This guy looks and acts like a complete monster. I hope these brave whistleblowers stay safe, and prevent him from getting this insane position.
Has blatantly violating the law stopped any of Trump’s other nominees from being confirmed?
Just Matt Gaetz that I’m aware of.
And that was likely just a ruse to step down from his house seat that he had literally just been re-elected to over the whole underage girls thing. Seems to be a common theme.
Yes, many.
That guy is 44 years old! Jesus fucking Christ! I feel so much better about how old I look now.
This dude looks like the critic from Ratatouille and in his 60s.
A lifetime of hate and greed will do that to you.
That’s 44?!! That guy has lived…
NFW, really??
Yep
Some of these people just look evil. This dude looks like a Dick Tracy villain
Leejay Miller said he looks like Nosferatu and be damn if it isn’t spot on.
Holy shit, great reference
He looks like Stephen Miller after he opens the Ark of the Covenant.
I was thinking he played the villain ‘The Dragon’ on Arrow
Two days later:
Emil Bove Confirmed to judiciary
We just need more guillotines. It’s how they solved things in the past when the law didn’t work. There’s historical precedence.
People say this a lot but they seem to forget that France was a Republic for like 10 minutes before Napoleon declared himself emperor and went to war with the entirety of europe
To be fair…
It was about 12 years, but that is a relatively short time. It’s about the same time we have to deal with Trump from the beginning of his first term to the end of his second, which is also an eternity (assuming that doesn’t become a literal eternity). And the First Republic kinda sucked for a ton of reasons, but it was at least technically a Republic.
But also one of those reasons is that the Republic itself was at war with basically the entirety of Europe already, which is why Napoleon was able to rise to power in the first place: he wasn’t just a dude that waltzed in and said “make me emperor”, he was the hero of the army of Italy and basically was the major (unexpected) reason that France was able to defeat Austria.
Anyway, the point is that we don’t have a Napoleon waiting in the wings to just snatch up power if it came to, say, Jacobin actions, but Napoleon took time to emerge, so we’d have at least a few years of guillotines first…
Sure…that’s gonna solve some things when your side isn’t in power.
Dafuq
I understand the instinct for non-violence, especially when the system is working as intended, but nothing about our current system is stopping any abuse of power by anyone with power. The vast majority of the population does not agree with any of these political elites anymore, so it’s not really about sides, the side doing all this is inordinately represented by their abuses of the system, and bombastic and offensive nature of their most zealous, they are not actually equal. These particular people have also been advocating violence for their compatriots for decades if not longer, so reasonable people across the spectrum are way behind the curve as far as their willingness to speak this way about violence as a last resort. It’s normal at this point for conservatives to be heard calling very directly for killing progressives, particularly when only zealous conservatives can hear them
Seriously though - what do you propose?
Here’s what I just commented on another post:
Whatever is left of the cheese that is the legal and electoral system in the USA has more holes than cheese. And did so for a long time before even Trump 1.0.
Patriot Act? Florida recount 2000? Gerrymandering? The list goes on.
Frankly it’s a miracle it took so long for a POTUS to decide to take advantage of ALL the holes at once.
I’m not sure how this can be fixed before the next election. It probably can’t. And then what?
And then what, hm? The comparison to the French Revolution is apt.
While I understand what you’re saying, guillotines are symbolic of revolution against government.
They represent ONE unless I’m mistaken. Please point me to where an invading force of some sort has been defeated or representation by guillotine aside from France almost 300 years ago, please.
You’re acting as if the French revolution isn’t one of, if not THEE most iconic and widely referenced revolutions. It seems like you’re being obtuse.
It’s not at all if you’re talking about:
a) global political impact b) an expression of revolt by populace and THEN it’s effect c) the general recognized importance of it in general
The ones that ARE absolutely responsible for global change are:
- Mexican Rev: it disrupted global trade for multiple decades
- American: same as above, but put a nail in the coffin of the British Empire which led to…
- Haitian and Chinese Rev: almost like they planned it, but was a death sentence to the British Empire. Within just a year, the British influence over colonies absolutely fucking collapsed, affecting not just South America, but also India and East Asia at large.
The French Rev was minor in comparison.
“Global change”
I said iconic and widely referenced.
The French Revolution has second billing, after the American Revolution, on the wikipedia page for “revolution”.
I don’t care that you think it was minor due to the actual global impact on society. We are in a comment thread on lemmy where a guy made a joke and reference to what is indisputibly one of the most referenced revolutions in all of history.
The guy told a joke that made perfect sense to everyone who read it, except you, apparently. How you can continue to argue against the majority on something that is defined by the majority- I do not know.
Please. The French Revolution did have global impact in its own right, full stop. OP is being obtuse.
Please point me to where an invading force of some sort has been defeated or representation by guillotine
Invasion? What do you mean? The guillotine defeated the monarchy, not an invading force.
It’ll help me feel better.
I look forward to the day arrests for perjury happen, and retroactively, as well as currently.
Yes, the criminals that write the laws surely will see that what they are doing is wrong and arrest themselves
Judiciary Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) named a fake rule that made everything Bove has said at the DOJ fall under some kind of privilege. Democrats hammered Grassley on it, but it went ignored.
Yeah! Kneecapped because of… um… should be in here somewhere…
Ah! Here it is!
When it came time to vote on the committee’s nomination, Democrats were so furious that they walked out, refusing to vote.
THAT’LL SHOW EM!!
…I think. It’ll show em, right?
