• fleabomber@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    As a former school bus driver I can assure you that if you don’t have consequences, you don’t have rules.

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      1 year ago

      For everyone except supreme court justices and sitting senators, there are actual consequences for accepting gifts in excess of $20. And sitting senators used to have consequences as well. Until republicans decided that the rules didn’t apply to them, so they got rid of the rules.

      The aggravating thing is, without rules in place, you cannot punish someone for breaking the rules. Not unless you like mob justice, with is never actually just, and never stops until the bloodlust is fully slaked.