America’s big problem is not Joe Biden, it’s the menace to democracy posed by Donald Trump

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America’s big problem is not Joe Biden, it’s the menace to democracy posed by Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall
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We are truly fucked. Thanks for letting the wrong guy run and dooming us a terrible outcome.

I agree. We are going to lose in November if we remain on this shuffling horse.

I will vote for Biden, but we will lose because we're not the people who needed to be convinced by that debate performance.

Imagine if Biden has initiated prosection of Trump within his first 100 days, rather than waiting until his last year in office to press charges.

Imagine all you want, in reality he shouldn't have final say regarding anyone's prosecution.... Its sort of a cornerstone of this supposed democracy experiment thingy that we're doing.

he shouldn’t have final say regarding anyone’s prosecution

His entire purpose as head of the executive branch is to assign the nation's chief prosecuting attorneys. If he's not setting their prosecutorial agenda, he's not doing is fucking job.

Breaking: Merrick Garland magically throws together a team and analyzes thousands of documents and gets search warrants for former presidents and analyzes all information, gets grand juries and indicts magically really quickly!

(... Later)

Breaking: Merrick Garland's indictments thrown out on technicality because of rushing things; widespread animosity that this is a political witch-hunt thrown together.

We fucked up, but not because of this.

Man, if only there was a team at DOJ that had already been looking at Trump for years and had already come up with otherwise chargeable offenses

Well according to my fox obsessed father all of that was "proven" to be false by 50someodd number of politicians/political appointees that has recently been brought to light...

I'm too depressed and angry to look into it because every time I do he's wrong by some technicality thats too nuanced to explain to someone with their fingers in their ears "nahnahnahnah not listening, Hannity said fake news!"

Golly, if only Barr wasn't overseeing that aforementioned Department during that period of time.

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That’s kind of what Republicans are going for. The president prosecuted his enemies, with a rush job to make it look sort of good.

Personally I’m happier with going through all due process to prosecute this particular criminal, and that it is not in the hands of the sitting President

Personally I’m happier with going through all due process to prosecute this particular criminal

SBF went through due process in a matter of months and is currently cooling his heels in MDC Brooklyn. There's no reason to believe Trump should be permitted to continue his crime spree under Biden for the last four years.

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