• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    That whole “a good prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich” was when you could pull your jurors out of a citizen pool that didn’t walk in already believing you were lying through your fucking teeth.

    But then they pulled the mask off, and let us all see how they are using the courts for vindictive prosecution and political harassment.

    Looks like the ham sammich days are ending, lol.

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      I just heard about a prosecutor that didn’t get all of his indictments and then sent the jurors that voted against him home and replaced them. That and other stuff, they aren’t even pretending to follow the rules, they think everything is more openly corrupt than it is yet.

      But anyway, the courts threw out like 200 indictments because this prick prosecutor didn’t think he had to follow the rules/didn’t know or care what the rules were.

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          2 hours ago

          I called this decline into insanity and fascism back in the mid 90s. Also nailed global warming in 2000 or so, and called the nsa’s bullshit years before snowden to name a few.

          I am only right on the bad predictions, my good predictions are a shitshow.

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            I didn’t get it that far back. I blame Pokémon. Except global warming. I was just kind of raised with it as a fact.

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        3 hours ago

        Holy shit. That’s some arrogance right there, thinking no one would ever know or find out. Grand juries are secret, but they’re not THAT secret.

        they think everything is more openly corrupt than it is yet.

        You nailed it.