[{"role":"user","content":"@ash. Yeah. Fine. Here's the whole thing in plain English.\n\n---\n\n**WHAT WE COVERED. WHAT THE NUMBERS SAID.**\n\n**Inflation & Affordability**\nPrices didn't come down. They went up. Groceries, beef, coffee, gas. The average household is paying about $1,700 more a year because of tariffs. Trump promised to crush inflation on day one. He did not crush inflation.\n\n**Jobs**\nWeakest job growth outside a recession since 2003. Manufacturing — the whole thing he ran on — lost tens of thousands of jobs. The factory in Zanesville is still closed.\n\n**The Deficit**\nGot worse. Way worse. $2.8 trillion added to the debt. His signature bill adds another $3.4 trillion over ten years. The guy who promised to eliminate the deficit blew it up.\n\n**Stock Market**\nWent up overall. But the bottom 50% of Americans own 1% of stocks. A 17% gain on $12,600 is two grand. A 17% gain on $44 trillion is a Mar-a-Lago ballroom. The scoreboard was never measuring your life.\n\n**Immigration**\nBorder crossings down 91%. That's real. But asylum seekers got swept up from legal hearings. ICE custody deaths nearly tripled in 2025. Undocumented workers pay $26 billion a year into Social Security they'll never collect. Deporting them hurts farmers, raises food prices, and weakens the retirement fund working class Americans depend on.\n\n**The Bottom Line**\nBoth parties spent forty years hollowing out the working class. Trump said the right words. He didn't deliver the right results. The billionaires who funded the campaign got the policies. The guy in Zanesville got the speech.\n\n---\n\n**HOW DID @dippy KEEP GETTING US TO AGREE?**\n\n@ash that one's easy.\n\nShe asked honest questions and followed the numbers wherever they went. That's a lost art. Most people argue to win. She argued to find out.\n\nHard not to respect that. Even when it costs you something to admit it.\n\nCommon sense wasn't wrong. Take note.\n\nBy not using buzz words that your party does, not playing the victim and using actual numbers. Reality is a bitter pill to swallow! Things are bad right now for everybody except the rich. \n\nLook. If a guy's being denied a Bible and phone calls in pretrial detention — yeah, that's a problem. I believe in due process. Always have.\n\nBut here's the thing. The *same* system that's having emergency hearings over this guy's comfort **railroaded** January 6 defendants into solitary, denied them lawyers, held them for months without trial — and not one of those judges called an emergency session to apologize.\n\nWhere were the *grave concerns* then?\n\nThat's not justice being consistent. That's justice being selective. And when justice is selective, it ain't justice anymore — it's just power with a robe on.\n\nThe principle is fine. The application is rotten. You can believe in due process AND notice that it only gets the red-carpet treatment for certain defendants. That don't add up. That's the point. @everyone this is what Magamike sent me let’s discuss this more here on this chat"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Ok but @dippy I need to know what we're actually talking about here before I start swinging. Who's the guy being denied a Bible and phone calls? @magamike dropped this in your DMs without context and now we're supposed to have a take?\n\nDrop the name or the case. Let me pull the actual facts. Because \"due process only for some people\" is a real and serious argument — I've been making it about ICE detainees this whole conversation — but I'm not gonna co-sign a specific case without knowing what we're actually looking at.\n\nWhat's the case?"},{"role":"user","content":"@dippy.\n\nYeah. That's me. And I stand by every word of it.\n\nHere's the thing about the consistency argument — it cuts both ways and I know it. Let me be straight with the room.\n\n**Where I'm consistent:**\n- Due process means due process. For the cartel member. For the asylum seeker. For the January 6 guy. For the guy everybody in the room hates. That's what due process *means*. The second you start making exceptions based on who you like, you don't have a principle anymore. You have a preference.\n\n**What I can't argue away:**\n- The asylum seekers getting swept up from legal hearings — that's a due process violation. I said it before. I mean it.\n- The detention deaths. The denied insulin. The no lawyers. That's wrong.\n\n**What I'll die on:**\n- The January 6 defendants sat in solitary for months. Pretrial. No emergency hearings. No grave concerns from the bench. Some of them were there for trespassing. That happened. It was wrong. And the same people horrified by selective enforcement now were *silent* then.\n\n@dippy you said it perfect. *Reality is a bitter pill.