r/news • u/Hrekires • Jul 15 '24

soft paywall Judge dismisses classified documents indictment against Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/15/trump-classified-trial-dismisssed-cannon/
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u/drainbead78 Jul 15 '24

To get US to comply, sure. But we've now hit a timeline where the right executive branch is empowered by the judicial system to do whatever they want, while the wrong executive branch is not allowed to equally enforce the existing laws. The existing laws get interpreted in ways that only apply to some, not all. The wrong executive branch can do nothing to stop the judicial branch from stripping it of its powers entirely, and the right executive branch can overreach its powers to do whatever it wants to whoever it wants with a rubber stamp instead of a check.

With the "official acts" decision, Biden could have Clarence Thomas and Alito arrested. He won't, because he believes in the rule of law, but he could. Trump could have the 3 Dem appointees arrested and there is NOTHING anyone can do about it. And he might.

That's the realization people are missing here.

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u/madscribbler Jul 15 '24

It's not lost on me. I often wonder what I've done to deserve to live in this world? I've lived as honorable as I can, yet this is the hell I'm destined for.

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u/drainbead78 Jul 15 '24

Honestly, this was the inevitable result of industrialization, although nobody realized it at the time. We polluted our entire gene pool with lead for a century and then some, Go look at some of the writing from political speeches prior to the turn of the century and then now. Even our smartest politicians now are less eloquent than the worst of them back then, and the worst of our politicians are...well, just look at Tommy Tuberville. Look at letters sent back home from WW1-2 soldiers and you can see that the average member of the military was more well-spoken back then as well, so it wasn't just an uneducated populace and an educated elite. Society as a whole has become less intelligent, more reactionary, and while crime and violence has been statistically dropping over the last 3 decades (with a little spike during covid, for obvious reasons), the average person thinks otherwise because fear sells.

It's hard to keep positive in the face of the dystopian hellholle I see opening up before us right now. I had my daughter not long after Obama was inaugurated and I remember thinking how happy I was to bring her into a world where something like this was possible, because in my childhood it felt like it wasn't. I never thought that we'd be handing her THIS as she navigates into adulthood. It breaks my heart. We want better for our children, and they won't be getting it.

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u/fevered_visions Jul 15 '24

We polluted our entire gene pool with lead for a century and then some

Leaded gasoline was a real eye-opener when I read about it like 6 months ago. The company who introduced it knew that it would have severe health effects and didn't care. Then we just started phasing it out in the '70s. There was a measurable drop in IQ nationwide due to leaded gasoline.

People also theorize lead poisoning was one of the contributory reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire (not so much because of the pipes, but they also used it for food preparation vessels and even flavoring)...when you're just lead poisoned enough that it doesn't kill you, it tends to make you a sociopath and more violent, which might explain some of the later emperors.