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it's funny when jail time and legal punishment is ok for minor drug offenses but when it comes to high crimes by elected officials it's suddenly "time for unity".

**** that. these people need to learn and history needs to remember. their lives need to be destroyed as the law sees fit.

Are you telling me you doubt the GOP’s new found commitment to restorative justice and webs of community based accountability in lieu of retributive, carceral approaches?
 




Gotta get rid of this clown now. F waiting for 2025.

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In a statement issued early Wednesday morning, Perdue suggested he’s in this for the long haul: This is an “exceptionally close election that will require time and transparency to be certain the results are fair and accurate and the voices of Georgians are heard,” his campaign said. “We will mobilize every available resource and exhaust every legal recourse to ensure all legally cast ballots are counted. We believe in the end, Senator Perdue will be victorious.”

The GOP is now the party of Trump and Trumpism.
 

In a last-minute video message, Trump told the crowd to go home — then told them he loved them and believes they’re “very special.”

Trump’s messaging on January 6 is precisely in line with how he’s historically addressed violence on the part of hate groups and his supporters: He emboldens it.

As far back as 2015, Trump has been connected to documented acts of violence, with perpetrators claiming that he was even their inspiration. In fact, dozens of people enacted violence in Trump’s name in the years before the Capitol attack, according to a 2020 report from ABC News.

In 2016, a white man told officers “Donald Trump will fix them” while being arrested for threatening his Black neighbors with a knife. That same year, a Florida man threatened to burn down a house next to his because a Muslim family purchased it, claiming that Trump’s Muslim ban made it a reason for “concern.”
Then there are the more widely known examples, like Cesar Sayoc, who mailed 16 inoperative pipe bombs to Democratic leaders and referred to Trump as a “surrogate father”; and the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, in 2019 that left 23 dead, where the shooter’s manifesto parroted Trump’s rhetoric about immigrants.

In some cases, Trump denounces the violence, but he often walks back such statements, returning to a message of hate and harm.

This is the kind of stuff that barely comes up when discussing Trump, but it has to reemerge in the national discussion. There has to be a retrospective on cable news channels of all the times Trump encouraged violence because even I forgot about how his words motivated terrorist acts in prior years.
 
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