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Government Corruption
Democrats Learn What Consequences Are, and They Aren''t Happy About It — RedState
2025-08-12
[REDSTATE]... You see, in life, when you do things, those things often produce specific repercussions. We call those "consequences," and you don't get to call a timeout from them the moment they arrive. Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
seem to be under the impression that they can set new standards only to revert when those new standards devour them.

Take the recent battle over redistricting, which has seen over 50 left-wing Texas politicians flee their state to stop the passing of a new congressional map that would eliminate five Democrat-held seats. For decades, the Democratic Party has used state power to draw some of the most gerrymandered maps in the nation. Some examples include Illinois, Maryland, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, New York, Massachusetts, and New Mexico. But when Texas Republicans decided they wanted to stop playing the game with their hands tied behind their back, Democrats screamed bloody murder.

The same is happening regarding Trump's quest to hold people accountable for the political weaponization of the government. When Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
used a special counsel to try to jail the current president on extremely specious legal grounds, that was spun as "no one is above the law."

When Trump responds to that breaking of norms by investigating those who perpetrated it, suddenly it's a "threat to democracy." When Department of Justice officials and FBI agents used their power to hatch a conspiracy to try to take down the Democrats' primary political rival, they were just "doing their job." When Trump fires those leaders and agents as a result of their own decisions to politicize their offices, that's claimed to be "politicization."

But really, what did Democrats think was going to happen? At what point in Trump's political career has he shown a penchant for letting things go?

What the press refuses to accept is that "retribution" is no longer a dirty word. People aren't blind. They saw what transpired over the last decade, and everything Trump is doing is being filtered through that lens. There was a time when taking a hatchet to the FBI or prosecuting your political opponents was indeed taboo. That time ended the moment Democrats tore the Overton window to shreds. They chose to put these new rules into effect, and we aren't going back to the old rules until some accountability is had.

As the saying goes, if you take a shot at the king, you'd best not miss. Democrats missed.
Related:
Joe The Big Guy Biden 08/09/2025 Miranda Devine: Biden abused his authority by turning FEMA into a far-left political machine
Joe The Big Guy Biden 08/07/2025 ''Debanking'' is an obscene abuse of government power
Joe The Big Guy Biden 08/06/2025 Lawsuits Proceed Against Two Blue States’ Corrupted Voter Rolls

Posted by:Fred

#2  'Do on to others as they have done on to you.'

Call it a 'Golden Rule'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2025-08-12 06:55  

#1  What you don’t see is people backing off or pulling punches to the extent that has been done previously. Folks aren’t satisfied on middle ground and get along solutions.
Posted by: Super Hose   2025-08-12 06:46  

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