Since people seem to have missed this one, unsealed in the Smith filing:

-Trump used a burner phone, routed through a foreign country to contact Michigan house speaker.

-He tried to pressure the speaker in this off book call.

-Speaker McCarthy knew about the burner phone line.

-The phone showed up as “Spam Risk Egypt” on caller ID.

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      Regardless of how crooked and obvious of a big deal this is, absolutely nothing will be done about it. The time for consequence in America for politicians has passed.

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        It’s maddeningly clear that there are powers in place green lighting a criminal enterprise.

        If they succeed the future will ask “how the fuck did 320 million people stand by and let it happen?”

        We didn’t.

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          Aren’t we kind of not doing anything though? Looking at somewhat recent events, the trump cult attempted an insurrection when things didn’t go their way. I can’t think of anything to that level on the opposite side.

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            There’s nothing we can do.

            Those looking at it will say “he was a criminal why wasn’t he behind bars?!”

            Yeah, we all have been wondering the same thing. Protests, grassroots campaigns, and the SCOTUS is still green lighting fascism.

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              We could do things, but we don’t realize it. If Americans protested like the French (plus guns), the American government would be a lot more afraid of them.

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          Because the people getting fucked aren’t the gun lovers.

          Shout out liberal gun owners and socialistRA.

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        This is like sandy hook. When America let all those kids die without flinching, the moment had passed