Remember when Obama decided that “moving on” was more important than prosecuting the Bush admin for war crimes? There won’t ever be any consequences for these people unless we find a way to distribute them ourselves.
The corruption, incompetence, and negligence of the Bush administration led to the avoidable deaths of over 10,000 American citizens, countless foreign nationals, the rise of organized Muslim military extremism, AND the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
When Obama took over, I never bought into his Hope & Change bullshit, he looked like just another neolib placeholder President, meant to fill in between destructive Republicans presidencies. That was the role of EVERY Democratic president since LBJ, the last warrior Democrat, and that’s the role that Obama filled.
I said at the time, that if Obama didn’t aggressively punish the crimes of the Bush administration, the Republicans would view it as extreme weakness, and pounce. Republicans are feral, and they operate like wild animals. If their natural tendency for chaos isn’t controlled, the next Republican administration would be even worse.
Despite that, even I was surprised at how bad MAGA became.
Remember when Obama continued committing war crimes like he was the 3rd and 4th terms of the bush administration? It was in his best interest not to prosecute, the precedence would have been inconvenient for him.
For sure I do. I just wanted to hold up an example of a liberal hero for demonstration.
And nothing will happen.
I mean the dogs in that experiment were right, they were being tortured by humans and they had no control over their experience. The fact that sometimes the humans turned off the shock to fuck with them doesnt really change that they were powerless.
Sure. I’m just saying that this well-known demonstrated phenomenon is being weaponized against you
Fair, that’s true
Porque no los dos
I hope that if I’m ever in the papers for abandoning my morals, my oaths, and all dignity in egregiously stupid ways, that my wonton and clear law-breaking is characterized as defiance.
“Oh, no, your honor, I wasn’t breaking all those laws! I was defying them!”
I hope if I’m ever in the papers for defying the law, abandoning my morals and doing some that will be remembered with scorn through all of history, it will be for something like assassinating someone I learn from a time traveler will become the next genocidal scourge to humanity.
Not, you know… helping a kid rapist get away with raping kids.
The department’s own explanation confirms it is violating the law it claims to follow.
LOCK. THEM. UP!
I’m sure her loyalty will be richly rewarded.
The leopards are licking their lips
Only until her actions and existence becomes inconvenient, then she will find out that people she so blindly defends don’t have her back as much.
Exactly.
She’s on the same shitty level as Epstein. Protecting pedophiles.
Okay, slow your roll there. Protecting pedophiles is not nearly in the same category as directly facilitating pedophilia and engaging in human trafficking.
Downvote all you like, but a murderer is still guilty of a greater crime than their friend who is helping them bury the bodies.
Some of us pretended to to wrap presents for the kids. Others erased evidence that could help put a pedophile in jail.
So obviously both sides are the same.
Straight to Guantanamo.
I’d rather see her be subject to the rule of law, or even vigilanteism, before I wanted to see the government doing still more blatantly illegal shit.
Unimpeachable: Republicans control too many seats to ever allow successful impeachment (even less conviction) of any of their loyal gang members.
This needs to be hammered home every time people meme about writing strongly worded letters.
They literarily have NO POWER.
That said, if Democrats take back power and do not fully prosecute these fuckers there needs to be riots.
Check that, we’ve seen Biden, we KNOW centrist Democrats won’t do shit.
We need leftist flooding the primaries and sweeping out the old Democratic guard.
I’m a school bus driver and one time I was chewing out some misbehaving kids. At one point I said “if you guys don’t stop I’m going to report you to the principal and he’s going to, uh, give you a stern talking-to” and I just started laughing because it was so pathetic. The Repubs are like the kids on my bus: they know they can do whatever they like and nobody’s going to be able to do anything about it.
The parents (voters) could. But the voters are morons 🤷♀️
If you dont impeach the source of the rot, you’re just changing the face to another unqualified crony eg Cannon 💀
I’d wager it’s pardonable as well.
But a President cannot pardon impeachment cases.
Watch the supreme court disagree.
Off to the dungeons!
