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ChonkyOwlbear ,

Holy fuck! As if Citizens United wasn’t bad enough. Our government is fully for sale now.

NegativeInf ,

Same as it ever was.

KLISHDFSDF ,
@KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml avatar

… but worse!

NegativeInf ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/832bfca6-cd3c-422d-ab7e-7ebacf501d07.gif

TetraVega ,

Same as it ever was!

Skydancer ,

Same as it ever was.

SLVRDRGN ,

Same as it ever was?

FlowVoid ,

And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile. And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”

Thanks to the Supreme Court, that’s how

Sanctus , (edited )
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Its just out in the open. Corruption on full blast.

SuckMyWang ,

Haha, yeh.

TimLovesTech ,
@TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social avatar

This is quid pro quo being ruled as NOT bribery because it comes to the person on the backside of the favor. This is almost certainly to do with the majority of the court recently being outed about the amount of high value bribes gifts/vacations they are getting from “friends”.

Reverendender , (edited )

“We realized that people now knew the things we constantly do that are wrong, so we made them not wrong anymore.”

NegativeLookBehind ,
@NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

“We’ve investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrongdoing”

Maggoty ,

This is almost certainly to do with the majority of the court recently being outed about the amount of high value bribes gifts/vacations they are getting from “friends”.

Nah, this is a long running theme. In chronological order-

Sun Diamond Growers - The government must prove the bribe is actually connected to the act.

Skilling - Corruption charges require a second party to give you a bribe or kickback, self dealing is fine.

Citizens United - Money is political speech, and you can spend as much as you want on an election.

McDonnell - Acting as a pay to play gatekeeper is fine. Even if the government connects the bribe to the act.

Ted Cruz - Politicians can keep unspent campaign funds as long as they maintain the fiction of having lent the campaign money.

Snyder - Kickbacks aren’t actionable. <- We are here.

barkingspiders ,

seems like a good thread to plug represent.us

they describe themselves as

RepresentUs is America’s leading nonpartisan anti-corruption organization fighting to fix our broken and ineffective government. We unite people across the political spectrum to pass laws that hold corrupt politicians accountable, defeat special interests, and force the government to meet the needs of the American people.

here’s their policy platform represent.us/policy-platform/

they claim to have played a part in over 185 pieces of legislation (mostly at the state level) that contributed to their core platform represent.us/our-wins/

here are their ongoing campaigns presented state by state represent.us/2024-campaigns/

nobody and no organization are perfect but I feel like most people can find something to agree on here

bobs_monkey ,

So that means that I can engage in a a little tax evasion, as a treat, right?

On a serious note, from the article:

the law makes it a very serious crime, punishable by up to 15 years in prison, for a federal official to accept a bribe

Can we start actually enforcing this please?

Crikeste ,

Define bribe and you’ll start to see where enforcing this becomes a problem. Especially with legalized corruption in the form of lobbying and ‘gifts’.

feannag ,

Well, federal officials are already forbidden from accepting gifts/anything valued more than $25 in one instance, and no more than $100 a year from any one group or person. Enforcing that seems like a good place to start.

nilloc ,

Billionaires can just make a coupon thousand shell orgs to funnel $100ks into their pockets.

stoly ,

Legislators, executives, and jurists aren’t officials in the sense you mean. They are referring to government employees, who can still receive every joyful punishment a prosecutor can dream of.

bobs_monkey ,

Well, perhaps the wording should be amended to encompass all public employees. But that would require the law be rewritten by the people that benefit from it, so, yeah.

rayyy ,

Can we start actually enforcing this please?

No. You can’t bind the rich.

NRay7882 ,

When can we start gifting them with bonfires as thanks for this change in law?

Reverendender ,

We taking your car or mine?

rjthyen ,

I’ve posted this elsewhere but I hate this so: A “donation” up front says I’ll see what I can do, money after the fact says I’ll fight for you. Sounds like bribery to me. Not that the current system isn’t but backend feels so much worse

ZeroCool ,
@ZeroCool@feddit.org avatar

Openly corrupt assholes rule being openly corrupt very legal and very cool.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

blindbunny ,

Who’s ready for a sit it?

girlfreddy ,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

SCOTUS has officially entered the sewage system courtesy of the GOP and Trump.

orcrist ,

Since long ago, my friend. Citizens United was a landmark in my opinion, although there are probably older rulings that showed how little they care about basic functionality in a democracy.

ChickenLadyLovesLife ,

and Trump

Lol read up on Bush v. Gore in 2000.

DogPeePoo ,

NOW is the proper time for Alito to hang his fucking flag upside down.

JFC.

BigMacHole ,

It’s a GOOD THING none of these Justices ruling on the Legality of Bribery have EVER taken Bribes!

ohlaph ,

Sounds like someone could use a little treat.

KillingTimeItself ,

bro i thought this was an onion post for a second what the fuck just happened

Lucidlethargy ,

Just yet ANOTHER consequence of Trump’s first term…

KillingTimeItself ,

unfortunately you may be right, but the onion also has a very specific type of title that they write out, and this was pretty close.

workerONE ,

It’s not a bribe it’s a gift! But it sounds like they need to rewrite the law. Politicians shouldn’t be accepting gratuities, gifts, or bribes.

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