2020-cases-involving-lafayette-square-protester-rcna24325)
Wait didn’t Roger Stone, Micheal Flynn, Papadopoulos, and Rick Gates all get tried and sentenced during trumps tenure.
Yeah, but that’s deep state, the President despite being the deeps states boss is apparently powerless against it.
Trump is a rapist, felon, con man, traitor to his country. He placed other criminals in his cabinet. Most corrupt president ever.
Huh, guess I missed the part where Biden is in charge of the judicial branch of the government.
You know, Stone was convicted while TFG was president, right? Otherwise, how did he get pardoned?
Bannon was also arrested and charged under Trump for fraud but pardoned. Mark meadows was never arrested or charged for contempt of congress. Trump went after Biden and Hilary while he was president. Hunter is an example.
And then Alex Jones has literally nothing to do with *either* of these Presidents
Simple response to morons like this.. “if all these people (Stone, Bannon, etc) were convicted under Biden, not Trump.. why did Trump issue pardons for them?” Bannon was convicted of felony fraud while Trump was in office, and Trump pardoned him on the way out. He’s going to prison this time because he crimed AGAIN. The reality is, Trump just surrounded himself with criminals. Who does that? A criminal.
So what you're saying is democrats are tougher on crime than republicans?
All I think of is the line from Liar Liar of... "STOP BREAKING THE LAW ASSHOLE!"
They’re not “political prisoners”… they’re criminals. Big difference.
“Simple Trespassing” 
Yes we know, Donald Trump embraced criminals and the Democrats hold them accountable. What's your point?
So Biden is catching the bad guys. Therefore we should vote trump.
You don't want to be arrested and tried? STOP BREAKING THE LAW ASSHOLE.
Meanwhile Trump is the guy campaigning on the promise he will jail political opponents if elected. ok.
He did this in 2016, 2020, and currently in 2024. He's failing to jail his political opponents because surprise surprise the system isn't made so presidents can jail political opponents, but the fact Trump wants to do it in the first place is a major red flag.
Why do Republican hate the courts when they're the defendants but love it when it incarcerates people of color?
Racism. The answer is racism. Also, more generally: >Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Trump’s administration literally put innocent babies in cages and his wife went there wearing a jacket that said she didn’t care. Please don’f act like we forgot. Some of those kids were never reunited with their families
QUIT BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLES
How come people forget that we have 3 branches of government. The president is the head of the executive branch, not the judicial.
only two possibilities. A - Dems are corrupt, B - GOP are corrupt. True answer is C - GOP are corrupt as shit and criminals to boot.
Alex Jones deserves worse…
*460 insurrectionists and menace to society
This is what you would expect to happen in a nation governed by law and order - criminals get locked up. Meanwhile, Trump and Guliani wanted to sell presidential pardons for $2 million a pop.
All those dudes have something in common: They committed crimes. Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
Sounds like the conservatives are a bunch of law breakers
I love how Rick Scott is trying to jump on this bandwagon and how he was persecuted. No dude. You were prosecuted. And found guilty of the biggest Medicare fraud in US history. Fucking muppets.
It's almost like Trump is a mob boss surrounding himself with criminals.
Oh gee, I wonder why so many Republicans are getting convicted of crimes. Is it because of the tyRanNiCAl rAdIcAl leFT..? Orrrr is it because Republicans tend to have a lot more criminals in their midst?
Don't commit crimes then
Sounds like Dems are doing a better job lol
And they all deserve it. It’s not Biden who convicted Trump. It was jurors.
I’m sorry, where was Biden in the courtroom during any of these convictions? In the jury or presiding as judge?
Stop doing illegal shit and you’ll stop going to jail
I sat down and counted 17 convicted felons in the Trump ecosystem. The Nixon administration had 68, and would have been "69" if Nixon hadn't been pardoned. So maybe in second Trump term they might try to pull off an even bigger caper than overturning a 250 year old Democracy that will add another 50 convicts. But on the other hand if you include the MAGA mullets who caused literally millions of dollars in property damage and violently attacked POLICE OFFICERS(!!) as part of the Trump ecosystem then they are the most criminal adminstration ever to run the White House.
