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At the very least some number of the Dems will be willing to take money from those they are currently identifying as "enemies of the people" to cause all of them to be labelled as corrupt.

yeh, that ain't happening. it should happen, but it won't

Weird how they imply that arresting Musk wouldn't be legitimate under a Democrat and that that would be a horrifying betrayal if a RICH man went to prison. Boo fucking hoo

That’s why we’re not talking about either of them as president 

It's "Turn the Page!" Not turn the corner.

It’ll depend on the voting public and how much they push for it. I’m 100% in on it. The best time to have restrained billionaire oligarchs power was yesterday. The next best time is now. We won’t keep getting chances.

#1 They should write a bill to limit or completely end the pardon power of presidents.

Fascists: The state creates the currency. Democrats: Money comes to billionaire tax payers. So we have to create billionaires in order to tax them.

I share your lack of faith in the electorate, but if a primary opponent of Newsom’s can’t put the bullet of “You opposed a tax on billionaires” right between his eyes, then we’re fucked no matter what.

It will be tricky, with the DOJ having been corrupted at the top and Trump still in power with SCOTUS support. The public wants immediate relief from the untenable cost of living and it will be difficult to deliver that without the WH. Any circus of hearings re corruption is likely to anger people.

Nobody old enough to remember the Obama admin believes this for a millisecond.

Speaking as a gay man in the US, I'm very much in that phase as well

I’ll vote for Ossoff if he follows through and is committed to his anti-corruption bent. If

If past is prolog, they’ll use one of the flameouts (i.e. Bernie Madoff, Sam Bankman-Fried) who crashed out on their own and say it was proof their administration was tough on white collar crime

Well they will go nowhere. Newsom was/ is in NH now.

My theory is the Dem party is right here on bluesky & we all want blood.

I think South American fishermen are the last thing they would bother with.

Gavin Chamberlain. Neville Kelly the Appeaser.

Those who don't support full accountability want this to happen again. Ford was the first appeaser of the Republicans.

The responsibility is in the voters hands. We cannot passively sit back after electing democrats to office & think “oh well, our job is done”. Let them all know we are still angry & ride them to investigate, charge & jail those guilty of the worst betrayal of our Constitution & citizenry. 

This is why I'm cool with Ossof even if I'm not his biggest fan policy wise

Who needs them to exact justice? Think we’ll need them once the numbers are laid bare? Not polls. Substack opinions Hard votes. A reckoning. One way or the other.

The fact that there's no calls to replace Schumer is not encouraging.

That is on the politicians, not her. Place blame where it belongs because she is sounding alarm bells everywhere

I do not think there would be a vast difference in how billionaires are treated under the Democrats as we've seen how they treat rich for decades.

I don’t think they’re capable

I agree broadly, but I think Elon Musk specifically might be stupid enough to force their hand by making it effectively impossible for them to perform basic day-to-day governance otherwise.

I have been REPEATEDLY threatened with a good time, yet times remain bad

looks like that puppet from the interpol music video

Anyone who thinks Newsom could ever win has been inside the bubble. He is not well liked among dems and certainly not any on the right.

Fuck her. She carried his water and the water of all tech bro sociopaths for a decade while we knew (those of us working in tech back in 2006 even) that these guys were sociopaths. She wanted access and built her career on sucking up to them. Has she apologized yet?

Given holding someone rich and powerful to account in any meaningful way has basically never happened in this country, I'm doubtful.

FDR was our centrist compromise between Communism & Fascism And he wanted our government to pay for public goods & services when it creates our currency. Including paying for a Job Guarantee. Our “centrists” are right wingers. The further right are Fascists

"Message received." So: knowledge of forthcoming litigation / prosecution. Hence: duty to preserve evidence.

IN the end he will go to jail, for protective custody

Exactly. Someone else gets it. She built her career on them and foisted the cancer of Elon Musk on us all. She can't begin to apologize enough.

Spoiler alert: they're going to talk a lot, but they're not going to do anything substantial. They still lack a spine.

She used to ride in Elon’s jet and write about him as a visionary genius. There’s no Democratic majority telling Swisher that they will investigate/punish oligarchs. Their leaders can’t even condemn the Omar home raid. Her access is just fuel for a hot take machine that never stops, never learns.

I sure hope so

Yeah, they couldn't even muster the stomach to call Republicans weird in 2024. I hope this changes, but I ain't holdin my breath.

I mean, fine, take a dump on my democracy fan fiction. I suppose it's accurate, you being all more learned in depth on this stuff and all. bsky.app/profile/midn...

it's a fantasy if you ask me.

they didn't do it four years ago.

I consider it highly unlikely at best, but if they *did* go after just one, I'd like to think it would be Musk, given his unconditional support of fascist movements worldwide and financial support of it in the US.

Can someone ask this useless fraud whether she feels any remorse or responsibility for her role in this?

The fact that Trump just ignored GOP controlled legislation for sanctions on Russia says it all. He actively ignores court orders. Hakeem "back channel to Kushner" Jeffries for speaker and Chuck "I forgot I was alive" Schumer in the Senate. They wouldn't do shit if he opened fire at the SOTU.

It's never happened before, has it?

Does he get the message? I dont think so. Lets make sure he does