If you told me 8 years ago that Trump would be charged with racketeering i would not have been surprised at all. He has always been a slimy wannabe mob boss, its an embarrassment that he made it in to the White House
I’ll breathe a sigh of relief once he’s in jail. Before then, he’s a criminal walking around with no justice. How many times is he going to get away with the law?
Oh how I’d love to see him in jail, but I just can’t see this happening to a former US president. I’d imagine house arrest at a maximum, unfortunately.
It’s a bit nuts how untouchable we have made this position be. I read that even George Washington noticed it out and tried to reign it in. Maybe if there was a way to get rid of presidents based on no confidence or something it wouldn’t have morphed into what it is now.
As someone who works in the film and TV industry, let me go ahead and say whatever you do in America, whatever industry: you’re undervalued, underpaid, and your wealthy executives are getting fat on your hard work while you starve.
🤭 it’s funny because in my history of working in engineering, the guy (rarely gal) with this attitude is consistently the least effective or useful. I presume the same applies here, based on a number of factors you’ve politely lain before us all.
I don’t really have issues there, either. I actually get in hot water if I don’t take at least 6 weeks of PTO a year, and the maximum is unlimited so long as my work gets done.
Have some sense to not post something like this when you are aware of the plight of the average worker in America even if you are in the minority as a tech worker
Engineer here - we’re undervalued too. We just happen to have more clout in the workplace at the moment, and so more individual bargaining power. That can change on a dime, though.
It’s also just relative scaling. A Starbucks barista might make $40k/year while its CEO Laxman Narasimhan makes $15M/year. Meanwhile, a Google engineer might make $400k/year, but its CEO Sundar Pichai makes $225M/year. So while an engineer will earn way more than a barista, as a fraction of CEO pay, engineers often actually make less. Both are symptoms of worker exploitation. It just so happens that technology companies tend to make a lot more money than coffee companies.
I only said people are starving because some are, and it’s avoidable. But everyone in America is grossly underpaid compared to executive pay and corporate wealth.
It’s fucking hyperbole. Obviously not literally everyone is underpaid (such as but not limited to CEOs). Like, if ya make a comment like what I responded to it comes off as a snarky and you will get shit on for it.
Ok but you attacked someone for saying that they personally aren’t suffering, even though they weren’t suggesting they speak for everyone either… unlike the other comment
Hahaha, 😅 uhh you most certainly are, buddy! Hate to burst your bubble and bring you back down to reality… I know you hate it when we take the binkiboot out of your mouth to let your breath for a second, but you got to give it up eventually… you’re too old for that now…
You spelled capitalism wrong. Social market economy makes it a bit better - but yeah earnings through work and capital gains are extremely off balance right now.
the Record requested access to the probable cause affidavit — the document that would outline why the judge saw reason to authorize the raid — from the Marion County District Court. But the court's written response [...] indicates that document may not exist. "This Court is unable to respond to this request as there is not a probable cause affidavit filed," judge Viar wrote in response to the newsroom's request.
Yeah, update on this: the court has "found" the probable cause affidavit. The only problem is that it seems to be mostly identical to the search warrant. Instead of what a normal sworn affidavit looks like, which is a chronological summary of the facts that establish probable cause.
In the Foundation novel, Hari Seldon described the Empire as a dead tree branch has all the appearance of strength until the storm blast breaks it into two.
Garland said “we will follow up on everyone regardless of who they are”. We know now for a fact he was lying.
Every judge says they’re going to treat him like any other defendant. We are in the process of learning that they are lying.
I’m not saying Chutkan is going to obviously spike the case like Cannon or Judge Rittenhouse, I think she’s going to try to run a decent trial if it gets to that point.
But pre-trial punishment? Not a snowflake’s chance in hell. These judges all still want to be invited to cocktail parties and given country club memberships. The elite is loyal to the elite.
Part of the problem is that he wants badly for them to find him in contempt - to his followers it will be absolute proof that it’s a witch hunt. I can already read the headlines about how they locked him up to silence him and BS like that.
I’m not necessarily saying that means they still shouldnt do it, but there are more reasons than corruption to tread softly here
why would the opinion of his followers even matter tho? this is a court case, not an election. even if it were an election, they’d vote for him regardless.
RICO is an acronym that stands for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations. It’s used for organized crime. The short of it is it allows prosecutors to add to enhanced penalties.
Whenever I hear this man’s name, I must remind everyone of the time in Borat 2 where he began to touch himself after having drinks with (who he believed to be) a young news reporter (happens around 3:30) Gross old crone …
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