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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[-] cstross@wandering.shop 12 points 1 month ago
[-] corbin@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

Personally I'm betting on Teapot Dome: somebody in the Cabinet will be convicted of something like bribery, foreign influence, or electoral interference; and the cleanup will implicate multiple other Cabinet members. Trump needs to do this at some point anyway; he's already done all of the Nixon things like Watergate and interfering in foreign wars, and while he attempted a Teapot Dome last time with Ryan Zinke, he needs to actually have a Cabinet member removed or convicted in order to truly be a worse president than Warren G. Harding.

[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 7 points 1 month ago

@corbin

How would that even happen with a Trumpist DOJ?

Because project 2025 and the mass deportations won't actually solve the problems his base is feeling, and at a certain point this kind of scandal will either be his downfall or his only option to scapegoat someone else.

[-] corbin@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Trump would have to literally kill all lawyers. Think of the DoJ as a pile of folks who all took an oath to the law itself. When pundits complain that it's being "weaponized", they're actually talking about a facet of overcriminalization where the DoJ's limited attention can be controlled somewhat; it's always going to be a full-power laser that targets what the law perceives as criminality.

In particular, the President doesn't have the authority to tell the DoJ to stop an investigation, and the DoJ usually can't tell individual prosecutors to stop filing motions. Trump wasn't able to protect Cabinet member and Teapot Dome Candidate #2 Michael Flynn from prosecution, nor can he protect Eric Adams. The worst that he can do is a Saturday Night Massacre, where he fires lawyers until the investigations stop, and the entire pattern of special counsel is purpose-designed to prevent that from actually working.

[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 2 points 1 month ago

@corbin

Sweet summer child.

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