For the record:
According to Trump Justice, this is NOT a mob of rioters:
This is:
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2025
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Crazy how the president has means to control the DOJ now...
After four years of Biden insisting he had zero control over the DOJ and couldn't do anything to hold actual traitors accountable.
I'll never know if he legitimately didn't understand what powers he held as a president, or if he was just pretending to be that ignorant and incompetent on purpose to avoid the precedent.
Or trump is using the DOJ illegally.
Obviously trump is abusing the DOJ...
But that doesn't mean Biden refused to exert all pressure he legally could have to prevent this...
He couldn't directly fire the Special Counsel he appointed, but he could have told the AG to do it due to the delays. Which would have been valid and legal.
If the AG refused, Biden could have replaced the AG and told the new one the same thing.
Even if Biden kept appointing people who didn't do what he publicly said he wanted, he could keep replacing them
But Occam's Razor says Biden and his admin were aware he could do that. And chose not to
And if that was happening, I doubt what he was telling the AG and Special Counsel in private matched what he told us in public.
Like, this is the smallest molehill imaginable, and everyone wants to pretend it was an unsurmountable obstacle.
Is this new information to you?
If you’re looking for someone to defend Biden, it ain’t me. I’m a pro union civilian and he was very anti union. He was just good at making it look like he was pro…. For that reason, I am not a fan of Biden. Do we really know what the true power of a president has?.. I used to think so, but after trump, I’m not so sure. Unless we are planning on climbing the ladder, this argument seems like a moot point.
Quote where anyone asked you to defend biden.
Biden wanted to make it look like it wasn't political so he assigned a special counsel that he didn't control to do those things. Trump doesn't care about it looking political.
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
I didn't care for 1984 when I read it. I felt it was too over the top and unbelievable. Turns out it was written by a time traveler.
It was written in a time when that exact sort of thing had just happened recently. And here we are again going through the same shit beacuse history rhymes.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who remember history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.
They aren't forgetting they are using it as a play book.
I'm talking about the people who are going to have their faces eaten.
Yeah those are the same people.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
^ Ironically, attributed to Orwell, even though he apparently did not write or say this.... :)
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- Michael Scott
Or...
... possibly Antonio Gramsci
I feel like a bit got buried by the headline:
The filing also said Taranto drove to Obama's neighborhood shortly after Mr. Trump posted the former president's purported address on Truth Social and Taranto shared the post.
Trump posted Obama's address online and it wasn't front page news?? Or did I just miss it?
Oh? What collective noun would they have preferred? A murder?
You need to start looking for sources other than CBS News. It’s being run by someone who should be working for Fox.
CBS is a poor quality source FYI