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Technically, SCOTUS didn’t do anything. They refused to take up the case, which means the 5th Circuit’s ruling, that superseded both lower courts that affirmed it was illegal by saying “we’ll address it next year after the primaries,” was the final say.

The thing that needs to be made sense of is why the 5th Circuit is allowed to operate in bad-faith as a rubber stamp for everything Conservative.

There’s a reason Trump is getting RICO charges in Georgia, and it might be because he’s the boss of a mob of violent idiots.

It’s been great, honestly. I had Garuda on a laptop I was using to stream from a local Desktop, and it worked better for Remote Play than Windows 10.

You gotta be on the nightly-builds repo to get it.

Well, you know…money, amirite?

I smell a biography book deal and a string of news appearances where he talks shit about how the GOP has lost its way.

Wow, a whole list of “things that never happened.”

Please, get help to escape the conspiracy feedback loop you’re obviously in.

Yes, but have you considered that if we legalize weed, Satan might get your kids?

/s

They’re not guilty for the things their users do. Bad actors are all over Facebook, so revealing a government was using their platform for nefarious purposes is more like, “See? We can be good guys, too!” It’s positive PR to be proactive like that.

I don’t think it’s an agenda, I think it’s just poorly delivered. The facts are:

• Teen hacks corps using a Fire Stick.

• Teen has done something novel with proprietary hardware.

I think it’s safe to assume that he’s intelligent and creative based on those two things. With proper guidance from the right kinds of people (including parents), someone like that could eventually put those talents to use on someone’s Red Team, or working with an intelligence agency, rather than doing something illegal to stretch their wings (fuck big corporations, but the law is what it is).

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to note that his talents will be wasted by grinding him down in the justice system.

It’s not that simple, thanks to the Electoral College. If electing a president was based on popular vote, the last several Republican presidents wouldn’t have been elected.

But thanks to how the Electoral College works, getting elected is based more on strategically winning specific states. Texas, for example, has several deep blue cities with some of the largest populations in the country. Yet, all 50-something electoral votes go to Republicans, because Republicans win the popular vote in the state. The will of those millions of people is discarded and flipped due to the other areas voting differently.

Gish galloping: the favorite tool of bad actors.

Yeah, I didn’t express it very well, but I wasn’t trying to imply they weren’t a threat. They 1000% are.

It’s just that plans like this presume every conservative is like them, and as we’ve seen even in the House, that’s not the case; it wouldn’t be a cakewalk

Still, it’s one more example of why Conservatives (capital C) need to be dealt with soberly.

TBH, how do his followers have any money left? They’ve bankrolled all of his endeavors for the last 7-8 years, plus bankrolled the other various grifters who kiss Trump’s ring.

Reminder that this isn’t a GOP document, it’s a Heritage Foundation document (right wing extremists).

They could try to follow it, but the Heritage Foundation ≠ GOP. If anything, the Federalist Society is a far greater threat, since they have tactfully and successfully infected the judiciary, and they don’t even have a public manifesto of this nature.

This is certainly concerning, but it’s far from guaranteed to be utilized.

I recommend listening to Legal AF. They’re lawyers following the Trump case, and I think they’ll give you some hope and a good perspective on how fucked Trump is (the episode titles are a bit clickbait-y, but the core information is good). It’s helped me not completely give up and say, “Well, rich people always get off scot free.”

Trump hasn’t seen justice, yet, but he also hasn’t been to court except to be arraigned. We all want justice yesterday, but he’ll have to defend himself for real early next year.

They gave his PAC money, not him directly. With the federal and state governments watching his every move, I’m sure one of them would love to add additional fraud to the list of charges.

It’s not like he can just use it how he wants (anymore).

And as jail goes, the court proceedings haven’t happened yet. He’s out of jail, sure, but that doesn’t mean he’s free.

Yep. Basically the 14th is the quickest path to disallowing his run. But he can get multiple life sentences for murdering a million people and still run.

Standing could be as simple as “it harms the American people to allow him to run.” The lawyer doesn’t have to be directly injured, since class action lawsuits are brought on behalf of entire groups all the time.

Not that it’s a slam dunk reason, but I would hope and think the lawyer in question knows that they have to prove some amount of standing.

She fell prey to one of the classic blunders.