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: "Drain that swamp!"
gets arrested for corruption
: "not like that"
Fuck corruption. They already wrote the laws to make it legal. When you finally catch someone breaking the most lenient rules possible, the perpetrator should go to jail for a long time. Party affiliation has nothing to do with it.
Yeah, it's actually incredible that some people still manage to break corruption laws with all the stuff you can get away with legally.
Which sometimes comes down to nothing more than paperwork. FISA wire tapping warrents became a rubber stamping operation under Clinton. Bush then couldn't be bothered to do that much.
No shit
You say that but the "what about ism" I have heard from friends and family regarding pretty much any allegation of a GOP politician is absolutely bonkers. I don't know how many times I have to say that I don't care what jersey you wear, you should get punished for doing illegal shit. But it honestly just doesn't matter.
We've reached the point where people think absolutely everything is just picking sides. If you want something bad for one side, it's only because you are in the other's pocket. It's just exhausting.
I've seen exceptions, but I'd estimate the great majority of the "team thinkers" are on team maga. It's part and parcel of the victimhood mentality that led them to where they are.
In the case of Eric Adams, there actually WAS a conspiracy. Only it was (somehow) completely legal and to HIS benefit.
When the Democratic primaries for mayor started, nobody wanted Eric Adams.
It took a giant and wholly fraudulent "crime is out of control and only a cop can save us" campaign from all major NY media and paid ads by groups aligned with the right wing of the Democratic party as well as the GOP to scare people into voting for him.
People wanted the policies of Cynthia Nixon but was scared into voting for Adams to save them from an imaginary crime crisis manufactured from unsupported anecdotes and manipulated data from cops.
he looks like he can't breathe in this picture
