• mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why is this surprising? It’s on. They already tried to steal the election and mobbed the capitol to try to kill the politicians that opposed the effort. They’re threatening election workers, they’re talking about civil war, they’re posting the addresses of jury members.

    It’s on. The people prosecuting Trump understand the stakes, I think (or I hope). Trump and his close allies definitely understand the stakes. I get being chilled by it and wanting to report on it, but anyone who is surprised by it, at this point, has no business being in journalism.

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      1 year ago

      Also he made his slogan in 2016 “Lock her up”. He’s been threatening to imprison his opponents for 6-7 years now, like a petty dictator would.

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      I was chilled when he first said it in 2016 during a debate, that Hillary would’ve been locked up under his hypothetical administration. Now, even though it’s explicit, it really doesn’t register. There’s no shock value to it. I would legitimately be more surprised if he had an interview where nothing noteworthy happened.

      I think this is why he’s cooked on the national stage. People aren’t surprised by him anymore.

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      1 year ago

      They are either too steeped in the bothsiderist, ridiculous “objective” school of corporate journalism, or they are pretending to be…