"American legal 'experts' need a crash course in how the court system works in authoritarian kleptocracies instead of assuming that the norms and protocols of the US system are sufficient to face our current threat." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/karen-of…
"The US is increasingly a mafia state. There were always elements of that, always plutocracy, dark money, etc. But the rule of law was decimated under the Trump admin, with mafia tactics -- bribery, blackmail, threats of violence to public officials -- becoming commonplace."
"Look at the protests in Kazakhstan. The protesters' complaints were about decades of entrenched corruption, kleptocracy, mafia state rule, and a justice system bereft of integrity. That is where the US is headed unless people get a grip on reality and fight back."
"You cannot assume the US system is going to work in the way it has in the past. This is not Watergate -- not in terms of the case, but also not in terms of the country. You are dealing with the cumulative effect of decades of decline." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/karen-of…
"Look how the court system works in authoritarian kleptocracies of the former USSR and see if anything looks familiar. What dissidents deal with. What lawyers deal with. What the accused deal with. And think about whether our system is sufficient to battle that grim reality."
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