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Vance Sees "Nothing Unusual" in Taxpayer-Funded Ads Promoting Trump (truthout.org)
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[–] 29 points 1 month ago (14 children)

The worst part is that there will never be a political penalty. If Democrats get into power and sue to have it stopped, taxpayers, which include Democrats will have to pay to prosecute and then pay the penalty because it's the government who lost! Then Democrats won't do the same advertising so Republicans got the advertising for free.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

    Yeah, I fully expect the next admin (if we actually get a “next”, that is, and this regime doesn’t just continue indefinitely) to softball any sort of accountability effort and punitive actions because “tHaT wOuLD Be diViSiVE” 😑

    Edit: this isn’t a “both sides are just as bad” argument. The fascists are bad. The “opposition party” is manifestly incapable of appropriately dealing with the fascists, which, while not as bad as being outright fascists, effectively enables them and existentially undermines not just the opposition party itself, but (small-d) democratic process in general.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (12 children)

    Hey heads up, both sides arguments sound really really fucking stupid

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    As much as I want to agree with you I want to say look at Biden and all the stuff he turned back from the first MAGA shit show. What you mean not a dot or tiddel of the old law changed?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Of course Biden couldn’t draft laws on his own. Did Biden’s government control all three branches?

    You’d have to completely ignorant of the American system of government to start making those types of absolutely silly claims.

    Plus - on top of all that - Republicans are self proclaimed rapists and nazis

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    he barely even fucking investigated Trump though. New laws didn't need to be fabricated, the govt just needed to hold him accountable for all the laws broken in the first term. Biden's admin dragged their feet on bringing any consequences for so long that it just became too late.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Did you want the Nazis to vote to convict their Nazi?

    I don’t understand your argument, because the US has three branches of government. Please explain how Biden controlled the republican nazi house and senate

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Prosecuting crimes does not require any voting. The president is in charge of that. He runs the DOJ and enforces the rules. It doesn't sound like you understand how the government works. Trump broke laws already on the books, the Biden administration failed to hold them to account. Congress is not needed to prosecute crimes.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I understand all of this but did Biden do anything to try, anything at all?

    Trump does something the courts rule it unconstitutional, if his supreme court still says “we have to reluctly agree with the lower courts” he changes a word or two and the thing stays in the courts until they agree.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago

    The senate and house were controlled by whom at the time?

    Did you want the Nazis to convict the Nazi? Please explain your comment with the understanding that Biden couldn’t do anything without cooperation from the Nazis

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Where does he say he has to draft laws of/on his own?

    Calling other people stupid while making up a imaginary scenario to make yourself seem smart is really really fucking stupid.

    We see cultists for what they really are. They don't really care about justice, peace, or morals. The only thing they care about is "defending your team no matter what."

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