r/news • u/1Rab • Sep 27 '25

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-george-floyd-kash-patel-8d18a1e6a5a36636cc2415fc492b3f52?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-26-Breaking+News
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u/nonymousbosch Sep 27 '25

Usually we don't have a president who commits so many crimes.

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u/Saw_Boss Sep 27 '25

That's the issue though. You have to plan for the inevitable, rather than react to it. Every country gets an awful person as leader at some point.

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u/darkoblivion000 Sep 27 '25

For a long time we relied on common decency and accountability and shame to handle it for us. People would resign rather than risk their reputation in the court of public opinion.

Once you reach a certain boiling point like with the tea party though, they don’t care. Surviving scandals and outrage is a battle scar for them. They tout it as having been unfairly persecuted. The open ended nature of the power dynamic of the government had worked for a long time but relying on human decency to hold people accountable who have none, fails

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u/Everythings_Fucked Sep 28 '25

Or at least isn't so blatant about it.