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  Don't forget that his wife encourages...vegetables.
context: Well, in the history of politics, no one burns stuff that makes you look good. >
  
  Republican leadership likes a guy like this. Meadows was demonstrating some real rat fuck behavior, and that goes along way with this current iteration of the GOP. >
  
  Serious question - how do we even get this shit out of American politics?  The last 6-7 years, the GOP has really leaned into the overt cruelty, corruption, lies, etc. and their voters fucking love it.
  Nobody ever gets held accountable and as long as their voters like it, they’ll just get more and more bold.  I don’t know how to even fight against this mentality. >
  
  
  Serious question - how do we even get this shit out of American politics?
  
  You get a voting system in place that allows people to express their displeasure without having to completely sacrifice their other principles.
  A conservative is still going to vote Republican, not because they think burning documents is best practise, but because they value conservatism. There are no other avenues for them to vote for conservative values in a first-past-the-post system.
  First-past-the-post doesn't give a shit about your political opinion, beyond "these 2 choices".  The People cannot exercise their duty when it's the same two unpunished parties over and over.
  Instead, it will turn the people against each other as the political system becomes calcified into nothing more than an ongoing series of football matches played by the same two teams for eternity.
  The political class really has the public right where they want them - fighting amongst themselves instead of channelling that energy into demanding and rewarding better governance. >
  
  These folks all need to be in jail. For a long, long time. >
  
  You misspelled forever. >
  
  Nah, it needs to be longer than that >
  
  I find it interesting how closely the trump White House was working hand-in-hand with its congressional saboteurs, the House Freedom Caucus, to stage a coup.
  Mark Meadows is one the Freedom Caucus' co-founders, Scott Perry is its current Chairman.
  Mick Mulvaney, who is yet another co-founder of the Freedom Caucus, and also trump's former Chief of Staff, once said, "Trump wants to turn Washington upside down – that was his first message and his winning message. We want the exact same thing."
  Watch this caucus closely, they are an ongoing threat to democracy, even if trump never returns to the White House. Meanwhile, one of the caucus' other co-founders, Ron DeSantis, has a good chance of picking up where trump and his saboteurs left off. >
  
  They're essentially also the Pro Putin Caucus if you consider how a majority of them have voted against Ukraine aid/other bills having to do with war - and the general parroting of Kremlin talking points. >
  
  Yes, they are also the pro Putin caucus, or known by their other nick name, the Treason Caucus. Just recently, two members, Boebert and Gaetz, made a point to disrespect Zelensky during his congressional address. Many other members did not even attend the speech. >
  
  
  Boebert and Gaetz, made a point to disrespect Zelensky
  
  And Russian media noticed and praised them for it. >
  
  Apparently it was over a dozen times the witness saw him burning documents. >
  
  I believe she said that he made copies though too. >
  
  Do you have a source for that? >
  
  I thought I had read a quote in another thread but I think this must be what I saw (Cassidy Hutchinson speaking): “However, I don’t know if they were the first or original copies of anything,” she continued. “It’s entirely possible that he had put things in his fireplace that he also would have put into a burn bag that there were duplicates of or that there was an electronic copy of.”
  So no, not definitive that he had other copies, but it's possible.
  source >
  
  It does seem possible that there were copies. Thanks! >
  
  They do illegal things because they know they won't be held accountable. >
  
  Im just so happy don't have to worry about these types of shenanigans from Joe biden >
  
  BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE 🥴 >
  
  You think that Meadows has come to the realization that he's going to be trump's fall guy? Better start talking. >
  
  When the party of law and order prove they’re not. >
  
  That's a thought that plagues me. Think of all of the shit that has come out on this administration.  Now think of the fact that everything we know is just what's left after they tried very hard to cover the worst of it up. >
  
  Destruction of evidence should result in an automatic guilty verdict. >
  
  Wow, you liberals will do anything to distract from the fact that Obama wore a tan suit and profited from his presidency by writing a book when he was no longer president.
  /s cause i'm a wimp. >
  
  Nice job leaving out mention of the Dijon mustard superscandal, you filthy commie.
  (/s, me too)