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[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 91 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Law and order is just a thinly veiled reference to using police and prisons to abuse black and brown people.

[–] worldwidewave@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Don’t forget the queers. They’re going for the rainbow folk too this time.

[–] snack_pack_rodriguez@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

they really do really hate all colors and shades don't they

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

If It Ain't White It Ain't Right ™️

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

Law and order: If you don't bend the knee, believe it or not, jail.

Color, creed, breed, or brand is now irrelevant.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Currently thinner than condom advertisements

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Every day is Saturnalia in the GOP

A convicted republican is a wrongfully persecuted crusader.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The Republican party that promised in its 2024 policy platform to restore “law and order” as a “pillar” of “American civilisation” packed up and left Milwaukee on Friday after a convention featuring numerous felons.

The most prominent was the keynote speaker: Donald Trump, the former president turned nominee who in May was convicted in New York on 34 criminal charges of falsifying business records arising from hush-money payments to an adult film star.

Trump also awaits trial on at least 14 and as many as 54 other criminal charges, and in addition has been fined hundreds of millions of dollars in civil cases for business fraud and defamation arising from a rape claim a judge said was “substantially true”.

But there was also Peter Navarro, once Trump’s trade adviser, who addressed the convention on Wednesday fresh out of a Florida jail where he served four months for criminal contempt of Congress.

In July 2011, the former Democratic governor of Illinois was convicted on 17 criminal charges, including bribery, fraud and extortion, arising from an attempt to sell Barack Obama’s US Senate seat.

Another former Trump aide jailed for criminal contempt of Congress over January 6 did not make it to the convention hall, but Steve Bannon was getting updates via phone from his daughter in Wisconsin to his federal prison in Connecticut.


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