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Fascism going after its political enemies.
Did you read the entire article?
The House Ethics Committee is bipartisan and reviews matters referred to it by the Office of Congressional Ethics.
The Office of Congressional Ethics is “a nonpartisan, independent entity charged with reviewing allegations of misconduct against members of the House of Representatives and their staff and, when appropriate, referring matters to the United States House Committee on Ethics.
It’s also worth noting that “the OCE was created by House Resolution 895 of the 110th United States Congress in March 2008, 191 in the wake of across-the-board Democratic victories in the 2006 elections. It was created under the leadership of then-Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi as part of her effort to clean up what she called the "culture of corruption" in official Washington, which had garnered so much attention in the preceding congressional sessions.”
This specific incidence is less “fascism” and more “checks and balances working as intended”.
Trump rapes children.
Odd non sequitur but, yes, he very likely does.
In case you’re confused though, that is also not fascism, it’s paedophilia.
Raped
I really doubt he has the coordination and blood pressure to do it at present.
What exactly does that have to do with the subject at hand?
Fuck me for pointing out the obvious total non-sequitur. Hive mind in action. We get a fresh influx of Redditors or something?
Because they're throwing everything they can as distractions. There's a reason there's been new headlines every time something they don't like is in the press.
I'm totally with you on that. Most of the daily headlines are just distractions from the child-raping dictator that should be front and center. And by all means I hate the bastard as much as the next sane person. If he were on fire, the only liquid I'd pour on him would be an accelerant. I also think it's possible that in the midst of all this bullshit, occasionally stuff will happen that's still just part of the everyday red-tape of working for the government. The best I can tell from this article is that the committee made it a point to state they don't think AOC acted maliciously here - just some staffer's fuck-up - and AOC doesn't appear to even be disputing it.
So, in this particular instance, just kinda seems like "Trump rapes children" was OP's attempt at a redirect when someone asked if they even read the article that they're sharing - a question which they never did answer; given the reading habits of most people I've interacted with on Lemmy, it's certainly not an unfair question to ask.
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
I don't really understand what you're getting at.
There's loads (almost all ?) of public institutions which have become tools for the authoritarian regime.
This institution is not "working as intended" if it asks a democrat to repay an event ticket but gives a republican a free pass on insider trading.
I'll remind you that insider trading is theft. If a stock is worth $x on the open market but you know that due to upcoming legislation or regulator actions it's really worth $x + $y then when you buy that stock you deprive everyone else in the market of that $y.
One person received a benefit of a few hundred dollars and the other received a benefit of possibly a few million dollars.
You're still under the assumption that the governments parts are all working together still.
Anything, beyond your supposition, to support something different in this specific instance?
Yeah. The news, daily, since jan 20th.
Edit. Lol this 8 hour account blocked me over this. Hahahaha what
That’s about what I thought.
c/conservative is over there ->
Maybe that’s where you should be. Personally, I don’t like misinformation but since you do I’m guessing your values would align nicely with c/conservative.
Read the room.
Why? There’s plenty of actual fascism going on that misinformation and fear mongering about this specific situation isn’t needed.
If only we could determine when the OCE refferred the case to the House Ethics Committee…
I think I’ll just report you and block you. Bye.
This isn't reddit, kiddo.