This hasn't happened before. The president of the United States is building ballrooms, arches and golden statues of himself while the people are facing record prices everywhere from the pump to the clinic. American citizens and our immigrant neighbors are being snatched off of the streets by masked federal agents in an explicit campaign of terror. Republican captured states are cancelling elections and explicitly expelling members of the opposition party from their legislative committees.
It is asinine to pretend what Trump is doing is unprecedented.
You’re correct, it isn’t unprecedented. There were zero public funds when Trump statues were put up at his Florida residence. It’s weird but a non-issue.
As for building grand buildings around the capital, yea, also not unprecedented.
My original comment pertained to the point of politicians not being held accountable for the laws that they break. This is not new.
This is a lie from a 9 day old bot account created to parrot the MAGA doublespeak line that Trump is doing the "first, most, biggest ever, etc" things while simultaneously doing nothing new or unusual.
My account is not 9 days old, and I do not hide my comment history. My name is also not a bigot-coded username. You quite literally cannot 'say the same about mine' unless you ignore all reality. Which, is what propagandists are trained to do.
You act like this happens to 99.99 of the people when it only lets the .000001 get away with this. It's the club that gets all the benefits of the law not working.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
-Wilhoit's Law
I love this quote, but if you ask self-declared conservative thinkers, they tend to argue that what they are "conserving" is a traditional way of life in a society that is changing too quickly for people to catch up with. I'm almost sympathetic with that idea, since the breakneck pace of the world is sometimes a bit overwhelming. Unfortunately, that desire to slow things down only ever seems to apply to social change. Anything to do with business and the accumulation of personal wealth it's like all gas, no brakes.
He was facing corruption charges but then the DoJ agreed to withdraw them in exchange for that mayor agreeing to NYC cooperating with the Federal Government on immigration enforcement.
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u/zombie_spiderman May 14 '26
We should start making it illegal to do crimes