"Alongside the Chuck Todd Industrial Complex, you've got the Legal Fantasy Cosplay on cable news where lawyers and former prosecutors tantalize people with justice that never comes." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"Cy Vance is also teasing people with the promise of justice, despite his long history of streamlining elite criminal impunity and letting (among others) Epstein, Weinstein, Ivanka, Don Jr, and Manafort off the hook." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"People are hyping that Vance hired a lawyer with a history of prosecuting the mafia decades ago, but Mueller did that too. And what did it lead to? Nothing. It didn't matter. What matters is how brave people are going to be *right now*." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"It's one thing to take on John Gotti. It's another thing to take on a transnational crime syndicate that has its hooks in giant corporations and in governments around the world." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"The tax returns that Vance has are only from 2011-2019. This is not that helpful, especially during the POTUS years. They need the 1980s and 1990s tax forms, because those were the decades where Trump's mafia business boomed." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"2011-2015 is also one of the few times where Trump had a legitimate income, sort of. He had an actual job as host of The Apprentice. Granted, he was using the Apprentice to advertise his money-laundering properties as prizes for the contestants." patreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"There's obviously something bad in Trump's full decades of tax returns or he would have released them. But they need to be analyzed in the context of his life as a career criminal -- debt, investments, bankruptcies, and crimes." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
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"The pandemic was preventable. Trump knew early how bad it was and admitted to downplaying it. He, Kushner, and others not only failed to stop it, but deliberately withheld aid and leveraged a deadly virus as a weapon." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"The Trump admin turned protecting oneself from the virus into a culture war. Nurses reported patients dying in denial. Trump incited the mass murder of Americans just like he incited the attack on our Capitol." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"Trump is a mass murderer, and the GOP continues to embrace him. Some of the GOP leaders act like they're in a hostage situation to protect shreds of credibility, but they're not. They chose to be the party of Trump." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"Biden's handling of covid-19 has been a vast improvement. But the material suffering remains and is not being adequately addressed. The most obvious example is the broken promise over $2000 checks. $1400 does not equal $2000 any more than 2 + 2 = 5." patreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"Pretending $1400 was what was promised instead of $2000 is abusive, and it shows how disconnected officials are from the reality of American life. If you've ever struggled to survive, to pay your rent, to feed your family, $600 is everything." patreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"Every voter who was struggling will remember how they felt when the Democrats promised them a $2000 relief check. And every voter will remember how they felt when that check came for $1400, assuming it comes at all." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"We are at 500K Americans dead from covid. How do we even process this? How do we grieve this, especially when both the virus and the response to it often seem to bring out the worst in people?" -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"As Americans, we're encouraged to cover up our pain. People express guilt about not meeting their quota of productivity, about not faking optimism. This push to feign happiness is an extension of the myth of American exceptionalism." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"Americans aren't exceptional. We're suffering. And we're exceptionally bad at acknowledging each other's suffering. There's fear that admitting any vulnerability will cause you to be rejected or even cost you your job." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"Kellyanne Conway was Trump's Goebbels and George Conway is a Federalist Society member who was never trustworthy. Trump would have gotten rid of Kellyanne quickly if George posed any true threat to his power." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/wheres-w…
"Trump's main propaganda tactic is to cover up crime with scandal. The Conway family understands this tactic extraordinarily well. They want you to think Trump is stupid and incompetent instead of a skilled career criminal." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/wheres-w…
"The Claudia Conway situation is like the Trump Kleptocracy meeting the Britney Spears documentary and realizing that people did not learn enough from either one." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/wheres-w…
"Roger Stone coined 'stop the steal' not in 2020 but in 2016, when he also called for a 'bloodbath' if Trump was not made POTUS. In 2020, Stone served as a bridge between Trump, the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, and other violent actors." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/wheres-w…
"Stone was pardoned weeks before the Jan 6 attacks. Prior to that, Trump pardoned Michael Flynn -- who then served as a QAnon hype man, priming Trump's backers for violent insurrection. He used his military background to give a facade of legality." patreon.com/posts/wheres-w…
"Steve Bannon, who was also pardoned by Trump, gave an interview on Jan 5 promising 'all hell will break loose tomorrow...we're on the point of attack...tomorrow is game day.'
"Trump did not select Castor and Schoen because he expects them to argue well and convince the Senate of his innocence. He selected them because he believes the jury is rigged. He banks on that fact that a GOP jury will acquit him no matter what he does." patreon.com/posts/bonus-tr…
"So Trump gets a lawyer he feels comfortable with. He gets Schoen, a Jeffrey Epstein associate who has represented the Russian mafia, the Israeli mafia, who brags about representing the biggest mobsters in the world. He is from Trump's world of elite criminal impunity."
"Yes, everyone deserves legal representation, but there's a certain type of lawyer who goes out of their way to rep the worst people in the world. Trump's mentor, Roy Cohn, was that kind of lawyer. So is Trump's former legal advisor Alan Dershowitz." patreon.com/posts/bonus-tr…