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Democrats Have Abandoned Civil Liberties
Matt Taibbi substack ^ | 5/15/2020 | Matt Taibbi

Posted on 05/15/2020 1:07:38 PM PDT by Mount Athos

Edited on 05/15/2020 1:38:27 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: TalBlack

Levin is right Emet should be taken off this case.

He came to his own conclusion in court and told Flynn he is a traitor in open court.

How does a judge get away with bias like that.

Without a prosecutor how is this still an active trial

Flynn asked to withdraw his plea deal that was coerced.

Where is Chief Justice Roberts, he is letting this go on
and its all unconstitutional. Someone wake Roberts up


21 posted on 05/15/2020 2:53:49 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman (w)
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To: Mount Athos

Democrats abandoned civil liberties back when Obama was still president if no earlier.


22 posted on 05/15/2020 3:13:43 PM PDT by Salman
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The left would throw Matt in the wood chipper for this piece of logic and reason.
Sad
Goes to show the wide divide in this country. We don’t speak the same language any more


23 posted on 05/15/2020 4:02:29 PM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: griswold3

We can’t speak the same language because the worm tongues want the words to be malleable to their evil deeds.


24 posted on 05/15/2020 4:22:10 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Zenjitsuman

The same Justice Roberts that swore in the Kenyan from Indonesia, twice, one public, one private, on both occasions?

And then bent himself into a pretzel to uphold Obamacare?


25 posted on 05/15/2020 4:25:06 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

We must have fallen down the rabbit hole. The Humpty Dumpty democrats need a push off the wall


26 posted on 05/15/2020 4:28:48 PM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: griswold3

We are much farther down the rabbit hole than most people are willing to acknowledge.

Both parties put a foreign usurper in office who proceeded to turn every agency of the government against the citizens, ran guns to Mexican drug cartels, overthrew the government of Libya and used it as a staging for weapons shipments to jihadists to try to overthrow the government of Syria, overthrew the governments in Egypt and Tunisia, gave billions of dollars to Iran, and too many others to mention.
Then they topped it off with using every asset of the US government to fix the election for Hillary and when that failed because she is so unlikeable they impeached President Trump for asking about the crimes Joe Biden committed.

The GOP is useless because they were complicit in the first biggest crime.


27 posted on 05/15/2020 4:41:42 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Mount Athos

Gee Matt, when did you twig on? I hate these statements-This demorat has been writing for Rolling Stoned for years.


28 posted on 05/15/2020 6:25:06 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: Mount Athos
A voice in the wilderness as far as the Dems are concerned. The late Nat Hentoff was of that stripe.

Democrats clearly believe constituents will forgive them for abandoning constitutional principles, so long as the targets of official inquiry are figures like Flynn or Paul Manafort or Trump himself. In the process, they’ve raised a generation of followers whose contempt for civil liberties is now genuine-to-permanent. Blue-staters have gone from dismissing constitutional concerns as Trumpian ruse to sneering at them, in the manner of French aristocrats, as evidence of proletarian mental defect.

The true face of evil that is that of today's Democrat party has come into focus with amazing swiftness, leading many observers to conclude that it was never more than lightly masked to begin with. They don't bother with all that now. To watch it in the person of Schumer or Schiff or especially Pelosi is to see something truly repellent and scarcely human.

...voters only hear Trump making occasional remarks about freedom; Democrats treat it like it’s a word that should be banned by Facebook (a recent Washington Post headline put the term in quotation marks, as if one should be gloved to touch it). Has the Trump era really damaged our thinking to this degree?

The short answer is no, Matt, it isn't the Trump era, it's you, or rather it's what most Democrats have become, and not just since 2016. When reflexive hatred brings us the statement "America was never great" from the lips of people who owe their careers and very lives to that greatness then the rot is, in my opinion, irrecoverable. These are no longer Americans, nor do they wish to be.

29 posted on 05/15/2020 6:47:56 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: sickoflibs

Worse - perjury for pleading guilty under duress...


30 posted on 05/16/2020 2:31:04 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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