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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 111 points 4 days ago
[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The only reason to remove organizations to help aid in dealing with corruption is to enable more corruption.

Trump really can't even pretend to hide his true intentions now. Fucking fascist.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why should he? Nobody's doing anything to stop him.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The rich love him, they aren't going to stop him. The people with higher levels of power stopped us from Trump getting any form of justice.

Hopefully he has a long, slow, painful ending.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'll settle for any ending at all at this point.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

[monkeys paw curls] "Any ending? Bad ending it is!"

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

I meant what I said, paw!

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 96 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Why does Kash always look like he just figured out his entire life is a lie, and that even his own wife is an Israeli spy?

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He looks like he’s in the middle of getting an enema.

and trying to hide his enemerection

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can't wait for that ugly fucking pug to spend the rest of his life in prison.

[–] FE80@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Democrats are so useless that they'll let him have his entire term as FBI director instead of fire him if they win the presidency in 2028. In fact they will probably preen about how not firing him is a virtuous example of the return of norms and traditions.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately this is a fact, nobody will ever have any consequences for any of this.

[–] RustyShackleford@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago

Because it’s even worse than that, somehow.

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 77 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Trump's Amerika sounding more and more like Putin's Russia every day.

[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Sounds? My guy, it is. Please keep up.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 53 points 4 days ago

Once again, the headline gets twisted to the republican narrative,

Anti-corruption. It's an anti-corruption group. The GOP lawmakers are corrupt.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 68 points 4 days ago (2 children)

America's top cop is protecting criminals.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is criminals. They is the criminals. They is criminals. Crime.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 4 days ago

What is you? Some kind of pirate? Arr!

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

What do you expect when the president is a convicted felon who hasn't faced any consequences of being convicted as a felon?

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 71 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"If we don't look for corruption, we won't find it.", says the most corrupt administration ever.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 days ago

"We're testing for Covid too well"

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Corruption for me, never for thee

-Republicans, essentially

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For my friends everything, for my enemies the law.

--Oscar R. Benavides

[–] ShieldsUp@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

Another president fond of coup d'état and authoritarianism! That was a fun read for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_R._Benavides

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

"Fires agents after they..."

In the article: "it is unclear if the agents were fired or reassigned."

Ffs, why put unverified information in the headline?? They're not doing themselves any favours.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago
[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

I don’t think they realize how corrosive to their power corruption is. If they think that the government is bad; just wait until the low level people start thinking that the whole hierarchy is corrupt. Then it will become impossible to undo the damage.

Hell a Russian spy who keeps the people below thinking he’s honest does far less damage than a loyal American who gives off the impression that he is corrupted.

This lying about numbers is eating the soul which will undermine the whole country in ways hard to imagine.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Any fucking thing that they want to....

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Kash Koward