Prosecute These Corrupt Bastards!
We can and must prosecute the degenerate officials and corrupt oligarchs and brutal thugs who would destroy our Constitutional system.
“Let bygones be bygones.” Do you remember that? I do. I remember Barack Obama’s choice not to prosecute Bush-era torturers or the banksters who stole the world. It was more important, we were told, to look forward, to rebuild that bipartisan consensus and comity that makes us not “a collection of red states and blue states; we are, and always will be, the United States of America.”
Yeah.
How’d that work out for us? It’s hardly the first time. Ronald Reagan broke federal law to sell missiles to Iran—yes, that Iran—in order to fund right-wing death squads in Nicaragua. “Let bygones be bygones.” It’s hardly the most recent. Donald Trump incited an attack on the Capitol and tried to steal the 2020 election; five people died. “Let bygones be bygones.”
Even now this seems to be the preference of our Democratic gerontocracy. They don’t want to talk about Trump’s crimes. They don’t want to talk about accountability for Trump criminals. …
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