• flossdaily@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The DEFINING feature of our government is that powerful people do not ever face legal consequences.

    This has been true for my whole life:

    Nixon was pardoned.

    Reagan was caught red handed regarding Iran Contra.

    Bill Clinton took advantage of a young intern, and SHE became national laughingstock.

    George W. Bush LIED US INTO A WAR THAT KILLED A QUARTER MILLION PEOPLE and destroyed our economy. AND he authorized TORTURE. And he faced zero consequences.

    Wall Street crashed the economy through widespread FRAUD and not a single person was even indicted.

    The Panama Papers exposed global financial fraud of the rich and powerful. NOTHING came off it.

    Jeffrey Epstein was discovered to be at the center of pedophile ring implicating a laundry list of rich and powerful people including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. He was almost certainly murdered in a prison cell, and nothing every happened to anyone in his little black book.

    … Now finally we get to Trump, who likely conspired with Russia to interfere in thr 2016 election. We don’t KNOW if course, because he obstructed the investigation, to the point of firing the FBI director EXPRESSLY to stop the Russia investigation. He was never even INDICTED for this, the most egregious case of Obstruction of Justice in history!

    Then he tried to overthrow the government by inciting and refusing to stop an insurrection. He STILL hasn’t been charged for this.

    It’s madness.

    • knaak@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. Whatever happened to the contents of Epsteins safe?