WHELP THAT WAS FAST

[solarbird]

Guilty! Guilty, guilty, guilty.

Guilty.

All 34 counts. Every single one. Guilty as sin. It didn’t even take the jury that long. It was just long enough – they requested enough evidence and clarity to make sure the were crossing their Ts and dotting their Is and couldn’t be accused of ignoring the facts… and they were done.

And here’s the thing. Because there is a thing.

This was hard to do. This was very hard to do… historically. It’s not a thing done in the US, regardless of how much it should be done. But…

…the biggest thing making it hard is the convention – the unwritten rule – of not holding a former president to the law. That’s the biggest thing. That’s why Ford was able to get away with pardoning Nixon – an incredibly damaging act – just for one example..

But if all you do, your entire political career..

…if all you do…

…is attack, spit upon, break down every convention, every common ground, every civility and every unwritten rule and as many written laws as you can manage, smash them against the ground and shit on them, all for your own advantage and for your own power…

…eventually…

…those unwritten rules are not such a big deal anymore to anyone. You’ve made sure of that. You’ve broken every one you can, tearing down all the rules, written and unwritten, smashing all the conventions and agreements and social contracts that make everything work and can never be really written too far into law because that’s not how it functions but that doesn’t make them not important.

So when this particular contract, this particular convention, this particular gentleman’s agreement gets thrown out, as it has been today?

It’s your own. damn. fault.

He made this possible. Hell, gor this jury – he made it easy. And it’s all on him.

Petard, how dost thou hoist me?

He did this to himself, and it is delicious.

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Comments

[gwydion]

:)

[jessie_c]

Guilty!

[shaddyr]

Yes. Exactly. Justice is FUCKING sweet.

[solarbird]

I put out a poll on Mastodon asking whether Texas, Florida, Ohio, or some other red state would be the first to throw together a bullshit indictment of Joe Biden. So far Texas is leading Florida, but it's close, with Ohio a distant third tied with all others combined.

[wrog]

Now all we need is the electoral consequences.
(sure would be nice to get a 1964 or even a reverse-1984; we're not going to get it, of course)

[solarbird]

That is very, very much what we need.

We've needed it for a while. We needed it in 2004 and/or 2006, if you cared about torture and war crimes, but, well.

[wrog]

We got something in 2006 and 2008. Recall, 2006 destroyed the R majorities in both houses and we came out of 2008 with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate that lasted until EMK died. Obama pissed it away being way too conciliatory (and maybe Black Guy as President had to be Extra-Special Nice Just Because people were losing their shit over it, and maybe Lieberman as vote #60 doomed it all anyway), but we had it.