• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Who’s going to defend her?

    More pressing, who is going to prosecute her? To date, I’ve seen zero impulse under any prior administration to prosecute the wrongdoing of outgoing officials.

    The closest case has been the half assed effort to get Leticia James on… misreporting a mortgage statement?

    Nobody at the highest levels of government and business actually want to fuck with one another. It is always and forever punching down on the plebs.

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      20 hours ago

      Congress. They can just impeach her

      I mean she could refuse to leave, but then she’d be committing all sorts of crimes on a daily basis

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        20 hours ago

        I mean she could refuse to leave, but then she’d be committing all sorts of crimes on a daily basis.

        Now Trump definitely won’t fire her. He loves criminals who do crimes for him.

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          15 hours ago

          No, Trump loves Trump. Everyone else is useful until they’re not, at which point they get thrown under the bus or conveniently commit suicide.

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          16 hours ago

          No he doesn’t… He doesn’t give a shit about them. He’s abandoned so many loyalists it’s crazy

          He talks shit about them even. He relishes when they get punished in his name

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          17 hours ago

          Yes, but really no.

          They impeached him, which is the name of the procedure to remove an official from office, but then they didn’t have the Senate votes to remove him from office

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              15 hours ago

              Us, right now?

              This isn’t a unicorn. Literally the entire Senate voted to release the Epstein files, that unanimously passed law in the Senate was not followed

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                  15 hours ago

                  It’s not going away. Why do you think Congress members have resigned this post month? It’s not because they care, it’s because they realize being an incumbent is a liability at this point

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                    15 hours ago

                    A lot of the Congresscritters resigning are eyeing higher offices now that they’ve secured a pension through their five year term of service in the House.

                    And while this is certainly a shit year for Republican incumbents, the gerrymandering favors Republicans long term. They’ll be back, and in greater number, in '28 or '30.