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Trump Still Demands IRS Audit Immunity
"We're talking about family members that have had almost a doubling of their net worth in the last year and a half," [Republican Senator Thom] Tillis told reporters at the Capitol. "How can you not at least have them be subjected to the same thing I'm subjected to and every one of you?"
Trump: "You should have stopped me at the dinner roll."
But... after 2016 Trump's campaign where he violated "ethics" by not disclosing his tax returns because they were "under audit" did the Congress pass the LAW that every presidential candidate MUST submit their tax return to be eligible to run for the highest office in the land?
Why not make "ethical" standards/rules into clear, unambiguous LAWS when we already know that "ethics" (and even some ambiguous laws) can be easily ignored with no consequences?
Maybe even make that requirement for anyone seeking high enough public office, like House or Senate member... or maybe that's exactly what they are afraid of?
So they can keep bitching about someone who is not afraid of violating "ethical" rules, "appearances of impropriety" or "conflicts of interest" but not making it clearly illegal, so it could be prosecuted or at least, challenged in courts?
As long as someone from the other party can be brazen enough to get away with "seeming" corruption, they think, it would be OK later for them to do the same, if the only penalty may be at worst, a political one - just look at TX Ken Paxton.
Just like gross abuses of unconditional pardons are passed over because they can suit the next King. At least excuse in this case, however feeble, is that it would require a constitutional amendment... and people are just too tired for that, so... "Le Roi est retraite, vive le Roi!"
So, would anybody start asking the Congress critters about making some simple, but obviously toothless, ethics standards/rules/restrictions into civil and/or criminal laws?
Should be a 100-0 bipartisan no-brainer, yet I didn't hear or see any reporters or Congress critters of either "tribe" asking these questions.
Or we have to [finally] accept that a government corruption, regardless of the party, is a built-in feature of the governments and their unchecked ("unfettered") power must be limited, the way it's done in some states.
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#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-03 12:36 PM
It wouldn't surprise me if all of America needs to be pardoned after every election from now on.
Or we could just have a Purge every four years for a few days when the law doesn't apply and we can get our "revenge and retribution" on all the A-Ho's from the previous administration.
Purge is an interesting idea, except it may really depend on whether there is anyone left to do the new Purge after the previous Purge and whether (mixing metaphors here) the "new" pitchforks are bigger and better than the "old" pitchforks. Given that the "old" pitchforks know the Purge is coming when they lose power, do you think they will be passive or proactive, either by trying to keep the power (J6?) or starting their own Purge early lest lose the power in the first place?
Purge would be a double edge sword - while it's possible that "the tree of Liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants" ( www.snopes.com ), most about-to-be-Purged will "rage against the dying of the light... not go gentle into that good night."
Does Second Amendment cover "pitchforks"?
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Green Party leader Zack Polanski, a real mensch, is a Jew whose family fled the Holocaust. He signed an open letter to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper urging them to "track the movements of [~2,000] Brits who have served in the IDF" and "subject them to secondary screening where necessary at ports of entry."
The letter called for "robust war crimes investigations in line with domestic and international law."
Links:
Open Letter to UK Leadership
OHCHR Report on Israeli Butchery in Gaza
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Similarly, Suid-Afrika announced that South African dual national Israelis who flew back to Israel to serve in the IDF after 7 Oct 2023 will be fully prosecuted. Note that in 2009, imminent South African Jewish jurist Richard Joseph Goldstone reported to the OHCHR that the IDF was much more vicious in dealing with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip than the brutal apartheid-era SAPS who dealt with the majority Bantus for decades.
If they haven't already, EUROPOL and INTERPOL should consider a similar surveillance program of Israeli dual nationals who served in the IDF during the murderous pogrom in Gaza.
As of 5 June 2026, the IDF has killed 72,973 Palestinians in Gaza, 20,179 children; 12,500 women, wounding or maiming 173,043, all with American taxpayer funds and US government weapons and acquiescence-- and possibly perpetrated by these ~2,000 UK citizens.
US midterm elections are scheduled for Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.