• LuckyPierre@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Poor guy.

    Imagine qualifying as a lawyer - spending years learning the legal system and full of hope and promise. You’re going to change the world and make it a better place. Your life is spent working your way up in seniority until you land the ultimate case - prosecuting an ex president for fraud and corruption. You expose the lies and illegal manipulation and prove them beyond reasonable doubt. And against all odds, you win! Best day ever. Everyone slapping your back and telling you what a great guy you are, so clever, and this piece of shit is really going to get his comeuppance.

    And then, despite knowing that they’re voting for a criminal, half the voting people of your country still elect him into office, knowing full well that he’s going to continue being the same awful human being that you proved him in court to be.

    Justice, the system you’ve spent your life believing in and working for is pushed aside. The sentence is reduced to nothing - less than a starving person would get for stealing a loaf of bread to feed their family.

    How the fuck do you continue after that?

    How can you believe in any system that lets that happen?

    Obviously he couldn’t, and I respect that. I’d be heading into the woods to get away from everyone.

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      18 hours ago

      What makes you think people who become DAs believe in the justice system? Many do it because they know it’s a path to become a judge or a politician. Many know how broken the system is before they enter.

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      Or maybe this just makes for a great origin-story for becoming an epic Batman-like vigilante. I’m waiting to see his next career take off…

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      How the fuck do you continue after that?

      By fleeing the country if he has any sense because his life will be worth nothing in America in a few days.

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      18 hours ago

      Imagine spending your entire life licking the boots of the ruling class and then being surprised when they refuse to be held accountable.

      Jacks a chump and always was, maybe this woke him up but I doubt we’ll see him in the streets with molotovs when the time comes. He’ll be hiding in his gated community looking for tasty boots to tongue.

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        16 hours ago

        This should be obvious but Jack Smith did more to stand up for justice than all your worthless shitposts combined.

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          Hahaha! Imagine simping for a federal prosecutor, he’s a canker sore on the cocksucking mouth of American government just like every other federal prosecutor. He did so much to stand up for justice! As evidenced by all the justice laying around!

          How’s the boot leather taste chump, they let you sit at the adult table yet?

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              I never thought I’d see the day where people were legitimately defending a federal prosecutor but here we are, I agree it stinks.

              edit: not just defending but actively extolling and pretending serving the ruling class is some noble act, how many innocent people do you think jack was directly involved in prosecuting?