Hmm. What could possibly be the difference?

[True Dough]

Bishop Talbert Swan
@TalbertSwan

Kalief Browder was charged for allegedly stealing a backpack. He was never convicted. He spent three years locked up on Rikers Island awaiting trial.

Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies. He will spend the next four years in the Oval Office.

Amerikkka





Race. Wealth. Power. Connections. Our justice system, ladies and gentlemen.

[Walleye]

1. In a democracy, our system, including justice system, is only as good as the citizens

[Think. Again.]

3. Victim blaming feels soooo good!

[Walleye]

4. OK, whatever, I honestly don't know who to blame for the situation. Americans did it.

[Think. Again.]

5. A misused system doesn't indicate a faulty system.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. The system was misused but the system could & should have better safeguards against misuse. Kind of its purpose!

So yes, in this case the misuse indicates a faulty system. A car system does not guard against misuse. But a governmental system DOES have a design principle to guard against misuse.

After all, the US system of government came into being to replace the existing system because it was misused by the British Monarch King George III.

[Bluethroughu]

11. The majority did not vote for him.

We are 10's of millions of people.

[soldierant]

17. Even the majority of people who actually voted

did not vote for him. After all was counted, it turned out he won with a plurality of 49.9% - not a majority

[Clouds Passing]

12. The billionaires did it. Lock. Stock. Barrell.

[MadameButterfly]

16. The Electoral College, Not enforcing the Logan Act, gerrymandering and voter suppression, SCOTUS

appointments and terms need reform

Because of all of the above, we haven't had a legitimate Republican president who also won the popular vote since Eisenhower.
They created the Supreme Court we have today. By pure chance, a guy like Jimmy Carter doesn't get to appoint anybody. Not by chance, Obama only gets 2 and Trump gets 3 and counting.

(Reform for appointing Justices would allow 2 justices appointed for each presidential term, and term limits of 20 years, so no more Senates refusing to allow a vote for some presidents and not others, no need for Sandra Day OConnor to stop the Florida vote in Bush v.Gore just because she wants to retire.)

If we had true majority rule, we'd be just fine right now. Or at least better. SCOTUS would be curbing abuses of the legal system, not turning the law on it's head.

[ShazzieB]

18. "If we had true majority rule, we'd be just fine right now."

This is painfully true.

[malaise]

2. All of the above

I dare anyone to tell me shit about shithole countries after this

[BobsYourUncle]

6. I'm so naive

I never before thought that his rant about shithole countries was such pure projection.

[malaise]

13. LOL

😀

[Solly Mack]

8. Little pink houses and all that.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. system working as designed

[dchill]

15. That's becoming more apparent every day.

[Bluethroughu]

10. This IS who WE are.

[state of stupid]

21. No, this is who they are

That we allow it is who we are

[Bluethroughu]

22. Thank you, that is what I exactly meant.

[state of stupid]

23. Sadly, that is how badly we have allowed reality to become twisted

[Bluethroughu]

26. Unfortunately so.

[Farmer-Rick]

14. And that last graphic is why

I will always call our next president a pedophile.

He even flies around in the sex trafficer's jet.

He shows what a piece of crap human he is every day and the religious folks fawn over him like a god. Religious people used to have a reputation for being moral. Their priests and pastors were considered moral leaders. Now they have a reputation for being ignorant, hateful, greedy and marks for any Nazi around.

[OldBaldy1701E]

19. By design. (n/t)

[state of stupid]

20. the old becomes new again and again and again

The golden rule: he who has the gold rules again and again and again

[Evolve Dammit]

24. Perfect and succinctly stated

[Aussie105]

25. The Law Applies to Everybody!

Unless you have power, friends and money.

Then things get kind of fluid and blurry.