• @saddlebag@lemmy.world
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    2125 days ago

    The American system has been tested and it lost. Now it’s in the aftermath where the race to the bottom is an open race instead of being something to be ashamed of.

    Good luck to the world as we see what absolutely bonkers shit we experience

    • El Barto
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      1125 days ago

      It lost but it’s recovering. Trump in office was the test. Now we kicked him out. And he will stay out.

      I hate those headlines because they imply that Trump will win. He won’t. He already lost to Biden as a sitting president, a rare occurrence.

  • ChihuahuaOfDoom
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    1725 days ago

    Further testing won’t be covered by our insurance, we already know the system is broken.

  • @SoupBrick
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    525 days ago

    Oh no! A chance to get in trouble for committing crimes in office! Is nothing sacred anymore?!?

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    225 days ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The notion that 34 felonies is not automatically disqualifying and a convicted criminal can be a viable candidate for commander in chief upends two and a half centuries of assumptions about American democracy.

    Robert Kagan, a scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, warned in his new book, “Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart — Again,” that a second Trump term could result in unfettered abuses of authority.

    Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University who was in the Manhattan courtroom on Thursday when the jury returned its guilty verdict, called the case against Mr. Trump “a raw political use of the criminal justice system” and a “thrill kill” by his opponents.

    Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School who wrote his own book calling Mr. Trump a demagogue who tests American democracy, said the former president was too “weak” and incompetent to execute a true dictatorship.

    “But he wasn’t a fascist when he was president, and he won’t be a dictator if he is elected a second time.” While Mr. Trump riled up a mob and spread lies to try to stay in power, Mr. Posner added, “he failed completely.”

    Bill Clinton avoided possible perjury and obstruction of justice charges stemming from his affair with Monica S. Lewinsky by making a deal with prosecutors on his last day in office in which he admitted to providing false testimony under oath and gave up his law license.


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