AOC leads call for federal ethics investigation into Clarence Thomas ( www.theguardian.com )

Five House Democrats led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wrote to the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, to demand a federal investigation of the conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, over his acceptance of undeclared gifts from billionaire rightwing donors.

“We write to urge the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into … Clarence Thomas for consistently failing to report significant gifts he received from Harlan Crow and other billionaires for nearly two decades in defiance of his duty under federal law,” the Democrats said.

UlyssesT ,

Nothing will come of this. sleepi

Egon ,
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Neat! Maybe they’ll set down a commission to create a committee to create a framework for an investigation one of these days

Assian_Candor ,
@Assian_Candor@hexbear.net avatar

Lol

Lmao even

givesomefucks ,

It’s always disappointing when people shit on the few politicians who are actually trying to help because there’s not enough of them to win…

AOC is out there bringing this stuff up and motivating younger generations to get involved in politics, and it’s working.

So it’s really hard to believe all the people who claim to be on the left but spend all their time shitting on the ones trying and not the ones who won’t even talk about it.

bitsplease ,

I’ll really never understand why so many people reserve so much hate specifically for AOC. Is she perfect? Is she immune from the hypocrisy you find in literally every elected official today? Hell no. She’s definitely guilty of having said one thing than voted the other way and similar, as is every other politician out there.

But on the relative scale of U.S. Politicians, she’s one of the few who is at least making the right noises about change, and while she doesn’t always get things done, she definitely seems to be moving in a better direction than most other politicians.

And yet people single her out all the time for their hatred. Between her and the hate surrounding Greta (which is also weirdly prevalent on Lemmy), it’s hard to see it as anything more than just hating young women who speak up, and wind up being wildly successful at doing so

givesomefucks ,

And yet people single her out all the time for their hatred. Between her and the hate surrounding Greta (which is also weirdly prevalent on Lemmy), it’s hard to see it as anything more than just hating young women who speak up, and wind up being wildly successful at doing so

I feel like there’s a lot of accounts on Lemmy that are larping so people believe the bullshit horseshoe theory is real.

It’s the only rational explanation for lemmygrad and similar instances.

bitsplease ,

It’s the only rational explanation for lemmygrad and similar instances.

Idk, I explain that one away simply with the fact that stupidity and a desire to troll don’t strictly follow party lines. Nothings stopping a communist (or someone dumb enough to think being pro russia/China is the same thing) from having the mental maturity of your average the_donald poster

Dubious_Fart , (edited )

People hate her cause shes

  1. A woman
  2. Not afraid to point out bullshit
  3. Puerto Rican.
  4. A democrat.
like47ninjas ,

You nailed it.

sarcasticsunrise ,

“Leftist” Jimmy Dore can take the blame for a good chunk of that. Ever since she snubbed him about a year ago all that dude does is hyper fixate on AOC. It’s legit disturbing

snaf ,

AOC is pragmatic, and sometimes pragmatism looks like hypocrisy.

Jimmycakes ,

They always call for this but never do anything. Anyone can call for this.

skellener ,
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Damn straight! ✊

carl_dungeon ,

Let’s just do all of them while we’re at it. They literally hold themselves above the law and should instead be held to a higher and stricter standard than anyone.

Wage_slave ,
@Wage_slave@lemmy.ml avatar

You know, in these hard, and trying time, it is heart warming to see AOC bringing those who demanded the rule of law, but didn’t have any. They have been starving for more rule and more law for so long now.

God bless that woman. May they get so much rule of law that they cups over floweth and they can choke on it. There is so much rule of law in her generosity that it is reported that Chuck Norris gives thanks for her before every meal and self gratification.

As well all should. And Moses said “Fuck yeah, you go girl”, and ye, it was good.

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