Throw it on the pile? I guess?

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    Normalizing the lack of consequences will be horrible to manage in the future. Any administration that wants to do any enforcement will have to deal with years of precedent of inaction.

    ‘You want to punish me? Where was your ‘righteous indignity’ and your ‘laws’ when trump was in charge?’

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      That’s why I say we have to either split the union and all be separate (free to join into smaller groups), or we just rewrite the constitution and remake the government from the ground up.

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        I don’t think the second option is viable.

        You have whole states loving the pedo unconditionally. And they would need to sign a constitution that specifically bars them to try and summon a new trump.

        They simply won’t sign it. So you better start thinking as separate states that join to stay relevant and hope the red union that will shortly after form doesn’t have imperialist aspirations. Otherwise you’ll be in for a second civil war.

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          But the economics in the red states would lead to such bad living conditions that people would move, and then the spiral of no money, and no people to fight a war would lead to a very one sided victory.

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            They are in the process of connecting to the national grid actually. I guess they could just disconnect it again

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        We have to do the latter regardless because we’ve proven the current ones are fundamentally broken and all it took was to act in bad faith. Literally all of this because there’s intentionally no system in place to account for bad faith or no confidence.

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          That is actually the exact purpose of the second amendment. So that we the people can replace a government that no longer works for the people of the country.

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      ‘You want to punish me? Where was your ‘righteous indignity’ and your ‘laws’ when trump was in charge?’

      It didn’t start with the orange turd, you wannabe “moral” hypocrites.

      Go back, far far back and check if any one of the presidents faced serious repercussions.

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        Cant think of any other president acting in bad faith against the people for personal gain, can you?

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          i mean, the bush family has a lot of money in the weapons industry… but they where actually politicians and have plausible deniability between personal gains and political actions.

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            Did they actively use those, or other govt mechanisms against the american public interest? Im waiting…

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    One century of presidential earnings while in office, everything earned - all presidents combined - $40 million USD of getting “rich”.

    Trump, one year. 3 billion in personal enrichment. Planes, “donations”, etc.

    Corruption laid bare. Everything the reich wing said they hated about Hillary, Bill, Pelosi, Obama making money on the job. Not a peep about this. Not. One. Word.

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      These are corporate bonds, rather than stocks. They will pay out a fixed amount over a given period of time. One might assume this is a down payment for silence

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          The subpoena was happening either way. But the bonds are a gift to prevent prosecution. Or at least that’s how I read it.

          Edit: Looking at it another way, buying the bonds could be Trump buying the guys silence when he testifies.

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          Even I know that you shouldn’t buy shares in a company that you’re (for whatever reason) sure will tank in the near future.

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            Bonds are basically buying shares of a loan to the company, not stock in it. Different risk profile, but also risky if the head of the company is about to be indicated

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    I’m sure a decent person in the Nazied States of America will soon bring the orange child rapist to justice. Any moment now one of them will grow a spine and arrest the obese imbecile and the other cronies…

    Any minute now
    …soon

    …just you wait

    …it’ll happen

    …mark my words …

    … {crickets}

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      Newsweek covers it from a position of ‘he’s profiting off his position’ which doesn’t mention Epstein or buying silence at all.

      MSNBC or whatever the fuck they’re called now does make that connection, and links to Bloomberg [paywall] which covers other skeezy profit grabs.