Make federal investigation in to any potential wrongdoing a retirement for holding any rejected federal office. Staff an entire branch of the government who's only job it is to investigate elected officials.
This exact conversation happened to me IRL once - and it was about a decade ago. The shock expression of the woman who realized I wasn't gong to protect Bill -hell anyone on my side- match my shocked expression a second later when I realized she was trying to set up a M.A.D. scenario about child sex traffickers. These people are gross.
That's the thing about MAGAts. They assume that because they will circle the wagons and defend to their last breath everyone who bends the knee to Orange Man, or of course him himself, that Democrats must obviously be seething at the idea that anyone even tangentially connected to Biden face a day in court.
I like asking them why they aren't defending Hunter Biden against that gun charge what with blah blah government overreach blah blah second amendment rights...
Actually no, I tried to find it on Getyarn but it didn't have a dedicated clip, so I just found that screenshot via image search (and it was from Twitter hosting I guess, so I hope it loads for everyone).
I absolutely could have done that though, but if I did it'd be hosted here on Kbin and as a .png with reduced colors (example, though I wanted to re-word that right after I made it) and I don't mind doing that but I always need to sift through my own comments to find reusable images like that I've made.
This one might be better as a gif/webm though, that'd be a bit different getting there though.
They're all scum and criminals. Some more than others. I won't defend garbage politicians who represent my interests, the same way I won't defend garbage politicians that don't.
If they're garbage and criminals, they should be prosecuted regardless of what they stand for or vote for. Nobody is above the law.
I don't know what people don't get about all people being equal, but that's what it is. We are all citizens, we are all responsible for our own actions, and if we do the illegal, then we should face the consequences of that action regardless of who we are, or what we do, or how much money/influence/whatever, we may possess.
I know it doesn't work that way. Some people get away with shit constantly because they're rich/influential/whatever, but that reality doesn't impact my perspective on the matter. They should be prosecuted, whether they are or not is another issue entirely. Given the choice to have people investigated or not for crimes, I say go for it. If the people convicted are those that I may have voted for or supported in the past, then I'm glad they've been convicted and removed. They probably didn't deserve my support, but I can only operate on information I have, not information of what might be true...
It's also worth noting that people with undisclosed skeletons in their closet are blackmailable. So even if they represented your interests in the past that all ends once someone puts them on a leash. This is why even if you make no moral judgements there are pragmatic reasons to not have such people in office.
You guys really think the right cares if Trump is implicated in any Epstein stuff? I'm sure if it were up to them, they would smash that button if it let Assange free to say whatever he's got.