As Donald Trump threatens legal action against his adversaries, particularly after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, he’s repeatedly talked about using one federal law: the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO.
Trump wants to bring racketeering charges against left-wing groups he’s accused of promoting violence. Some influential Republicans agree with him and have been pushing to include rioting as one of the crimes that falls under the racketeering statute, a decades-old law once aimed at cracking down on organized crime.
Kirk’s death and the resulting calls by influential conservatives to crack down on the left using the federal government’s official powers has called new attention to that push. Trump and his aides have said publicly they plan to channel the mounting conservative anger over Kirk’s killing into efforts to take on the president’s political rivals, including potentially pursuing RICO charges and seeking to designate some liberal groups as domestic terrorist organizations.
Fathers look at what happens when you don’t show love to your kids.
Don’t fuck up like Fred Trump fucked up.
Fred fucked us all.
It’s so fucking stupid, because Biden could have very plausibly used the same fucking laws to forestall the fascist upwelling in the US - but no, that would have been “too divisive”.
So glad we dodged that bullet 🤦♂️🙄
Biden was too weak, that’s something we can all agree with.
Last I heard he was still about 3 miles up his own ass about how good he thinks his legacy is. What a completely fucking useless tool, honestly.
Next up: dodging real ones.
Better learn to dodge real fast.
Neoliberals/conservatives are imperative to fascisms success. Without them, the conditions for fascism to flourish wouldn’t exist.
Now all that’s needed is redefining having a different opinion as being political violence, and America’s transformation into a fascist dictatorship will be complete.
In fact, I think this approach was summarized best in Borderlands 2: “Did you know littering in [the city of] Opportunity is punishable by death? If not, you also ought to know complaining about Opportunity’s laws is considered verbal littering.”
Now all that’s needed is redefining having a different opinion as being political violence, and America’s transformation into a fascist dictatorship will be complete.
How about declaring opposition to fascism to be terrorism?
Just so, yes.
feels like Kirk was made a martyr by his own just for this
can’t even sell a dime bag on the street corner without immediate arrest but dude rifles someone in broad daylight and gets away for a whole day
whole thing sounds too wrapped up and clean not to be another narrative controller
That’s just the complete incompetence of the FBI under Kash Patel.
Plenty of people are still out there selling dime bags without issues, trust me.
Plenty of people are still out there selling dime bags
And bless them too.
I’m sure it’s no coincidence that RICO was used against trump in Georgia when he tried to force them to overturn the 2020 election… no coincidence at all.
Yup, Trump is so simple like that.
Is there always some weird old law in the US you can use to justify your politics? Often I don’t really get how the US legal system works. At the same time I guess this stuff is not really legal, but the broken jurisdical system makes it possible…
There’s often even some verse out of context in the Christian Bible to justify shitty behavior, in the name of God. It’s turtles all the way down.
