Rules for thee but not for meeeee!
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
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The rule of law is dead.
Rule OF Law vs Rule BY Law
The Rule OF Law strives to maintains the dignity of the individual. The Rule OF Law is supposed to lift law above politics. The idea is that the law should stand above every powerful person and agency in the land.
The Rule BY Law strives to control the individual.
The Rule BY law, in contrast, connotes the instrumental use of law as a tool of political power.
It means that the state uses law to control its citizens but tries never to allow law to be used to control the state.
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of course it's unlikely. They're all inside drumpf's inner circle, so they can do whatever the fuck they want. Meanwhile, a low level staffer may end up with a conviction due to including a reporter on a classified email accidentally.
Or an innocent person may end up kidnapped and imprisoned for life in El Salvador because they have a tattoo.
Case 1:
Trump sends innocent man to El Salvador for having autism awareness tattoo
Case 2:
He has a tattoo celebrating Real Madrid. His lawyer believes it’s why he was deported
Of course. Any tattoo = gang related. That’s the only reason to get a tattoo right? /s
Also, is he didn’t wanna get deported, he should have thought twice about joining an autie gang
I know that the BIG issue everyone's worried about is they obviously did something (actually, quite a few things) wrong and aren't being held to account.
However, the other thing I can't let go of is the fact that they complain about Clinton & Biden, but then refuse to investigate this situation. Whatever you feel about those 2 (personally I think they were handled properly), those situations were investigated and they were cleared. Simply declaring this matter closed without even going through the motion to investigate just increases the level of sketchiness.
But his ~~emails~~ chat groups!
They could atleast pretend to do an investigation, this is just pathetic.
Who would've guessed that team buttery males would wiff it on infosec and do a not all that subtle coverup.
She repeated Trump administration talking points that the highly sensitive information in the chat was not classified, though current and former U.S. officials have said the posting of the exact launch times of aircraft and times that bombs would be released before those pilots were even in the air would have been classified.
Bondi also quickly pivoted to two Democrats, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Joe Biden, who found themselves under investigation but never charged for . . .
AP, do you see why I laugh at you for being kicked out of the WH Briefing Room? Do you see this kid glove, tentative, mealy-mouthed reporting? You've done this for every bullshit rightwing powermongering fascist move since Reagan.
Yes it's professional. Yes it's technically journalism. NO IT'S NOT RIGHT.
For the apologists who will wail "What would you have them do????" I will start by saying I'd cut that bullshit out about the pivot to Democrats. That's obviously Gish galloping and if you can't see that, go sit at the kid's table. I hear Brian Kilmeade is making fart noises with his armpits over there.
We've got a lot of failures prior to and during this shitshow but the corporate news, of which AP is most definitely part of, is the first and foremost of failures.
Barbie Attorney General Pam Blondi: “We only investigate WOKE-type of crimes!!!”
"While I understand this is a big issue and the DOJ is supposed to be independent, this is our team so naturally I can't investigate them. Our team is always Reich and the Democrats always deserve to be investigated as do you Johnny and Jane public."