Because if Garland hadn’t dragged his feet and refused to allow the DOJ to investigate this in a timely fashion, we could already be into Trump’s appeals by now. Garland has only reluctantly allowed this prosecution to go forward, and only because Democrats in Congress forced his hand by revealing to the public just how strong the evidence is of Trump’s criminal culpability.
We shouldn’t have had to wait this long for this to come to trial.
The conservative justice, who has come under scrutiny for his failure to disclose such gifts, took at least 38 vacations, 26 private jet flights, eight flights by helicopter, a dozen VIP passes to sporting events, as well as stays at luxury resorts in Florida and Jamaica, the nonprofit news site reports. ProPublica notes that Thomas appears to have broken the law by failing to disclose flights, cruises and sports tickets.
So what happens now? Who is going to hold this unethical POS accountable for blatantly abusing his position?
No one is above the law, unless they show his honor a good time first. Well that's a fatal flaw in the system if there ever was one. Justice Clarence Thomas, marionette of the ultra wealthy. What an embarrassing legacy.
Only because he’s successfully captured the hearts of the Republican base. DeSantis probably could have successfully maneuvered his way into the nomination if he’d waited for Trump to either die or leave politics on way or another. But he got greedy and wasn’t willing to wait for Trump to step aside, and now he’s made himself unelectable at the national level.
We’ll see what this does to his re-election in Florida. I’m not crying at the thought that he could get primaried.
MAGA cultists attempting terrorist attacks is the least of our worries. They have already demonstrated their abject incompetence in armed combat.
More worrying is what will happen if Trump wins the election. He has a pretty good chance of doing so, because the election is rigged in his favor. He only barely lost in 2020, it’s a miracle that he did, and relying on repeated miracles is a very poor survival strategy…
Who cares? She is no better for American working people than Trump is. It was democratic leadership and their decades long failure to the working class that gave us Trump. They don’t get to be lionized for the long and ugly clean up.
How long until Pelosi loses her mind like Feinstein or has a mini-stroke like McConnell? Can we put her insider trading profits to a general strike fund when it happens? Asking for a friend.
she's standing up for defending herself against Reality, and don't kid yourself into believing anything else.. because she's gonna try to hide from it, and force YOU to deal with it for her.. stop being understanding.. she isn't.. they're all HOSTILE..
Lol, this is a dumb article. It like saying, we’ve found the culprit in the wife beating, and it’s the wife’s fault. She wouldn’t have been hit if she just kept her mouth shut.
And I urge people to go watch Ron DeSantis talk for more than a 30 second clip, the dude is weird.
Daytime reality TV drama following orange man’s prison escapades incoming. Just kidding, he won’t go to actual jail. More like a gated retirement home with all the perks.
The president in particular is very much a figure head - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership, but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a fascinating character. On those criteria Donald Trump is one of the most successful presidents the US has ever had. He has already spent 4 of his 8 potential presidential years being investigated for fraud.
It’s not that qualities like leadership and morality are required for the Presidency, it is the implicit understanding that the American people, as a whole, would filter those men and women with the best qualities among the populace to the top. However, instead, we have a hijacked political system where only 2 lobby-chosen candidates do not need to convince the populace of their leadership skills, only that they’re not as bad as the other guy. The 2 party establishment killed the presidency.
US governments should be tried for war crimes and other hijinks. Trump and his golf buddies Hillary, Obama and George and their respective Governments should be tried for drone bombing, civilian massacres (called Collateral damage when US military does it), concentration camps, carpet bombing, corruption on global level, one-sidedness in media reporting, history revisionism and similar fun activities. All paid by a bizarre, medicated, clueless, propaganda-fed nation that thinks a media-run and industry-sponsored dictatorship can be called an Empire, even though it has no cultural identity worth spreading or remembering. All the while calling it Democracy during the Superbowl halftime show while they sell you cheap shitty products and feed you industry high-grade sugar while you sing your national hymn and jerk off to Beyonce’s twerking… while saving the Amazon Forest and Hong Kong… and saving the Kurds and Palestinians (RIP)…
That would be the most important one. And a fun one!
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