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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember, when money = speech, we all lose.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

He repealed 112 climate regulations in his first term, setting us back over a decade of progress.

This is his move. He puts capitalism into overdrive while making a ton of noise in the news as a smokescreen.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I’m tired of all the losing

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Is not it like super illegal?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“illegal” is something we made up for the poors, ducky! That’s not for us!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yep yep yep!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

If you already have a lot of money, no.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The courts legalized bribery years back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No it's an "official presidential act"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Democracies hate this one simple trick...

When lawmakers want to take a bribe, all they have to do is legalize it. Or, skip all that and go for the goal - convince executives and the courts it's legal, because you did bribery with extra steps. It's a totally new thing I just made up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Campaign donation loophole

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hasn't stopped him before.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind that there are bad actors here that want you to believe that both sides are the same.

There is enough evidence to prove this not to be the case, but call them out when you see them. And…

VOTE LIKE LIVES DEPEND ON IT.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ, that fat fuck is trying to fuck the entire future of our country over just to stay out of prison. I can’t wait for him to die and I hope it’s really painful.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

~~country~~ world

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Well, fuck that

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I say this from the bottom of my heart… fuck Trump.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Putin's Sock Puppets wants to turn the USA into f'n polluted Russia or China.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's remember the immortal words of the great wordsmith, the sublime epithets of the magnificent poet Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., who, in a perfect moment of genius, rightly said of Mr. Trump: "he a ho".

Words so true that Truth itself looks like a lie compared to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The platonic ideal. You wouldn't know her. She goes to another school.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I wonder of the desperation will cost more than the money can help.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Welcome to Lemmy, new account!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd like to walk up to Trump while he's asleep at one of his trials, pull his collar a bit (so none misses), and just vomit down his back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

John Roberts still wouldn't think this was quid pro quo.