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It's amazing to witness how distant and thin the line is for the wealthy and powerful.
People think Elon Musk is an idiot (he is, but that's beside the point I'm making) because he acts like the rules don't apply to him.
The thing is, for the most part, they don't. He breaks the law with abandon because he knows he can get away with it and what punishments that can and will be handed down to him will be so miniscule that he can hand-wave them away each time he's faced with them.
In other words, part of the reason people like this are grand fucking idiots is because they've literally had no pushback, like ever, for their fucking chicanery.
What's really funny is that you can actually replace the name "Elon Musk" in my first sentence with a litany of other names "Donald Trump," "Rudy Giuliani," and so on. There really is a whole swath of society who are the biggest fucking morons you will ever meet because they've been completely enabled by a system that refuses to punish them because they have money.
Dave Chapelle is now a rich piece of shit, too, but there was a point where it seemed like he understood this disparity in policing behavior. Considering this sketch was from around 2005, it's kind of wild to see how things have only become worse and more brazen since then.
Arguably, the worse and more brazen issue is another nail in the coffin of "these motherfuckers are absolutely stupid as shit" because they think we can't see through their charade and how much more out-in-the-open their corruption is now. They're not even hiding it.
The "not hiding it" is a flex.
It's the "hey, look what I can do" playground mentality expressed by a hyper-rich hyper-powerful person. It's "grab the legal system by the pussy."
We need a Poor Nobody Black Man clause to the legal system. If we really want the legal/justice system to apply equally to everyone, then everyone’s identity should be obfuscated and presented as being a poor black man of no fame or renown.
It shouldn’t have to be this way, and it’s regrettable that people who naturally fall under one or more of those categories experience a different system than if not, but that’s exactly why it could be effective. It could either see the system changed to be less prejudiced, or it could see actual justice being done to those who deserve it most.
Or I’m just totally out of my mind and don’t realize it.
I'd rather see fines as a percentage of income. It would lessen the burden on the poor and actually give the wealthy meaningful consequences.
But I know that's literally the opposite of how the system is designed.
I'd say maintained.
Dave Chapelle is now a rich piece of shit, too, but there was a point where it seemed like he understood this disparity in policing behavior. Considering this sketch was from around 2005, it’s kind of wild to see how things have only become worse and more brazen since then.
You'd be hard pressed to find a single episode of Chappelle's Show where he doesn't make direct or indirect reference to police brutality - back when I was young and dumb and unaware of my own privilege enough that I still thought it was a rarity and he was actually making jokes.
But despite his other recent controversies, I haven't heard anything whatsoever to make me think he's backpedaled on that topic. Has there been some event that I missed?
The headline has the same energy as Jeffrey Dahmer may have crossed the line when he used mayo on his people sandwich.
The public needs to stop soft handing the rich. Like, are you stupid or something?
My greatest hope for humanity is that they stop eating the shit that the elites feed them.
The problem is the line of people between the general public and the rich tend to be paid off by the rich to ignore their crimes.
See the Supreme Court that is lecturing US citizens on why they don't need ethics rules and why it's totes okay for them to take gifts from billionaires, one of which happens to be the husband of the person in question of the linked article.
Lock Her Up?
Reminder that Steve Bannon frankly confessed Trump's Start the Steal conspiracy plans to a group of Trump insiders before the election.
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112138665/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript
…audio from Trump advisor, Steve Bannon, surfaced from October 31st, 2020, just a few days before the Presidential election.
Let’s listen. [Begin Videotape]
STEVE BANNON: And what Trump’s going to do is declare victory, right? He’s going to declare victory, but that doesn’t mean he’s a winner. He’s just gonna say he’s a winner. The Democrats — more of our people vote early that count. Theirs vote in mail. And so they’re going to have a natural disadvantage and Trump’s going to take advantage — that’s our strategy.
He’s gonna declare himself a winner. So when you wake up Wednesday morning, it’s going to be a firestorm. Also — also if Trump is — if Trump is losing by 10 or 11:00 at night, it’s going to be even crazier. Because he’s gonna sit right there and say they stole it. If Biden’s wining, Trump is going to do some crazy shit.
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She’s crossed many lines. This just might be the one that actually gets her in trouble.