Donald Trump would have been convicted of crimes over his failed attempt to cling to power in 2020 if he had not won the presidential election in 2024, according to the special counsel who investigated him.
Jack Smith’s report (***the report is 174 pages long) detailing his team’s findings about Trump’s efforts to subvert democracy was released by the justice department early on Tuesday.
Following the insurrection on 6 January, 2021, Smith was appointed as special counsel to investigate Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. His investigation culminated in a detailed report, submitted to the attorney general, Merrick Garland.
Volume one of the report meticulously outlines Trump’s actions, including his efforts to pressure state officials, assemble alternate electors and encourage supporters to protest against the election results.
Congratulations to the American people, for having the guts to elect a crazy criminal malignant narcissist idiot for president.
I doubt many places would have the guts to do that.
To be entirely honest, this makes me doubt we will make it as a species.
The Covid response taught me we’re doomed.
If we can’t get people to wear masks and get vaccinated for a disease that’s actively killing millions we ain’t gonna do shit over climate change.
The empires will fall but the species will remain. We would have to kill the entire planet’s ecology for humanity to go extinct, we’re too good at adapting.
We’re working on that. The methane hydrate problem is terrifying
Sure, but I’m unconvinced that would scrub the entire surface clean. Desertification of huge swaths not near the poles, ocean pH plummeting from carbonic acid causing a mass extinction of most plankton, algae, and the life that depends on them, and the end of countless evolutionary lines. But if there’s a temperate zone in Antarctica, or even a swampy tropical jungle, there’s gonna be humans eating snails and xylem for however long it takes something to start sequestering carbon again.
We bounced back from a 100,000 year bottleneck with a population of 1200. We’d seal that many in an underground cave complex with naught but lichen and crickets to eat before we rolled over and died out.
Not entirely. The wars over increasingly scarce resources (such as farmable land and water) will do a lot of the extermination as well.
Sure, but consider that North Sentinel Island has been mostly isolated for tens of thousands of years. 23 square miles. That’s how small of a rock we can cling to. Resource availability is the big question mark of course, and the exact nature of global ecosystem collapse and the water wars can’t be known exactly, but my money is on “at least one sustainable holdout” somewhere.
Hopefully they can eventually scavenge the good bits of our mountains of waste.
That is a possible outcome. But far from a desirable one.
There is so much more we (as aspecies) could be doing to prevent a mass extinction event.
But instead we’ve got our collective heads so far up our own asses that we can’t even cooperate enough to do what could be the simplest things.
It’s frustrating to see this disaster coming directly at us and being prevented from taking meaningful action by politicians who refuse to cooperate, by billionaires who hoard wealth and sculpt public opion toward self-destructive ends, by religions that gleefully anticipate their scriptures version of Armageddon.
The more you study geoscience the angrier you’ll get about it all, trust me.
On election day when he didn’t lose by a landslide I had the same thought even before all the results were in. The level of idiotic selfish spitefulness required to keep him from losing by a country mile after all that’s happened is absurd.
IDK why you are downvoted, maybe it’s the double negative?
But just to make it clear, keep from losing = winning.
So corrected for double negative:
And yes I agree completely, it’s insane he even had a chance, and it says a LOT about the American society as a whole is mentally ill.
Not everybody, but enough to make it a systemic problem throughout everything in society. It must be hell to live in USA as a normal person!
Thanks, yeah I’m not sure. Maybe my wording is confusing… it’s early here. And I’m pissed. I don’t want to live in a world where a person is rewarded heartily for being all the horrible shitty things we were all taught not to be. It almost feels like morality was invented to keep everyone from having the balls to lash out against these absolute sociopath types.
Americans are indoctrinated with values of individual freedom to a degree where Malignant narcissism has become a virtue, and it shows throughout all aspects of society.
Everything that benefit common good is demonized. Like food stamps, social welfare, healthcare for all, protection of minorities, lack of union rights, insane gun rights, and abolishing free abortion, and even sex education.
It’s in everything American in society, and USA is so far removed from other developed countries it’s more like a very poor developing country in many aspects.
It’s all about oppressing the non privileged, to give more privileges to the already privileged.
Now people are even getting away with claiming slavery wasn’t so bad!!
You’re right. It’s sold as “believe X if you like freedom” when the reality is “believe X to keep the rich’s boot on your neck, necessarily decreasing freedom”. It’s not a freedom for your kid to die by a school shooter, but somehow millions believe it is.
Looks like you also got a downvote for your helpful reply for whatever reason. How people vote on this site is one of those things I’ll never understand.
Yes but the post I responded to completely turned around. So that’s fine for me. Probably someone thought my comment wasn’t necessary, but obviously it was for some, since it changed the voting both instantly and completely.
Twice!