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I don't understand how anyone can justify this perspective. If a crime is committed, there should be consequences. I don't care who it is or what their status i

I don't understand how anyone can justify this perspective. If a crime is committed, there should be consequences. I don't care who it is or what their status is. Instead of accepting it as status-quo, we should be going after everyone at every level, even more fiercely towards politicians.

umvi 4y ago
It's like the political equivalent of digging through someone's comment history on social media, looking for something that can be weaponized to cancel them. If power balances shift slightly I'm sure the new regime will be able to find a crime Biden committed and indict him for it. And so on and so forth with revenge indictments everytime power shifts to the other party
- webdood90 4y ago
  Great! I'm all for it! People that break the law should be punished. Why is this a problem for you or I?
  - umvi 4y ago
    It's not directly a problem for you or I per se, but it is a new form of political warfare that will further polarize and destabilize the nation...
at_a_remove 4y ago
Well, a crime doesn't need to have been committed. You just have to find someone in power willing to bring charges. This could very well be the start of a cycle of "when the power shifts, prosecute the last guy for whatever it is you think you can make up." How many shots have they taken at the man so far? Plenty. Should this cycle start, look for it to consume a lot of resources, attention, political willpower, and so on, while various Actual Trouble gets overlooked because it just doesn't have that wow drama factor. We've had six years of sore losers (whose own "pied piper strategy" fouled them up) endlessly vacuuming up mindshare while a lot bigger things are going down.
- webdood90 4y ago
  Of all the things we waste tons of time and money on, this is near the top of the list for you? I simply don't care. They could go after every single former president for the rest of time and I wouldn't lose a minute of sleep over it.

umvi 4y ago

It's like the political equivalent of digging through someone's comment history on social media, looking for something that can be weaponized to cancel them. If power balances shift slightly I'm sure the new regime will be able to find a crime Biden committed and indict him for it. And so on and so forth with revenge indictments everytime power shifts to the other party

webdood90 4y ago
Great! I'm all for it! People that break the law should be punished. Why is this a problem for you or I?
- umvi 4y ago
  It's not directly a problem for you or I per se, but it is a new form of political warfare that will further polarize and destabilize the nation...

at_a_remove 4y ago

Well, a crime doesn't need to have been committed. You just have to find someone in power willing to bring charges. This could very well be the start of a cycle of "when the power shifts, prosecute the last guy for whatever it is you think you can make up." How many shots have they taken at the man so far? Plenty. Should this cycle start, look for it to consume a lot of resources, attention, political willpower, and so on, while various Actual Trouble gets overlooked because it just doesn't have that wow drama factor. We've had six years of sore losers (whose own "pied piper strategy" fouled them up) endlessly vacuuming up mindshare while a lot bigger things are going down.

webdood90 4y ago
Of all the things we waste tons of time and money on, this is near the top of the list for you? I simply don't care. They could go after every single former president for the rest of time and I wouldn't lose a minute of sleep over it.