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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/us/politics/trump-liz-cheney-treason-jail.html
Mr. Trump has repeatedly called for the imprisonment of his political opponents, often singling out members of the Jan. 6 committee. But the two posts that Mr. Trump amplified on Sunday particularly stand out.
One proposed jailing an extensive list of high-ranking officials, including Mr. Trump’s former vice president, the top Republican in the Senate and the current president and vice president. The other invoked the dictatorial imagery of a televised military tribunal, which would strip Ms. Cheney of her right to due process similar to the military courts used to prosecute terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay
I know that, rationally, this is bad and I shouldn't ever want to see it attempted.... but now that he's said it... I kinda wonder what would happen if Trump wins.
Will he just "forget" about it as soon as the inauguration happens?
Will it go the route of the overturning of the Affordable Care Act? Remember that? For the first two years of Trumps presidency, it seemed like there were monthly votes to overturn the ACA but every time there'd be some technicality or just straight up not being able to get enough conservative votes to make it happen. Then one day, the votes stopped, the bills stopped being put to vote, and all conservative commentators just stopped talking about it like it was not a campaign promise that had been failing for two years straight.
Will it actually happen? Will he actively persecute Republicans who spoke out against him? Clinton, Biden, Obama, Pelosi?
Will the Supreme Court step in to stop it? Will he then persecute the Supreme Court Justices (fuck that'd kinda be amazing)? i really want to have a crystal ball that can show me the possibilities in detail without having to actually live through them.
I'm going to say yes based on the fact that's exactly what happened last time.and he even explained that to his supporters.
They started chanting lock her up after he was elected and he waved them off and said "yea that was great and all during the campaign but I'm actually president now relax"
There's a part of me that thinks there's a chance that things will be different (not a high chance, just higher than with Hillary).
I remember there being specific campaign slogans about Hillary but it seemed like all of the focus was on her specifically.
I find myself wondering if the shotgun approach of talking about going after EVERYBODY will require somebody to actually be drug into a courtroom. (Though with Trump starting his presidency from day one as a lame duck... I guess it won't really matter.)
They chanted drain the swamp constantly.
True but talking about doing something" about general corruption and graft in government has always been a thing. Its like "the deep state", it doesn't typically specify any specific individual just ... blobs of bureaucracy.
Right it's been a thing forever to talk about it and not do it that's why what he's doing isn't anything new or unique.
Dems say they're going to do good things if elected, republicans say they'll punish the people they hate.
They're both full of shit. Republicans will crank up the cruelty against vulnerable people but they have class co science, they aren't going after each other.