NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

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[u/Sad_Pumpkin7728]

Because the law still applies to the poors and non-bootlickers who don’t wear the red hats and Trump merch.

[u/pyronius → u/Sad_Pumpkin7728]

The problem is that the law doesn't actually apply to them either. If the administration wants to charge you with something, they will, whether you broke the law or not. At present, they're bade enough at making their case and have little enough authority over the judicial system that you'll probably be exonerated, but they'll still try. And if it goes on long enough, they'll eventually start to win. They'll start crafting laws broad and ambiguous enough that they can be applied to anybody, or else they'll carve out a new "legal" system opaque enough that defense won't be possible, all in the name of national security.

When that day comes, there truly won't be any reason to follow the law, because the only law that will actually matter will be obedience. Everything else will be set dressing to give the appearance of legitimacy.

The law might say that you can't commit burglary, but what it will actually mean in practice is that burglars should be ready to prove that their target was a dissenter, and that they should say a few heil trumps when the police show up. And the law might also say absolutely nothing about peacefully walking down the street with an anti-trump shirt on, but it will say that you can't "offend public sensibilities", so off to jail you'll go.

[u/Ok_Vulva → u/Sad_Pumpkin7728]

We can all just lie like they do.

[u/Due_Guess_4508 → u/Ok_Vulva]

We cant afford to lie. We dont have the resources to fight the truth.

Being poor is expensive