Is this not dominance signaling? Like Ginny Thomas' political activities and everything Trump does?

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MITCH MCCONNELL AND LINDSEY GRAHAM ARE 'MOCKING' JUROR OATH TO DO 'FAIR AND IMPARTIAL JUSTICE'

BY HUNTER MOYLER at Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/former-prosecutor-glenn-kirschner-accuses-mcconnell-graham-mocking-oath-1479009

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A legal analyst and former federal prosecutor took to social media Tuesday morning to decry Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina for making a mockery of the juror's oath.

Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, argued in a tweet Tuesday that the Republican senators have already broken the oath they will swear at the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump by promising him their support before the trial has even begun.

"Every day in our country, jurors take an oath to do fair & impartial justice & decide cases based solely on the evidence," Kirschner wrote. "Mitch McConnell & Lindsey Graham are mocking that oath. Every American should be asking themselves, what kind of drug deal are McConnell & Graham cooking up?"

Glenn Kirschner

✔@glennkirschner2

Every day in our country, jurors take an oath to do fair & impartial justice & decide cases based solely on the evidence. Mitch McConnell & Lindsey Graham are mocking that oath. Every American should be asking themselves, what kind of drug deal are McConnell & Graham cooking up?

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Creating the conditions for more authoritarianism by walking all over the rules and norms.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Yeah, please everyone understand the law no longer applies, at all, to cons.

And putin is hacking the election, he will be shutting down any power grid he can on election day thus shutting down the internet thus making counting votes impossible thus allowing rump to declare elections invalid.

That is just for starters. I dont think we are prepared for exactly how traitorous the GOP really is.

[live love laugh]

2. 💯

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Moscow Mitch may as well proclaim, "Mein Fuhrer uber alles!"

TrumPutin fancies himself as a budding dictator:

https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner

Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, “Heil Hitler,” possibly as a family joke.

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.

Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”

“I don’t remember,” I said.

“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)

Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”

Is Ivana trying to convince her friends and lawyer that Trump is a crypto-Nazi? Trump is no reader or history buff. Perhaps his possession of Hitler’s speeches merely indicates an interest in Hitler’s genius at propaganda. The Führer often described his defeats at Stalingrad and in North Africa as great victories. Trump continues to endow his diminishing world with significance as well. “There’s nobody that has the cash flow that I have,” he told The Wall Street Journal long after he knew better. “I want to be king of cash.”