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Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general
- Noaidi 7mo agoI guess the Dow is not at 50,000 anymore?
- barney54 7mo agoI don't know why you are getting downvoted for this comment. Bondi's promoting the DOW during a hearing was bizarre.
- jsbisviewtiful 7mo agoIt was also indefensible. A few years back she campaigned on prosecuting pedophiles and, well, as AG she refused to do that. She went as far as protecting them.
- hyperhello 7mo agoRepublicans simply don’t use words the same way others do. If you say you like flowers in the garden you mean they should be there. If they say they like flowers in the garden, they mean they would like to be paid to control whether they are there.
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- hyperhello 7mo agoWe’re not that deep. One is bad enough. Biden was not senile or a pedophile. That was an obvious attempt to rub smear off of Trump. We do comprehend the existence of propaganda, it’s just that we can’t do anything about it anymore than you can.
- elzbardico 7mo agoThe insistence that Biden was not senile amounts to gaslighting.
- fhdkweig 7mo ago> two senile pedophiles as president in sequnce two? Who was the one other than Trump? (Which we don't even know that one for sure. We just know he protects them from prosecution)
- Tadpole9181 7mo agoTrump openly stated one of the perks of running an underage beauty pageant was being able to walk in on them in the dressing room. He has himself admitted to being a pedophile...
- fhdkweig 7mo agoI can't believe you are making me defend this guy. It is creepy as shit and I wouldn't allow him near my kids, but there is a very specific legal definition of pedophile and looking isn't the same as touching. It dilutes the term when you use it the wrong way.
- krapp 7mo ago>It is creepy as shit and I wouldn't allow him near my kids, but there is a very specific legal definition of pedophile and looking isn't the same as touching. It dilutes the term when you use it the wrong way. Then why wouldn't you allow him near your kids? If he isn't legally speaking a pedophile, what would you be worried about? If it were the case that "looking isn't the same as touching", child porn wouldn't be illegal. Trump is a pedophile because he's attracted to underage girls, he isn't not a pedophile if he looks but doesn't touch. And there is a mountain of (granted circumstantial) evidence from the Epstein files that have been released to suggest he's probably done more than just look.
- thrance 7mo agoRepublicans have been following their overtly pro-pedophilia agenda for a while now. Bondi didn't hear from any victim, she failed to protect them and censor their informations in the files, while putting extra care in hiding the pedophile oligarchs that abused them.
- josefritzishere 7mo agoIf there are still history books in the future... what will they think of all this?
- shevy-java 7mo agoProbably that we lacked proper means to control the oligarchs. One only has to look at the stock market - some with insider knowledge are pocketing away a lot of profit right now.
- mykowebhn 7mo agoThat the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling may have been the single worst thing to happen to the US.
- legitster 7mo ago??? People bring this up regularly, but I don't think it's that relevant. Studies regularly show that campaign contributions actually have very low influence on elections. Trump notably had much smaller campaign budgets than his opponents in both winning elections, not even including the massive amounts of brazen fraud he used to pay himself with the money. Fundamentally, it's presidential democracy that is flawed. We have a very powerful high office, and if enough people want to willing vote in a corrupt president, there's really not many checks against the damage that they can do.
- swivelmaster 7mo agoYes, it's possible to win with less money than your opponent, but why would anyone want to take that risk? The problem with money in politics is not that money guarantees a win, but that the presence of large donations distorts the entire incentive structure of campaigning and governing: Courting big donations means spending time with big donors (who expect access in exchange for their money) and when it comes time to govern, studies have shown that campaign contributions and lobbying are dramatically more influential to what gets proposed and passed than the preferences of the general public. Focusing on the problems with presidential campaigns re: money in politics is missing the forest for the trees: All politicians have limited time to spend between campaigning and governing, and if they're constantly raising money the governing gets delegated to lobbyists. (This is why people are always so shocked when politicians who don't accept corporate PAC contributions have drastically different priorities than those who do. Of course they do! They don't have to spend all their time hanging out with corporate lobbyists!)
- shevy-java 7mo agoThis means the Epstein connection must be much deeper than we already knew. We kind of need a global movement here that investigates all of those party-goers. Invading another country also serves as an ideal distraction.
- murph-almighty 7mo agoI think the UK has been handling their end shockingly well, fwiw
- AnimalMuppet 7mo agoArresting Andrew does kind of indicate that they're taking it seriously...
- Simulacra 7mo agoI support this. We should prosecute these people and Bondi's excuse that the economy would collapse was so ridiculous as to be insulting. If crimes were committed the perpetrators must be prosecuted no matter who they are.
