Another minute, another abuse of power.
US government foots bill for television advertisement featuring Trump's midterm messaging
https://apnews.com/article/paid-by-us-government-ad-midterms-04b3fe552fc3de2ada0b14394706e0e0
https://apnews.com/article/paid-by-us-government-ad-midterms-04b3fe552fc3de2ada0b14394706e0e0
Another minute, another abuse of power.
20 Comments
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 15h
Looking forward to watching DOJ lawyers eat shit again when they try to fight the inevitable FOIA request they just brought on themselves with this stupid stunt
But, hey, at least they got to run a couple of ads on Fox News and Newsmax, they're definitely going to turn things around for themselves by getting that audience on their side /s
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 8 pts · 14h
His mommy and daddy issues run very deep, don't they?
neidu4@piefed.social · 3 pts · 13h
The DOJ get paid very handsomely for the feces feast they are hired to endure.
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 35 pts · 15h
I want a refund
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 25 pts · 15h
Best I can do is a protracted court case that basically boils down to "US government vs. US government" and ends up costing both sides far more money than was actually spent on the ad. Eventually, it will result in a court order that the administration is not allowed to do that ... an order that the administration will ignore without consequence.
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 15h
^ This guy Americas.
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 15h
Yeah he trumps the competition
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 14h
I want a refund for the YEARS I spent in school learning about our checks and balances.
fulcrummed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 14h
Presumably also a waste of government money.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 14h
Judging by spelling: yes. ;-)
Also, least likely a waste, more likely a grift.
artyom@piefed.social · 27 pts · 14h
LOL they're getting around this by pretending it's a PSA. It's not enough to abuse the office to make billions of dollars but now you want to steal $14k to run a fucking campaign ad.
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 14h
Conservatives need to be excluded from society. Completely. They are pure evil.
dan1101@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 14h
I'm starting to think it needs to be like post Nazi Germany, all the ideology needs to be outlawed
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 14h
I agree 100%.
I had a similar comment removed because of "civility". Wtf? Conservatives have never been "civil" in all of human history, thus the need to exclude them from modern civilization.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 14h
If money is speech then I'm reasonably sure that bullets are speech too.
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 14h
I agree. Ammo will be money in the upcoming conservative apolcalypse. So let's use some of that speech to convince conservatives to stop being.
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13h
Yes, and also wall off a large section of the SE into its own, separate country
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 8 pts · 13h
I don't think you want to do that for the simple reason that there are still plenty of impoverished black people living in those areas (because that's where their family comes from... because their ancestors were slaves), and giving MAGAts an entire swath of the southeast full of minorities to abuse who are probably too poor to leave just sounds like a roundabout way to revive the CSA.
No, these people need serious deprogramming, therapy, jailtime and/or even guillotining for the ringleaders; not their own fiefdom to inflict more terror on others.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 9h
Personally I'm for a more Shermanistic methods at least for Alabama. Hell one of my best friends is a Sherman we can have him work as the figure head.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 10h
Traitor to the nation. Americans nees to get mentally militant about their democratic integrity. And before ppl start whining about, "blah blah it's never been a democracy, they're all the same, yadda yadda", it's also about time Americans deal with that too. Democracy should be your most preciously held civic value and you should defend the fucking thing you're not nations design was constructed to enable.