Full Report: From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday.

Today, House Natural Resources Committee released a new 55-page report following months of investigative work by Committee Democrats exposing how Donald Trump hijacked what was supposed to be a unifying, non-political celebration of our country’s 250th birthday and made it all about him – his vanity projects, his political and religious agenda, his business ventures, and his cronies who gorged on public funds under cover of a shadow corporation shielded from public scrutiny.

  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    The right is going to call whoever the Democrat candidate may be a socialist regardless. I am fully convinced that the administration is going to use the supposedly “fraudulent” midterms as an excuse to block the 2028 elections entirely. I think it is likely that Trump will be pushed out after the midterms to set up for 10 years of Vance. With luck Rubio and others will try to steal the top spot from Vance and the whole thing will tear itself apart.

    I share your worry that the next Dem administration will fail to prosecute enough of Trump’s cronies. They have enough money and influence to drag such a fight out for decades. We need to go full nuclear from day one and take the whole administration down for conspiracy to commit treason.

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      13 hours ago

      Yep. And trials for all war criminals (Democrat and Republican) for support of the genocide in Gaza, attack on Iran, and genocide in Lebanon.

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        10 hours ago

        Iran and Lebanon maybe, but nobody is going to jail for the genocide in Gaza. I hate it, but it’s never happening. US law grants immunity to prosecution for official duties and no foreign army is big enough to force the matter.

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          8 hours ago

          Maybe in the short term. But when the left takes real power immunity will not be a thing. There will be justice for Gaza. If there is no justice for Gaza that means the left has been defeated and fascism won. We aren’t going to live in a world where that type of liberalism survives. It’s Socialism or Barbarism.

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            3 hours ago

            Immunity for elected officials is unfortunately necessary. Imagine if someone like Trump could arrest Democrats for how they voted. The only justice we can give Gaza is working to rebuild what was destroyed and preventing Israel from fucking with their state going forward.

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              2 hours ago

              I think you need to think that through a bit more. You don’t suddenly give a president power to arrest whoever they want for any reason. Like, what does that have to do with immunity? There are plenty of functional governments without the forms of immunity the US has.

              It’s so strange that Americans can’t just look to examples of functional countries and instead just buy the “it’s not possible” bull shit they get fed. Use your brain a bit more mate.

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                1 hour ago

                What have representatives done that affected Gaza besides vote? That’s the only thing you could arrest them for.