965

Any Accountability At All Commission

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Televise this, just as Carlin intended.

[-] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

This is, indeed, a more realistic solution for America than, let's say, let the president have less power. Or getting rid of the electoral college.

[-] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Who gets to throw them in?

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

They're still bitter about Groundhog Day. I say, let them have it.

A lottery is the only fair system

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 day ago

I remember hoping that Obama would prosecute Bush for all of his crimes, in hindsight it was really naive.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 32 points 1 day ago

We JuSt NeEd To MoVe On AnD hEal As A nAtIoN!

.... /Vomit

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Bush was mostly lawful evil. Trump is just a Captain Planet villain.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is lying about "weapons of mass destruction" in order to convince the country to invade another so the dickbag trio could get more wealthy legal? Cheney, Rumsfield and Bush agree I guess.

Free speech and all would make lying legal, so I guess you're right... Lawful evil it is then :/

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Trump is just a Captain Planet villain cosplayer.

FTFY.

Trump is simply not competent enough and never has been.

[-] bamfic@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Joker maybe

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago

Some of the people who support him are, but they don't (yet) have the power to implement it.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

He's the fanfic child of Hoggish Greedly and Looten Plunder.

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] bcgm3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Right? I hate that phrase as it's used here. How are we supposed to move on when national traumas are left unresolved?

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

We have the legal system

I mean...do we?

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Judge shopping and legislation via court ruling have called into question the fairness and legitimacy of a once ironclad judicial system. It's being gamed right now by the wealthy and powerful to get what they want.

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Then the answer is fixing those issues. Saying the system isn't working so we need to ignore it and build out a new system purpose built to prosecute my political opponents is like definitional fascism. We don't need a strong man to fix everything extrajudicially, we just need the law applied fairly.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago

Ha ha ha ha your legal system is the laughing stock of the planet

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

glances at Europe

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago

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?"

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

If they don't remove presidential immunity during the next president's term in office we'll be sitting on a time bomb of WHEN, not IF, a president uses that immunity to destroy our democracy.

I mean, I know we're probably all well aware that this is exactly why the immunity ruling was made and it makes it all the more dire that it be rectified and codified in unambiguously worded law as soon as possible.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Having convicted felon be able to run for office is a good thing. I don't want a Navalny situation in my country.

An insurrectionist, though? Fuck that noise. Trump should be hanged. He tried to violently overthrow the government.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

He did, he just didnt do it. I'm saying that the next dude will and the government of "law and order" won't go after him.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Creating a Department dedicated entirely to Justice.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 84 points 1 day ago

Impeachment exists, if only there were a functioning body of government left to do such a thing.

[-] pyrflie@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 15 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 day ago

Why stop there? Have every President, Senator, and Member of Congress investigated at all times. Whether we think they’re corrupt or not.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I can actually see how that would be a problem.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Maybe a stupid question, but shouldn't the FBI be doing that?

[-] pyrflie@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

Especially given their pinkerton start.

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

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.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 day ago
[-] Talisker@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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.

load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2024
965 points (97.1% liked)

Microblog Memes

5575 readers
1835 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS