Palpatine thinks he is relevant to this.

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    I get that he has to fight this, for political reasons, but this is the dumbest fucking rebuttal ever

    What he’s targeting here is private citizens with no legislative purpose. I think it’s completely and totally inappropriate,” McConnell said at a press conference Tuesday

    The Supreme Court is hardly your average citizen and Congress absolutely has reasons to investigate potential corrupt in the Supreme Court.

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      Targeting a private citizen who was involved in bribing members of the Supreme Court of the United States. Somehow I think that second part might be relevant to Congress subpoenaing that “poor wittle pwivate citizen”

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        Also, calling billionaires “private citizens” seems wrong to me. If you’ve managed to hoard enough wealth to make a Tolkien dragon envious, you’re no longer a “private citizen” in my book. If I became an immortal being when Christ was born, started saving $10,000 a day every day, didn’t spend a single dime, and STILL don’t have your net worth today, over 2,000 years later - then fuck you - you’re not a “private citizen” you’re a god damn plague upon society that should be counting your blessings that guillotines went out of style a few centuries ago. As far as I’m concerned, billionaires should be in front of Congress every day explaining why they should be allowed to exist.

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          should be in front of Congress every day explaining why they should be allowed to exist.

          …once, until they’re entirely abolished. Billionaires are a policy failure.

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      Congress is literally tasked with setting up the court system in the constitution. Through, you know, legislation. He’s talking out of his ass.

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      also weird since he definitely thought it was worth it to probe hunter biden despite being a private citizen

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      It’s the billionaires he is saying are private citizens, he’s trying to protect his doners from humiliation