The Rude Pundit: How the Fuck Do Some Democrats Not Get That Due Process Is the Fight?

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The Rude Pundit
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4/20/2025
How the Fuck Do Some Democrats Not Get That Due Process Is the Fight?


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Let me make this as clear as possible: People don't fucking understand the tariff situation. They just don't. Until prices start climbing and as soon as there are shortages of shit in the stores, most people won't get it. And, frankly, it's pretty goddamn complicated to explain. Yes, polls show that voters are concerned and believe it will hurt the economy, but until it does in a more obvious way than it has so far, they won't get it. And then, absolutely, go ape shit, Democrats.

But you know what most Americans do understand on a gut level? Denying someone their constitutionally-guaranteed due process rights. We're talking a country where half the shit that everyone watches is some variation on Law and Order or true crime, all of which are about putting someone through the criminal justice system and getting a conviction or proving their innocence. Hell, when it comes to due process for legal immigrants, including those here on visas, the vast majority of Americans, including Republicans, are for them receiving a fair trial. A majority also supports due process for undocumented migrants, so, yeah, people do get this.

It's basic shit for Americans. We were all raised on pop culture of one sort or another that showed evil dictators or kings or queens condemning people without trial (Game of Thrones, anyone?). If this nation of historical idiots knows anything about this country, it's the Declaration of Independence, with its list of offenses against the people of this land committed by the British king, many of which Trump is literally committing or promising to commit again.You can see the discomfort in the face of Republican members of Congress, even some of Trump's most loyal ball-lickers, when they're asked about the disregard for due process and especially no due process followed by imprisonment in another country. Most everyone knows that's fucked up, but Trump is arguing in court and in the media that he should be allowed to disappear whoever the fuck he wants whenever the fuck he wants.

Man, if a meatloaf like Joe Rogan understands how fucked up it is, then everyone gets it.

Trump and the ghoulish, sadistic Stephen Miller contingent want to pretend that this is about immigration and crime. But it very much isn't. It's about consolidating power in the president so that he can be a king or a tyrant or a supervillain or some such bullshit. It's about getting away with it with non-citizens so that he can unleash it on citizens, and that's so fucking easy to comprehend that it's a rhetorical gimme for Democrats.

Sure, keep up the attack on tariffs. But if Democrats take a stand on the principle that everyone, even Donald fucking Trump, even an immigrant with real (not photoshopped) MS-13 tattoos that also say, "I want to rape and murder you," even you and me, deserves due process, deserves to be able to defend themselves in court, deserves the things that have been the very foundation of not just this country, but of modern civilization, then people will get it. And, not for nothing, but they also get it if Trump defies the Supreme Court or, really, any court, and they don't fucking like it.

The party needs to unite around leaders like Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who went to El Salvador, met with Abrego Garcia, and came back to tell every fucking network today, including Fox, that we are supposed to guarantee constitutional rights, not strip them away at the whim of a mad king. And, for good measure, Van Hollen dick-punched Gavin Newsom by saying, "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind… Anybody who can’t stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn’t deserve to lead." Fuck yeah.

[gab13by13]

1. Some Democrats, I hope not many,

want Krasnov to burn it all down, Democrats won't be blamed (will feel vindicated for voting for the CR) and the they will win back Congress 1 1/2 years from now, if we still have elections.

That is exactly the strategy that Chuck Schumer said on national TV.

[jrthin]

3. Chuck Schumer and all those who believe in the burn it down strategy are idiots.

Do they not understand the Stockholm Syndrome. By the end of his term most in this country will be too brainwashed to know their ass from their elbows. Note to the idiots: He's more popular today than he was in 2016.

[lame54]

2. Trump said on camera...

He wants to send Americans to the El Salvador prison and asked the El Salvador president to build 5 more to house them

Why isn't this ad being run constantly?

[jrthin]

4. Because the oligarchy/billionaire media is complicit.

[lame54]

5. Online is where the viewers are

[jrthin]

6. Just in case you hadn't notice, many of the "onliners" are paid Russian or GOP operatives.

Rogan, a prime example. X is still outnumbering the other new sites like Substack and Bluesky, for example.