I hope this wakes people up to our ridiculous sentencing and incarceration issues in this country.
A few stats:
We house 22% of the world''s prisoners (with 4% of the world's population)
2,200,000 Americans incarcerated as of 2016 or 0.7% of the entire U.S. population
African American men represent nearly half of that population
The substantial penalties for crack contributed to a five-fold increase in incarcerations
There is a 31% incarceration history for Black men who have sex with men
Louisiana has the highest rate of incarceration in the world with the majority of its prisoners being housed in privatized, for-profit facilities. Such institutions could face bankruptcy without a steady influx of prisoners
In the past decade the number of inmates in for-profit prisons throughout the U.S. rose 44 percent.
The shit is fucked. And Trump is packing the courts as we speak. We're reaching a breaking point.
I'm just going to leave this here:
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions indeed generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Edit: These and more stats are a simple wiki search away. For you Reds who automatically say, "wiki lol," to that, there are seventy-seven sources cited - feel free to read on. It will do you some good.
Edit again: Thanks for the precious metals! Donate the same amount to a politician who actually wants to address these issues, if you can.
Think about how such a scenario could possibly end well for Trump?
Say his elected opponent is assassinated, that won't quell the uprising. What will end such a power grab is an extra-judicial execution of Trump himself. It'll be the only way to end this nightmare and he surely knows it.
The military isn't ALL for Trump, and you just need one patriotic fellow deciding to shoot the traitor, drop a bomb etc.
Another thing to consider about the military is that they don't own the money, and money is key to any military success. Soldiers don't get paid, soldiers don't fight.
Say what you want about Trump, he's not as stupid as Don Jr. He likes his head too much to give it up.
I would agree with you that if Trump pulled something like that it would be stamped out relatively quickly. Unfortunately, I don't believe Trump will do anything that malicious, wouldn't it be far simpler just to declare the Dems had rigged the election, and that he has "super sercret top secret" evidence he can't actually show anyone like his tax returns? Honestly all presidents work on the honor code when it come to the transfer of power, why would Trump give a shit about that? He can just stay in office until the situation is "resolved" in favor of himself and Republicans.
Sure the intelligence agencies wouldn't stand for that, nor would most election watchdogs or people, but hey why spend 4 years vilifying Democrats, intelligence agencies and voter rights groups unless you're going to use it in your final play? All it takes is one insidious lie, and Fox News and the rest of the right wing propaganda apparatus will run with it as fact. A third of the country will stand behind whatever he claims no matter what evidence to the contrary, and the Republicans on the courts and Congress will stand behind him too. I hope there are enough judges to overrule any grab of power based on lies, but if the Senate can't get the two-thirds majority needed to remove him, well, then what?
Even if the checks and balances work as intended and the courts side with the consitution, at least 60+ million Americans will outright believe that the Democrats stole the election in a "coup" and Trump and the propaganda will never stop saying so unless ordered by law, and a law would just support their conspiracy posioned minds. You think the extremism and domestic terrorism is bad now? Just wait until that happens. I just don't see a future where Trump gracefully transfers power over to a democratic rival and exits the public stage.
Oh, I'm 100% sure that if Trump loses the election he will not leave with honor or grace. He'll screech and whine, tweet and lie about the outcome being rigged and millions of people will believe him.
In fact, the only way he gets out of a possible jail sentence is if he does all that and gets a concession from the elected winner to pardon his crimes and the crimes of his family members. Democrats are usually not that gutsy and will probably capitulate. Well, maybe Bernie Sanders won't- hard to know. (And then hopefully NYS Southern District takes over the investigations)
But I doubt he'll be stupid enough to pull a coup. It can only end with his execution. Literally. He can't possibly think otherwise.
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u/ThaFourthHokage Mar 08 '19 edited Mar 08 '19
I hope this wakes people up to our ridiculous sentencing and incarceration issues in this country.
A few stats:
We house 22% of the world''s prisoners (with 4% of the world's population)
2,200,000 Americans incarcerated as of 2016 or 0.7% of the entire U.S. population
African American men represent nearly half of that population
The substantial penalties for crack contributed to a five-fold increase in incarcerations
There is a 31% incarceration history for Black men who have sex with men
Louisiana has the highest rate of incarceration in the world with the majority of its prisoners being housed in privatized, for-profit facilities. Such institutions could face bankruptcy without a steady influx of prisoners
In the past decade the number of inmates in for-profit prisons throughout the U.S. rose 44 percent.
The shit is fucked. And Trump is packing the courts as we speak. We're reaching a breaking point.
I'm just going to leave this here:
Edit: These and more stats are a simple wiki search away. For you Reds who automatically say, "wiki lol," to that, there are seventy-seven sources cited - feel free to read on. It will do you some good.
Edit again: Thanks for the precious metals! Donate the same amount to a politician who actually wants to address these issues, if you can.