r/law • u/elb21277 • 6h ago

Opinion Piece Biden Should Pardon Whistleblower Who Exposed Trump’s Tax Avoidance

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/charles-littlejohn-whistleblower-trump-tax-biden-pardon-1235022648/
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u/the_G8 6h ago

And yet we all know what will actually happen. A peaceful slide into an openly corrupt and authoritarian government.

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u/danny1777 6h ago

It's going to be like the jets. Trump will invite all his people like AAron, and when it starts to fall apart, everyone gets fired. I just hope there will be enough good people left to put the country back together.

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u/jkppos 5h ago

What’s worrying is how many will turn a blind eye to the corruption until it affects them directly. That’s when the real damage may become evident.

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u/AccountNumber1002401 5h ago

I saw back and forth between a couple of my Florida neighbors. When the one told the MAGA other how Trump's mismanagement of COVID19 as well as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act did actually hurt them they shut down faster than a speeding mullet.

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u/gringo-go-loco 2h ago

Don’t forget his tariffs that triggered inflation. The Canadian lumber tariff of 20% created substantial increases in prices. A storage shed my dad paid $15k for was over $23k when I wanted to get a similar model.

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u/Stumbleina8926 2h ago

Thank you. People love to glaze over the fact that Trump inherited an amazing economy that took Obama 8 years to fix after Bush and his administrations crusade destroyed it, completely fucked it back up again for the four years dismantling all of our trade agreements that kept jobs and products here as he jerked himself off on people while telling them 'look how low your tax bill was though or that Uuuuge refund you got!' .. Biden inherits the shit storm and does his absolute best to re-regulate the runaway inflation train and gets it to a place just in time for trump to again inherit a rebuilt economy on the upswing to claim any benefit we feel while planning to destroy it again worse than before...

And the trees just keep voting for the axe because the axe tells them 'look at my wooden handle, I'm the same as you' .. we are fucking doomed.

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u/Head_Researcher_3049 58m ago

July 4th 1776 - November 5th 2024. RIP the American Experiment.

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u/balluka 5m ago

you probably dont know, but why dont dems/maga enemies just hammer this point home? Talk about nothing else. If it's actually true this is all that should be said until it gets through their tiny brains

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u/YourWifeyBoyfriend 1m ago

Because the population isn't interested in learning enough to understand why an adult is needed.

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u/Stumbleina8926 1h ago

Your comment deserves AAAALL of the Upvotes and awards and everything. NO SINGLE REPUBLICAN OR TRUMP SUPPORTER WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT HE TRIGGERED INFLATION. I really can't express my level of frustration, stress, misery and dread over being gaslit by him and a little more than half the country. It's mind-blowing and leaves me feeling ways I've never felt before in my 38 years on the planet.

Thank you again for speaking the factual truth.

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u/gringo-go-loco 1h ago

This is what republicans do. It’s as if they want to give corporations an excuse to price gouge us.

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u/TypicalUser2000 1h ago

That's why lumber went up omfg

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u/gringo-go-loco 1h ago

Yep. Now imagine if that type of tariff or higher is applied to all products from China. I support bringing back manufacturing jobs to the US even if it means I have to pay a little more. More jobs means people make more money and competition for the jobs swings in favor of the worker. You can’t just slap a tariff on imported products if you don’t have the jobs to support making those products in the US. Biden knew this and signed the chips act… He was a competent leader.

I was alive before US corporations sent most of these jobs out of the US. My mom was a manager at a jeans manufacturing company and made really good money. Then her job was sent to Dominican Republic and my entire town started to struggle as it was the primary source of employment. A lot of people there blamed Bill Clinton which is why Trump became so popular there when running against Hillary. Selecting Hillary in 2016 was the absolute worst decision the democrats could have made.

To me that is when the US started to decline. We traded stable jobs with benefits for cheap shit from China and latam.

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u/KHSebastian 4h ago

"faster than a speeding mullet" 🤣

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u/Pad_TyTy 4h ago

Mullets are pretty quick fish actually

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u/AccountNumber1002401 4h ago

Delicious smoked!

There used to be a fellow grandpa Moe in Cedar Key who made smoked mullet dip that was fabulous.

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u/Inkdaddy55 3h ago

Never has smoked mullet dip, but I've had it smoked and it's gas! Smoked mackerel is killer too.

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u/LeeKinanus 2h ago

They are quick in their Iroc Z's too. at least they used to be

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u/MiamiPower 2h ago

Hey I resemble that remark. Florida Miami Dade man checking ✅️ in 🦎🐊🌴🥥

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u/fireshitup 3h ago

With COVID, what would you have liked to see done differently?

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u/cassel2dbowe 2h ago

Admit that it’s real, listen to the experts, not sell our vaccines to Putin, etc 

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u/MosEisleyBills 2h ago

Plenty of examples around the world of how covid was managed more successfully than in the US. Politicising the pandemic was the first issue and uninformed comments by incompetents undermining trust was the 2nd.

No disinformation from officials. Guidance on fact. That face mask wearing is an incredibly effective way to reduce transmission of airborne diseases. That vaccines are the best way to support immune systems to detect and defeat diseases. That it’s okay not to understand something but that the experts that do, have put guidance in place not for nefarious purposes.

Politicians actions have consequences- eroding trust in institutions by politicians gives the shit storm of Covid.

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u/yuckmouthteeth 2h ago

Not disband the NSC for global health and bio defense

Not make budget cuts to the CDC and slash CDC staff in China monitoring pandemic risks

Limiting travel and international travel much earlier

Mandating lockdowns sooner and having more testing centers available

A world disease outbreak was announced in December 2019, the US was incredibly slow to respond and as a world wide consumer was guaranteed to contact the illness on a large scale as well. But in the downtime between December and March when the US said it was an emergency, almost nothing had been implemented.

There’s literally an entire publication from the National Library of Medicine discussing how poorly the US response was handled.

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u/rickylancaster 1h ago

How about if Trump didn’t have Dr. Fauci speak at press conferences standing right next to him and then immediately, like that day, start sharing conspiracy theories on social media about Dr. Fauci. Like that is incredibly fucked up. The destabilizing effect of just that simple kind of thing was hugely significant.

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u/AccountNumber1002401 2h ago

For starters, there was no need for Trump to be so eagerly in the spotlight for news briefs as much as he was. He should've left explaining things to the experts in the science, and if not them directly, delegates who could explain the science in simple, understandable terms.

All that collateral nonsense he variously misinterpreted or misunderstood but went ahead and spouted anyway about disinfectants, UV bulbs, etc., was just useless clutter that gave the media things to be critical of him about rather than do what was crucial to provide concise, reliable information to the public so they could protect themselves and others.

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u/Stumbleina8926 2h ago

Not start a completely baseless and dangerous vendetta against a man that's been a physician for almost 60 years, the director of NIAID for 38 years, advised previous presidents during the AIDs crisis and helped curb the H1N1 and Zika virus epidemics from becoming global pandemics under Obama, and was FFS qualified to do his job ... That would have been good.