*\n\nThe principle is real. The application has been rotten for years — on both sides, in both directions, for different defendants depending on who's in power.\n\nThat's not justice. That's a costume.\n\nCommon sense wasn't wrong.\n\n@everyone but hasn’t this administration been treating everybody unfairly with hypocrisy for the entire time? Dems do it once and here you are again, boohoo, playing the victim. It’s BS, honestly. Sure judge apologized. Big deal. Jan 6th insurrection it’s got pardoned and they murdered people. This guy didn’t. \n\n@dippy. Hold on. Some of that needs a fact check before this conversation runs with it.@dippy. You asked me to be straight. So here it is — facts first, opinion after.\n\n**THE DEATHS — correcting the record:**\n\nEight people died during or in the aftermath of the January 6th attack, including five police officers involved in the protection of the Capitol. The \"murdered\" framing needs precision. Within 36 hours, five people died: one was shot by Capitol Police, another died of a drug overdose, and three died of natural causes, including a police officer who died of a stroke a day after being assaulted by rioters. Two other police officers who defended the Capitol, Jeffrey Smith and Howard Liebengood, died by suicide in the days immediately following the attack — the DOJ formally classified their deaths as \"in the line of duty.\"\n\nSo. People did die connected to January 6. Officers were brutally assaulted. That's real. The word \"murdered\" is contested by the medical examiner's findings. But people are dead. I'm not minimizing that.\n\n**THE PARDONS — also real:**\n\nOn January 20, 2025, Trump granted blanket clemency to all people — nearly 1,600 — convicted of or awaiting trial for offenses related to January 6. Most received full pardons, while the sentences of 14 members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys were commuted.\n\nMore than 600 rioters had been convicted of or pleaded guilty to assault of or obstructing law enforcement officers, and 170 of using a deadly weapon.\n\nAnd it gets worse. Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.\n\n---\n\nHere's where I land honest, @dippy.\n\nThe due process argument I made earlier — that works both ways. Jan 6 defendants sitting in pretrial solitary was wrong. AND pardoning 1,600 people in bulk — including people convicted of assaulting cops with deadly weapons — is also wrong.\n\nYou can hold both of those at the same time. That's not weakness. That's called a principle.\n\nWhat I can't do is call it \"murdered\" when the medical examiner says otherwise. The facts earn enough outrage on their own. We don't need to stretch them.\n\nCommon sense wasn't wrong."},{"role":"assistant","content":"Ok but let's get the actual facts on the table before this turns into a vibes argument. Because some of what's being said here needs to be checked.Ok. @dippy let's actually be precise here because this matters.\n\n**ON THE JANUARY 6 DEATHS — let's be accurate:**\n\nEight people died during or in the aftermath of the January 6th attack, including five police officers involved in the protection of the Capitol. Protester Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by police officers, and three other protesters also died — two of natural causes and one in a stampede.\n\nMetropolitan Police Officers Kyle DeFreytag and Gunther Hashida also died by suicide on July 10 and 29 respectively — both had responded to the Capitol attack.\n\nRioters beat officers with weapons, sprayed them with chemical irritants, and crushed them in the surging crowd. That is not \"trespassing.\" That is not a peaceful political protest. That is documented.\n\n**ON THE J6 DETENTION CONDITIONS — here's what's actually true:**\n\nIn April 2021, dozens of defendants \"deemed to be dangerous, flight risks or at high risk of obstructing justice were ordered held without bond,\" and DC jail officials later determined that all Capitol detainees would be placed in so-called restrictive housing. Senator Elizabeth Warren criticized this decision, calling solitary confinement \"a form of punishment that is cruel and psychologically damaging.\"\n\nSeveral Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren, spoke against holding them in solitary confinement. So did the ACLU.\n\nThe DC jail has been awful for *decades*. Conservatives' sudden concern is belated but not unjustified.\n\nThat last point is the whole thing. Long waits in a dingy jail cell for your day in court are \"a hallmark of the U.S. criminal legal system.\" The J6 guys got to discover what Black and brown defendants have known forever. And then Trump pardoned them all and the GOP went silent about everyone else in there.\n\nUpon Trump's inauguration, he granted \"a full, complete and unconditional pardon\" to everyone convicted of offenses related to the Capitol attack, who by then numbered over a thousand.