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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 183 points 5 months ago

"Wow, so Bill Clinton AND Trump get locked up? What's the downside?"

[-] [email protected] 142 points 5 months ago

One of Trump's defense arguments for presidential immunity for any action was that if presidents didn't have it, Bush could be prosecuted for misleading Congress about WMDs, and Obama could be prosecuted for drone strikes against civilians.

Yes please.

[-] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago

You mean we should’ve given Nixon his well deserved punishment for treason, instead of a pardon? And we might have set an example to others, and be on a very different timeline? Fuuuuuuu

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I want this so bad

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

so, what happens... if I mash that thing multiple times?

also, is it pressure sensitive? if I mash it harder... ?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Can I stick a robot to spam it 24/7/365/9999?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

…. Let’s add maintenance windows to, you know, make sure it stays working. First sunday every month?

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

I like the joke that puts them in hell where Trump is forever giving Clinton a blowjob. This way we can know they are both miserable forever.

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[-] [email protected] 125 points 5 months ago

Make federal investigation in to any potential wrongdoing a retirement for holding any rejected federal office. Staff an entire branch of the government who's only job it is to investigate elected officials.

[-] Scubus 41 points 5 months ago

The FBI used to hold sting operations for corrupt elected officials. They had to stop because they found like 70% of them to be corrupt.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

If they kept at it, would the number not go down?

[-] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago

No, the number of very rich and/or very clumsy FBI directors would go up.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Would? I guess it did.

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago

i assume... "requirement" and "elected" instead of "retirement" and "rejected"?

Probably prudent, but then how do we select this branch of government and protect it from becoming corrupt?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

B-b-but...

B-b-but...

B-b-but... then how would you politicize that!?

Unfortunately some people aren't merely dumb, they are outright evil:-(.

[-] clay_pidgin 9 points 5 months ago

"requirement", right? Unless you mean they should be forced to retire if they are investigated.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Staff an entire branch of the government who's only job it is to investigate elected officials.

Yeah, and we could call it the Congress or something!

[-] [email protected] 111 points 5 months ago

This exact conversation happened to me IRL once - and it was about a decade ago. The shock expression of the woman who realized I wasn't gong to protect Bill -hell anyone on my side- match my shocked expression a second later when I realized she was trying to set up a M.A.D. scenario about child sex traffickers. These people are gross.

[-] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago

Yep.

They can't fathom that democrats arent as corrupt and vile as they are.

Thats why they project so much.

They are convinced they are doing X, so Democrats must be doing X too.

[-] [email protected] 110 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

BUT also, Hunter Biden gets prosecuted for any crime he’s committed

push push push push

[-] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago

That's the thing about MAGAts. They assume that because they will circle the wagons and defend to their last breath everyone who bends the knee to Orange Man, or of course him himself, that Democrats must obviously be seething at the idea that anyone even tangentially connected to Biden face a day in court.

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[-] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Bill already has done irreparable damage to american democracy. Why would anyone but an establishment dem come to his defense?

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[-] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago

How to make cartoon button real?

[-] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

Smashing that no one is above the law button like a boss.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

A wise woman once said "Burn them all!"

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

Are you saying both sides are part of the giant pedo elite cabal? No way!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

TBF with the information available an investigation would be more likely to clear any doubts on Clinton than it would incriminate him.

Pretty much the only interaction between the two would be using the Epstein's Private Plane on a trip to several charity medical sites across Africa.

If there was more than that I'd love to know about it, though, so hell yeah press the button.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

They're all scum and criminals. Some more than others. I won't defend garbage politicians who represent my interests, the same way I won't defend garbage politicians that don't.

If they're garbage and criminals, they should be prosecuted regardless of what they stand for or vote for. Nobody is above the law.

I don't know what people don't get about all people being equal, but that's what it is. We are all citizens, we are all responsible for our own actions, and if we do the illegal, then we should face the consequences of that action regardless of who we are, or what we do, or how much money/influence/whatever, we may possess.

I know it doesn't work that way. Some people get away with shit constantly because they're rich/influential/whatever, but that reality doesn't impact my perspective on the matter. They should be prosecuted, whether they are or not is another issue entirely. Given the choice to have people investigated or not for crimes, I say go for it. If the people convicted are those that I may have voted for or supported in the past, then I'm glad they've been convicted and removed. They probably didn't deserve my support, but I can only operate on information I have, not information of what might be true...

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

It's also worth noting that people with undisclosed skeletons in their closet are blackmailable. So even if they represented your interests in the past that all ends once someone puts them on a leash. This is why even if you make no moral judgements there are pragmatic reasons to not have such people in office.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Did you pull up the movie to screencap that?? That's some effort!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Actually no, I tried to find it on Getyarn but it didn't have a dedicated clip, so I just found that screenshot via image search (and it was from Twitter hosting I guess, so I hope it loads for everyone).

I absolutely could have done that though, but if I did it'd be hosted here on Kbin and as a .png with reduced colors (example, though I wanted to re-word that right after I made it) and I don't mind doing that but I always need to sift through my own comments to find reusable images like that I've made.

This one might be better as a gif/webm though, that'd be a bit different getting there though.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Would you mind sharing the original meme that you use as template, please? Looks like the kind of stuff I want to keep close for future memes.

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