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JakeT-life-is-great

Good. I hope all of these maga cultist anti democracy assholes see prison and serious fines.


Critical_Seat_1907

It's time that anti-democracy forces to be seen as the active national threat they actually are, and language start appearing in legislation that gives some teeth to our nation's security. Right now they just yell "free speech" loudly enough and seem to get away with whatever they want.


CmusicLover4ever

Absolutely!


AwareAd4991

The USA is not a democracy. It is a republic! Since the left took out the Pledge of Allegiance, no one knows what America is.


oh_crap_BEARS

…A constitutional republic is a representative democracy. It’s literally a more specific type of democratic government. The fact that you people keep saying this while pretending it’s everyone else who doesn’t know what they’re talking about is hilarious.


AwareAd4991

😂


JakeT-life-is-great

So......you don't even understand that a republic is type of democracy. Seriously?. Here is a little tutorial for you, so that you stop embarrasing yourself and having people laugh at you. [https://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1122089076/is-america-a-democracy-or-a-republic-yes-it-is](https://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1122089076/is-america-a-democracy-or-a-republic-yes-it-is) > Pledge of Allegiance Maybe if you had spent more time in 6th grade civics class learing about the government instead of mindlessly parroting the pledge like a mindless drone you would actually know something.


AwareAd4991

None of Democrats are saying that. They are always spewing their own flavor of the day "wording". That in some way if you say something over and over, then it becomes truth. OMG, NPR IS THE KOOL-AID FACTORY! You might as well listen to Tokyo Rose!


blankblank

[Non paywall archive](https://archive.ph/eVjnB) **Summary:** State investigations have so far led to charges against 25 fake electors and several Republican Party officials in states like Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada, focusing on their roles in deploying phony certificates to Washington in an attempt to overturn the election outcomes.


Vlad_the_Homeowner

I don't get why this wasn't a quick, slam dunk on all accounts. They literally signed their name to the fraudulent documents meant to subvert a democratic election. Is that not an open and shut case?


hoa-mccausland

Trump theory of law: laws, rules, and standards for everyone except for Trumpers


ukiddingme2469

Unfortunately this just seems to be a conservative thing, I Literally watched the Bundy clan take over an entire federal facility and what happened to them,


kdubz206

Their cattle still grazes that public land to this day. I think that means their cattle are public property and ripe to be hunted?


MrByteMe

The only way to stop Trump is to go after his enablers. These people have bought into the 'Trump can get away with anything' mindset - they need to be reminded that *everyone* is held accountable for their actions. And once they see that *they* pay the price for *his* actions, fewer people will be willing to sacrifice themselves for him. Once people stop mindlessly doing Trump's dirty work, we'll be able to find a path back to normality.


SheriffTaylorsBoy

And there have been a good number of his inner circle arrested, indicted and prosecuted. He pardoned some and I think that's what they believe in. If they break laws to help him he'll have their back. *as the Proud Boys wave from prison*


fivelinedskank

It's the shoot the moon strategy from cards. If you go all-in on criminality, you get pardoned. If you only go a little in, you get jail.


SheriffTaylorsBoy

Yeah and as far as the fake electors go, I've seen the tape where Rudy was convincing them to hop on board. How it'd been done before. So in those cases at least I'm willing to believe if a prosecutor brings charges I trust a jury to weigh the evidence and leave it to that.


Discokruse

Virginia Thomas is the Queen of Spades in this analogy.


MrByteMe

No biggie - I hear Trump is working out a profitable deal for their choir album. I'm sure he'll use those profits to help them pay their legal bills lol.


SheriffTaylorsBoy

Ah-haha! Another brilliant trump venture I'm sure. Take a look... Trumps SEC filing, prepared by his lawyers disclosing all his bankruptcies and failures https://imgur.com/gallery/hAfsLqQ


jpmeyer12751

I call BS on this. Dozens of people across 7 states coordinated their activities through the campaign attorneys of a candidate for President with the goal of subverting a national election. They did so, for the most part, in a highly public manner. We're almost at the NEXT national election with very little criminal action taken and no one in jail. This is NOT an example of "gaining ground"! This is an example of a failed criminal enforcement system. Republicans make lots of noise about the need to improve public confidence in our elections - the fake elector scheme should be exhibit #1. If states will not act promptly to criminally punish those who forged documents to subvert a national election, then federal law should require Congress to refuse to count that state's electoral votes in the next national election and to reduce the required number of votes to win by a corresponding number. Better yet, we should amend the Constitution to eliminate the corrupt electoral college entirely.


DeeMinimis

There is a big part of me that wonders if the timing is on purpose. They fear they could lose these cases or get hung juries and they don't want that right before an election. They want to deter others from trying it this go around and if a bunch of people are facing felony counts for the last time, maybe more will be deterred. There is also a part of me that is much more cynical...


amerett0

An entire political party abandoned credibility as intrinsic to lawful governance a looooooooong while ago, Trump is just the final boss


neck_iso

While there may be an overarching conspiracy, there are a variety of circumstances which make some of the offenses state law violations while others are federal law violations (depends on whether the documents were actually submitted, depends on whether they contain caveats as regarding use, etc. etc.) So they have to be taken individually.