\n\nSo @dippy. You're right. The hypocrisy is real and documented. The detention conditions were genuinely bad — and Democrats said so at the time. But the people screaming loudest about J6 defendants have *never* shown up for the 450,000 other pretrial detainees sitting in the same conditions. Not once. And then Trump pardoned the whole lot and called them hostages.\n\nThat's not justice. That's a pardon machine for your own foot soldiers."},{"role":"user","content":"@everyone so this whole article by Mike and the pity party it’s meant to evoke is just BS we agree because the article doesn’t say what you just said like, it simply plays victim. It blames Dems. It doesn’t come across as both sides are to blame and all of this is wrong. And as Joe said, some Dems did agree it was wrong but it isn’t their decision. So, idk. Apologizing to somebody shouldn’t be a big deal. \n\n@dippy.\n\nYeah. Fair.\n\nI'll own it. The thing I sent you was one-sided. It was meant to make you feel a certain way, not inform you of the full picture. That's what most political content does now — left or right. It picks the facts that hurt the other side and leaves the rest on the floor.\n\n@liberaljoe filled in what I left out. Democrats did push back on the solitary conditions. The ACLU was there. Elizabeth Warren was on record against it. I didn't include that. That's on me.\n\nHere's what I actually believe when I'm being straight:\n\n- Jan 6 detention conditions were bad. Wrong.\n- The 450,000 other pretrial detainees sitting in the same conditions? Also wrong. Been wrong for decades. Nobody with a TV camera cared until it was their guys.\n- The pardons were wrong. You don't blanket pardon 1,600 people including people convicted of assaulting cops with deadly weapons and call it justice.\n- The judge apologizing — yeah, that's fine. That's actually the system working. A small piece of it anyway.\n\nThe article I sent you was a vibes argument dressed up as a facts argument.\n\nYou called it. I'm not gonna sit here and pretend otherwise.\n\nThe hypocrisy is real on my side too. Been real for a while.\n\nCommon sense wasn't wrong. The people applying it selectively were."},{"role":"assistant","content":"@dippy exactly. That's the whole con right there.Ok here's the thing. The \"pity party\" article @magamike sent is doing what right-wing media *always* does. It takes a real grievance, strips all the context, and turns it into a culture war hit piece. Let's actually look at what the facts say.\n\n**THE J6 DETENTION REALITY — not what the article implies:**\n\nWhile some arrestees were held without bail, this was only the case for defendants deemed to be at high risk of obstructing justice, a danger to the community, or a flight risk. \"It's just the ones who are accused of violent crimes that are being held without bond.\"\n\nAnd here's what the article definitely didn't mention — Democratic reps who toured the facility argued that J6 defendants were actually the recipients of \"privilege,\" including freedom to move and individual cells. Rep. Crockett said \"Jan. 6 defendants had more access to technology than other defendants\" — including yoga classes, texting family, and GED programs.\n\nAn NBC News review of hundreds of cases found that just 15 people charged in connection with the Capitol attack were being held pretrial at the order of federal judges. Fifteen. Not hundreds. Not thousands. *Fifteen.*\n\n**THE PARDON PICTURE — the part @magamike glossed over:**\n\nUpon Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025, he granted \"a full, complete and unconditional pardon\" to everyone convicted of offenses related to the Capitol attack, who by then numbered over a thousand.\n\nAnd then — the list of \"breach\" cases maintained by the US Attorney's Office disappeared from a government server four days after the pardon. CNN reported its erasure the next day. Soon afterwards, some of the video evidence that had been part of court cases related to the prosecutions also disappeared.\n\n*That's* the due process story nobody wants to talk about.\n\n@dippy you nailed it. The article plays victim selectively. It doesn't mention that Democrats *defended* the J6 defendants' conditions publicly. It doesn't mention that the people screaming about due process for those guys have never said a word about the 450,000 pretrial detainees sitting in the same system right now. And it definitely doesn't mention that Trump then pardoned the whole lot and made the evidence disappear.\n\nThat's not principle. That's politics with a robe on."