It’s all fun and games until the Democrats win the next election in a landslide and go on a revenge tour like nothing we’ve ever seen.
These antics are embarrassing, and I am disgusted by what has become of the office of the President of the United States of America.
Bro, what are you talking about?
What are they going to do, kill political speakers for the crime of speech, or try to slaughter ICE agents but barely miss and kill an illegal? Maybe just desecrate memorials to a dead guy less than a week after his death? Maybe call in bomb threats to news organizations and force them not to air the memorial for that dead man? Maybe firebomb some Teslas? Maybe firebomb a church? Force the president into a bunker and send 60 LEOs to the hospital? Are they going to violently riot nationwide, killing 20 and costing $2.2B in damage? Are they going to lock you in the house for a flu and demonize you personally if you don't capitulate to taking an experimental vaccine? Are they gonna fire you from your job for not taking a shot? Are they going to collude with big tech to censor, ban, debank, deplatform and destroy the lives of conservatives? Are they going to target conservative Christians and label them domestic terror threats and have parents investigated by the FBI? Are they going to weaponize the DOJ and hold people without due cause or process for 3 years in solitary confinement? Are they going to villify half the country, call them nazi fascist racist homophobes and incite violence? Are they going to shout, "we got a Trump supporter over here!" and then murder that Trump supporter on the streets in cold blood?
I am over this line of logic. It completely ignores that
the things we need to do now, as a country, have already been done at a larger scope and scale by the very people we are talking about "getting back into power". The precedent was already set.
You have every right to be disgusted by whatever you want, and I agree on some narrow contexts of what you're talking about, but this generalized line of reasoning- "Don't set a precedent you don't want to live by"- died on September 10th. That's over now, because only one side played by that rule, meanwhile, the other side was planning murder and doing the things we are hand-wringing about doing.
There are no "emergency brakes" anymore. There are no more "principles". Republicans writ large have died on every hill with the same refrain- "but if we do this the left is going to use it against us". THEY ALREADY HAVE. THEY ARE CURRENTLY. THEY WILL IN THE FUTURE.
We have the levers of power. We have the lawful ability to crack down on this right here, right now, and I don't care what "precedent" we set, because unless we fix it right this second, it's not gonna matter who's elected. It's going to matter who is in power.