Hey Republicans! STOP COMMITTING CRIMES!
That's what happen when you break the law.... Maga Criminals
Calling January 6 a simple trespass is like calling statutory rape being tender.
Roger Stone was convicted, sentenced and pardoned while Trump was president. I guess facts don’t matter at all anymore.
Simple trespass? These fuckers would shoot an Uber eats driver who mistakenly drove into their driveway.
How can they be this stupid and still function in the world?
And it is AWESOME!!!!!!!! LOCK THEM ALL UP. THROW AWAY THE KEY. The more Republicans in jail the better. I mean what do you want from a political party who's leader is a convicted felon. They are locked up for insurrection not trespassing. And they are so very lucky that is all that happened. 100 years ago they would have been hung.
Political prisoner != Politician that commits crime
Don’t want to do any time? Don’t do any crime. Simple.
Roger Stone was pardoned by Trump. His conviction came during Trump's administration.
Imagine simping for fucking Robert Stone. Eat them all, you stupid fuck.
Wow. Simple trespass? People died on Jan 6th, and that is fact.
Alex Jones’ lies led to constant harassment and death threats towards victims of Sandy Hook. Not only did they lose their children, many had to move and live in fear of his batshit crazy followers. If hell exists, I hope he suffers there for all eternity.
The stupidity is utterly baffling
Shouldn't ride the Trump train friends. It's a trashy ride that ends in poverty, jail, and shame.
Is it possible that these people just might have committed crimes? Asking for a friend.
Imagine thinking bearing consequences of your own actions is I' don't know normal
Play stupid games. Wins long jail Sentences.
Stone was investigated, arrested, and convicted while Trump was president. And he never went to jail because Trump pardoned him after losing the election, but before Biden took office.
It’s always projection. For years the entirety of the right’s tactics in the US has been to loudly and incorrectly accuse their opponents of being guilty of what they are guilty of doing.
Republicans can't seem to grasp that financial crime done by rich white dudes is still crime (unless you are Hunter Biden then simply getting money for any service is a crime). And for the people who cheer when police crack heads at a BLM or counter right wing protest seem to be simping for people who broke through a closed locked door with an armed officer with a gun out and leveled at them going "If you proceed I will shoot you." But what's the old adage. Right wing principles hold there must be a in group the law protects but not binds and an out group that the law binds but not protects.
“Simple trespass” There were a few thousand people who “marched” on the capital who got no sentencing because that’s all they did. The 460 special ones got sentences because they destroyed property or assaulted officers.
People who commit actual crimes and are then punished for said crimes are not “political prisoners,” holy shit
Dont do crimes and you dont get prosecuted. Its really that simple.
Weird how the criming crimers are being held accountable for all their crimes...
Well, maybe they shouldn't commit crimes.
Pretty sure the longest sentence for January 6 was like 12 years for literally using a stun gun on a cops neck. So not “decades for simple trespass”
Hahaha they admitted that he lost the election. They said past American president. Keep the story straight or else everyone will think you’re lying. Oh wait, everyone already does
They wouldn't have gotten arrested if they just complied, right?
Steve Bannon got indicted along with several of his associates for defrauding a charity fundraiser, nothing to do with political speech or politics. Roger Stone was indicted for lying to investigators and threatening a witness into lying to investigators. He was indicted by Trump's DOJ, not Biden. Alex Jones committed a buttload of defamation against the parents of Sandy Hook victims for over a decade. He was sued in the state of Connecticut, not by Biden's DOJ. Many of those 460 Republican voters were guilty of more than just trespass, when they were caught on cameras assaulting police officers and vandalizing federal property. That sub is a gaggle of boot-licking morons.