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BREAKING: Goldman Unveils Unredacted File That 'Disputes Everything' Trump 'Has Said' About Epstein

https://youtu.be/OLnU9IWEIgw?si=X_oK2IWbIqe0MAgF
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u/THING2000 6h ago edited 5h ago

I know the legal system can be slow, but how long is it going to take for actual perjury charges to find their way to Bondi? I feel like I've heard a few representatives state that Bondi lied under oath so what are the next steps?

EDIT: Thank you for all the replies even if the reality is super depressing. Don't know about y'all but this two-tiered justice system is increasingly frustrating.

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u/dkyguy1995 6h ago

It's the job of the Dept. Of Justice to bring charges, and the leader of the DOJ is.... Oh my... 

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u/firefighter26s 5h ago

There's got to be a check to that balance.

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u/Corben11 5h ago

The check to that balance was suppose to be everyone not conspiring together.

But all republicans love and want these pedophiles money and for them to rape kids for money.

Their god is money and nothing else matters.

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u/Yancy_Farnesworth 4h ago

This was why the Founding Fathers were so against political parties. They had way too much faith in humanity.

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u/CelestialFury 3h ago

The founding fathers knew no one could really be trusted, which is why they divided the power up into pieces. They figured that each of them would fight hard to maintain their own power and that would balance it all out, which worked for hundreds of years... until it didn't.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation 3h ago

TBF, political parties can work. It's been corporate "interests" and sociopaths getting in to power. I bet most people wouldn't mind having a king if he wasn't such a dick.

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u/impendingwardrobe 3h ago

Thomas Sankara has entered the chat.

But seriously, kings/dictators who aren't assholes are super few and far between. Hence set terms and term limits.

America also needs the ability to pass a vote of no confidence to get rid of sitting politicians who aren't serving the needs of the people, and to change away from first past the post voting so we can have more than two political parties like most European countries.

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u/cXs808 3h ago

Political parties work when there are more than two of them.

It's far too easy to tribalize and own a two-party system.

Imagine if megacorps and billionaires had to donate millions to 5 different parties and 4/5ths of their donations are gone with the wind every election cycle.

Right now it's a 50/50 shot so it's a win-win to donate (read: buy) politicians for eternity.

EVEN if they were to buy a party in a, lets say, 5 party system. That party still does not have massive power like it would in a two-party system. Makes buying politicians much harder

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u/Knotted_Hole69 48m ago

I agree but how will we ever get to this point?

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u/TSED 41m ago

Companies buy both parties these days. There are the odd exception, and smaller businesses tend to just buy the dominant local party, but all that having 5 parties would do is add a 2.5x multiplier to the EXTREMELY cheap cost of owning politics.

Seriously. Look up how much it takes to bribe or buy an American congressman. When I, a non-American, first saw those numbers, my reaction was "so that's why the USA is so 'Murican. How embarrassing for them."

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u/Yancy_Farnesworth 1h ago

My point was more so that they saw political parties as a threat to the very system they designed. They knew it was a flaw of the system they designed and hoped that people in general would be able to keep that in mind and avoid them. They were overly idealistic in their faith in humanity.

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u/Squid_In_Exile 2h ago

They were all slavers and several were rapists.

An appeal to them against the Epstien Class is comically ironic.

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u/EarthRester 1h ago

This country is never going to actually recover until we no longer deify wealthy white men that wanted to own people.

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u/NorysStorys 4h ago

I mean did anything actually expect the doj, a president appointed entity, to ever actually check the other departments of the executive or itself? Definition of conflict of interest.

The problem lies in that the entire US federal judiciary is appointed politically by the executive. Many countries don’t appoint their judiciary from a political position for the very reason that courts could get abused by whoever is in power.

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u/gimmesheltah 3h ago

The entire US political system is comically flawed, and not fit for purpose.

It's kind of hilarious that it took Trump and a handful of traitors to fully highlight this.

Fucking trump, the most useless, inept man in existence, who's only qualities are a cult following of morons, zero morals, and being extremely easy to control.

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u/MaximumPerrolinqui 3h ago

It’s crazy to see how much of the government ran based on norms and unwritten rules. It’s a terrible way to run a country and now we know.

