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   Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 18:29:57 JST Infoseepage

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   @peter So much harkens back to Nixon and the failure to punish what were clearly egregious politically motivated crimes. The POTUS needs to at all times be bound by the law and be its faithful executioner.

   Instead we got this:

   "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." -Richard Nixon

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     Peter (peter@thepit.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 18:29:58 JST Peter

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     it's not **exclusively** that. you could probably argue it really started when Ford pardoned Nixon. but in my lifetime, i watched judge after judge after judge fold to executive power grabs. the executive tortured people with impunity, spied on American citizens, assassinated American citizens with drones, used the FBI to surveil and frame Muslims, and built and maintained an illegal detention center at Guantanamo Bay. all completely bipartisan.

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     Peter (peter@thepit.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 18:30:00 JST Peter

     what is happening in the US right now is not a "Trump" thing or even a "Musk" thing, it is the culmination of the US abandoning the rule of law after 9/11.