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@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-05 01:51:55
For a guy who talks a lot about how much he hates drugs
— and is now floating it as a pretext for knocking off the odious Maduro regime
— Trump has developed a strange habit of giving pardons to drug dealers.
A day after his latest inauguration, Trump pardoned the founder of the Silk Road website, which was notorious as a dark web drug den.
This was followed by the strange commutation for the founder of the Gangster Disciples in Chicago, who flooded the Windy City wi…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-29 02:35:30
David Sirota says that while the United States is now
“immersed in corruption” in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics,
it is the result of a decades long agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system
and to essentially make anti-bribery laws unenforceable.
“This is all part of a plan by a corporate movement that sees democracy — the government providing what people want — sees that as a threat.”
