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[–] Sanctus 12 points 3 weeks ago

They will, thats what he is here for. Seal the power of the corpos during these last 5 years of livable climate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, they posted the other day funding for the same fund between Biden and Trump, they are definitly funneling money in to do this. I think it should be expected at this point, should be looking into how to outlaw it rather than worrying if its going to happen. If it's legal, it will be abused. The fact that it's legal in the first place is the issue.

Being said, it goes to say, I believe an anti-trust case still goes through legal provisions, so I think he could just pardon the entire case.

I foresee part of his funding being explicitly for that.

Sadly the US government functions vastly on the honor and trust system, if you have elected officials that aren't honorary, the system can and will be abused as there isn't very much actual checks and balances on it for individual cases. The checks and balances existing almost completely skip the supreme court, and the actual positions of power such as the speaker, the VP and the president do not have many checks and balances for the position itself, relying on the branch itself to keep itself in line and once someone that is found untrustworthy is placed into the position, its likely not going to be reverted. It's very much a "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing" scenario.