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    I won’t cry for Cheney, who spent her life feeding the beast that’s eating her now, but this is a horrendous precedent and someone should stop it.

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      There was an opportunity to do that a little over a month ago. But because Democrats didn’t put up the god-perfect candidate, voters opted for the dictator, then complained when he started acting like a dictator.

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        Well the important thing here is that you learned your party needs to run better candidates if they want to win. I certainly hope we learned our lesson.

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          Well the important thing here is that you learned your party needs to run better candidates if they want to win.

          Well if its not your party why would we want your advice? It sounds like you are someone who has set themselves up to be a lifetime loser in politics who will never win and has never won.

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            laughs while taking his kids to a park on a local bike lane all built in the last few years

            Buddy, I don’t identify with a political party or ideology. These are tools to deliver material gains for your community.

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          Well the important thing here is that you learned your party needs to run better candidates if they want to win

          The saddest part of it is people who keep dredging up this inane reasoning understand neither the irony or stupidity involved in it.

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      The lawsuit will happen so there’s no stopping that precedent. The only good precedent that can be set is actually taking these phony lawsuits into court where their superpower, lying, has no affect.

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    There is no crime here. So there is no possibility of Cheney being charged with a crime, let alone convicted. This is a political stunt, like Biden’s “impeachment inquery”. Cheney is not worried that she could go to jail. She is legitimately mad about (1) the absurdity of it, and (2) she will have to waste her money on a lawyer.

    The GOP is pretending that Treason Trump’s enshitification has already happened and the rule of law in America is already destroyed, purely because Treason Trump is embarrassed that he was caught and convicted of actual real crimes. But the basic protections are still in place. (1) a judge will dismiss any case that has no actual legal grounds. (2) lawyers can be permanently disbarred from bringing cases with no actual legal grounds, and (3) no 12 person random jury would convict when there is no actual crime.

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    Time is crawling for me now. The impending destruction has made every minute stretch into a year. Its absolutely insane that investigators of an attempted coup that got one person killed and many injured, as well as shit all over our capital building, would be charged.

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    This is unjust. But resources wasted on WY royalty will be diverted away from vulnerable people.