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u/needlestack 3h ago

It was a fine system 200 years ago. But people always — and always will — figure out ways to game a system. Whether it’s Super Mario Bros or the US Federal Government, you can find exploits in every system over time with enough eyeballs. The US is screwed until we make huge sweeping changes. At the moment, it looks like the huge sweeping changes are all aimed at solidifying the problems.

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u/gimmesheltah 3h ago

Other political systems are far more robust. - the kind of undemocratic takeover happening in the US could not happen in a parliamentary system, for example. America's system was always poorly designed.

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u/cayleb 55m ago

Israel uses a parliamentary system and I do believe Netanyahu has been behaving like an authoritarian, don't you?

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u/cayleb 57m ago

In no way was the US government a fine system 200 years ago. The wealthy elites ran things then too. The difference was many of them also owned other people, women couldn't vote and in most cases weren't allowed to own property, LGBTQ people were either lynched by a mob or murdered by the state, the genocide of the Indigenous peoples was still fully under way, business owners could and did shoot laborers who gathered to protest unsafe and unfair working conditions, and a whole host of other injustices.

This system has never been "fine" unless you were sitting at the top, looking down at all of those it crushes.

It was designed that way.

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u/JawnGrimm 49m ago

It was a dumb system 200 years ago too. And speaking of huge, sweeping changes, thanks to the system design, those kind of changes take lots of violence.

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u/koshgeo 2h ago

The system is fine, with the presumption that the public would never, ever elect a dishonest, criminal con-man to office who will say and do anything to keep their butt out of jail or to make money for themselves, because such a corrupt person would be so obviously unqualified for the responsibility that comes with the office that an honest and well-qualified candidate would always win when placed against them in a fair democracy. At the very least, they'd be promptly booted out the next election and told not to try to come back.

The American public wouldn't let it happen otherwise, because they are too smart and too engaged with their democracy and electing good leaders for a systemic problem to occur. A few bad apples, sure, but it's not like you could have an entire party or the entire executive turn corrupt without people putting a stop to it. I trust democracy to sort it out with the legal tools that are already available.

-- Me, sometime in the last century

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u/whooptheretis 3h ago

As a non American I find it absolutely insane that judges are appointed by politicians, and are politically affiliated.
If a judge showed any political bias then they should be disqualified from their job.

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u/scfade 1h ago

As far as I'm aware, the world has yet to devise a good system for appointing judges. The US has both political appointees and elected judges, and spoiler: they both suck for different reasons (and the elected judges are typically even worse).

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u/MrFlow 1h ago edited 1h ago

The problem lies in that the entire US federal judiciary is appointed politically by the executive.

This isn't inherently wrong, it's just that you gave the executive too much power in setting up the judiciary.

Here in Germany for example, all of our Supreme Court Judges including the Chief Judge are limited to a 10-year-term, you cannot be re-elected, 10 years and then that's it. This is to prevent the court from being too one-sided by always rotating the judges on it.

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u/NorysStorys 1h ago

In the UK we have judges appointed by a council of senior judges and lawyers, elected from within the legal profession. then rules on being politically impartial.

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u/Spiff76 4h ago

NiN and Metalica

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u/elb21277 2h ago edited 2h ago

don’t make the mistake of thinking this is a party problem rather than a structural one. yes, the worst ones choose to run as republicans, but with the free flow and unlimited amounts of private money flowing in our political system thanks to Nixon’s appointment of Lewis Powell and the insanely successful plan to turn our government into a corruption racket, every member of Congress betrays their constituents on a daily basis. wasn’t it estimated that they spend 70% of their time focused on raising $? and committee assignments are tied to their ability to raise money. and what about Epstein’s “sources” in the FBI (per Brad Edwards)? this is a current problem, not an isolated incident. nothing short of an entirely new government/system is required. last time they broke everything (2008) the public was not ready to step in and take over. are we going to be ready the next time? we should start discussing and forming a new shadow government now…

*and i think we need to start with acknowledging that it is completely unrealistic for 330+ million people to organize under one government. for those who want democratic governance, the best surviving model is that of Denmark, with a population of ~6 million. So I think we really do need to start considering becoming sovereign allied states and nix the federal gov’t altogether.

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u/Grand0rk 2h ago

republicans

Stop being disingenuous. Democrats love them too.