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The committee, led by Chairman James Comer, said in the report that it plans to continue to investigate Biden to find evidence of corruption, even as it acknowledged that it had no evidence that he financially benefited from the myriad foreign business dealings of his son Hunter.

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[–] Puppy@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"BoTh SiDe ArE CoRrUpT"

Yeah no, done with your bullshit. I will call you every time I see it now. Open your god damn eyes and start thinking for yourself for once in your life.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The GOP is far, far more corrupt, absolutely, they're racist fascists.

The Democratic party is also corrupt, saying otherwise commits the same errors the very few remaining sane GOP do when they forgive the grievous and plentiful sins of their own party.

For starters, you'd have had net neutrality at least for a bit, if the democratic party wasn't corrupt.

[–] Puppy@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not gonna downvote you because I appreciate a detailed argument. And you know what? I can somewhat agree with you. I bet there are some nasty disgustingly corrupted piece of shit inside the Democrat party. That's a fact. Undeniable. 100% agreed on that.

However, and this is where we may have a disagreement, whenever a Democrat is caught, the party turns on him/her and pretty much everybody agrees to let that asshole rot in prison.

On the other side, the republican side, whenever one of them is caught, they try to avoid turning on each others and discuss ways to reduce the media exposure on the matter. They back each other. And god damn they are good at standing united. Hell if there's one thing they are competent at, it's backing each others in their corruption. And whenever a republican with a spine decides to spit the bean, all the rest starts to call him a RINO and an antifa plant or a Democrat on disguise etc.

I can't speak for you, but I find this distinction between the two parties absolutely massive and cannot be overlooked

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Except actual enforcement of the rules was delayed until January 2017, so while it existed, it was never actually enforced.

That giant cop out of an implementation is textbook corruption.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So under Obama ISPs were categorized under title II but there were ongoing legal challenges until the Trump administration dropped it altogether and somehow that proves that Democrats are corrupt? Come on dude.