I hope if I ever get caught for breaking the law in front of the entire country I get a weakly worded warning letter from the DoJ and not arrested or bonded or any fucking legal action whatsoever
Patience, padawan. It’s coming.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/giuliani-ordered-property-luxury-items-election-workers.html?
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/23/1158207425/harvey-weinstein-los-angeles
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/07/trump-associates-prison-sentence-crimes-list
It’s still not certain. A lot of those people are free now. But that’s not a new development, by any means. For a long, long time the system in Washington was that if you had the right kind of money and friends, and left the big fish alone, you could do whatever you wanted. Like a lot of corrupt systems, that way continued and festered until it began to collapse under its own bloated weight. Some amount of daylight is starting to break through, now, and you can be a big-name crook and still be treated like a crook.
It’s not sure which way it’s going to go, though, long term. At its core, the election in 2 weeks is a referendum on whether we’re going to change that, and move some amount of incremental distance towards sending some big fish to real big boy prison when they break the law, or if we’re going to continue it and let it fester, and expand by 10 times.
If Trump wins, the person who plows his car into you at a protest might get a full pardon, because his heart was in the right place. Or the person who guns down a crowd of Democrats in line to vote. Or the person who made the plans for breaking into congress and taking all the wrong people away in zip cuffs, to the crowd waiting outside.
Make sure to vote.
Declare your acronyms ffs. American articles love flinging them around as if everyone just know what they mean from the get go. And it makes a lot of the articles make no sense to anyone who is not American, or just doesn’t know. Nevermind that a lot of 2, 3, and 4 letter abbreviations have multiple meanings depending on context…
To help out; DOJ = Department of Justice, and PAC = Political Action Committee.
This is specifically an American politics community, though.
Yup, and I recognize DOJ and PAC more easily than the non-acronym versions of those.
Bud this is a US politics community. Using standard American TLAs (three letter acronyms ;) ) in an American community when discussing an American article is completely acceptable imo.
No point in getting a little spicy when you’re the one out of place - “when in Rome”, yeah?
Fun fact: DOJ is an initialization, whereas PAC is not.
Initialism* ;P
Damn autocorrect, my sporadic but insistent nemesis. 😅🤷🏼♂️
Maybe to you don’t pronounce DOJ as a word, but I do
That is a fun fact! What’s the difference?
Whether the end result is pronounced as a “word”.
FBI, VPN, and DNA are initialisms. SCUBA, NATO, and MoDem are acronyms.
Hope that helps, friend.
Well that’s just nifty. Thanks for letting me know!
ffs = “for fuck’s sake”
Shit, you’re right…
SYR
oh so that’s why the cards against humanity thing was shut down so fast lmao
They didn’t ask for proof of registration to vote though, they asked for a voting plan. I don’t know if that’s enough of a distinction? It really sounds like the proof of registration requirement was the illegal piece though.
Presumably this applies also to Cards Against Humanity’s PAC? https://electionlawblog.org/?p=146152
“We’re not asking nor paying people to pledge or promise to vote (or not vote), or even to register to vote, all of which would be illegal,” she said. “Whether people actually use the plans they make is entirely up to them — we’ll have paid up regardless.”
Musk’s PAC is limiting its participants to registered voters. That’s the key difference.
Even the Cards Against Humanity thing is apparently very close to the borderline into illegality. Musk’s is unambiguously over it.
