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I had a somewhat different reaction. When I saw what was happening, I felt a sigh of relief. I'm not for doxxing, generally. I was against that one woman getting fired from Home Depot for wishing Trump was assassinated. But I was getting worried that the Right would collectively do something bad. And so if this is the thing the Right does that is collectively bad, then it's a lot better than a lot of other things they could have decided to do.
If they can make it unthinkable for someone to publicly celebrate domestic assassinations, then that would be a step away from the precipice we have been creeping towards. If every public official, military member, cultural influencer, professor, and teacher stops comparing their political opponents to Nazi Fascists who need to be killed, then maybe we can heal as a nation. And one way to get that to happen is to do this cancel culture exercise.
It's not what I wanted, but when I see the Right say things like, "They want to kill you too, they just don't know your name yet," I'm relieved the steam is releasing this way. I don't think it's just opportunistic politicking. People are upset that Kirk was assassinated for civilly expressing views 30% - 70% of people in the country share. People are more upset to see others say that Kirk deserved his assassination for civilly expressing views 30% - 70% of people in the country share. Particularly when they share a few of the views that likely got him killed.
I want them to jail George Soros. I want them to jail Reid Hoffman. I want them to uncover the funding mechanisms that knowledge supported things like antifa and if (as I suspect it does) lead back to Soros and Hoffman I want them to jailed. That is playing for keeps but within the lines.
Yeah, RICO'ing Antifa would be a good start, and if goes up to Soros then that would be good. I wouldn't want necessarily to just start harassing Soros until we could figure out a crime to pin him on and get him that way. Identifying a crime and finding the criminal is how the system should work, not identifying a man and then finding the crime. That's what happened to Trump and it wasn't good.
I would argue with Trump it went even beyond finding the man — they invented a crime largely out of whole cloth and then jury rigged the law to get a conviction. It will be overturned on appeal.
Already been sustained by NY's highest court.
I don’t think that’s right. Can you share a link?
I thought I read it HERE, in this thread a few weeks ago.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/n.y.-appeals-court-voids-fine--upholds-judgement-against-trump
However, perhaps this is not the case you were referring to; it's not the election interference case.
Yeah that wasn’t the felony case. Interestingly, if you read the opinions the majority would’ve tossed the Supreme Court (lowest court in NY). However, they couldn’t agree on whether to remand or decide the case. In the interest of moving the case up to court of appeals (highest court in NY) one judge concurred.
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