• Barbacamanitu@lemmy.world
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    She should become a sex offender for this. Any normal person would get sentenced to prison if they did this, yet somehow i don’t think she’ll get in any real trouble for this.

    What the fuck can we do about this? I’m so sick of seeing powerful people get away with all types of crimes every single day while there are regular people serving 30 year sentences for getting caught with some weed.

    We are past the point where we should be revolting. I don’t think we should resort to violence, but we should put our collective foot down.

    We have all the power. This country’s economy would grind to a screeching halt if we stopped showing up for work. We need to make some demands and stop contributing until they are met. Accountability for the powerful should be among those demands. I also say we demand the ability to pay for housing, goof, and health care by working a full time job. If we don’t have those bare minimums, then what are we even doing?

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    As the article states, the inclusion of the nudes in the newsletter allows a very clear path for criminal charges in D.C. and Georgia under their respective revenge porn legislation. She should receive charges for both.

    In any sane world, a member of congress would be immediately expelled for presenting literal nudes, without permission and in bad faith, of a sitting POTUS’ family member, who is not, nor has ever been a member of the administration or government employee.

    Congratulations to Vladimir Putin and the CCP, as your work to dismantle the U.S. through propaganda and mainstreaming batshit tinfoil-hat insanity through promoting these ridiculous, unserious elected officials like Greene, Paul, Jordan, Comer, Gaetz, Santos, et al, has been incredibly effective.

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      Wouldn’t it be neat if she faced consequences for her actions, instead of the US working overtime to make sure potheads do as much time as they possibly can before they’re finally forced to admit they lied about pot

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      In any sane world, a member of congress would be immediately expelled for presenting literal nudes, without permission and in bad faith, of a sitting POTUS’ family member, who is not, nor has ever been a member of the administration or government employee. of anyone.

      FTFY

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          Oi nah get fucked mate, you guys took him in yonks ago.
          But to be fair i believe he isnt considered ‘Australian’ or ‘American’ but more of a ‘cunt to all humankind’.

          Yeah nah your right, sorry we let him slip away.

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            Billionaires aren’t really citizens of any country. They’re kind of small nations unto themselves.

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          Or, alternatively, his rich and powerful father used his connections to pressure anyone who could testify to rethink the consequences of their actions. Because rape is okay if you’re rich and white.

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          Having the prosecution recommend not pressing charges isn’t exactly the same thing as the crime literally not happening. That’s a bit of an assumption.

          If I can make at least 3 assumptions, based on what you’ve said here, do you think OJ was a murderer?

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          Your link does not support your claim that it never happened. It does not even address the question of whether or not it happened, the quality of the evidence available, or the reasons why charges were not recommended. You are clearly reading into this article. Why? Bet you don’t even know.

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            According to the article the supposed witnesses were garbage. Even the prosecution thought their testimony wouldn’t hold up in court.

            Somehow I have to prove a negative, to prove innocence, and yet somehow the parent commenter can make unfounded accusations without proof and be considered legit, worthy of updoinks? You people are in a delusional echo chamber. What a joke of a forum this is.

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    Incredibly stupid question, but, if she was charged and convicted of this, wouldn’t she have to register as a sex offender? That would be rather amusing.

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    It’s crazy to me that anyone can be ok with someone sharing nudes of someone who did not consent. They’re both adults at this point but it’s literally the president’s son, too. I’m not big on appeals to authority but maybe a modicum of respect for a politicians family insofar as not sharing naked photos of them?

    And the response so far is that she can get away with it. So it continues to be normalized.

    The people who dismiss her as “just a dumbass” - whether she’s doing this because she’s literally insane or because she’s been told to - recognize the lasting damage this type of behavior is inflicting.

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      What’s crazier is that the same people who scream “the liberals are exposing our kids to sexually explicit content” because a book has two gay characters hold hands are perfectly fine with the nude photos being sent to everyone. If a gay kiss lasting two lines is enough to cause screams of rage, why aren’t actual nude photos being emailed to everyone resulting in screams?

      Of course, the answer is that they don’t care as long as the nude photos “own the libs.” (So Hunter nudes are okay, but Ivanka nudes would be outrageous.) If showing kids an explicit video of two guys having sex would somehow “own the libs,” then the right would suddenly be all for kids seeing that sexually explicit content.

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    She is fucked. If she sent nudes of Hunter Biden to her constituents then the DOJ will absolutely come after her for that. Insane doesn’t come close to describing what may have happened here.

