• @Sanctus
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    1395 months ago

    See how easy that was? Now why is it so hard if there’s an R next to their name?

    • mozz
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      Because someone in the media whispers to them “hey yeah but wouldn’t in be fun if instead you spent the next 6 weeks trying unseat your own nominee” and they go “TAHTS’ SUCH A GOOD IDEA” and get busy on it

      No one intervenes if the system goes after a Democrat, so it can all just happen as normal

    • UltraMagnus0001
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      35 months ago

      The courts were stacked with Republicans. This is why local elections are just as or even more important than the national ones. Everything starts small.

  • @elbucho
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    765 months ago

    Wait, so politicians can be held accountable for their crimes? When did that change?

    • @macarthur_park
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      635 months ago

      He didn’t have the magic ® next to his name.

    • dactylotheca
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      Oh politicians can be and are held accountable all the time. It’s conservative politicians who seem to get off scot-free

      • ditty
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        85 months ago

        Let’s add Matt Gaetz to that list

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      85 months ago

      Those guys didn’t get cartoonish bags of money and gold bars, just stock tips and fancy vacations and RVs motor homes. All above board according to the law.

  • SolidGrue
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    345 months ago

    He’s still a sitting Senator and won’t resign despite the NJ Governor Murphy calling for him to do so. The Senate will have to expel him, and then Murphy will appoint a replacement.

    • @[email protected]
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      315 months ago

      Do it. Do it now! Grab some media attention showing Democrats getting rid of their unethical members while the Republicans are celebrating theirs.

  • @Suavevillain
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    315 months ago

    We need more of these dudes getting held accountable.

    • @jordanlundOPM
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      True story… when my kid got married and bought a house 5 years ago, I gifted them an ounce of gold. $1,800 then. $2,470.32.

      So +$670.32! Yay!

      But over 5 years? :(

      $134.064 / year.

      • @raspberriesareyummy
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        But over 5 years? :(

        Erm - 6.5% interest rate is a decent inflation compensation. If there wasn’t a risk even with gold, I’d use gold as my “secure savings” account.

        • @[email protected]
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          25 months ago

          Random opinion: Ive never liked gold personally.

          The problem with solid gold being a currency is even the smallest amount of gold that could be carried in small enough amounts to be used as currency would be a coin. A solid gold coin is roughly $2.5K.

          You could break it up but you still have $625 pieces.

          If we ever need to use gold to trade for food, you are looking at some expensive eggs.

          • @raspberriesareyummy
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            25 months ago

            I didn’t mean I would keep gold at home, but as someone fundamentally opposed to stock market investment, I would like to have a way to at least protect my savings from devaluation by inflation…

            • @[email protected]
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              15 months ago

              Oh, 100%. Gold is perfect for people that wish to avoid the stock markets. I even have a few coins myself.

              I just find it ironic that if we ever needed to use our gold as a curreny, we would be fucked.

              • @raspberriesareyummy
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                15 months ago

                Just did the math - for all mined gold in the world (~200 thousand tons) at 9 billion people, that would give us 22.4 grams of gold as currency / personal property to spend at any given time, if no one on the world had any “savings”. Considering that a 100 K EUR would already buy ~1.37 kg of gold, that’s a bit of a mismatch…

  • @StaySquared
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    105 months ago

    Excellent… regardless of what party any politician is in, we need a full scale investigation on corruption for call local/state/federal politicians and agencies.

  • @jpreston2005
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    And lo, the conservatives looked out for all the progressives and democrats who would defend this man as they would their own, and found none, because they’re not hypocritical pieces of shit.

    • @AngryCommieKender
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      35 months ago

      I believed the second pair of parentheses is messing up your hyperlink, however upon a test of copying and pasting the link directly, it seems that your link doesn’t work.

      • @[email protected]
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        35 months ago

        Urgh, thank you. Sorry. I couldn’t upload the image directly, new account restriction I think.

  • mechoman444
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    35 months ago

    Lol! Trump committee treason and insurrection and literally nothing will happen to him… This guy’s going to jail.

    Do as I say not as I do! S

  • @A_A
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    “Robert Menendez … …serving as the senior United States senator from … … member of the Democratic Party, …”
    Gosh !

    • @kescusay
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      125 months ago

      And? Throw crooks in prison, regardless of party. What, did you expect Democrats to defend him? Nah, circling the wagons is what Republicans do.

      • @A_A
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        Hi @kescusay,
        100% agree with you : Crooks should go to prison. Still, i was disappointed because i didn’t know which party that crook belong to so i searched and i was hoping to find that he was from the Republican… but, allas, no.

        P.S. : Retrospectively there was about 50% ways of misreading my above comment and maybe 95% of all readers here have misinterpreted it. Go figure !

        • @kescusay
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          25 months ago

          No worries, it happens. This is the internet, after all. No way to convey tone of voice.