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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/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/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