Matt Gaetz launches bill to defund Jack Smith probe as Trump asks Capitol allies for Jan 6 indictment help
independent.co.uk
The congressman’s announcement comes amid reports that the former presient may be indicted again
The congressman’s announcement comes amid reports that the former presient may be indicted again
Imagine living in a world where you can launch a bill to stop the investigation of a high-profile insurrection involving a president who doesn't want to grant a peaceful transfer of power, and you don't just immediately lose status and/or go to prison.
God we are an awful species.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except all of the others that have been tried."
-- Winston Churchill
I'd just like to add that a pure democracy is only a legal form of anarchy (and yeah, there is a sliding scale for democracy, I do get that). Instead, a well-functioning democracy still needs people who represent the needs of the many, regardless of whether the many vote for those needs or not. Else we wouldn't have taxes (very needed), schools, roads, and fire departments.
Heck, people vote against their own interests all the time. Look at all the poor people voting against medical and food support because they hate other kinds of poor people too much.
well-functioning democracies ideally have a number of safeguards to protect against bad actors-- the US has been being sabotaged from within for decades. Frank-Dodd, Glass-Stiegel, and many other regulations and oversight agencies repealed and gutted... this has resulted in massive corruption. that was the point.
Yee.
Weaponization is such a limp argument. Law enforcement is the citizenry's weapon against corruption and crime. Claiming it is political is rubbish. As the attorney general of Michigan stated as she investigates the fake electors scheme in her state, the most political thing she could possibly do is not investigate. There's nothing political about doing the job you were hired to do. There was no need to push for investigation by elected officials on the Left, it was all plainly corrupt to even the most ordinary objective citizen. If anything, the right made investigations inevitable by brazening acting like nothing wrong happened, bragging about it, and then lying about it all, with erratic and contrary lies.
Y'know, it's a crime to obstruct a criminal investigation and somehow in this awful timeline it's perfectly legal when congressmen do it