Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal?

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• Triumph@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How do you expect that to happen when the fascists own and operate all three branches of government and are hands on with DoJ?

  Americans have no choice in the matter, if we're talking about legal channels.

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  • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For real. Like yeah, lemme just waltz my ass on over there and issue a citizens arrest. That will go over splendidly.

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    • FreeAZ@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All the idiots who say this shit think they would be the one to kill Hitler if they were born in Nazi Germany. There’s a reason it took a foreign military to push him to do it himself.

      I’ve even heard dipshits say “Well America had a Civil War in the past” as if that war was declared by the people and not their governments and fought by their militaries.

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• Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  there’s a major error in that the president, according to legal experts, can’t be arrested by anyone but congress and the house, which makes no sense. he should simply be president from a poison at this point.

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• isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No. It’s just moronic to argue that this is or should be illegal. For fuck’s sake, people in this thread are arguing it should be illegal for politicians for run for office promising to establish new government programs or give people money. They’re letting their campist impulses cloud their judgment.

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  • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it’s very different to say ‘‘I’ll extend medicade to all’’ vs ‘‘if I win this election I’ll cut you a literal check’’ there are different meanings here.

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    • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s not what he’s promising though. He’s promising to have a stimulus check passed through Congress. He’s not promising to personally write checks out of his own bank account.

      This isn’t that complicated. The federal government has provided direct cash benefits across a myriad of times and circumstances. (Temporary assistance to needy families, farm subsidies, stimulus checks in several administrations, social security payments, etc.) These are all perfectly legal. And it’s perfectly legal to run for office promising to enact or expand such programs.

      Plenty of what Trump does is illegal. This isn’t one of those time. It’s perfectly legal to run for office or campaign for your party saying, “I think people need money. If our side wins, we’ll give everyone a check.” Whether it’s good policy or not is another question. But the legality of it isn’t even debatable.

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• moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That reason was decided by the Supreme Court

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