• DragonAce@lemmy.world
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    Will no one rid us of this turbulent priest Todd Blanche?

    God I’m so sick of this entire corrupt administration and their fucking childish vindictive bullshit.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    If hell is real (fat chance), I wish Trump and all his cronies to rot for eternity there stubbing their toes on a coffee table and stepping on Legos every day when they get out of bed each morning.

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    Threatening a mosquito with a tank. This is so obviously djt threatening the entire public that nothing serious can come out of it. This is the circus they voted for.

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    Hasn’t he given her enough money? You already know she’s unforgivably litigious, so you give her another reason to sue, after the judge inevitably throws out this case, like they’ve thrown out every one of these cases?

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      The law is not written in stone. Different DOJ’s interpret things differently, from other DOJ’s. That is why a “well-written” law is ambiguous, so it can potentially generate large amounts of legal costs and fees.

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    The GOP just HATES the law. They must despise having a Constitution which establishes a country of laws since they allow this kind of autocratic dictator shit to keep going on under their seal of approval.

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      Wilholt’s law:

      Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

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    Accuser makes it sound like he was not found guilty of rape. If Trump is not impeached the US will be rightly viewed as an autocratic banana republic.

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      I feel like we blew past banana republic a while back and are onto deciding whether we’re a nation of laws at all anymore. The idea that the US is a democracy is laughable.

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        sure it is, poors get one set of laws and rich get the other, as is tradition for the “roman model” of governance

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          Elections are not the defining trait of democracies. Technically they are not even a requirement. This is why plenty of autocracies can actually have a ton of elections.

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            Elections are not the defining trait of democracies

            Obviously, he meant free and fair elections, not show ones in dictatorships. Legitimate elections define democracy.

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              I agree, but again. Elections are not even technically required. There are democratic decision making structures that don’t rely on election of representatives or voting. Specially on direct democracies, it’s but one of the many ways to ensure the prevalence of democratic values.

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      Accuser makes it sound like he was not found guilty of rape

      He wasn’t. It was a civil lawsuit. He was found liable.

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        Guilty and Liable are just different legal words for different kinds of cases, but they both mean the same thing:

        HE DID IT!

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      You think Congress has the power to enforce an impeachment even if they rule that way? We’re beyond banana and full mango.

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      He was found liable not guilty, and if you don’t understand the difference you should read instead of commenting.

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          Pull the fingers out of your ears and accept the free Middle School vocabulary/ civics lesson.

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        Guilty and Liable are just different legal words for different kinds of cases, but they both mean the same thing:

        HE DID IT!

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          He definitely did it, but liability is not guilt and you shouldn’t say such ignorant things in public.

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            fighting the good fight for the rapist pedophile, are we? you should be so proud of your good deeds, good character, and integrity

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              Nope, I’m fighting the good fight against ignorance. I already said he totally did it.

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              Really, I think the current state of the world is the result of idiots proliferating. People who don’t understand the difference between liability and guilt, for example.

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      Every accusation is an admittance or precursor to truth from this despot. tRump Derangement Syndrome is what he considers his supporters to have and levies as an insult to others who hate him.

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      Every accusation is a confession of either what the Repedopublicans are already doing, or what they plan to do.

      Every. Time.

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    What good is being president if you can’t instruct your justice department to investigate the woman you raped? Excuse me! I thought this was America!

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    Remember all the assholes in the Tone Police from the “liberal media”, as well as all the reactionary centrists, as well as a few self-styled online leftist revolutionary types were all spending lots of time and energy wagging their fucking fingers at Biden pardoning his family?

    Seems he knew full well what a goddamned monster Pumpkinhead and his crime wave really are. If I were to criticize this action, it’s that he didn’t spread the net much wider.

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      Just because Trump is a shit doesn’t mean Biden should be allowed to be. This is the problem with the democrats, they figure as long as they are a hair better than fascists they should be respected. Hunter is a peice of shit crackhead who made a career lobbying for foriegn interests based on his connection to his daddy. 2 in 10 Americans supported Bidens decision to unconditionally pardon his idiot of a son. The problem here is that the pardon exists at all. There should be checks and balances against it being abused.

      https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/americans-depressed-economy/687278/

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        We all know that Pumpkinhead would have gone full lawfare on everyone in Biden’s family otherwise. And for a big nothingburger. He was a crackhead? He sold paintings based on his name recognition?

        Meanwhile, Pumpkinhead pardoned terrorists so that some of them could go on to commit more crimes - like molesting children.

        Don’t compare the two things; it’s patently ridiculous. Biden only had to do this because he knows just what a vindictive asshole Pumpkinhead is and so very butthurt that he LOST to Biden.

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        Thanks for clarifying that you’ve allowed the American Nazis to take power unopposed, to once again spite the Dems.

        Humanity deserves to die.

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    STOP. CALLING. IT. THE. JUSTICE. DEPARTMENT.

    It is the JUSTIFICATION Department.

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      A better word is Rationalization, but it doesn’t fit your justice/justification construction.

      While both words involve giving reasons for an action, to justify means to prove that an action is right, moral, or valid. To rationalize means to invent socially acceptable or seemingly logical excuses for an action after the fact to make it appear reasonable.

      It is the Department of Rationalization.