Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/07/justice-department-dropping-ca.html
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Were they written in crayon?
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If I understand correctly, simply because the justice dept. has decided to drop its prosecution, that does not mean that the Judge has to follow suit. Since Flynn has already pleaded guilty, the Judge can go ahead and sentence him anyway. Apparently that would be unusual, but then everything about this whole through-the-looking-glass mess is unusual already.
If the Judge does go ahead, Trump would of course pardon Flynn, but that would make it another big campaign issue. I don’t think the majority of the country favors allowing the criminality of top governmental officials to go unpunished. Despite the Trump and Barr propaganda, the public does not favor those who lie to the FBI. Fingers crossed.
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All together now:
“IT’S OKAY IF YOU ARE A REPUBLICAN!”
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Maybe that should that be:
“Justice” Department drops case against Michael Flynn
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America is a banana republic
…just look at it?
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Well, now we know one of the things that Biff and Putin discussed during their phone call the other day. The old KGB hand knows how to take care of his assets.
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The normalization of corruption under Trump will not go away, particularly when the conservative echo-chamber bends over backwards to defend it with conspiracies and excuses. Even a complete sea-change in congress and the White House this November may not be enough to make GOP regulars admit they bet on the wrong horse with Trump.
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Our republic appears more banana-like every day. No, every hour!
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if we were ever a democracy, we are clearly not any longer
the president has servants and reaches into other parts of the government to execute his desires at will and no-one can stop him
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People CAN stop him, they just WON’T stop him.
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America, it was nice to know you.
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Just look at it!
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The judge should sentence Flynn to 1,000 years in prison, since it won’t matter, might as well make Trump as angry as possible
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I’d guess the same Sharpie from the Dorian map.
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Make the corruption open and blatant, reward cronies socially and monetarily, be shocking to opponents and non-partisans, pump up your base, increase chaos. And the end goal is straight-up, open fascism, straight out of the Bannon playbook.
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Rule of Law is dead. Justice is an off-color joke. If there were a nanogram of justice on this entire planet, General Flynn would’ve faced a firing squad years ago.
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I’m not sure what their options are.
Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler can complain all they like, but unless there are actual criminal charges against Barr, why wouldn’t he do this? If criminal charges are proferred against Barr, how will the Republicans react? Would there be violence?
The Republican Party realised in the 1980’s, when Reagan didn’t have to answer for his crimes, that there are no consequences for this kind of stuff.
I am going to predict nothing will happen. Again.
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They can, and at this point almost have to, impeach Barr.
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