Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[Rhinox]

Kinda like how cops broadly interpret "disorderly conduct" to fit any given situation if they want to arrest you badly enough.

Or "interference". I'm so tired of seeing cops throw that tired accusation out just because they don't like someone refusing illegal directives.

 

[Tuxedo Prime]

Am I allowed to find both the guy and this entire process disgusting?

Of course.

And it's an understandable part of the human condition, I expect, to be all for free speech up until the point that someone says something that one finds reprehensible.

But disappearing people for crimethink -- as has happened -- is very much in "First They Came" territory: and the ADL's "appreciation" for the current maladministration's "broad" and "bold" efforts to "counter campus antisemitism" even as said league was shrugging and saying "what salute?" when Elno sieg-ed twice at a rally is not a path to a good ending. I would have thought they had longer memories, but here we are.

ICE Yanking Green Card Holders Out Of Their Houses For Wrongthink Now

Yeah, this ain't right.

www.wonkette.com

Also, from "Domestic Enemy Hat", formerly "Popehat", via Bluesky and bridged from Mastodon:

Domestic Enemy Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)

Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a ******* polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.

fed.brid.gy

 

[abates]

Former Trump spiritual adviser indicted for child sex abuse cases dating back to the 80s.

Robert Morris, former Texas megachurch pastor and Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes

Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in Dallas-area GOP politics.

www.texastribune.org

Only the best people.

 

[KidTDragon]

Pardon incoming.

 

[Rhinox]

Trump can't pardon state crimes. I'm sure there will be an influence campaign for his good buddy, but Trump can't drop trou, wave his magic wand and make this one go away.

 

[Dekafox]

NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says

“We are witnessing a new brain drain.”

www.404media.co

 

[wonko the sane?]

If there's jailtime involved: I'm sure the pastor will just be transferred to "epsteins island".

 

[KidTDragon]

Trump can't pardon state crimes. I'm sure there will be an influence campaign for his good buddy, but Trump can't drop trou, wave his magic wand and make this one go away.

Then Gov. Abbott will do it.