CW: The Guardian

spoiler

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/18/usa.dickcheney

2006 was part of the now dark ages we've been living in.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I have to laugh at myself when I review the administrations: Clinton, Bush-Cheney, Obama.

    At Obama I finally started to realize what a joke the democrats could be. In the aftermath of the 2007-2008 financial meltdown and near second great depression - I was well aware of the lack of any justice for the systemic corruption and crime. The banksters surely thought of any monetary settlement (with no admission of guilt) as a kind of "transaction fee" put on them by the government.

    In the aftermath not a single high-level person went to jail. There were no trials. I believe there weren't even any indictments. It soured me on Obama but I didn't put enough blame on the democrats.

    Why? I'll never know.

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      One of the major key points of my radicalization too. My friends' families lost their houses and nobody paid the price. Then the FBI helped crush Occupy.

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        My friends’ families lost their houses

        I'm sorry to hear that.

        A treasury​.​gov page I looked at around 2011 said the meltdown cost Americans $17 trillion in household income. What an utterly insane number. The lack of justice for any of the real criminals at the top is evidence that the "no one is above the law" mantra is a ridiculous joke. To use powers of ten - if you're going to steal $10 to $10,000,000 and you get caught - you're going to jail.

        But if you steal $100,000,000 or ideally more - the worst that will happen is the government will fine your company. Plus - the public won't ever blame you or your criminal buddies. For a day or two (a week tops) - the public will remember that your firm, Evil Corp., paid a ginormous fine. Then they'll forget even that.

        Rant: God do I hate "no one is above the law". Every time I hear some earnest asshole use it I want to... you know the thing.

        Edit

        I searched for no one is above the law at Wikipedia. I got redirected to this...

        Nobody Is Above the Law

        Nobody Is Above the Law was a protest held on November 8, 2018, organized by MoveOn to protect the Special Counsel investigation headed by Robert Mueller.

        Fucking libs.

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I wasn't only online sometimes during Obama's first term and I wasn't nearly as wise politically as I thought that I was. I don't remember when I started to really understand Obama's drone use was a way for an empire to exert its military power in a way that was (from the White House's perspective) super-low risk and super-low cost. Plus it was a way to field test matériel and tech stuff which the US government and the MIC always loves.