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| Attorney General Yates? Just sayin. Photo by Heratch Ekmekjian/NYTimes. |
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 3, 2020
Seriously, I'd hope it would be constitutional and legislative changes to prevent something like this from happening again: force presidents to financial transparency instead of expecting them to be "gentlemen" about it, guarantee DOJ independence, protect civilian and...
military employees from retaliation when they reject illegal orders or blow whistle, provide real legal teeth to prevent presidents from profiting from office.....
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 3, 2020
But I'm afraid it's not going to happen.
The No Trumps Bridge Act of 2023. That's the kind of legacy I'd like to see.
And in response to an irritating "let us look forward" column by Paul Brandus:
The writer raises Ford's pardon of Nixon. To me the worst thing about it isn't that Nixon skipped prison; that almost nobody now knows what Nixon did--not just a "third-rate burglary" but creating a state within the state to further his reelection prospects and punish "enemies".
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 3, 2020
And when Trump came to do the same thing (alongside bending foreign policy to please his foreign dictator friends and supporters and using his office to funnel cash to his businesses) America had no defenses to stop him. We failed to fix the Constitution and law in 1974-76.
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 3, 2020
We really should not fuck that up a second time. Especially since Trump's ambitions were far worse than Nixon's, though he and his minions have far fewer skills and were bound to fail. Next time it could be somebody who's not an ignorant imbecile.
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 3, 2020
That's fine for now, and I certainly hope it happens. But I really want to see an effort to prevent presidents from using thugs like John Mitchell back then or Bully Barr now to serve as their personal consigliere inside DOJ.
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 3, 2020
Yep, and I suppose that's what we're likely to get. But I won't stop talking about it.
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 3, 2020
That is indeed my hope
— Lisa (@footenotes) December 3, 2020
It's got to be legislated. We have to stop thinking everybody will respect our glorious institutions and customs. Trump got away with this because we had no way of stopping him. So did Nixon/Mitchell, Reagan/Meese, Bush/Gonzales, in their own quieter way.
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 3, 2020
And a little Shapiro as long as we're up...
Not defending those people--pretty disgusted, in fact--but Trump doing the opposite, telling Little People to "open up" and not get tested while everybody near him had to be tested practically daily, killing us while protecting himself, is morally worse. https://t.co/P7SjIKNTdu
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 3, 2020
Self-awareness is really not his strong suit, is it?
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 3, 2020
That's why she's raising money off it. Republicans raise all the money they can from shut-in fixed-income retired people, because robbing widows and orphans is their creed, but we have a better idea.
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 3, 2020
You're basically a Marxist, Ben, believing moneyed people are systemically impelled to represent their class interests, but we're democrats with a small d, welcoming support from anybody https://t.co/uMbqjLUqoJ
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 3, 2020
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