• ShadowRam
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    1155 months ago

    Wow US,

    WTF are you doing.

    You were founded on the idea that no one is above the law. That’s why you tossed aside the monarchy.

    • @chiliedogg
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      835 months ago

      Sounds like the wrong party has been hoarding weapons.

      Jesus, this is bleak. In a week they’ve straight-up legalized giving gifts to officials as an overt gratuity and declared Presidents immune from the law.

      Part of me wants to see the current President take advantage of this moment to forcibly install a Court that will quickly overturn these decisions and return us to sanity.

      • @[email protected]
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        175 months ago

        They made this decision knowing full well Biden is too spineless and stuck in the eighties to do it.

        • @chiliedogg
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          125 months ago

          They literally ruled that interested parties can pay a gratituity to officials and politicians, so long as the official act they’re paying for occurs before payment.

          That’s not some pessimistic reading of the case. It’s not subtle at all in it’s intention to legalize bribery at the federal level.

          The case at hand was a mayor that gave a contract to a waste disposal company worth about a million dollars overtly in exchange for them paying him $15,000 after the contract was awarded.

          He was prosecuted for official corruption and bribery, and the Supreme Court threw it out because he was paid after the corrupt act and not before.

        • Final Remix
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          45 months ago

          No, that’s it. They ruled it A OK to accept gifts for favors.

          • @[email protected]
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            25 months ago

            Who? Clearance? Lmao of course they did. ‘Is it ok we give you things?’ ‘Of course!’ Fuck this shit

    • OptionalOP
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      305 months ago

      An excellent point.

      AN EXCELLENT POINT.

    • @j4k3
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      165 months ago

      Same as average Germans in 1900 or 1930; just barely scraping by or worse, with not actual representation in the decisions being made by traitors behind closed doors.

      We will be hated and abused just as much as anyone. I hope the coming shift in relevant world powers will do a better job. This will soon be the new Italian peninsula of Rome. People are too stupid here to realize that the emperors of Rome were due to the consolidation of wealth. It resulted in massive civil wars and the eventual export of all Roman wealth to Constantinople. The USA will be the Italian peninsula of the late Roman era.

      • Track_Shovel
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        25 months ago

        Ok Canada, it’s your time to shine, don’t fuck this - oh god, Pollieviere

    • @lennybird
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      5 months ago

      It’s fine. We have an 81-year-old who jumps from his strongest issue — abortion — to his weakest issue — immigration mid-sentence who will save us from this downward spiral into fascism.

      I’m told <checks notes> that this is the best we’ve got.