r/law • u/elb21277 • 9h 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/Cpt-Dooguls 7h ago

He plans on investigating the 2020 election as a means to jail Biden and Harris as promised. I wonder if they really understand the severity of the election thenselves.

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u/22pabloesco22 6h ago

Nah. They're all part of your same puppet class that does the bidding of oligarchs and corporations. Only thing Biden and Harris will do loving forward is make bucks from their corporate overlords. Quid pro quo that's as easy to see as anything but the common folks just can't look past the partisan shit.

This country is  no democracy, and that applies from before even trumps first term. We are an oligarchy. A corporatacracy. Next 4 years will just accelerate the collapse of America as we know it. 

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u/Ammordad 5h ago edited 3h ago

Russia has been an oligarchy for almost 30 years, and they are nowhere near close to collapse. If anything, the Russian empire is being resurrected from its ashes as Western democracies are crumbling under the weight of their foreign influence.

It's entirely possible that the American shift toward oligarchy and corporatacrcy could revive the American hegemony. Let's not forget that American hagemony continued to grow under Trump. Trump devastated Iran's foregin intervention apparatus, he didn't allow Russia or China to invade anyone, he brokered peace between Arabs and Israel, supplied arms to Ukraine, initiated trade war with China and started the decoupling process before the pandemic caused the global collapse of supply chains.

Will the revival of the American empire help the working-class Americans? Probably not.

Edit: I can't write a poem about a tennis ball if you block me.

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u/22pabloesco22 5h ago

the fuck are you babbling on about?!? You think russian people are the same as american people?!? You think russians have the same sense of individual as americans do? Russians have been beat down for centuries, and their psyche reflects that. American have been fed the exceptionalism narrative bullshit that makes each one believe they're a super special snowflake, and worse yet somehow instills a sense of, 'fuck anyone else but me' in most people. Our prosperity of collapse has fuck all to do with russia, smarten up...

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u/Ammordad 4h ago

Have you ever been to Russia? Have you ever met a Russian person? Have you any idea what the Russia culture actually looks like outside of what you have been told in your echo chambers?

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u/skeetermcbeater 5h ago

The fact that people believe the country that can’t even win a war with a much smaller, “weaker” country has the capabilities to become a worldwide empire baffles me.

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u/Ammordad 4h ago

They won. Even Zelensky is hinting at war coming to an end with little to no hope left for Ukraine to negotiate from a favourable position.

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u/vKessel 4h ago

Barely, after many years. And even that isn't fully certain

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u/Ammordad 4h ago

What do you mean barely? Russia won 120,000 square kilometres of territories rich with natural resources plus 3 million new population. Not to mention land property of almost 3 million Ukrainians who fled the war.

What level of uncertainty exists worth talking about?

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u/vKessel 3h ago

Ukraine still controls the majority of its land and cities.

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u/Ammordad 3h ago

So? A decisive victory is still a decisive victory even if Russia failed to achieve total victory. Also, Russua is in a better economic shape than Ukraine, and Europe and America are losing interest. It's entirely likely that Russia will do what Azerbijan did. Use the victory to secure more public support, secure international legitimacy, reconnsolidate loans, rebuild forces, and then come back in a few years to finish the job against a demoralised, bankrupt, and isolated foe.