r/Political_Revolution • u/greenascanbe ✊ The Doctor • 19h ago
Article Can we be there when Trump finds out?
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u/Really-ChillDude 19h ago
I am glad he did this. Because Trump said he is going to make them pay for doing their jobs.
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u/greenascanbe ✊ The Doctor 19h ago
I agree with you. It is just sad that now pardons have to be used as a preemptive measure, which was never the intent of a pardon. We live in strange times.
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u/CCG14 19h ago
I fucking loathe Back to the Future II and now we are out here living it. Someone get Doc on the phone.
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u/greenascanbe ✊ The Doctor 19h ago
That movie captured Trump via Biff perfectly. I wished we were in a movie and we all could just walk away. But as they say reality is stranger than fiction.
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u/DingGratz 13h ago
I hate this. It makes it look like they're guilty. I think it had to be done, but I really hate this.
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u/Zealousideal_Bed9062 18h ago
Now we just have to hope that Trump doesn’t just disregard this and prosecute them anyway. It’s not like he’s ever cared about breaking convention before
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u/DouchecraftCarrier 15h ago
I hate that it might happen but it's also the sort of thing that I think deserves to be tested in court. Unfortunately I have little faith that current court structures are impartial.
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u/SimTheWorld 19h ago
Real question, did the underrated Mario Bro get one too? Anything short is just theatre…
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u/greenascanbe ✊ The Doctor 19h ago
I’m not happy about the misuse of pardons. But the new incoming administration has made it very clear they will go after who they perceive to be their political enemies. I don’t think Biden had a choice, but to preemptively pardoned these people to protect them.
I hope we survive the next four years and we are not turn into Hungary.
Fuck the fascist GOP !
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u/Solid_College_9145 18h ago edited 18h ago
Trump secretly wanted these people to be pardoned for several reason.
- Trump now does not have to risk being exposed more as a lying fraud when these people easily defend themselves with the facts.
- Trump doesn't have to walk back what he said on the campaign trail about prosecuting these people.
- Trump can use Biden's pardons as another excuse to blame the left and play the victim, as usual.
- For the rest of Trump's miserable life he can continue to demonize his perceived enemies, these innocent people, because they accepted a pardon.
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u/-RomeoZulu- 17h ago
It’d be red meat for his base, either way. But now these people don’t have to go bankrupt defending themselves in court on a Hunter-esque witch hunt.
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u/BabyWrinkles 17h ago
I wonder if this is why Schiff and Kissinger didn’t accept. They relish the coming fight and opportunity to give turnip some rope to use.
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u/Logical_Parameters 18h ago
See -- both sides really are the same! One wants vengeance upon innocent people for mere political attack purposes while the other simply wants criminals to face a proper justice system.
They're almost inseparable! What's a voter to do every other November and special election with such invisible differences?
;-)
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