Please don’t ever be lulled into believing that there is anything normal or sane about having a carve out that makes the President not subject to laws. This country was full on founded on the idea of rejecting kings. What an absolute joke of a nation we are. It’s just mustache twirling oligarchs and drooling peasant lemmings all the way down.
This country was full on founded on the idea of rejecting kings.
I always believed that too but I'm not so sure anymore. How does something decent become so evil? Maybe it always was evil.
It was always evil with noble intents. But it’s also a group of people. No group of people is wholly good, no idea wholly incorruptible. Life is shades of grey. The fascists want you to think in absolutes, it’s easier to divide and conquer that way
4 years.... 4 fucking years Biden and the DOJ had time to hold the orange fucker accountable and they did nothing.
Totally makes sense now why we lost so decisively in essentially every level of government to Republicans
So maybe I'm getting sometging wrong here?
"DOJ policy prohibits prosecuting a sitting president" how is this not in conflict with a prosecuted candidate (for other crimes) being allowed to be president?
Oh it makes no goddamn sense, but yet here we are.
Well you see, the law doesn't apply to some people. Hope this helps.
The constitutional electoral process supersedes DOJ policy.
Smart man. Sorry your country isn’t free anymore.
I have a weird hunch telling me that I don't think it ever was.
"You can't fire me, I quit."
I cannot blame him. I wouldn’t want to work under a criminal that I’m currently prosecuting either.
He’s way too smart to wait to be humiliated by the orange buffoon.
Well what the fuck else is he supposed to do. This is what people voted for.
If it were me I'd barricade the office and declare myself a constitutional special counsel. But what do I know I just love my country.
If he's smart he'll have his family out of the country by then too. I know Trump planned on firing him, and I think Smith is smart enough to know that he'll use a firing squad when he does it.
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