Exactly, what the fuck are we even paying taxes for if not to protect us from this kind of shit???

The blatant hypocrisy speaks for itself. The fact that it’s treated like it’s some shiny new thing instead of like you said, one of many things discarded as the firehose of falsehoods kept squirting and distracting the media with shiny new things to get clicks instead of organizing it all into a well documented tapestry of hypocrisy is part of why we’re here. The medias failure to contend with the nature of the beast is a problem. Treating every single incident as though it’s a unique, stand-alone issue instead of weaving it together as part of a larger whole is a problem.

In the modern era, I don’t understand how it’s “resurfaced.” No, it’s not resurfaced, it was always there, it’s just that for some reason people and the media finally took notice of it again. Plenty of “resurfaced” stuff matches this description: it never went anywhere, people just didn’t pay attention until they suddenly do and then they’ll stop paying attention again and even though it’s still there people will consider it sunk.

Chuck Schumer’s dentures feel personally attacked.

Holding Presidents accountable is a detour? Violation of constitutional norms is a detour? No wonder we’re in this position, because apparently history and things that led to this outcome don’t matter!

After voting in Obama, who didn’t want anything to do with prosecuting Bush & Cheney for warcrimes, and then Biden, who didn’t want anything to do with prosecuting Trump, obviously. But I guess those times don’t count for whatever fucking reason??

American reluctance to hold powerful figures accountable isn’t a good thing and we’ve literally just left the question of whether you can prosecute a President at all dangling since we allowed Nixon to resign and fly away. That’s qualitatively a bad thing. We have had decades of chances to fix this problem and it doesn’t matter who we vote in, no one is dismantling the horrific things that are created in the meantime.

For example, instead of questioning why the TSA and it’s security theater exists or whether or not the DHS was a good idea at all, we have people going “Oh but the TSA agents aren’t getting paid!” They miss something like 60% of illicit items anyway, and if someone wanted to kill a mass amount of people they would just have to set off a bomb in the long security lines leading up to the airports. It’s been security theater since the fucking Bush era, but it’s become so normalized we’re whining about people who are violating the fourth amendment against unlawful search and seizure by choosing us at random for an unlawful search of our bags not getting paid! Boo hoo! These people who helped throw the fourth amendment out the window two decades ago now aren’t getting paid! Cry me a fucking river.

We voted, numerous times, as a country, to hold this kind of corruption to account and numerous times the people in charge failed us miserably, all the way back to Nixon.

Yes and we voted in people to represent us by upholding the law and following their oaths to office and they failed at representing our interests, upholding the law, and following their oaths miserably.

Well, it sure seems to have worked without taking so long that the assholes who already broke the laws came back into power like in South Korea and Brazil. Those systems didn’t go “whoopsies we ran out of time, I guess they can take power again!”

A system that allows this to happen and places the blame on the voters instead of fighting for a better world is a system that was always going to end up this way.

A system that can just have the clock run out on justice is always going to be gamed like this, stop lying to yourself.

But the system we vote for isn’t responsible for enforcing laws like… *checks notes… putting 34 time felons in prison, preventing insurrectionists for running for office, and letting people who commit treason of stealing and selling state secrets to the highest bidder run for office? It’s all our fault huh? The system didn’t fail us first, huh?

I guess letting Trump run out the clock on justice was the voters fault too, then, eh? Even when Biden was literally handed a way to prevent Trump from running on a silver platter by the Supreme Court that basically ruled that anything a President does is part of Presidential Duties. He and the entire apparatus around him including twerps like Merrick Garland has so many fucking options to stop this. The courts, the department of justice, the President, all of them had taken an oath to protect democracy and that oath doesn’t disappear because the voters are stupid. They all bend over like grass under a push-me-pull-you lawnmower going “oh for fucks sake” and deciding that fighting corruption was too hard and too risky for themselves personally. People whined about judges getting death threats and that’s why they were hesitant to play hardball… Are you fucking kidding me? Like they thought that would protect them or anyone else? Now fascism is boldly kicking the fucking doors in and those people and their families are in more danger than they were back then, except now the whole country is in just as much danger. They bent over because their pussy asses thought they could and should save themselves instead of fight fascism and asshats are all like “it’s the voters fault!” when Trump legally shouldn’t have been allowed to run for the Presidency at all for a litany of reasons and nobody with any real power did anything to stop it! Sure, it’s our fault, not a system that allowed it to happen, fuck me, give me a break! The people in charge abdicated their responsibility to justice and then said it’s the voters fault, get the fuck out of here.

Stop rewriting history. In a country where laws actually meant something and mattered he would have been in prison for 34 felonies and not allowed to run due to being an insurrectionist and guilty of treason for stealing and selling state secrets. How the living fuck is that the voters fault? The system failed the voters before the voters failed the system.

Apparently Democrats expressed discontent behind close doors and were said to be upset with Republicans for putting US lawmakers in a position where it wasn’t already to late to stop Trump from attacking Iran.

I see what you did there.

You’re the person who posted it, how about you do it so viewing the post itself isn’t a fucking nightmare?

People shouldn’t have to scroll endlessly to just eventually get to someone in the comments fixing your shitty formatting that doesn’t fix the main issue with readability and length.

It seems there may be cause for hope that Trump is fucking up so bad he is losing the moderate Republican vote.

The Monarch Formerly Known as Prince

I feel bad for writing that, like I just insulted Prince simply by association.

Thanks, I just may.

Username checks out.

…and it won’t start hurting them as long as Democrats keep doing dumbass shifting to the right to try to capture Republican voters votes and then blaming their own voters of not wanting the Democrats to be more conservative. Which in turn has allowed the Republican party to shift even more to the fascist authoritarian white nationalist right with impunity.

The Republican Party certainly doesn’t think it’s a problem and never has.

This is the party that shut down the original PATRIOT Act, the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995 because during the 90s anti-terrorism efforts were aimed squarely at homegrown right-wing white nationalist terrorism a la Ruby Ridge and the Oklahoma City Bombing. Once they had the scapegoat of middle eastern terrorism to switch gears to, which helped enable their virulent racism, then they embraced it as the PATRIOT Act.

Give me a few minutes and let me see if I can dig up that photo of the skinhead with “Whites for McCain” shirt on. EDIT: My bad, it was a Romney supporter.

Reading is for suckers.

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