Any Accountability At All Commission

  • Glitterbomb@lemmy.world
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    The third political party in the US should be The Woodchipper. You don’t vote for candidates, just The Woodchipper. If The Woodchipper gets the majority of votes, all the candidates on the ticket get tossed in a fucking woodchipper and we start the election over with new candidates.

    This fixes our problems, in a uniquely American way.

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    I don’t want Trump to win because he’s more likely to create a “presidential crimes commission” full of political appointees going after the other party.

    We have the legal system, if there are crimes they should be charged. The answer is not some additional political tribunal.

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    Haha yeah the government that’s currently enabling war crimes is gonna totally make a commission to hold presidents liable for crimes.

    This is why nothing changes. If you start looking at one of them you have to look at all of them.

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    If we can’t even get Trump to stop running despite being a convicted felon, I don’t even know if we can catch up with the next fucker. Dude could literally shoot someone on 5th Ave and the government would go “Well, they’re the president, what are you going to do about it?”

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      Didn’t he directly say he could shoot someone and still win the (2016) election? I swear I remember seeing that he flat out said that, I think around the time of the Republican primary debates

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    organize and take to the streets (and their pockets) if you want that to actually happen.

  • The Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.ca
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    Why stop there? Have every President, Senator, and Member of Congress investigated at all times. Whether we think they’re corrupt or not.

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        They should, but don’t, and haven’t ever. At this point I don’t really trust them to.

        Especially given their pinkerton start.

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        The same FBI that was dismissed by Trump when they looked into him, even though he was totally guilty? Or the same FBI that told civil rights protestors to kill themselves?

        The FBI is the Federal police for crimes the common man commits, not the rich.

      • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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        It’s innocent until proven guilty, not innocent until investigated.

        But yes, it would be politicized immediately. If only there was a way to have bad faith actors run a government smoothly, then we’d be cooking with gas.

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          Getting the money out of elections would go a long way. The problem is that more than half the ones who need to choose to get the money out benefit from it.

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      I will believe Impeachment means something once someone is removed from power until then it’s a political threat that means nothing.

      At this point it’s an untested power.

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        Arguably, it has been tested, several times. Each time it failed, after a fashion. We should be concerned what message that sends to the next person who would contemplate engaging in such impeachment-actionable behaviors.

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      let us know when you develop theory of mind. meanwhile as a non-US person, I very much care which war criminal they will pick, because one will be objectively worse for the rest of the world. and I’m pretty sure a lot of other non-US people do, considering this is a country that has a billion bases all around the world and always interferes with other countries when they’re not actively bombing them, so yeah it’s kind of important.

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      YANKEE HERE! INSTRUCTIONS UNCLEAR JUST REPOSTED SUBMISSION TO 10 MORE SUBS

      THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATRONAGE AND CONSIDERATION

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    And they will be zionists because why not take the chance to covertly control the US decisions more?

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      Why Zionists specifically?

      Yes, I’m hoping you say something racist. It’s why I asked.

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        Zionism is literally jewish supremacy and pure racism. Enough with the gaslighting you PoS hasbara

        Also let me think, maybe look at the political status quo of the US where an Israeli national (Blinken) brought up by a mossad agent confidante (Epstein) is in charge of US foreign policy!!

        Maybe look at AIPAC that is bribing US policiticans and not registered as foreign agents.

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        I don’t think you know exactly what Zionism is then. It’s a political/social ideology. What does that have to do with racism? Maybe you were thinking of antisemitism?

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          I thought the direction he was going in was Jews in general.

          It happens often enough.

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        Being antizionist means you are against the Israeli government. Being antisemitic means you are prejudiced against Jews, Jewish faith etc. Two different things.