# Biden victory: Then Truth and Reconciliation, Then Censorship and Blacklisting, Then... Prisons **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 22, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619 "2020-10-22T20:23:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/21 "2020-10-22T22:17:56Z")
Trials for those directly implicit in Trump’s and his associates crimes. The death penalty should be applied for treasonous activity. Other supporters should be sent to re-education camps, Trump’s friends in China have found this to be very effective, and it’s really going easy on them since they deserve to be sent to death camps like Trump’s friends in North Korea do. All of these people should lose all of their material goods. What can be sold for revenue should be, anything else should be burned. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/22 "2020-10-22T22:20:08Z")
Yep. There isn’t the tiniest smidgen of a stunted iota of an actual discussion possible here. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/23 "2020-10-22T22:34:50Z")
> [@urbanredneck2](#): > > I dont know. Give them all a million bucks? > > So in other words, your saying “YES, put them on trial and lock them up”? > > What do we need that pesky democracy for anyways? Man, you must have been just about to burst waiting for a chance to yell “Gotcha,” huh? I don’t feel any need to put run-of-the-mill Trumpsters on trial. I do, however, like to think that at some point, perhaps at the Pearly Gates, you’ll each have to explain and account for your defense of Trump and all the evil he’s stood for. I doubt it’d go well for you. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/24 "2020-10-22T22:48:54Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > OP is assuming there is a high likelihood of this happening. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![agzem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@agzem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agzem)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/25 "2020-10-22T22:49:36Z")
[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/10/09/keith\_olbermann\_terrorist\_trump\_and\_his\_enablers\_and\_supporters\_must\_be\_removed\_from\_our\_society.html](https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/10/09/keith_olbermann_terrorist_trump_and_his_enablers_and_supporters_must_be_removed_from_our_society.html) _"…The task is two-fold: the **terrorist** Trump must be defeated, must be **destroyed** , must be devoured at the ballot box, and then he, and his enablers, and his supporters, and his collaborators, and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs, and Sean Hannitys, and the Mike Pences, and the Rudy Gullianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and **removed from our society** while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has destroyed by turning it over to a virus._ _…Remember it, even though to remember it, means remembering that the **fight does not end** on November 3rd, but in many ways, **will only begin** that day."_ ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/26 "2020-10-22T22:58:03Z")
I’m reminded of the words of Joy Behar on The View: _“Don’t tell people ahead of time what you’re going to do. Wait until you get elected first, THEN take the guns away.”_ Not that I think Biden would actually do any of this - I don’t think for one moment he would. But Keith Olbermann seems to have zero comprehension that talk of this sort only serves to revv up the Trump vote. There’s nothing that motivates people to get out and vote like someone from the opposing side talking about locking you up. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/27 "2020-10-22T22:59:23Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > There’s nothing that motivates people to get out and vote like someone from the opposing side talking about locking you up. Trump won in 2016. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/28 "2020-10-22T23:04:49Z")
Even as a liberal, I recognize that Keith Olbermann is a crank. Cite from someone with actual political power and influence? ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/29 "2020-10-22T23:12:29Z")
Yeah, I have no problem disavowing idiots, especially incendiary idiots, on either side of the left/right divide that so woefully characterizes what our nation has become. Keith Obermann should STFU. ---
**Author:** ![agzem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@agzem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agzem)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/30 "2020-10-22T23:16:47Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/41yJTxrPFhM/maxresdefault.jpg "RFK Jr wants to jail energy CEO's for "Treason" Laments no current laws to punish climate skeptics.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41yJTxrPFhM) # RFK Jr wants to jail energy CEO’s for “Treason” Laments no current laws to punish climate skeptics. _"Do I think they should be in jail, I think they should be enjoying three hots and a cot **at the Hague with all the other war criminals** ,” Kennedy declared._ _“Do I think the **Koch brothers** should be tried for reckless endangerment? Absolutely, that is a criminal offence and they ought to be **serving time** for it,” he added."_ ---
**Author:** ![Boudicca90](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boudicca90/32/16818_2.png) [@Boudicca90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boudicca90)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/31 "2020-10-22T23:27:45Z")
Olbermann is exactly right here. If we don’t put an end to the fascists that enabled Trump, there will be more Trumps in the future. Biden won’t go this way of course, since the Repubs are his buddies at the end of the day, so it’s not something they need to worry about. But they should be worrying and if Biden won’t make them worry, we will. The resistance will continue regardless. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/32 "2020-10-22T23:55:02Z")
I’ll grant you, RFK Jr. has a higher profile than Olbermann. But, the primary reason anyone at all would pay attention to him is his name; he, too, is a crank, an anti-vaxxer, and a conspiracy theorist. He’s not ever held political office, but his work with various environmental activist groups probably grants him some credibility among the far left. That said, I don’t think he, or his opinion, have any real sway over the Democratic Party, despite his pedigree. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/33 "2020-10-23T00:04:02Z")
> [@agzem](#): > > RFK Jr wants to jail energy CEO’s for “Treason” This is an interview from 2014 for some bullshit called “Climate Hustle.” This is not relevant to the current conversation. As for Olbermann’s bonkers rant, this is something he did on a _Youtube Video_. Literally that’s the only political platform he has now. And he’s rightly mocked for it. Suggesting that Amy Coney Barrett should be prosecuted and convicted is just idiotic trollbait. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/34 "2020-10-23T00:21:25Z")
Looks like @Velocity is going to continue to ignore the actual posts… ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/35 "2020-10-23T00:24:42Z")
My “cite” is that neither Biden nor anyone authorized to speak for him has given the least hint that this is being considered. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/36 "2020-10-23T00:31:46Z")
I do want an investigation into the ICE personnel who facilitated the holding of tens of thousands of people, whose only crime was wanting to live in the US, in unsanitary and dangerous conditions, forcing medical procedures on some of them, and separating young children from their parents. The sovereignty of our borders does not override or invalidate basic human decency, which seems to have been outlawed in the last four years, often with the support of people like the OP. I for one am sick of amnesty on a previous administration being declared on January 21. No More. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/37 "2020-10-23T00:36:26Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Do you want to respond to the actual posts in the thread, or to the voices in your head? The OP asked what we do think, as many expressed, the OP is [nutpicking](https://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/nutpicking), and missing what Reich is saying, that idea is not about trials to execute people nor to ban people from politics. The people will decide once the testimony is obtained. It is the writer of that article the one that is listening to the voices in his head, that there are from Twitter makes no difference. 🙂 My reply by the way does respond to the OP, it is telling him that what the article concludes [is not even wrong.](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/38 "2020-10-23T00:42:19Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > > [@Velocity](#): > > > > There’s nothing that motivates people to get out and vote like someone from the opposing side talking about locking you up. > > Trump won in 2016. It is astonishing how quickly some people like Velocity do forget. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/39 "2020-10-23T01:08:05Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > Biden will have more than enough on his hands and he’s not going to blow his political capital dredging up Trump’s misdeeds. Yep. He is pledged to be hands-off regarding any prosecution. And two days later, Robert Reich himself essentially took back his initial tweet: > ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-victory-then-truth-and-reconciliation-then-censorship-and-blacklisting-then-prisons/923619/40 "2020-10-23T02:36:04Z")
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