- cosmicgadget 7mo agoI wouldn't hold out any hope that her replacement will be any different on this particular point.
- Simulacra 7mo agoAlas I am trying to be optimistic but you may be closer to reality.
- cosmicgadget 7mo agoMTG claims Trump said exposing the client list would hurt his friends. Elon said Trump is implicated in them and we all know he was extremely Epstein-adjacent. Trump also cares about the impact of the market indexes on his ego so he'd probably want to avoid a major shakeup. Any of these reasons or the unmentioned ones is enough to be pretty confident Trump will nominate someone who will want to make the files go away quietly.
- Finnucane 7mo agoThey might be, but that’s not really a reason to let bad people stay in jobs they shouldn’t have. Otherwise e might as well give up any pretense of accountability and just let them do whatever they want.
- cosmicgadget 7mo agoAnd I didn't say she should remain. I'm not sure about the "bad people" characterization though. Certainly she is a terrible person but if you are interested in having the least terrible AG you need to worry about her replacement. If by "bad people" you mean people who betrayed the electorate, I think she's been an extremely faithful advocate of the MAGA agenda. Considering the president is unable to acknowledge anything that could be regarded as unflattering, I think it's safe to say we voted away the pretense of accountability.
- cosmicgadget 7mo agoThe timing coincides with her office getting embarrassed in front of the Supreme Court, with Trump in artendance. P2025 had a plan but it was always going to struggle against the president's personality issues.
- CodeWriter23 7mo agoAlso with Swallwell becoming aware the FBI had him under investigation. And he and Bondi are buds.
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- NewJazz 7mo agoWho?
- JKCalhoun 7mo agoRandom news article I pulled up: "FBI Director Kash Patel is reportedly seeking to release files related to the Democratic lawmaker's previous association with a suspected Chinese intelligence operative."
- helterskelter 7mo agoLet's hope she doesn't get a pardon before he leaves office.
- happytoexplain 7mo agoTrump's abuse of the presidential pardon is so hideous, I wouldn't be surprised if this power granted by the original US Constitution is amended after he leaves, in response to his unprecedented lack of respect for it. However, I also wouldn't be surprised if nobody in power ever possesses the strength of character or simple morality to do so.
- salawat 7mo agoI don't think we should change it. I think we as a nation need to understand the person we put in that office has that power, and choose accordingly. It's there for a reason. Sometimes, it's perfectly acceptable for the President to say "fuck this shit" for the good of the Nation. With that power though, comes the responsibility to wield it with respect. This country put the man abusing it in power. No one had second bloody thoughts. No one listened. No one looked ahead. Changing the system won't fix that. Only changing ourselves will. Now you have an undeniable example of the destructive potential of a truly, unrepentantly, criminally inclined President. Consider yourselves lucky if we actually have a peaceful transition of power out of this Administration. Then don't fuck up again. The stakes of statecraft are high. It's about damn time we started acting like it.
- SketchySeaBeast 7mo ago> This country put the man abusing it in power. Twice. I can forgive the mistake once, but this is the second time in 10 years that America is facing this nonsense with the exact same demagogue.
- JKCalhoun 7mo ago(You're more forgiving than I am.)
- moshegramovsky 7mo agoI heard it's because she wouldn't settle his 10 billion lawsuit grift.
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- coumbaya 7mo agoI hate this administration as much as the next (european) guy, but what has this got to do with hackernews ?
- cosmicgadget 7mo agoThe US DoJ is relevant to a great many things. Posts don't only have to be about AI.
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- hackerbeat 7mo ago"Pam Bondi? Hardly knew her, never met her. Terrible person."
- jamesgill 7mo agoThe bus is always idling at the curb; Trump cronies never seem to realize that eventually, everyone gets thrown under it.
- hackerbeat 7mo agoYes, it always ends in tears.
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- DonsDiscountGas 7mo agoI suspect many do, but you can grift a lot before that happens
- thisisit 7mo agoEvery power hungry maniac thinks their power of sycophancy is going to be better. If they had any shred of reflection they wouldn’t be working for this man.
- QuantumGood 7mo agoBondi lasted a record 38 Scaramuccis
- jamesgill 7mo agoI forgot: the Curb-to-Bus (CtB) transit time is measured in Scaramuccis.
- QuantumGood 7mo ago• Bondi lasted 423 days, from 2/5/25 through 4/2/26 • One “Scaramucci” ≈ 11 days • 38×11 = 418 days
- metalman 7mo agoI wonder what she refused to do?
- Henchman21 7mo agoShe let too much slip re: the Epstein files. Definitely hearsay.
- jeremie_strand 7mo ago[dead]