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Oh God. Do you realize where we're going?
Elongate.
Or fElongate to be more precise.
Nope theirs was more clever
Can't spell FELON without ELON! 🤣
Omfg…. 😂 Now THAT is clever!
These people need to understand this quickly, like yesterday: This whole "protesting by stepping down" thing, doesn't help a damn thing. These mass resignations only embolden the shitheads to continue breaking the law with no fear of reprisal
Yeah I have to say, this is probably what they want, then they can replace people who pose a real threat with loyalists. If anything, pretend to be on board while sabotaging them at every opportunity
When demonstrating against a larger power, one can only use the tools at one's disposal.
Or would you rather they stay and change the system from within, ie: evolution over disruption ... which would take time, patience, ability and maneuvering to keep their jobs in the first place.
The tool they should be using is saying "fuck off". If you want to go to the top, you need to have responsibility.
Say it with me: "No."
No is extremely powerful magic, especially if you embrace it completely.
YES. This whole performative "Me stepping down and letting some right wing stooge replace me will really inspire people" bullshit has to come to an end. They're just conceding defeat, fucking forfeiting, when that's the last goddamned thing we need from our civil servants! .. you're not fucking helping!
COOL. Cool. cool. Doesn't this mean they will just get replaced by people that fall in line with corruption?
just a bump in the road. bondi gonna fire those who doesn't anyway.
Yeah - but when future generations (if there are any) appraise this time frame at least these folk will be seen as being outside and opposed to the oligarch-fascist take over.
Probably, but what else can they do? Someone that goes along with the corruption is worse than someone in on the corruption. At least the latter cost money.
They could quietly be a nuisance and gather or even leak information, just off the top of my head.
Ive been wanting to replay luigi's mansione lately
I've been on a BioShock 3 kick myself
Resignations are no longer working. They are not shaming people into doing the right things. They just allow the corrupt to carry out their actions unimpeded.
Staying is a career killer. You stay, it means you're on board with this shit. You can leave and your next employer will see it as a good reason.
I find it fascinating that there are still regular references to Watergate in American political reporting/commentary. It just doesn't seem relevant.
From my contacts with Americans, it seems that anti-trump Americans are in a state of shock (understandable), but still clinging to the hope that their institutions will save them (debatable considering global examples with the rise of authoritarian/corporate regimes in democratic environments; generally a "second term" tends to be a make or break period).
The pro-trump group seems to be doubling down on trump and even low key trying to justify statements like the Gaza annexation proposal by claiming "that's just Trump, he says things." Some of the stuff I've heard honestly made me a bit uncomfortable (these are people I know well for 15+ years) and I don't discuss internal US matters with the pro-trump camp.
Watergate was a really big deal. By all accounts, it still technically is. It’s pretty blatant corruption and was cartoonishly executed. That said, what’s happening now is under the guise of “making America greater.”
The players are equally cartoonish goons (Anthony Scaramucci? Guilliani? Steve Bannon? His entire administration was toon town) but Trump is slimier than Nixon and is great at getting people to do his bidding for access. The deluge of news and control of the narrative they have has greatly played into their hand. They figured out how to rig the modern media machine. Nixon could never have done that.
Watergate is about as far back as the average person can connect the historical dots. My view is that it goes much further back, to slavery itself - but many still view Watergate as some kind of original sin.
Watergate is as far as you can draw a direct line. That's when Roger Ailes really started working on right-wing television. That got us Fox News, and here we are today.
Watergate is as far as you can draw a direct line.
I'd say Nixon administration as a whole. They picked up the dixiecrats post Civil Rights movement. Look up Nixon's political Strategist Kevin Phillips and his discussion on the Southern Strategy where it was specifically targeting the racist whites to bring them into the Republican party.
But then that's the part where I can say goes all the way back to slavery, but hey, if you grew up in the South the Civil War was never quite over even to modern era. But I'd definitely say the Southern Strategy the Republicans put into place would be where I'd say the beginning of drawing a direct line to where we're at now.
We started naming every scandal [name]-Gate after it so it's still in the public conscious and only one sitting US president has ever left their term early due to scandal.
Of course the rules are different now. Impeachment and removal (or resignation to avoid it) are almost impossible with the current state of Congress. So we can only say "This might have been as big as the Watergate scandal if we still had any ethics as a country."
It’s a stupid name if convention.
Came here to post the Reuters article "US prosecutors formally ask judge to drop case against NY mayor Eric Adams", but saw that it's already posted.
I'll just quote a part from the other article and add some comments about it:
"The pending prosecution has unduly restricted Mayor Adams' ability to devote full attention and resources to ... illegal immigration and violent crime," Bove, Trump's former personal lawyer and a political appointee, wrote in the memo seen by Reuters.
Essentially, they are sending a letter to a court of law saying "we're playing politics, don't distract us with your laws". I think that should be named "political corruption" and "obstruction of justice".
Fortunately not everyone was spineless:
"I am confident that Adams has committed the crimes with which he is charged," Sassoon wrote on Wednesday in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi seen by Reuters. "I cannot agree to seek a dismissal driven by improper considerations."
My viewpoint:
- resignation is not the best way to deal with a fascist takeover, resistance would be better (and every political firing of a resisting prosecutor should come with a court case attached)
- letting politicians directly influence prosecutors (to stop cases before they go to court) presents massive opportunities for political corruption
- fortunately this case has already gone to court, so next they will be putting pressure on the judge, who is better protected against influence
- if corruption trials should become unfeasible, or feasible only for unimportant or opposition-minded persons, there's not much point in having a legal system
America has lost their moral compass. Sorry to say, but USA might never be the same. I invited everyone to read a little about how societies and empires have collapsed. Spoiler alert, starts gradually and then move fairly fast.
Republicans. Republicans have lost their moral compass (if they ever really have one, and that's debatable).
Remember: most of the nation did not vote for these fuckers.
We need to disallow allow any elected Official, or anyone they appoint, to have or even talk about anything to do with the Justice Department.
With all the screeching Republicans do about Democratic corruption, you think Trump would treat prosecuting Adams like a slam dunk.
It really is like Trump is embracing corruption as a matter of policy.
Yes but then they'll just put another Democrat in his place. This way he has one he can force into doing his bidding holding charges above his head.
Yes, but today’s republicans-at-large are mindless automatons, devoid of any mental processing; and those in government are traitors, unworthy of the oxygen they draw.
So, nothing will happen, except by extraordinary means. The American system is a cunt hair’s breadth from failure.
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