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→ Rachel Maddow and AOC fear Trump will lock them up
As we approach November’s US presidential election, the stakes have never been higher. At least, that’s true for MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who has expressed concern that a Donald Trump victory will result in her being interned in a prison camp. During an interview with CNN, she said: “I’m worried about the country broadly if we put someone in power who is openly avowing that he plans to build camps to hold millions of people,” adding that “he’s not joking when he says this stuff, and we’ve seen what happens when people take power proclaiming that kind of agenda.”
Rachel Maddow ‘worried’ Trump will send her to ‘camps’ if he’s elected president https://t.co/1eIIB32V1m pic.twitter.com/ylSmvQFLTU
— New York Post (@nypost) June 11, 2024
Maddow isn’t the only prominent figure who could get locked up when Trump violently seizes power. Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has this week revealed her own worry that she might also be heading for the cells. “It sounds nuts, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy threw me in jail,” she told New York magazine. “He did his whole first campaign around lock her [Hillary Clinton] up’. This is his motto.” Fair enough — Trump has always been known for his sincerity.
→ Starmer embarrassed over Corbyn revisionism
Since becoming Labour leader, and as he strides closer to power, Sir Keir Starmer has made it his mission to expunge the party’s Corbynite influence. The culmination of this process came late last month, when Starmer expelled his predecessor from Labour, leaving Corbyn free to stand as an independent candidate in Islington North. Now, the Leader of the Opposition is rubbing salt in the wound, today accusing the Conservatives of launching an un-costed, “Jeremy Corbyn-style manifesto”.
To win the leadership Starmer said that the ‘Corbyn-style manifesto’ should be treated as the ‘foundational document’ https://t.co/21Vo30qihm pic.twitter.com/AUUkmerLxi
— j (@jrc1921) June 11, 2024
But what’s that? Online commentators have been quick to remind Starmer that he was once much more enthusiastic about Jeremy Corbyn-style manifestos — or, to be precise, Jeremy Corbyn manifestos. Footage has resurfaced of Starmer, while campaigning to become party leader in 2020, labelling the 2017 plan for power as “the foundational document” which inspired “radicalism and hope” for supporters. Of course, he served in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet between 2015-20, during which time he endorsed the 2017 and 2019 Labour manifestos. What a relief: it’s not just Sunak who’s capable of unforced campaign-trail gaffes…
→ Conservatives unmoved by Hunter Biden guilty verdict
Move over Donald, there’s a new prisoner in town. Okay, neither man has been officially sentenced, but Hunter Biden’s guilty verdict today for gun possession means that the President’s son could face up to 25 years in jail.
Inevitably, the 4D chess tacticians have offered their takes on who the verdict really benefits. According to the FT’s Edward Luce, the conviction is “politically useful” to Democrats because it makes it “much harder for Trump to argue the system is rigged against him”.
Hunter Biden guilty.
Yawn.
The true crimes of the Biden Crime Family remain untouched.
This is a fake trial trying to make the Justice system appear “balanced.”
Don’t fall for it.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 11, 2024
Meanwhile on the Right — despite baying for a guilty verdict for months now — the news of Hunter’s conviction hasn’t been enough to sate some conservatives. Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk tweeted that it was a “fake trial trying to make the Justice system appear ‘balanced’”. In addition, the “true crimes of the Biden family remain untouched.” This is turning into an episode of Succession…
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SubscribeRachel Maddow and AOC fear Trump will lock them up
With each other? The United States Constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishment.
Don’t try to be funny. Conservatives have zero sense of humour.
That’s true; we don’t.
Perfect response, which demonstrates that CS got it precisely the wrong way round… again.
You’re easily impressed, our kid!
True dat. That must be why the Order of Limousine Peasants imposed tolerant, Non-Binary Latinx Trustafarian comedy on the world.
No more accents or Microaggressions. Consult the Intersectional Matrix before each joke.
Comedy is so much better in the hands of enlightened Socialists!
Hhmm. Are you trying to confirm my point?!?!
Buffoon.
So, you’ve been a conservative all along?
Rachel Maddow and AOC fear Trump will lock them up
They don’t realise they’re making Trump sound more based than he probably actually is.
Maddow and Ortez need not fear prosecution. One in covered by the first Amendment and the other by Congressional immunity. Those in the civil service who violated the Hatch act by sending forth the Steel Dossie and similar acts to obstruct Trump’s presidency should worry. Individuals involved in lying about Hunters laptop should also worry.
Maddow and AOC: hysterical liberal women with a really bad case of TDS.
AOC probably more useful to Trump if she is left free to wobble around in the public arena, prattling hysterically
I think the only one wobbling is the fat orange loser when confronted with a staircase!
Well yes, Trump’s wobbling has always been a large part of his appeal to the American electorate
No not locking them up. Smear them with honey and throw them to the lesbians.
Why did you have to make it weird?
Oh, because you are a Trump cultist! Carry on!
I don’t like Trump, but this is a great reason to vote for him.
Don’t kid yourself, sonny, you love Trump and all his moronic idiocies – that’s why you are a conservative. I bet you cheat at golf just like your fat cult leader does. Ugh, the humanity…
Hey Champagne, check your shoes…you must be stepping in crap on your SF sidewalks….keep up the red tape produced by your job. Est you for sure work for a city govt dept and feel you lack of real power, except for the red tape ordinances you can write….
The spittle-dripped bug-eyed hatred that AOC inspires amongst the far right is so incredibly amusing to watch! You people are completely unable to control yourself as she owns you time after time!
President Ocasio-Cortez does have a ring to it, doesn’t it!
I often wonder whether Champagne Socialist is another alter ego of Andrew Doyle. Sadly not as funny as Titania McGrath.
he is just a quixotic invention of the unherd editors, to test their mysterious automated moderation system.
I know, she’s just a truth-teller, keeping it real, and telling it like it is. What has Biden done about all those ‘concentration camps’ on the south border she was talking about? I assume those have all been shut down now and replaced by ‘detention centers’?
Oh you are joking!