Marine Le Pen, far-right French xenophobe, was found guilty of embezzlement today. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is currently on trial, again, for shenanigans with Libya. It seems as though France holds its leaders and wanna-be leaders accountable when they do wrong.

Let's go back to Le Pen: Over on this side of the pond, we re-elected an adjudicated rapist who is guilty of 34 felonies. He's responsible for almost a million deaths from Covid and was impeached TWICE. He stole classified documents and he led an insurrection of our nation's Capitol. That's the stuff we know of.

He never should have been able to run for office again, yet here we are. We are looking down the barrel of an autocracy. Things work when leaders are held accountable. Some people should be punished for their crimes and be held accountable for future ones like France did. That's how you send a warning.

Here in America, we reward bad behavior of rich people. There needs to be accountability. That's how things work.

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Raine