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Sounds like a great lawsuit.
I understand they’re handing out pardons like candy these days.
Can't pardon a lawsuit. Lawsuits are civil; pardons are for criminal cases. Those staffers could be bankrupted, which would be hilarious.
Elon will just pay the settlement for them with $DOGE or $TRUMP. Monetary punishment is not a deterrent for anyone in the current administration.
Doesn't mean people shouldn't still sue and bleed that fuck dry like he's bleeding everyone else.
Keep suing it until the rest of the shit bags cut the line, turn on them, and leave them for dead. Like Giuliani
Or he just won't. What's anyone going to do about it?
Judges have broad power to enforce civil settlements. Just look at all the shit that NY did to Trump to collect on the E Jean Carroll lawsuit. I'm not sure whether she actually collected, but I assume he sold enough $TRUMP to easy marks to pay for it all.
She hasn't seen a dime from him and never will in the remainder of her lifetime. If she was much younger and trump hadn't won again she might have had a chance, but her victory is basically symbolic only. I'm sure you know that the rich can just keep appealing what amounts to forever since the legal system crawls at the speed of a sloth. Legal, and especially financial consequences do not apply to oligarchs.
It got far enough that the judge made Trump secure a bond for the full amount in case he couldn't pay. I assume he finally did pay up, in fact it might have forced him deeper into crypto once he realized people would pay for his shitty tokens.
Or Smellania
We just pardoned a corporation.
Correct. For criminal acts. As Mitt Romney said, "Corporations are people, my friend." (Yes, I know corporate personhood makes no sense, but this is the messed up world we live in.)
I understand that. And as you noted we're well past the point of law and making sense. 2 plus 2 is now fish because the Supreme Court said so.
I hope we have some legal sense remaining to where what you're saying makes sense. It would be a small confirmation law is still a thing.
We're not past the point of law, there's just an executive-in-chief who thinks he is. Law still applies to everyone else.
He's openly defying the SCOTUS, and nothing is happening. The law doesn't apply to him, therefore it doesn't apply to us. We are all already dead in the US. Stay armed. If they come for you, make them pay with their lives. Make them fear "just following orders."
If you're in the US, you're already dead. Your body just hasn't gotten the message yet. Fight like the cornered badgers we are.
Think of it this way, you're going to be disappeared either way, at least make them pay a price. I'd probably rather die on my front porch than rot in some black site in El Salvador.
What?? No, you're not likely to get disappeared. Jesus fucking christ the people on this site. Have yall ever talked to an organizer? Ain't nobody on this forum Fred Jackson. We're not the Panthers.
Jesus fucking christ touch grass and talk to activists in your area people
https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/palestinian-columbia-activist-detained-ice-sent-louisiana-over
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/u-s-wont-say-whether-its-facilitating-return-of-maryland-man-from-el-salvador-prison
https://truthout.org/articles/pressley-tuftss-ozturk-is-a-political-prisoner-who-was-kidnapped-by-ice/
In the context of ICE kicking in your door you absolutely are going to be disappeared, this is how it begins. It's cool that you're not in any danger but don't presume what other people are doing or the threats they face.
I tell people as of ten as I can, now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.'
Get to know people in your community. Take an interest in growing food, learn how to fix things. Get a gun (or two) and learn how to use them, things are likely to get very bad over the next decade. If they don't at least you got to know your neighbors and learned how to repair a brushless motor (for example.)
"If you're in the US you're already dead" what the fuck kind of nonsense is this
My god some people...
Lmao what kind of gymnastics are you doing here?
The law doesn't apply to him... full stop, that's what the Supreme Court told him. I don't recall them invalidating any laws the rest of us have to follow, do you? Cops are still working their beats. Court is still in session. What makes you think rule of law is gone?
Don't get me wrong, I'm an anarchist and I say FUCK their laws but they're still in place lol
Wait what? I think I missed that.
source
However that’s just one of many sources where you can learn more about this. Don’t know the legitimacy of this particular site.
Holy shit! He's basically given them a license for unlimited money laundering with no repercussions! 🤬
As for The Hill, it's generally skewed to the Right (though not as far right as the fascist GOP) on anything subjective, but usually pretty reliable otherwise.
Christ, first it was politely holding up paddles, now it's a fucking lawsuit
We are BEYOND all that shit my dudes.
No no, not instead of - it's in addition to.