Donald Trump and US politics

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I made a comment recently where I claimed that Republican administrations had been much more criminally corrupt over the last 50 plus years than the Democrats. I was challenged (dared actually) to prove it. So I did a bit of research and when I say a bit I mean it didn’t take long and there is no comparison.

When comparing criminal indictments of those serving in the executive branch of presidential administrations, it’s so lopsided as to be ridiculous. Yet all I ever hear about is how supposedly “corrupt” the Democrats are. So why don’t we break it down by president and the numbers?

Obama (D) – 8 yrs in office. Zero criminal indictments, zero convictions and zero prison sentences. So the next time somebody describes the Obama administration as “scandal free” they aren’t speaking wishfully, they’re simply telling the truth.
Bush, George W. (R) – 8 yrs in office. 16 criminal indictments. 16 convictions. 9 prison sentences.
Clinton (D) – 8 yrs in office. 2 criminal indictments. One conviction. One prison sentence. That’s right nearly 8 yrs of investigations. Tens of millions spent and 30 yrs of claiming them the most corrupt ever and there was exactly one person convicted of a crime.
Bush, George H. W. (R) – 4 yrs in office. One indictment. One conviction. One prison sentence.
Reagan (R) – 8 yrs in office. 26 criminal indictments. 16 convictions. 8 prison sentences.
Carter (D) – 4 yrs in office. One indictment. Zero convictions and zero prison sentences.
Ford (R) – 4 yrs in office. One indictment and one conviction. One prison sentence.
Nixon (R) – 6 yrs in office. 76 criminal indictments. 55 convictions. 15 prison sentences.
Johnson (D) – 5 yrs in office. Zero indictments. Zero convictions. Zero prison sentences.

So, let’s see where that leaves us. In the last 53 years, Democrats have been in the Oval Office for 25 of those years, while Republicans held it for 28. In their 25 yrs in office Democrats had a total of three executive branch officials indicted with one conviction and one prison sentence. That’s one whole executive branch official convicted of a crime in two and a half decades of Democrat leadership.

In the 28 yrs that Republicans have held office over the last 53 yrs they have had a total of (a drum roll would be more than appropriate), 120 criminal indictments of executive branch officials. 89 criminal convictions and 34 prison sentences handed down. That’s more prison sentences than years in office since 1968 for Republicans. If you want to count articles of impeachment as indictments (they aren’t really but we can count them as an action), both sides get one more. However, Clinton wasn’t found guilty while Nixon resigned and was pardoned by Ford (and a pardon carries with it a legal admission of guilt on the part of the pardoned). So those only serve to make Republicans look even worse.

With everything going on with Trump and his people right now, it’s a safe bet Republicans are gonna be padding their numbers a bit real soon.

So let’s just go over the numbers one more time, shall we? 120 indictments for Republicans. 89 convictions, and 34 prison sentences. Those aren’t “feelings” or “alternate facts.” Those are simply the stats by the numbers. Republicans are, and have been for my entire lifetime, the most criminally corrupt party to hold the office of the presidency.

So those are the actual numbers. Feel free to copy and paste!

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Sarno wrote:

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That's called evolution of society.

'Evolution of society'

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Reverse racism for a while will eventually end in a crowd that can stand together in unity.

Reverse racism? Yeah, we have a word for this in Scotland. We call it "racism."

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Jennik wrote:

Hillary Shillary Killary Hitlery feels like one of history's greatest monsters to you. Reality, as usual, is simply not on your side.

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deathflower wrote:

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

Again, we shouldn't call it "social justice" when it isn't very just. What the slang "social justice warriors" refers to is advocates of intersectional minority-identitarianism.

Don't help the poor. Don't help the underprivileged. Don't help the black. What is your social justice anyway? All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others that kind of equal?

These feuds are just making it true. You might show some unjust people is fighting, but saying they all aren't justified in fighting just make it worse. Injustice always exist, ignoring it, is it willful stubbornness or Cognitive dissonance?

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CanHasPants wrote:

Capitulation means the death of liberty, and if history be any indication, quite literally tens of millions of people.

Culture is just social habits. Some of them are really bad ones. I can see why Your problem is so deep it is unsolvable. Your liberty is granted by everyone. A republic is a collective liberty, You don't just do it yourself.

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Xavderion wrote:

Singer tells white people to move to the back of the crowd, one photographer and some other whiteys refuse to go to the back of the bu- err I mean crowd, festival fires photographer and apologizes for her 'overt racism'. The absolute state of Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/lido-pimienta-halifax-festival-1.4375115

Worth the read, it's like straight from The Onion but they're 100% serious. The festival's directors will increase anti-oppression and anti-racism training so that whitey learns his place.

That's called evolution of society. Reverse racism for a while will eventually end in a crowd that can stand together in unity.

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faerwin wrote:

Now, reverse racism is an improvement over regular racism, but it's still not a good thing. Hopefully it will go in the right direction soon.

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No wonder the Trumplets are still trying to convict Obama & Hillary. I guess they feel retroactive convictions are better than none at all?