I’m sure this is totally fine

  • peopleproblems
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    611 year ago

    Ah, well. That explains AOC filing articles of impeachment now.

    You don’t accept bribes from internal to the U.S. but you DEFINITELY don’t accept bribes from ENEMIES of the U.S.

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      Ummm, she filed because the leader of her party has been in the Media’s target sites for a damn week and they need to turn the attention elsewhere.

      This is all theatre.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Yep, but so is the GOP claiming to be the “party of law and order”. Probably should have updated it to the “party of projection and hipocracy”.

        Remember when we had congressional hearings on a blowjob? Emails? Bengazi? Bengazi? Steroids in Baseball? Those are all quant compared to ignoring bribery and treason… Yeah Biden might be a corpse, but at least he hasn’t tried a self-coup. Yet.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Owe you sweet summer child. You actually think that their voters care about the things they said.

      • Drusas
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        101 year ago

        You’re completely oblivious if you believe that that’s the only reason she’s filed it. Our Supreme Court is corrupt and has been for decades.

        • @[email protected]
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          So tell me what’s going to happen to a guy with a lifetime appointment?

          This is theatrics even if the base is gobbling it up.

          Eta. You losers down voting are just bitter because you know that I’m right and there’s nothing that’s going to happen to this guy even though he’s fucking each and every one of you over while laughing at you about it.

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            Maybe the lack of ethics is also the point.

            Maybe the Supreme Court’s lack of ethics standards and lack of a way to enforce such standards will lead to them being created. Why are we arguing over whether it’s more important m that one candidate is old or the other is a fascist corrupt treasonous criminal who’s almost as old, when there are more important issues here.

            • @[email protected]
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              31 year ago

              Again what’s going to be done about it? Nothing nothing at all because that’s exactly what Americans have set their system up to allow to happen. Electing greedy and moral weak politicians is why you have this.

      • peopleproblems
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        311 year ago

        Of course it’s theatre. The GOP won’t approve it. The show now is to prove how ALL of the GOP is both complicit in corruption AND traitors. This is what we call a link. Something people have to actively work around in their heads.

        If they vote GOP, they now vote for people who are ok with children hospitals being bombed by the Russian military. If they vote GOP now, they are OK with the fact that the wealthy can make donations for or against ANYTHING they want - including dismantling their entire life because of something they didn’t think about before. The rest of us always knew it, but they had done a better job of hiding it.

        Now it’s out there. Now there is a link. Now you have to say “I am ok with being a traitor for a party that doesn’t have my best interests in mind.”

        So yeah it’s theatre. It’d be pretty stupid to not make this big.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          Are you still foolish enough to believe that GOP voters care about things like ethics and morals?

          Oh you sweet summer child!.

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            I’m with this guy I think we should throw our hands up and never try to do anything difficult. Life is easier when you just give up, and it’s more fun when you can demoralize those around you as well!

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              11 year ago

              Look at these slacktivist losers complaining on the internet like they’re actually accomplishing anything.

              Yet you’re going to go and vote for the exact same people you’ve all been voting for your entire pathetic lives.

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 year ago

                  What advice? Vote local vote small. Get involved. Most importantly, get away from your keyboard. The fact that you say you’ve been waiting here for a response just demonstrates how pathetic your approach to this entire situation is.

                  Some people have lives that don’t revolve around social media. Those people are making a difference in this world.

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 year ago

                  Without question you vote for the senile old fool. The other guy is a malignant narcissist who is clearly intent on undermining the Democratic ideas that Americans aspire to.

      • YeetPics
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        All news will now be replaced with “Biden old”.

        There will be no discussion of other political events. The aging man is old. This is all we care about.

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          11 year ago

          I like this. It’s deserved. It’s also useless pointless and nothing but theatrics.

          If you can’t acknowledge the stupidity when it’s coming from your own side, then you need to step outside your Echo chamber once in a while.

  • @[email protected]
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    Of all the things I’m not surprised by, this is one of them. The fact that a Republican accepts bribes from Vladimir Putin ought to be immensely shocking, but the last ten years have utterly destroyed my capacity to be shocked by these people.

    Assuming this country survives, history books looking back at this era are going to be fucking wild.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Remember, that’s the playbook… The waves never stop crashing on the shore and you become numb to how totally unacceptable even one of these corrupt acts is. Before you know it, there are 300 of them at your feet and they are consistently escalating and you are just exhausted and overwhelmed.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      No, it’s internal bribery. While its not entirely clear where those bribes came from, in the text, they are listed in the table:

      “Likely Undisclosed Gifts and Income from Harlan Crow and Affiliated Companies”

      • YeetPics
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        21 year ago

        Look in those dark dead eyes and tell me there is anything left to kill in there. Dude is a fucking husk.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      On whose authority?

      No, really. I’m serious. Who is able to arrest them for their crimes? I know they can be impeached by Congress but I wonder if even that is enough. Can’t they just appeal their cases all the way up to their peers in the SCOTUS and be absolved of any crimes via a corrupt court?

      I’m extremely afraid of the trajectory we are on here in the USA.

      • GreenBottles
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        31 year ago

        Well, that depends… given what the powers they just granted POTUS… they could just be dispatched as long as it’s an “official act” right? Bizarro world.

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          they could just be dispatched as long as it’s an “official act”

          Well, maybe…

          Who decides what is official and what is illegal?

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    Are we going to do another russia scandal now? That trump one worked out so good, I am sure this one will too!

      • Coskii
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        81 year ago

        It’s always been amazing to look at the lobbyists donation amounts to senators to see how cheaply they can be bought.

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          I dont know why everyone assumes it has to be like millions. They already make decent money, and then they feel entitled to this extra compensation, its less about the amounts and more about precedent

          • Coskii
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            I’m sure in many cases they’d do it for free because they agree in general, it’s just looks strange to see values in the hundreds by these absolutely behemoth companies.

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              Yeah you start to wonder if the companies almost have to take advantage or be accused of not pursuing profits for their shareholders.

              I think a lot of this bribery stuff only becomes officially illegal later on as well, so maybe they feel they are in a sort of grey area thats defensible.

  • @[email protected]
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    Wait, wasn’t it the US that used to arrest anyone accused of being a red commie, just because a neighbour thought they may have just possibly had the slightest inkling that they may possibly, slightly, be a commie?

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Yes. That’s why the government is chock full of conservatives like Thomas who like to visit reactionary capitalist countries like Russia

    • Drusas
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      21 year ago

      That is true and problematic, but can you explain how it relates to this article?

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    None of which is surprising to anyone who is paying even the slightest bit of attention. The right wing has been bought and paid for by Russia for at least the past decade.

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    I mean the gift part of it is ridiculous and all, but Putin’s hometown is St. Petersburg. A trip to St. Petersburg in 2003 is probably tourism, more a sign of being on Harlan Crow’s payroll than Putin’s.

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      41 year ago

      The appearance of corruption is corruption. Judges know that. Everyone knows that.

      We can explain away things, but it was his job to make sure we wouldn’t need to. This is not an edge case. And if it were, why didn’t he disclose it, as basic CYA? … Oh, yeah, we know why.

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    Clarence Thomas: The reason I took this trip to visit Putin in his home undisclosed, was of course so you shouldn’t find out.
    You shouldn’t meddle in private matters, of who I’m gay with or not, or I’ll have you hanged.