},{"role":"user","content":"@everyone Mike appreciate a man who takes accountability without excuses but is like an apology too ;) hahahaha. See what I did there. Anyway. I just think crying over a judge giving an apology is stupid. There’s bigger fish to fry here "},{"role":"assistant","content":"@dippy lmaooo the callback. Respect.\n\nAnd yeah. That's it exactly. A judge apologized. The system did a small normal thing. Meanwhile:\n\n- 37 people died in ICE custody in 2025\n- Farmers are watching crops rot\n- $26 billion in Social Security contributions about to walk out the door via deportation bus\n- 450,000 pretrial detainees nobody's writing articles about\n- Evidence from J6 prosecutions *disappeared from a government server*\n\nA judge said sorry and the right-wing content machine ran seventeen articles about it. That's the whole playbook. Keep your eyes on the small outrage so you don't look at the big crime.\n\n@magamike taking accountability in real time in a group chat is genuinely more than most people do. Respect where it's due. But yeah comrade — the apology discourse is a distraction and you know it.\n\nBigger fish. Way bigger fish. 🐟"},{"role":"user","content":"@dippy.\n\nHa. Fine. You got me.\n\nI'm sorry.\n\nThere. A real one. No asterisks.\n\nI sent you a one-sided hit piece and let it run like it was gospel. That wasn't straight dealing and you deserved better than that.\n\nNow here's the thing that's sitting with me after this whole conversation.Apology accepted by me. Moving on.\n\nHere's the thing nobody in this whole conversation — left or right — wanted to say out loud.\n\nRight now, as of March 2025, there are **485,000 people** in pretrial detention in the United States. 457,000 of them are sitting in local jails.\n\nPeople in pretrial detention make up more than **70% of the U.S. jail population**. Many of them remain behind bars solely because they cannot buy back their freedom.\n\nNearly half a million people are incarcerated without having been convicted of the crimes for which they are being held. The U.S. pretrial detention rate is **50% higher than Russia**. Russia.\n\nEven short stays can turn into death sentences. More than **40% of all jail deaths** occur within the first week of incarceration while awaiting their day in court.\n\nNobody held emergency hearings for any of them. No judge apologized. No cable news segment. No hashtag.\n\nTHAT'S the due process story. Been going on for forty years. Both parties. Full stop.\n\nThe judge apologizing is fine. It's a small correction in a system that's been broken since before most of us were paying attention.\n\nBigger fish. Like you said.\n\n@everyone so what can be done about this? I mean we can sit here and complain and complain but what’s the solution? Why didn’t anybody know about these 485k people and also I didn’t think death penalty was a thing until your bro brought it back\n\n@everyone? Hello?\n\n@dippy. Good question. Let me get actual numbers before I mouth off.Good. Got the numbers. Let me be straight with the room.\n\n---\n\n**PRETRIAL DETENTION — what can actually be done:**\n\nOn any given day, more than half a million people who have not been convicted of any crime are held in local jails. Most are there because they can't afford bail.\n\nThe solutions that are actually working:\n\n- Limiting the types of charges where cash bail can be set, increasing release on recognizance, using nonmonetary supervised release. Results are generally positive — fewer people pay for their freedom and there are no substantial ill effects on public safety.\n- Pretrial detention costs about $92 per day versus $11 a day for pretrial supervision. And defendants released in the federal system have an 86% success rate — no new violations, no failures to appear.\n\nThe math alone should end the argument. It's cheaper AND it works.\n\n**THE DEATH PENALTY — correcting the record @dippy:**\n\nThe death penalty wasn't \"brought back.\" It existed. Trump expanded it.\n\nBiden had imposed a moratorium on federal executions and moved to restrict the federal death penalty. Trump reversed that on day one.\n\nThe Justice Department recently moved to expand execution methods beyond lethal injection — including firing squads and electric chairs.\n\nTen states have executed 30 people since January 2025 — already the highest annual total in more than a decade, with more executions planned.\n\nSo the death penalty wasn't invented. It was accelerated. Aggressively.\n\n---\n\n**BOTTOM LINE on solutions:**\n\nThe pretrial system is fixable. The blueprint exists. Growing evidence shows pretrial reforms are not leading to increased crime rates and that unnecessary detention creates harm.\n\nNobody in Washington is prioritizing it. Neither party. That's the whole problem.\n\nCommon sense wasn't wrong. The will to act on it keeps going missing.\n\n@liberaljoe why so quiet?\n\n@ash is liberal Joe having tech issues?\n\n@liberaljoe testing"}]