Jeff Sessions takes charge: Expect an era of open warfare on civil rights and civil liberties

[DonViejo]

MONDAY, FEB 13, 2017 08:12 AM EST

Good times for cops and prosecutors, and a return to the "war on drugs." Don't invest in legal weed just yet

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

From the flurry of leaks coming out of the Trump administration over the weekend it appears that the chaos is only getting worse. National security adviser Michael Flynn is under fire over lying about talking to the Russian embassy about sanctions during the transition. The White House is already said to be looking for replacements for chief of staff Reince Priebus and press secretary Sean Spicer. The Japanese prime minister’s state visit was a bit of a mess, culminating with a bizarre and somewhat frightening story about Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussing secret information about the North Korean missile launch at a public dinner table at Mar-a-Lago surrounded by customers, some of whom were taking pictures of the national security staff.

Link to tweet

Up until that point, one might have assumed that the appearances of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller on all the Sunday morning shows would be the scariest moments of the day, particularly the one on “Face the Nation” where the 31-year-old White House wunderkind proclaimed:

… our opponents, the media and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned.

The president tweeted that he was very pleased with Miller’s performances, which isn’t surprising since the two have had a meeting of the minds ever since Miller left the cozy confines of Jeff Sessions’ Senate office for the Trump campaign in January of 2016.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Sessions is that kid who narcs on you when you and your friends are across the street

in the woods smoking cigarettes.

Then in his teen years, does the same about pot.

He is literally a 12 year old child, like Fuckface, so plan on seeing an all out nationwide war on Americans who want to smoke pot, or vote, or protest.

Lots of violence coming, they have been chomping at the bit for 8 years.

[2naSalit]

2. Now might be the time

when 2A will be to our advantage?

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. No, because the law will be on their side.

I am against violence but regardless of that, this child will use federal law to supercede state law and he WILL be coming to states including California, Washington and Colorado and he will be arresting thousands of Americans, maybe millions and his buddies who run for profit prisons will start building soon.

America was done the day we allowed the Russians to hack voting machines in Detroit where allegedly 70,000 mostly black voters voted but not for president, bullshit.

[2naSalit]

4. Not into violence myself

as I am a life-long victim of a considerable amount of it. But I will also protect myself. I was trained in military style self defense and wouldn't hesitate to protect myself from jack booted Blackwater types, which is who I think will be wearing the uniforms when it all comes apart... they may already be infiltrating our military.

[NickB79]

5. What's the saying the RW gun nuts were so fond of using?

"Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6".

In a life-or-death situation, I'll worry about the trial later.

[Initech]

6. I picture him more as the bully who steals your lunch money.