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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

Didn't this guy threaten to nuke American gun owners?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

.... /Vomit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Trump is just a Captain Planet villain cosplayer.

FTFY.

Trump is simply not competent enough and never has been.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Joker maybe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bush wasn’t evil. He was a good man but in over his head. His entire cabinet was evil men that knew exactly what they were doing and they largely called all the shots

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why are you doing Bush apologia? He's the one who appointed all those evil men and let them do evil stuff, which he did because he's evil.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because he was a puppet for his father. Blaming Bush for Cheneys actions does nothing but absolve Cheney and the other war criminals in his cabinet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's like saying that you can't hold Hitler responsible for war crimes or you're just absolving Goebbels. Bush, Cheney, and all the rest of them are all war criminals who deserve the most severe legal punishment there is.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 :/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Creating a Department dedicated entirely to Justice.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Televise this, just as Carlin intended.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Who gets to throw them in?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

A lottery is the only fair system

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

We have the legal system

I mean...do we?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

glances at Europe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

organize and take to the streets (and their pockets) if you want that to actually happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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.

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