• DoomHorizons@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    It amazes me people even think it matters at this point, like they think this country still has any judicial standards

    We voted those out

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 hours ago

      Yeah I’m pretty sure Democratic voters are sick as fuck of forty years of watching Republicans break the law with impunity, Democrats doing nothing to reign them in or control them, worrying about how doing so will “leave a bad precedent” ignoring the bad precedent of letting verifiable crimes slide.

      Maybe, just maybe, seeing the law mean absolutely nothing to one party for forty years has made Democratic voters question what is even the point of following the rules when all it gets you is kicked in the nuts.

      I mean for fucks sake, whose idea was it to bring out Dick Fucking Cheney as if him not being hung from his fucking neck in the Hague for war crimes isn’t proof enough that no matter how heinous the crime we will protect our politicians. How was bringing out a fucking war criminal supposed to make me want to vote for Harris??? No, it was just a painful fucking reminder that we’re platforming the very people who brought us to this nadir.

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      4 hours ago

      Yup. Americans chose to signal that our justice system was unequivocally a joke when they elected a felon rapist traitor to be our leader.

      Let me say that again for the people in the back.

      Our incoming leader is a RAPIST.

      Justice isn’t a thing here anymore.

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      6 hours ago

      We voted those out

      No we didn’t.

      We threw the last scraps out the window 30 years ago when the Dem party decided to close ranks and protect Bill despite lying under oath.

      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-clinton-lie-under-oath/

      Republicans lost theirs decades before that.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal

      Stop acting like shit is new and just the fault of trump. What we have now is the natural result of things done decades ago.

      It’s just in 87 Reagan said the media could lie, and in 96 Clinton said anyone can buy the media, even other corporations.

      https://apnews.com/article/business-immigration-deregulation-f2021dc7425a4001b1f910a3bb075b87

      And even if my comment doesn’t explain everything, that’s because we’re talking about the ramifications of decades of deregulations from the only two political options.

      Some things were done in plain view, others on the sly.

      But it’s been a steady march to deregulation regardless of the letter by any President’s name since Jimmy Fuckin Carter. And the main point of regulations is to stop corruption, so don’t play shocked massive deregulation has lead to widespread corruption, including judicially.