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Dutifully serve your country and try to mitigate an ongoing disaster because of your boss. Treated like shit by a third of the population.
good luck finding another scientist to take responsibility like this ever again.
that's kind of the point
Instead of helping people buy food or dealing with the Epstein papers.
Fuck off government
Fuck off *pedophiles/GOP
Contempt of Congress for what? Exercising his right not to incriminate himself?
It wasn't to not incriminate himself, it's not playing into their bullshit games that they've already decided he's lost.
Contempt of Congress. For invoking the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
It was a damned if he did, damned if he didn't set up. The GOP are going to prosecute him no matter what. He knew that. Everyone watching knew that. GOP for sure knows that. They were looking for any trivial thing that they could possibly use as cover but whatever it was, they were going to use it to try to charge him and now they have done so. If he had answered every question they would have found some sentence that wasn't 100% the exact same as a previous time and used that to charge him instead. It is really making Americans look as stupid as imaginably possible and after decades of North Korea drama, that is something.
He has a legal right to respond the way that he did. Are they saying that you can no longer take the 5th?
Can we do the Doj next then for failing to release all the Epstein files as legally obligated by Congress and failing to answer why?
Poor guy was screwed either way. It was a no-win situation for him.
If he answered the questions they would have demonized him for his answers and prosecuted him on some bullshit charges.
If he pleaded the fifth (which he did) they would have demonized him for that. And prosecuted him for contempt.
And the whole argument that he has a pre-emptive pardon from Biden is bullshit. This administration - with the judicial system firmly in their pocket - will find a way to dismiss that if they need to.
I mean, the prosecutor (?) admitted it on Fox News that they're trying to trap him into perjuring himself... the whole thing should've been shut down at that very point.
Pardons can only be retrospective: they can only cover past events. So Biden (or any president) cannot pardon someone for a contempt charge that relates to a court appearance that happened after that president left office. So no chicanery required.
But the notion that you can be held in contempt of Congress for pleading the Fifth is insanely unjust. Which is not to say that the corrupt Supreme Court wouldn't uphold it.
If we have another pandemic it will kill millions. Luckily it will mostly kill those like these senate dipshits. Unfortunately it will kill a lot of innocent people with it.
The fuck it will. Everyone of these senate assholes would throw a baby off a cliff to be first in line to get the vaccine when it becomes available. They wont risk themselves one bit but will pay lip service to "freedom" to ignore all public safety warnings
RFK junior sounding like apple sauce flowing from a car's exhaust pipe
"I beg to differ."
This is truly the land of fuck you. It’s a race to the bottom to see who can be the biggest asshole.
Ask the world and you will find out that it always has been like that, you are just realizing that now with trump.
So what is it when all the Trump administration lie and say that don't recall to every question? Or just don't answer at all? Or yell about the DOW for some reason while actively in violation of the Epstein File release legally required deadline and terms for reductions (and still are)?
This new made up standard only applies to people not Republican. Republicans will be allowed to continue to pull bullshit.
To be fair, there are many reasons to be contemptuous of the Congress.
It's the "I'm Spartacus" scene, but with "contemptuous of Congress"
we've seen the Congress. the contempt of such a corrupt genocidal body can only be a badge of honor
This won't pass the full Senate, however.
They'll bypass that and go straight to the doj
there is a constitutional right to assert the fifth amendment--which is in the constitution
Of course, but they'll claim it was unacceptable as he was pre-pardoned. He's got a very good defence because the idiots went on Fox ahead of this and said they were trying to trap him into perjury. But if it goes to the SC, that's politically stacked so it doesn't matter about the constitution or precedent.
He was pardoned up to a specific date. After that date, they could still charge him with something. He had no choice but to plead the 5th. The SCOTUS will not touch this one because the precedent would undermine far too much tradition.
I agree. Except I'm not 100% sure the scotus won't go further off the political deep end.
The SCOTUS will not touch this one because the precedent would undermine far too much tradition.
Maybe so, but it hasn't stopped them so far.
Edit: ~~We~~ The third of the country who reelected Trump deserve the next pandemic. ~~We~~ They deserve the resulting deaths, the suffering, etc. All because ~~a third of the country~~ they let Trump and his goon squad back into office.
GTFO
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