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      I dunno, she’s done a lot of stuff already that would warrant charges but nothing ever comes of it. Of course I’m hoping it sticks this time, but you know how the system works.

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    I saw this posted so many times on reddit. IDGAF. please stop reposting about MTG. my life is better without seeing her face or hearing about her. It also feels in line with claire mccaskill’s democratic election strategy - keep showing people the most extreme and they’ll turn right back to us centrists. hakeem jefferies also just hammers this point day in and day out. I am glad they are, but i wish there was something more than this, its soooo down there.

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      There’s no such thing as a centrist in the US. Just people too nervous to wear the robe.

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    I think the article below it is funnier

    “Joe Biden had the largest public investment in social infrastructure and environmental programs, that is actually finishing what FDR started, that LBJ expanded on, and Joe Biden is attempting to complete,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said at the conservative Turning Point Action conference over the weekend. Except … she meant it all as an insult?

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        Two jewish men are sitting on a bench in Israel reading newspapers. One of the men, reading a newspaper in Hebrew, notices the other man is reading a newspaper in Arabic.

        “My friend,” he exclaims. “How can you read that trash! Don’t you know its all lies?”

        The other man puts down his paper and replies, “I used to read your newspaper and I’d get depressed. Its all bad news. Now I read this paper and it makes me happy. We run all the banks, we run Hollywood, soon we will take over the world!”

        Old joke

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    She’s trash, along with all other rebuplicans in congress.

    Also I wonder if Hunter Biden is regretting not encrypting his laptop hardrive and/or using veracrypt/cryptomator (assuming he now knows it’s a thing).

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      I can’t help but wonder who he was sending videos of himself smoking crack to? Why would a grown man even take a video of themself doing something illegal? I don’t care, he’s not any part of the Biden administration, its just bafflingly stupid.

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    So Republican men are obsessed with penises, and apparently Republican women are as well.

    Democrats should be turning the GOP into a laughing stock with this situation. Making some innuendo jokes about “like father like son” to imply that Joe is hung like a horse, or make some jokes implying MTG isn’t getting any at home, so she’s lusting after some Democratic sausage. Basically make it very humiliating for Republicans to continue to push this issue.

    Unfortunately, as usual, I just don’t see them doing it. There might some jokes being made online, but Democrats as a party don’t seem to really be attacking the GOP on this with dirty, underhanded attacks.

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      Effectiveness of this suggestion hinges on Rs having shame and/or decency. It’s almost prerequisite to not have such a thing to get voted in.

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        Republicans only represent 1/3 of the public. If 2/3rds of the public is laughing at them, that’s more than good enough.

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          In the early 20th century the KKK went into sharp decline due to an exposee on their initiation practices, and suddenly the (white) public found them to be a really silly group of frat boys rather than a serious organization to ever consider being recruited to

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            Turning your opponent into a joke is one of the best methods of attack, especially in cases where the threat is very serious. War propaganda the world over characterizes a nation’s enemy as some bumbling idiot. Hogan’s Heroes, the TV show, did a great job at portraying the very serious issue of Nazis and made them look like a joke. Democrats are so bad at marketing and going after their opponents though that they’ll never do anything.

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    It’s amazing how she, Boebert, and Gaetz are three of the biggest idiots probably ever to hold office in the House, yet they’ve been popular by spewing hate. That tells us what drives their base.

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      I see the shoe dropping eventually, but I think that is largely dependent on how things go with Trump. If you can take down the King of Hate the others should be easy to pick off after. A lot of precedent is going to be set and I am very curious if our laws apply to those that could attain the highest office. If they do than there is nothing that can shield you from the crimes you commit, even being president. That is going to scare the crap out of the underlings if it plays out that way since their hands are awfully dirty from playing in the mud for so long.

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        Yeah, Boebert’s on pretty thin ice if I remember correctly from the last election. I think she barely won. And I think MGT only won because her supporters basically made death threats against her opponent and his family so he dropped out. And Gaetz, well Florida is basically a lost cause at this point. Too many Republicans there and they’ll vote R regardless of how shitty DeSantis makes Florida. There’s already a ton of crap with Disney and immigrant workers, which is hurting business, but they’ll still vote for him (or any R) because of the R.

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          I believe she only won by 537 votes. She was out fundraised by Frisch 3 to 1 this last quarter. I don’t think she survives another race.