Special counsel Jack Smith’s team revealed the details of the employee’s about-face in a new filing.

    • Piecemakers
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      510 months ago

      the point of having a justice system is other than for it to be used on “lesser” folk.

      This has always been the case. See citations with fines = poor tax. Or, public defenders. Or, the SCoTUS having been saturated in corruption for decades now — if ever there were a moment it wasn’t, in fact. Or, any one of the myriad ways the justice system is anything but

      It doesn’t matter if he suddenly suicides by double-tap and a 17 story swan dive. This country’s a hair’s breadth from full-on, unfettered fascism, and then our oh-so precious Democracy™ will be well & truly fucked. We should all, worldwide, be thinking of what we do at that point, not crossing fingers Drumpf gets his just desserts. (Though that would certainly be refreshing, yes.)

    • P03 Locke
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      410 months ago

      Here’s the justice math:

      • Poor person wrongs a poor person = whatever, let the police figure it out and maybe they’ll randomly get justice, the rich don’t care
      • Poor person wrongs a rich person = they’re fucked and buried by the justice system
      • Rich person wrongs a poor person = slap on the wrist, and only because the poor person wasted a lot of money to get there
      • Rich person wrongs multiple rich people = Justice actually gets served because the rich pour all of their resources to get them there (see Bernie Madoff, Elizabeth Holmes, etc.)

      Hell, the rich will even put up with some other rich person’s bullshit, as long as they are useful in some other capacity. This is Trump, but Trump has outlived his usefulness, so he’s getting thrown to the wolves.