Does anyone get the impression the Trump/Terrorists/etc. are just going to skate?

[tenderfoot]

Judging from today's Supreme Court ruling, Manchin's futzing on the filibuster and Schumer's "I'll ask Mitch McConnell first..." about the Nuclear Option - that feckless FUCK and his army of knuckle-draggers is going to get away with EVERYTHING.

Does anyone else feel that way? Talk me down.

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[captain queeg]

1. I hate to say it, and it's sickening, but I think mostly they'll get off

I don’t even think trump will be convicted in the senate. He’ll have plenty of legal problems I don’t think he’ll pay for the insurrection. Of course many of the rioters are basing their defense on trump telling them to do so. There’s going to be a lot of evidence against him. Not that evidence matters to the rethugs.

[TwilightZone]

2. It's not up to Congress to prosecute them.

The events you mentioned have nothing to do with whether or not they're prosecuted or punished.

[634-5789]

3. ReThugs are not going to get those 17 votes needed to convict trump.

[Meowmee]

4. Yes

I am very worried about that. Setting the stage for the next fascist and insurrection etc.

[Ace Rothstein]

5. Trump probably will get away with it.

Some of those who participated probably will as well. There will be some people on juries sympathetic to them. Be prepared for those on the right to start referring to those who do end up serving time as political prisoners.

[Celerity]

6. It isn't just Manchin in regards to nuking the filibuster. Feinstein, Sinema have said

no multiple times in the recent (2019 and 2020) past, and there are others who have went back and forth.

Same for other issues as well, like SCOTUS expansion (at least 7 or 8 are against). Manchin is also a deffo no so far on DC Statehood as well.

The Senate (as an institution it is profoundly disproportionate on a democratic scale, soon 70% of it will be controlled by only 30% of the population, a 30% that is far more white, RW reactionary, fundie relgious and less educated than the other 70%) itself, then the Electoral College, and finally a lack of proportional representation, are 3 long wave, deep systemic Constitutional flaws that could, if things continue on in the wrong direction, play extraordinarily fundamental roles in the eventual dissolution of the union.

[soothsayer]

7. Gonna be some shocking evidence (I hope)

And blood curdling stories. Let them make the case, show the videos.

We shall see.

[Thekaspervote]

8. I don't think t...p will be convicted. As far as the others, possibly boebert for her part in 1/6

Hawley and cruz will skate

T...p will still face criminal charges in NY state. Once again, an AA woman saving our asses?!

[doc03]

9. The Senate will not vote against Trump and I think the terrorists are pretty much all

getting away with a slap on the wrist.

[Generic Brad]

10. Justice is not instant karma

It is slow and methodical. But it is happening.