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Stinky The Clown

(67,810 posts)
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 10:17 PM Jan 2023

Two years. The thugs dealt with M/L. What about the political leaders???? Two Fucking Years.

Yeah, I know, process. Takes time. Have patience. Trust the DOJ. "Do you want them to walk on technicalities?"

Blah, blah, blah.

The disgusting spectacle playing out in the House by the Insurrectionist Caucus is because in TWO FUCKING YEARS they have suffered no accountability.

The result is these people now have the actual power to do whatever the fuck they want.

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Autumn

(45,120 posts)
1. Schiff said about the DOJ "Too Much Caution Turns Into Immunity.". IMO that's where we are at
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 10:21 PM
Jan 2023

Nothing is going to happen to the House insurrectionists.

Autumn

(45,120 posts)
4. Yep. I was alarmed when I saw him talking about the DOJ the other day on TV,
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 10:32 PM
Jan 2023

and now he said that. I trust his opinion more than anyone's.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,379 posts)
7. Consider the documents case
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 10:49 PM
Jan 2023

1. Did traitortrump have them?
Yep.
2. Was it illegal for him to have them?
Yep.

WTF is he not LOCKED UP?

Autumn

(45,120 posts)
11. Reality Winner. It seems there are two tiers of justice.
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 11:29 PM
Jan 2023

That is why he is not locked up. And that is why he won't be locked up.

Mr.Bill

(24,305 posts)
2. Really the only power they have
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 10:21 PM
Jan 2023

is to pass bills that Chuck Schumer will toss in the shredder when they hit the Senate.

They do have the power to make complete fools out of themselves for two years, though. In total it should be very entertaining.

Mr.Bill

(24,305 posts)
10. There will be a handful of holdouts
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 10:57 PM
Jan 2023

and McCarthy will have to come begging to the Democrats to get anything done. McCarthy is not an anarchist. In the end Jeffries will have more power than McCarthy. McCarthy would like to get elected again in 2024. He's not going to cut off all federal funding to his district.

karynnj

(59,504 posts)
14. He won't throw budget or appropriation bills in the shredder. The Senate will consider an amendment.
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 11:36 PM
Jan 2023

to replace the bill entirely with a Senate written bill. If it passes the Senate, the two houses must create one bill that can pass both Houses. This is better because then it's not rejecting their bill, but being on record with a Democratic bill.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Well, every one was elected by American voters.
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 10:49 PM
Jan 2023

Let's not fool ourselves that they'd all be in prison if Democrats and the justice system only did our job better. Voting to not certify the election was not illegal.

Our problem is a lot bigger, something like 70M bigger. Or, to knock it down to workable size since there are significantly more of us than them, the problem was maybe 2M fewer voters nationally than we needed to keep the house and pass the new democracy-protection laws they've made necessary. We've already written the laws.

Autumn

(45,120 posts)
16. Interesting quote by Louis Brandeis. In light of the wealth concentration today truer words were
Fri Jan 6, 2023, 11:44 PM
Jan 2023

never spoken.

"We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

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