Good on RFK Jr. 50 years ago just the thought of him being able to escape the political shadow of the previous generation of Kennedys would have been laughable.
But when I saw this headline I legitimately forgot about his dad and uncle both being assassinated. My brain went straight to the brain worms.
It’s honestly kind of crazy he’s not just a Jeb! type guy whose only notable feature is his last name.
Reminder: in the presidential immunity case, SCOTUS ruled that an “official act” is immune, and only SCOTUS can decide what an “official act” is.
Obviously, this fascist SCOTUS would rule that anything Trump does is official, and anything Biden does is unofficial.
But…if Biden were to take some sort of action that caused a new composition of the court…the new SCOTUS could then rule that action, and any other by Biden, as official.
I think it might be time for Biden to take action.
Biden is a neoliberal. They are not exactly known for “taking action”. When conservatives make things worse, nothing will fundamentally change under a neoliberal. It’s almost like it’s a neoloberal slogan or something.
That Canon lady whom I’m not about to call a judge, and Harlan Crow’s man friend said it’s because Special Counsel Jack Smith was never confirmed as an attorney, where as all other historical Special Counsels were.
So they see him as an unconstitutional representative of the “Administrative State”… Because the rightwing in America are hard line constitutionalists (who still bend shit), they want to destroy the “administrative state” eg. Public Servants, eg. All the stuff that makes up a modern functioning nation.
It goes along with their “defund the government” and “defund the tax system” goals, and their goal to defund all revenue streams of the commons (via privatisation), and “getting rid of red tape” (eg. Public protections).
In the minds of conservatives there should be a basic criminal justice system, and nothing else. That’s what they see as government.
Of course when they get into power it’s all embezzlement and golden handshakes with corporate friends… So there’s the facade they believe in and then what actually happens when they get into office, as there always is in politics.
…now with Project 2025, this pattern may never end.
I hope everyone that feels outraged over this, continues to feel outrage at the prospect of the government themselves also keeping all that data. Opening your eyes into why encryption and privacy are important
Hahahaha. No one takes this guy seriously. This is only done because it looks good. There’s no threat to the guy who can’t possibly win because there’s no point in taking him out.
But also, there go my tax dollars when I’d like them to pay for roads, teachers, etc. Fuck you for running Bobby, you lying sack of shit (see takedown by Maintenance Phase podcast; the dude’s a lying liar).
Not at all, taxes come after the government spends money and is used to take money out of circulation (destroyed), they are absolutely in no way receiving that money and then using it for anything, it is received and removed from circulation. If the government needs money they make money, they do not depend on anyone to create money, they depend on taxes to appropriately remove money from circulation to control the value of the dollar and inflation.
It’s not political in any way, why would the federal government need anyone’s taxes? They create the currency, they don’t depend on anyone’s taxes to do anything. If they need money they create it and it happens constantly. I’m not speaking to local taxes obviously, which are mostly responsible for the roads the original poster complained about anyway which are completely different.
Their is a reason controlling the currency and removing money from circulation is importantly, I never discounted that but the federal government does not wait around to receive tax money before they decide if they have money to spend. They create new money to fund things and destroy the tax funds as they come in.
It’s how the federal budget functions. Congress passes a budget, the central bank generates the money, and the money received via taxes gets destroyed. You can make whatever of it you want but that is actually how US currency, and likely any FIAT currency for that matter, functions.
They can’t just print money when they need money. That’s not how it works at all. Sure, they replace money that has been destroyed. The government absolutely needs tax money for education, infrastructure, health care etc.
They can and do create money in support of the budget. They can’t create unlimited money without consequence but they do create money for the budget and money returned to the government via taxes is destroyed. The gov takes out loans by issuing bonds and the National debt is simply a running total of those issued bonds over time. The federal government doesn’t need anyone’s money to have money, they create the money, they tax it back to get rid of it. It’s a spend first tax after system.
I never intended to imply taxes aren’t required, I was simply trying to state that they are not taking away from infrastructure spending because they issued increase funding to the secret service. I feel like a lot of folks naturally evaluate the federal government budget like a state, local, or personal budget and it’s backwards. Rather than taking money in and then spending it, they generate the money and then remove it with taxes. That was the only point I was attempting to convey.
Ok that’s fair. Apologies if I was being too stern. It sounded like you literally thought they just print as much money as they want and that taxes are a scam.
I really appreciate that you took the time to tease out the point I was attempting to make, at times during my initial comments it didn’t feel great but I mostly chalk it up to not being the most socially intelligent or articulate by any stretch of the imagination. Hope you have a good day.
Who knew all you needed to make yourself above the law was appoint your own judges... The level of corruption going on in front of our eyes is astounding, they're barely even trying to hide it at this point.
If the birth rate keeps declining, theoretically some day they’ll be forced to implement policies that help instead of harm people. You can fight by making sure as many people as possible are aware of this.
You’ve caused me now to imagine a reality where the stupid thing that orange asshole advocates changes from “they aren’t sending their brightest” to “we literally can’t trap enough of them here” and I don’t like it
If they wouldn’t have violated the constitution, it might not have gotten dismissed, at least not on those grounds. There was also the fbi tampering with evidence
Funny, the title made me think of one of the kids in the summer camp I’m helping run who is herself homeless. Then I saw Kalispell and Flathead and, yep, that is where most of our students are from…
Jack Smith wasn’t appointed by the President and wasn’t confirmed by the Senate. That’s the reason for the dismissal. It was obviously just a partisan hit job
Special prosecutors have been allowed through legal cases for 30 years now at least. They are settled law. Hell, they used one on Hunter Biden recently I believe.
Where the fuck in the constitution is there a stipulation that a prosecutor in the executive branch has to be confirmed by the senate? You people can’t keep your shit straight with your “unitary executive” wet dream. Worthless traitor garbage.
This isn’t the first special council in the United States there have been many of these in the past, with the first one in 1875. Throwing this out would not likely hold up in court due to the long trail of use in the past. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special_counse…
Congress passed a law deligating the power to the AG. There was a congressional vote to put that law into place. Congress doesn’t need to vote on every police officer that the president hires do they?
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