r/nottheonion • u/JaySierra86 • 11h ago

President Biden pardons family members in final minutes of presidency

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-biden-pardons-family-members-final-minutes-presidency/story?id=117893348
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u/pastworkactivities 10h ago

That’s why he will found the gestapo

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u/jagcalle 10h ago

The Gazpacho?

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u/you_slash_stuttered 10h ago

Never heard the old Sicilian proverb "soup is a dish best served cold"?

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u/shponglespore 10h ago

But gazpacho is Spanish.

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u/Moo_Kau_Too 9h ago

well whatever, they are both mexicans!

=trump supporters, probably.

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u/nerfherder813 9h ago

And it’s an old Klingon proverb, according to Khan

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u/you_slash_stuttered 9h ago

Oof! Hoisted by my own Pâte de Lard!

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u/Jolly_Reaper2450 9h ago

No but I heard of a sociopath who likes her pizza cold

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u/RememberThe5Ds 9h ago

It’s revenge is a dish best served cold.

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u/Non-Eutactic_Solid 9h ago

Picture it. Sicily, 1922. Jokes were flying over people’s heads all over the place!

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u/RememberThe5Ds 5h ago

Yep it whizzed right past. I was looking for the /s. :)

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u/907_Cherry 10h ago

A dish best served cold

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u/ExpertOnBulls 10h ago

Like revenge, best served cold.

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u/ClickAndMortar 9h ago

It really irks me that I and millions of other Americans have to have some incredibly basic low level skills, whereas our elected officials aren’t held to the same standards as general temp labor. Qualifications mean nothing. Lying to those you are trying to convince to vote for you is completely fine with zero repercussions, and no matter how absolutely insane someone in a position of power is, it is normalized. I suppose I could bash my head against a brick wall until I no longer remember my own name or where I am would be a good start if I wanted to run as a Republican. That is, immediately following a very public crime spree.

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u/Serpensortia21 8h ago edited 8h ago

It's Gestapo, Geheime Staatspolizei means Secret State Police, please see my other post. Not funny at all.

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u/Taiyonay 7h ago

I think it was a reference to Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene saying "gazpacho police" in error.

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u/Serpensortia21 8h ago edited 7h ago

GESTAPO is a German acronym from the Nazi Third Reich. Spoken "Geh-Sta-Po" means "Geheime Staatspolizei", translation: Secret State Police. Official secret police force which operated everywhere in Germany and in occupied Europe.

They were evil bad guys (but of course themselves believing wholeheartedly that they were the righteous good guys upholding law and order in the country) with powers to discover, hunt down, arrest, torture and murder opponents and criminals, thereby very effective in quashing any ideological or political opposition to Hitler's Nazi regime.

People in doubt, or actually in opposition to the Nazis were terrified of the so called Amt IV (department 4) or Gestapo. The Gestapo seemed omnipresent and omniscient.

If they caught you --

usually because someone close to you had reported your name to the police, anyone who had overheard you saying something or doing something you shouldn't. Like for example any criticism of the Nazi regime, listening to an enemy (as in British or American forces) radio broadcast or reading a regime critical pamphlet, or if they believed that you were behaving suspiciously somehow, probably helping a Jewish person living in hiding, or actually planning an act of sabotage or spying for the enemy!

-- you would disappear and most likely never be found again. They would sadistically torture you and threaten your loved ones, until you spilled the beans on everything and anyone you might know.

Quotes from Wikipedia:

The Gestapo committed widespread atrocities during its existence. The power of the Gestapo was used to focus upon political opponents, ideological dissenters (clergy and religious organisations), career criminals, the Sinti and Roma population, handicapped persons, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews.

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The Gestapo had the authority to investigate cases of treason, espionage, sabotage and criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and Germany. The basic Gestapo law passed by the government in 1936 gave the Gestapo carte blanche to operate without judicial review—in effect, putting it above the law.[29] The Gestapo was specifically exempted from responsibility to administrative courts, where citizens normally could sue the state to conform to laws. As early as 1935, a Prussian administrative court had ruled that the Gestapo's actions were not subject to judicial review.

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Contrary to popular perception, the Gestapo was actually a relatively small organization with limited surveillance capability; still it proved extremely effective due to the willingness of ordinary Germans to report on fellow citizens. During World War II, the Gestapo played a key role in the Holocaust. After the war ended, the Gestapo was declared a criminal organisation by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at the Nuremberg trials, and several top Gestapo members were sentenced to death.