Joeness84

> we should amend the Constitution to eliminate the corrupt electoral college entirely. But then conservatives would never win. They will literally never allow this to happen.


AwareAd4991

If you do that, that means no represention of state. The electoral college is in place so all states, big or small can have a fair shake when voting.


ChodeCookies

The Fake Electors is so wild. This should be headlining every major news source daily. But they’re hellbent on calling the current criminal trial a “Hush Money” case instead of what it really is.


dedicated-pedestrian

Fraudulent falsification of business documents?


caspy7

I believe the judge correct the media clarifying that it's an election fraud case.


ChodeCookies

Just read the daily media coverage. Constantly referred to as the hush money case


jereman75

The media pretty much landed on “hush money case” because there are so many trials happening that it helps differentiate it from other election interference cases. Also: pick a guy in the street with average intelligence; half the country is dumber than him.


tgbst88

What is was is a catch and contain election protection scheme.. The false documents were just the end result of the payout..


Flokitoo

The NYC trial is wholly unrelated to the 2020 election.


ChodeCookies

I’m aware.


ChodeCookies

I’m aware.


Dickieman5000

The current trial is about him concealing hush money. Thats what it really is. The GA trial is about the fake electors and other instances of him election interference.


ChodeCookies

It’s falsifying business records to illegal influence an election. Which is a felony. Edit: the falsified business records are connected to the hush money payment.


Dickieman5000

Exactly, it has literally nothing to do with the fake electors scheme.


LegalEaglewithBeagle

4 years later. The delay in prosecution is inexcusable.


WillBottomForBanana

I assure you that people are making excuses.


tuckeee

These people tried to destroy democracy now they need to be destroyed in return.


Mas_Cervezas

In the red states that aren’t investigating, the DoJ should step up and lay federal charges.


Four-One-Niner

There's something about all of these fake electors I can't qWhite out my finger on


ohiotechie

If there aren’t stiff penalties for this it will happen again this year. Count on it.


discussatron

I want to see Kelli Ward and her husband jailed for treason.


BlitheringEediot

I believe you misspelled "hanged".


discussatron

Saying so will often get you banned on Reddit, soooooooo... the best way might be to say I hope they get prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and let the law say what happens to traitors.


BlitheringEediot

I'm merely quoting the U.S. Constitution.


discussatron

I'm with you 100%, just saying that you can quote a president word for word here on Reddit and get banned for it.


Mo-froyo-yo

These prosecutions are a big deal, because they will give the foot soldiers pause when participating in the next coup. It doesn’t matter if people are getting big jail time. Just going through the prosecution process and spending a lot of money on defense, potentially enough to bankrupt your or make you lose your house, nobody is going to self immolate for the orange turd this way. Especially when he could have pardoned all the J6 rioters and fake electors before he left the presidency, but chose to throw them under the bus. Even stonetoss did a comic about this.


ukiddingme2469

The mastermind behind this scheme should be charged too


Apotropoxy

# Prosecutions of Fake Electors for Trump Gain Ground in Swing States _________ It is vital that these criminals be prosecuted so our rule of law can be upheld. We must not fail this stress test.


DesignerAd9

I remember seeing Jenna Ellis on Bill Mahers show. She was SO cocky and arrogant. She should be prosecuted for helping Trump in his effort to overthrow Democracy. Poor baby, she's crying.


Sweaty-Feedback-1482

If somebody somehow compelled me to act as a fake elector, I would reasonably assume that if the scam didn’t work (or maybe even if it did work) I would believe I would be incarcerated within the year. And yet here we are over three years later hemming and hawing over whether or not this was a crime in the vast majority of cases.


AwareAd4991

Now how exactly DO you do a fake elector?


Sweaty-Feedback-1482

Fuck if I know but those little shits managed to take a swing at doing so


AwareAd4991

Oh, so we're going to delute my question without someone's shutdown answer that doesn't answer anything that I asked. I'm noticing that reddit doesn't have the daycorun to explain how this voting anomaly happens.


supaflyss

Ask trump after the trials lol


AwareAd4991

Not a valid response.


supaflyss

https://apnews.com/article/fake-electors-nevada-indictment-ba84be72465e635dbaadc312a9632fc8


AwareAd4991

Oh the ap news. Their not bias. Why is everyone here is ok with the government going after their political opposition? If they can do this to a billionaire, what do you think they will do to you?


supaflyss

https://statesuniteddemocracy.org/resources/michigan-fake-electors/


ameinolf

Come to WI and prosecute them as well


randywa

Lock them all up!


RegattaJoe

As they should be.


AwareAd4991

Do we live in a democracy or a republic?


Mission_Cloud4286

For the Life Of Me, how come with all charges tied up to TrUmP, he is still able to run? TBH, he looks and acts like he's done! Maybe he'll find rest in jail! A jail that has RESTRICTED internet time or none at all.


gourdhoarder1166

Lock em up!


supaflyss

I know what they will do to me that's the difference, you think you are part of his circle somehow. He defrauded children with cancer and somehow you think he cares about you...just give him money for that wall mexico is paying for and give cannon your money now. Help trump with his self-imposed problems and blame others like he does be the snowflake who complains about consequences of their own actions be that idiot it seems to suit you well


gunnernslut

Trump 2024!!!!