• blinfabian@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    21 hours ago

    when she gets to jail they pull out the jail card:

    not yet , not yet , not yet … ok maybe to jail

  • pticrix@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    1 day ago

    Maybe we should establish a Department of Comeuppance. The richer you are, the faster we deal with your case, too.

    • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      1 day ago

      The comic is wrong or misleading. That last spot on the card doesn’t mean “Go to jail”, it means “Get out of jail free”.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          11
          ·
          1 day ago

          Nixon: Spied on democrats through audio recording wiretap. America goes insane.

          Clinton: gets a blowjob. America goes insane.

          Obama: Wears a tan suit. America goes insane.

          Trump: …oh god, where do I even begin?

          America re-elects trump AFTER deliberately and intentionally mishandled covid.

          I want to put this in perspective. He allowed a virus to spread and eventually kill 1 million plus americans, all in the hope that it would be worse in democrat cities so he could get elected in 2020. And when that failed, he ran again in 2024. So now, by this point with all the other shit, killing 1 million plus people isn’t even a talking point today because its old news.

          He will best be remembered as a pedophile, rapist, and fascist. Lost in the shuffle is murderer.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          1 day ago

          I remember when we collectively lost our minds because the president got a blowjob…

          The extra funny thing about the Clinton Impeachment was that both Newt Gingrich (House Speaker) and Henry Hyde (lead the impeachment hearings) were having extramarital affairs during the impeachment hearings.

          They would literally bang the gavel to end a session on impeachment, walk out the front of the capital, get in a taxi, ride to their mistresses’ house, get a blowjob, sleep it off, get up the next morning, hail a taxi to the Capital, and begin the next day of Blowjob Impeachment.

  • lmdnw@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    1 day ago

    This is why we need more vigilantes. Rich people only get away with committing crime because the people let them. The public vastly outnumber the ruling class and could topple them if they had the will.

  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    1 day ago

    To be honest, though, being mid-to-upper middle class or higher is often enough in and of itself to avoid any real punishment for your crimes.

    I grew up straddling the poverty line, and that was the general socio-economic strata of the bulk of my relatives and family friends. When someone got in trouble, you call or ask around “What do I need to do?” and somebody’s aunt would talk you through the process of where to go and how to pay bail or whatever.

    As an adult, I have a broader socio-economic friends group, and so I see how things operate when solidly middle class or higher folks get in trouble. When they make the calls and ask around, they are asking their connected friends for favors. They went to school with the sheriff. The mayor is their brother-in-law. They know people who can pull strings and if that fails, they know people they can pay to avoid / minimize punishment.

    But once you get into the realm of the “rich and famous”, that’s where you really start to see that it’s a two-tiered justice system. Haves and have nots, with entirely different procedures and outcomes.

  • darthsundhaft@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    YSK that this is a legit thing. Not just for rich people, but it’s a real thing where cops hand out legit like “get out of jail card” for when you get pulled over or something. They literally talked about this on EITM and real people actually called in to confirm this. It’s insane.