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- "For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."by LocalH
- This is just more than a little fucked up... I think we've "limited" liability way too much in terms of corporations... it's the investors that are meant to be protected, executives and board members are not meant to be immune. And I do think in the worst cases, the death penalty should be on the table.
edit: to be clear, IMO, corporate power is an expression of govt power, which should be minimized.
by tracker1 - At some point the broad strokes of libertarianism became exactly what we expected.
Naked corruption and public harm, without consequences.
by dd8601fn - Ironically, it's not just the ineffectuallity of the DOJ (intentional, in that case), it's the ineffectuality of the political competition, the Democratic Party, to hold the GOP accountable.
The Dems inability to cash in on these things is so absurd that people just accept it: The Trump administration and GOP are letting a company get away with contaminating baby formula. That should be repeated by the Dems from now until the end of time. Everyone should associate Trump and the GOP with it.
But as always, the Dems will not make Trump and the GOP pay any price, no matter how awful events are (and this one is hardly the worst), and so why would they stop doing these things?
Part of the duty of the political competition is to hold the other party responsible. It is also very obvious and basic self-interest.
by mmooss - >The Dems inability to cash in on these things is so absurd that people just accept it
All the Dems have to do is kick the DEI/woke, open borders, etc. contingent out of their party and "cashing in" will commence.
- The Supreme Court gave Trump immunity, stymieing Democratic attempts at holding him accountable for crimes he was accused of in his first presidency. Holding him accountable this time would require some workaround for the Supreme Court.by ChrisLTD
- Yea things like this make more sense when you model the Democratic Party mostly as controlled opposition for the actual uniparty outside of a handful of instancesby getcrunk
- > criminal case against Abbott Laboratories over contaminated baby formula
In Communist China they would be shot
by eunos - That depends on whether the baby formula was destined for the domestic market to nourish good Chinese babies, or whether it was destined for export to the foreigners, right?
- Hey, here in America, sometimes CEOs get shot as well.by pavel_lishin
- They also disappear you for selling books critical of the Party, so it's a two edged katana.
Ex-HK bookseller Lam Wing-kee, detained by China in 2015, dies in Taiwan at 70
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/03/g-s1-131904/ex-hk-bookseller-...
by ourmandave - The administration seems to be pro-crime, which is very problematic.
- Only if you support Trump. Americans seem to have no spine or ego so bow down to your god emperor I suppose.by expedition32
- Every administration caters to its donors.by sharts
- being pro-crime is being pro-american, now.by cyanydeez
- Trump Inc is a white-collar crime family which is why he pardons every white-collar crime they can find
BTW you know those classified records he took to Mar-a-lago that almost put him in prison?
They were all the records about his family businesses, it's documented, they were unique investigation records and he was trying to end all investigations
by ck2 - Pro rich people crimes. They remain very much against poor people who break the law.by sandworm101
- This admin is pro-money. Anything and everything can be bought. Pardons, contracts, legal outcomes, you name it. Bribe trump and he'll do whatever you ask.by hightrix
- Given that the President is a convicted felon who maintains that what he did was fine, and that he has pardoned thousands of unrepentant criminals, and that the vast majority of his party enthusiastically endorsed all this, I would say "pro-crime" is an understatement.by vannevar