Senate Democrats have introduced legislation that would let ordinary citizens and state attorneys general sue a president for money obtained through corruption.

Senator Alex Padilla and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer unveiled the Anti-Corruption Bureau Creation Act on 30 July 2026 at a Public Citizen forum in Washington.

The bill would create the first independent federal agency dedicated to policing corruption across the executive branch. Its sponsors describe it as a direct answer to what they call the unprecedented self-dealing of President Donald Trump’s second term.

  • chaogomu@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    I think you’re confusing things a bit, the proponents of gun control are the ones who put this forward. The people in favor of child murder are the ones who would be most targeted by this, because they seem to also love corruption.

    Or are you advocating for gun use, because a fuckload of children will die when that kicks off, so it’s best to delay. Also, Trump is losing support by the day here. He’s wildly unpopular and openly declining.

    Right now the optics are on our side, so when ICE rolls into town, you go protest, stand in front of your neighbors, but keep it non-violent. At least from your end, ICE will be violent sociopaths, but fuck, I can take it. Or if I can’t, it was a good run.

    No, I firmly believe that now is not the time for violence. We will all know when it’s time.

    • Cris_Citrus (he/him <3)@piefed.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      We will all know when it’s time.

      Rest of the comment aside I think this is untrue and not a good position to be arguing. We have already passed many things that people would have thought completely unthinkable, I think it is dangerous to assume it will just be obvious. We all have lives and unless we are individually targeted they will just go on- getting worse little by little, every passing day, and you will get used to it

      Regardless of where you draw your line, people will not all just innately know, people must draw their line consciously and decide when it has been crossed over

      • chaogomu@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 day ago

        No, you will know when it’s time because there will be some spark, some incident that pushes normies to the brink. It will be quiet at first, and then it will just keep blowing up to the point where it’s all anyone will talk about, and then, it will be time for violence. Everyone will sort of agree on violence at the same time, but the who and how will be different. It will be a chaotic mess of mass murder and retaliatory mass murder. Because that’s what it looks like when it’s time for violence.

        There are no winners when it’s time for violence. Which is why it’s not time yet. But trust me, we will know when it is.

        • ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 day ago

          Maybe? You might think a global pedophile conspiracy with connections to top government officials around the world would set it off. Or the fact that people implicated in that global pedophile conspiracy keep conveniently dying. Or the fact that one of the central players in said conspiracy is now the president of the US, and has surrounded himself with government paid lawyers and politicians, in a so-far-successful bid to insulate himself and other billionaires from legal trouble associated with raping children.

          But maybe there will be another spark who knows?

      • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 day ago

        Together, we must all draw a line, and say this far and no further whether it effects me or not. Unfortunately my line is far crossed.

    • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      “Keep it nonviolent” while they use you for target practice.

      Fuck man. We all know the only way this actually changes and it sure as shit isn’t with all of us holding hands and talking about how what they are doing makes us feel inside.

    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      I’m not confused. Shoot the tyrants. The time for violence was when corporations and politicians agreed bribery was legal. And before that when the housing market was turned into a circle jerk, and before that when the cops decided because of the Rodney King riots they needed military gear, and before that when Reagan rat fucked the world by making the petrodollar, and before that when companies thought they could pay people in funny money. Violence is the tool of the masses when their leaders think themselves above all else. You haven’t been taught that because its the only thing keeping capitalism running.

      • chaogomu@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 day ago

        If you’re so gung ho for violence, then go do it.

        But that’s counter productive right now.

        Fuck for all I know, you’re an agent provocateur with that shit.

        Do you honestly believe that the tyrants will die easy? or that the military and police will stand aside before the actual tipping point is reached?

        No, all you’re doing is telling people to go commit suicide by cop, so that the cops will have another excuse to crack down on left wing groups.

        • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 day ago

          If you think this is some sort of gotcha, its not. When people can’t eat cause of Trump’s policies it will happen on its own.

          • chaogomu@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            21 hours ago

            That’s the tipping point, when the police and military stand aside.

            MAGA will not, but every successful revolution has the police and military mostly stand aside or join in.

            Until that happens, likely after the election, you should either bunker down or preferably get out and peacefully protest.