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Crazy times we live in that a president can do this.

There was a long concerted effort to disable all the accountability mechanisms. A massive failure across the board, at every level, in every party.

Now that the entire justice system is broken, the American system is being dismantled and looted.

2024 was fatal. Enjoy the slide into the abyss.

I think we're realizing that the accountability was never there, prior presidents simply had a sense of dignity.

Ultimately only congress and scotus can intervene. But America decided to vote in the January 6 guy and a congress that wouldn't serve as a check on his power.

Yeah, most of the vaunted "checks and balances" in the US constitution either come down to a gentlemen's agreement, or depend on either the nonexistence of political parties, or parties being crosscut by sectional loyalties that haven't really been a factor in US politics for over 100 years.

that a politician tries to be corrupt isn't new.

the crazy times part is that the gun-totin freedom lovin americans refuse to do jack shit about it.

i believe the term is "chickenhawks"

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