• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    What is Trump’s brand again? Remember his game show’s theme song? Something about being a proudly greedy fuck? The same thing Americans have been indoctrinated worship and aspire to since the Reagan Revolution?

    Thank the bipartisan worship of market capitalism and greed for Trump, for the rejection of academia, for the ruins of public education, the end of regulation(like antitrust) and law enforcement as it stifles profitability, for the end of the habitability of the planet… on and on.

    And we’re still unwilling to reject economic growth/metastasis and working against one another to get moar as our only pursued national goals, even here, at the fucking end. Pathetic.

    I wouldn’t vote for him with a gun to my head, but let’s not kid ourselves, Donald Trump is about as representative of this shithole as it gets. He’s like the United States as a country took human form, a fat, proudly ignorant, proudly greedy, ego score obsessed bully in an ill fitting suit who would sell his own children for the right price. He’s more American as it is than apple pie ever was, and at least as American as our national pastime of school shootings. 🇺🇸

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    …so the years of absolute inactivity leading up to now was the result of a moralized DOJ?

    Gee, I sure hope this doesn’t effect their work ethic!

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      It will, they’ll get to work harassing activists and whistle blowers. Laying the ground work to dismantle beneficial systems in place and most of all begin indicting those that oppose the regime.

      Vote local for people to protect your rights locally. The federal government will no longer feign to benefit the working class.

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    Well maybe they should get rid of that memo that says they can’t prosecute sitting presidents. That’d be a start at least.

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      If the tables were turned the GOP would’ve fast tracked the trial and sentencing to put Biden or whoever in jail immediately and then let the courts decide if he gets out by default on inauguration day. Think like an asshole! Fight dirty!

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        That sounds reasonable, yet here we are with criminal cases – proceedings necessary to carry out the law – being put on hold due to said memos.

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      The DOJ has over 110,000 employees. It only takes a handful at the top to stop the honest everyday workers from doing honest work.

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    Oh, that’s just dandy to hear. I’m guessing they are so demoralized that they aren’t going to do anything about it.

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    Well good thing the DOJ spent years dragging their feet instead of actually doing anything about it.