This, I think, is likely to happen. Trump promised it, and he can do with with a flick of his hand. The impact on our legal system will be severe, particularly depending on who he appoints as Attorney General.
A man clashed with Captiol police on Jan 6, 2020 Credit: Shutterstock
Donald Trump’s reelection is electrifying the Jan. 6 offender community, prompting a wave of elated X posts anticipating presidential pardons and, in some cases, calling for retribution against the Department of Justice and congressional investigators.
“We are on the cusp of a prisoner exchange,” Derrick Evans, a former West Virginia state legislator who served three months in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol, wrote before the polls had closed on Tuesday. “Swapping patriots for traitors.”
At 1:39 a.m., when it was evident Trump would win, Evans wrote: “I can’t imagine the excitement from my fellow Jan 6 prisoners who are still in prison tonight. Hold on, guys… you are coming home!”
Adam Christian Johnson, who served a 75-day sentence for stealing then-House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s lectern on Jan. 6, posted a video of himself on X at 1:46 a.m. popping the cork on a bottle of champagne. He captioned the video: “I. Want. My. Lectern.”
All over the world, I have seen major publications expressing similar views. They see us, and I believe it is correct, as becoming a fascist oligarchy like Hungary. Fascism is never imposed, it it always the result of people electing authoritarians backed by the uber-rich to rule the country. It happened in Italy. It happened in Germany. It happened in Russia. It happened in Hungary. It happened in Israel.
Donald Trump’s re-election to a second term on Wednesday, November 6, and the success of the Republican Party, of which he has taken total control, represent a major turning point for the United States.
This time, they made an informed decision. In 2016, when they first entrusted him with the White House, American voters didn’t know what a Donald Trump presidency would be like and were taking a leap into the unknown. In 2024, the situation is different: Not only do Republican voters know their candidate inside out, right down to his least glorious behavior, he’s even more radical than he was eight years ago. Trump’s electorate knows where this president is going to take them, and wants more.
It’s a reality that needs to be examined with eyes wide open. The path on which Trump, strengthened for his second term by his party’s success in the Senate, will take his country diverges fundamentally from the one charted by the United States since the end of the Second World War. It marks the end of an American era, that of […]
KYLE CHENEY and ERICA ORDEN, Staff Writers - Politico
Stephan:
As this article describes, “Donald Trump didn’t just beat Kamala Harris. He beat the system that tried to put him in jail.” All of the cases involving Trump will disappear. Beginning in January 2025 the Trump Party Senate and the President will begin what I see as a multi-year effort to completely restructure the legal system of the United States. At least two Supreme Court justices will retire to be replaced by younger fascist justices, who will serve for decades. This same approach will become the norm for all judges at any level of the court system. By the end of Trump’s term the entire legal system of the country will be reconfigured to favor fascists and the rich.
Newly elected Donald Trump waves goodbye to all the court cases that threatened to put him in prison. Credit: Michael M. Santiago / Getty
Donald Trump didn’t just beat Kamala Harris. He beat the system that tried to put him in jail.
He was already the first former president ever to be charged with and convicted of felonies. Now he has become the first convicted felon ever to win a presidential election. And his victory virtually guarantees that he will never face serious legal accountability for an avalanche of alleged wrongdoing.
Trump’s imminent return to the White House shatters years of work by special counsel Jack Smith to convict Trump for his attempt to subvert the 2020 election and for the stockpile of classified documents he kept at his Florida estate.
It halts the prosecution he is facing in Georgia for his 2020 election plot as well.
It almost certainly allows Trump to postpone any sentence on his New York conviction for […]
This is an assessment from a conservative magazine of what we can expect. It is very dark, but I think accurate. Be prepared.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump points to the crowd at an election night watch party. Credit: Julia DeMaree Bikhinson / AP
Donald Trump has promised sweeping action in a second administration.
The former president and now president-elect often skipped over details but through more than a year of policy pronouncements and written statements outlined a wide-ranging agenda that blends traditional conservative approaches to taxes, regulation and cultural issues with a more populist bent on trade and a shift in America’s international role.
Trump’s agenda also would scale back federal government efforts on civil rights and expand presidential powers.
A look at what Trump has proposed:
Trump’s plans on immigration and deportation
“Build the wall!” from his 2016 campaign has become creating “the largest mass deportation program in history.” Trump has called for using the National Guard and empowering domestic police forces in the effort. Still, Trump has been scant on details of what the program would look like and how […]
Bethan McKernan and William Christou , Staff Writers - Rollingstone
Stephan:
Fascist Netanyahu who has been told by fascist Trump, “You can do what you need to do.” He waited for the election and has now moved to the new stage of his genocide. We are going to see Trump back authoritarians like Netanyahu, Putin, Orban, and I expect to see decreased support for Ukraine, although Biden may try to rush through more support before he leaves office. Whether he can get it done given the current Congress, I’m not sure, but I look for him to try. The Palestinians I fear are not going to get any help, Biden has been a failure on that front for years, and the Israeli genocide is going to continue.
Streams of Palestinians were seen leaving Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza to move further south on Wednesday. Credit: Anadolu / Getty
Israeli ground forces are getting closer to “the complete evacuation” of northern Gaza and residents will not be allowed to return home, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said, in what appears to be the first official acknowledgment from Israel it is systematically removing Palestinians from the area.
In a media briefing on Tuesday night, the IDF Brig Gen Itzik Cohen told Israeli reporters that since troops had been forced to enter some areas twice, such as Jabaliya camp, “there is no intention of allowing the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes”.
He added that humanitarian aid would be allowed to “regularly” enter the south of the territory but not the north, since there are “no more civilians left”.
International humanitarian law experts have said that such actions would amount to the war crimes of forcible transfer and the use of food as a weapon.
The Israeli army and government have repeatedly denied trying to force the remaining population […]
Here is some excellent news for Canadians, and the rest of the world as well, since it affects Earth’s atmosphere. I think we will see something similar in Mexico, because its first woman president is a climate scientist. The only North American country not up to speed is the United States, and that will get better or worse depending on who wins the Presidential election. Right now, as I write this, Trump has 90 electoral votes and Harris just 27.
The Athabasca Oil Sands along the Athabasca River in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Credit: dan_prat / iStock / Getty
Most fossil fuels coming from Canada are produced in the oil sands of Alberta, with the United States as the largest importer.
“We’re asking the oil and gas sector to invest their record profits into pollution cutting projects,” Steven Guilbeault, Canada’s minister of environment and climate change, told a news conference, as The New York Times reported. “Every sector must do its part. Oil and gas companies are no exception.”
“We’ve worked carefully to develop what is technically feasible for the sector, to keep industry accountable to their own promise to be carbon neutral by 2050,” Guilbeault said, as Reuters reported.
The cap-and-trade system created by the regulations is designed to recognize companies that perform better, while incentivizing higher polluters to […]