Nothing ever happens.
There have been dozens, if not more, of impeachable offenses Trump has committed and they don’t care. Why would they care about this, which helps their dear leader?
Because no one cares about Pam Bondi, but the American people care about the Epstein files
Who’s going to defend her? She made the administration look bad while also pissing off the public
In n particular, MAGA care about the Epstein files. This is a major crack in their coalition. They spent years throwing around conspiracy theories about pedophile cults secretly running the world. They are obsessed with the Epstein files, and the more Trump tries to obfuscate their contents, the more they have to start wondering what his skin in the game is. We’re already seeing it happen with people like MTG publicly turning on him.
It’s still a cult. They don’t want to suspect dear leader of anything. But the more he works to conceal stuff, the more they’re trapped between two things they hold at absolute truths. One of them has to give eventually.
I’d dearly love to believe you but if any group of people are champions of managing cognitive dissonance without addressing it, it’s the MAGA crowd.
Everything has it’s limit.
I have yet to see the limit of MAGA voters’ stupidity, but I hope you are right.
See, the thing is, I’m not talking about their stupidity.
That’s why the Epstein stuff is sticking in a way nothing else is; because it doesn’t ask them to be smart. In fact, it plays right into their stupidity. That’s the difference.
Everything else has bounced off them because it was easier to excuse it. Excusing the tariffs is easier than learning how trade really works. Excusing tax cuts is easier than understanding how the economy really works. Excusing his foreign policy blunders is easier than trying to understand the value of soft power. Ignorance is simpler. Ignorance is easier.
But the Epstein stuff? That sticks because they don’t have the ability to be ignorant about it. This is something they know. Secret cabals of pedophile elites kidnapping children to sexually abuse them on a private island? My brother in Christ, they write fanfiction about that shit. They are the self proclaimed experts on that stuff. With everything else they can just say “Well I don’t understand this, but I’m 100% confident that Trump does, because obviously the billionaire is a genius.” But then they watch as Democrats are out there screaming for the release of the Epstein files while Republicans are dragging their heels and it does a number on them. Because they know how this is supposed to work; Democrats are all evil child rapists and Trump is the saviour sent to stop them. So why is Trump running cover for the pedophile cabal?
In short, I’m not claiming that MAGA are suddenly getting smart. I’m claiming that the Epstein cover up is exactly the right kind of stupid.
I really hope you are right, I’m not up to date with MAGA I don’t run in any of their circles, but I know Meagan whatever her name is already tried downplay pedophile like if they are 15 it’s not as bad.
I’m just afraid they are so stupid it’s easy to explain stuff away with bullshit like that
Who’s going to defend her?
More pressing, who is going to prosecute her? To date, I’ve seen zero impulse under any prior administration to prosecute the wrongdoing of outgoing officials.
The closest case has been the half assed effort to get Leticia James on… misreporting a mortgage statement?
Nobody at the highest levels of government and business actually want to fuck with one another. It is always and forever punching down on the plebs.
Congress. They can just impeach her
I mean she could refuse to leave, but then she’d be committing all sorts of crimes on a daily basis
I mean she could refuse to leave, but then she’d be committing all sorts of crimes on a daily basis.
Now Trump definitely won’t fire her. He loves criminals who do crimes for him.
No, Trump loves Trump. Everyone else is useful until they’re not, at which point they get thrown under the bus or conveniently commit suicide.
Exactly.
No he doesn’t… He doesn’t give a shit about them. He’s abandoned so many loyalists it’s crazy
He talks shit about them even. He relishes when they get punished in his name
They can just impeach her
Hasn’t Trump been impeached twice already?
Yes, but really no.
They impeached him, which is the name of the procedure to remove an official from office, but then they didn’t have the Senate votes to remove him from office
they didn’t have the Senate votes to remove him from office
When has anyone ever?
Us, right now?
This isn’t a unicorn. Literally the entire Senate voted to release the Epstein files, that unanimously passed law in the Senate was not followed
The only thing the military should be doing is locking up the administration for crimes against humanity
