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⬆️ #FalseHopes

#Bribe-fattened #SCOTUS #Justices, as part of the #secureSocialElites, have turned the #SupremeCourt into a #venalPublicOffice by ruling that #Corruption Law did not apply to tips, gifts, and payments meant to reward actions taken by state and local officials.

They did this by distinguishing after-the-fact rewards for #officialAction from before-the-fact bribes.

nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/poli

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⬆️ I tagged the above #FalseHopes because that's what #HeritageFoundation president #KevinRoberts — who is part of the #secureSocialElites — is relying on in his opening salvo of #SecondAmericanRevolution.

He should learn from the tragic and violent #FrenchRevolution in which the mass of people who were NOT ordinarily predisposed to violence were nonetheless swept away and were consumed by it, only to the ultimate detriment of the secure social elite and the #monarchy.

@ianbassin @gtconway3

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⬆️ #FalseHopes

#SupremeCourt #PresidentialImmunity decision is so dangerous because the #RightWing #SCOTUS #Justices made it with FULL knowledge of historical precedent and #Trump's well-known #penchantForViolence in name of #officialAction.

#LouisXVI of #France repressed riots and #protests of 1775, known as the #FlourWar, by deploying 25000 troops and making an example out of 2 rioters — one in 20's and another, a teen — by publicly executing them in Place de Grève.

vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/do

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⬆️ #FalseHopes

After 4 decades of failed #Republican #TrickleDown, #RightWing #SCOTUS justices ruled #homelessness a crime.

Present conditions in America are disturbingly similar to those of pre-Revolutionary #France under #LouisXVI, whether it's #migrants (not same as #immigrants), #inflation, #poverty, or better-off people like #LeonardLeo, #HarlanCrow, corrupt #SupremeCourt #Justices and their spouses gaslighting us into believing that "all this is evidence of increasing #moralDepravity."

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⬆️ 3 #FalseHopes

Emboldened by corrupt #SCOTUS decision on #PresidentialImmunity & FALSE hopes of #AmericanMonarchy under #Trump, #HeritageFoundation just fired opening salvo of #SecondAmericanRevolution based on another FALSE hope that it would be #bloodless — like the #GloriousRevolution that put William III of Orange on the #British Throne.

Knowing THAT hope is false, it is openly threatening #Democrats with #bloodshed, again FALSELY hoping to #intimidate us with its own #BrunswickManifesto.