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        He owns DoJ. He owns Congress. He owns SCOTUS. People and organizations can sue them all they want, wait and wait through all the delays - oh, but in the meantime, they’ll drag their opponents into criminal court on some made up shit.

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      Effective is a funny word though. Because you can’t discount everything if you want to use that word. I don’t think anyone should rely on the courts to protect them, however that doesn’t mean they can’t be effective in styming or distracting or wearing down or draining or depriving the enemy. At least for now they still have to take Court seriously. They still have to pay court fees. They have to spend time defending themselves. They have to pay lawyers and outside counsel and deposition fees and a dozen other legal costs. They have to spend time on depositions and giving testimony. Maybe one day they will reach the point where they don’t bother with those trappings of the Court. Right now however they still are. So the courts can be effective if not maybe in the way we wish they were.

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        At least for now they still have to take Court seriously.

        They already don’t take the Court seriously. This is justified, as evidenced by their flouting Court orders with no repercussions, or running them up to the SCOTUS they own. Even if by some fluke they’re actually held accountable and bow to the Court when they disagree, they can just delay until the Court’s opinion is irrelevant, while they continue to do what they want right now.

        They still have to pay court fees.

        Eventually, which they will just put off forever.

        They have to spend time defending themselves.

        This is their job. Like how you and I have our jobs to go to, this is theirs.

        They have to pay lawyers and outside counsel and deposition fees and a dozen other legal costs.

        They just don’t pay, or if they ever do, not nearly as much as they said they would, and as the literal government, they just do it with the taxes collected from you and not from their own pockets. (Which, by the way, are certainly already being lined from that same tax pool.)

        They have to spend time on depositions and giving testimony.

        This is the same as the previous “time” statement. Again, this is their job.


        Their job is to *take, right now, and delay. As long as they can delay, run another scheme to take more, and delay on that one, too. It’s like a Ponzi scheme of corruption. You know it. They know it. We all know it.