• Armen12@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’m sure this isn’t politically motivated, the republicans would never do that

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      Nah, Menendez is actually corrupt, this isn’t the first time he’s been in trouble for this. New Jersey politicians in particular seem to be just shamelessly corrupt, regardless of party affiliation.

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        Glad this happening but isn’t Clarence Thomas guilty of the same thing? When do wr go after him. When does the DOJ charge him.

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          It’s important to remember there are checks and balances in the government. So we’ll go after him when his checks stop cashing and his balance goes negative.

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          You will definitely never see me defend Clarence Thomas, I just needed to point out that this isn’t a partisan thing in this one specific instance. Democrats are frequently bad politicians too, it’s just not a solid requirement like it is for the GOP.

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            Oh I know and I agree we need hold both parties accountable. Unlike Republicans we need to have standards. Were if he was a Republican his voters would praising him and call it a witch hunt. While us on the left are like "good he needs to go to jail and be kicked from office "

            But goddammit the highest court in our land justices who apparently can strip us of rights at a welm just because they want to and they allowed to continue doing same thing this senator is accused of.

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      I mean the fact that something is being done about a corrupt politician is almost certainly due to him being a Democrat, but the issue isn’t that he’s being charged, it’s that the corrupt Republicans aren’t.

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      It’s coming out of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. (So, part of the Biden DoJ). I don’t think the Republicans have much to do with this.

      This is his second corruption charge in a decade. Probably time to clean house in New Jersey.

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      His only mistake was taking foreign money from unapproved foreign country.

      KSA or UAE do the same and nobody ever gets punished or any domestic slave master.