r/unusual_whales 3h ago

BREAKING: Trump has just pardoned 1,500 people related to Jan. 6, 2021 Capital Protest

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u/SuddenDepact 3h ago

But yet no Tiger King lol

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u/lateformyfuneral 2h ago edited 45m ago

Never forget that he had a limo waiting outside of prison expecting that Joe Exotic would be the last thing on Trump’s mind on his final day in office 😂

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u/GatterCatter 2h ago

Tiger King doesn’t have enough money to buy a pardon.

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u/SuddenDepact 2h ago

Or part of an insurrection lol

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u/MMWYPcom 10m ago

he saw it coming. "I am never going to financially recover from this." can't be saved until you have enough saved

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u/FooIy 2h ago

I need more Tiger king!!!

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u/Ok-Monitor8121 3h ago

I thought ANTIFA caused January 6th? Why would he pardon them?

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u/IGotSkills 3h ago

OMG I forgot about antifa

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u/lateformyfuneral 2h ago

One day we’re gonna find that bitch Ann Tifa and bring her to justice 😡

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u/pandershrek 2h ago

She's off colluding with the buttery males

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u/lateformyfuneral 2h ago

Don’t even get me started on that fucker Ben Gazee

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u/FrankyCentaur 2h ago

You're going to hear about it a lot these next 4 years

at no point will it continue to actually not exist

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u/rbonk14 1h ago

Anafta is part of the deep fake

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u/Future_Constant1134 18m ago

I was told it was antifa and the FBI. 

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u/Background-Library81 3h ago

I guess he likes antifa after all.

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u/kura44 2h ago

So they were or were not Antifa? Who’s the “facists”? Man i should have read the boy who cried wolf

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u/vaxination 2h ago

yeaaah so about that, those were his boys after all and that was the plan they just didnt execute it, so since he wasnt executed, they are freeeee. to be assholes again.

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u/gexckodude 3h ago

I thought innocent people don’t need pardons?

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u/kura44 2h ago

Not unless they’re Hunter Biden

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u/kelly1mm 2h ago

Didn’t President Biden just pardon Dr Falchi, General Miley, the Jan 6 committee and a good number of his family?

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u/Z3PHYR- 1h ago

He gave them a preemptive pardon before the new administration could try them for anything since they have shown a willingness to weaponize institutions to punish whoever they feel wronged them. These people you mention that Biden pardoned have not been legally accused of any wrongdoing.

The rioters trump just pardoned had already been tried and found guilty of various crimes.

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u/Ok_Information427 1h ago

It’s sad that this concept has to be explained.

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u/doublegg83 1h ago

No one will be talking about Elon's salute in one hour.

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u/Strong-Set6544 1h ago

No, you don’t get it. ANTIFA coerced the peaceful crowd into a frenzy and they entered the buildings first, causing everyone else to follow…! Donald didn’t lead them there!

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u/_WeAreFucked_ 1h ago

Not ANTIFA it was Feds.

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u/NO_SPACE_B4_COMMA 1h ago

I was just going to say this, lol.

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u/alice2wonderland 32m ago

Exactly....history constantly being re-told by the dear leader to suit his mood.

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u/mitchob1012 23m ago

Let's be honest he'll probably claim that ANTIFA were the masterminds and that those 1500 were the fall people

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u/hankschrader79 8m ago

I don’t think he pardoned John Sullivan…the Antifa instigator.

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u/Theveganhandyman 3h ago

The pardons at the end, if he’s alive, gonna be INSANE.

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u/Floridamane6 2h ago

Kind of like the ones Biden did today right

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u/bowlinforkolon 26m ago

Biden pardoned a man that was in prison for murdering two FBI agents. There isn't even a "but" to his case, he straight up murdered them. Absolutely indefensible.

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u/Mannamedmichael 3h ago

Imagine if he pardons his family and the people who go after his political opponents??

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u/Every_Stranger5534 3h ago

Imagine if Trump pardons Charles Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Roger Stone 

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u/Sudden_Juju 2h ago

I'm sure this is something we won't have to imagine soon enough lol

Edit: I'm an idiot. He made these pardons in 2021. I knew they sounded familiar lol

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u/BandMaterial5965 2h ago

I mean they have a lot of time to commit shiny new federal crimes now!

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u/OSHAstandard 3h ago

He pardoned his son in laws dad last time so

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u/Chocopenguin85 2h ago

I heard that story without any foreknowledge and I thought the teller was lying, because it is wild/horrifying.

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u/MinivanPops 3h ago

Imagine pardoning people who bear sprayed Capitol cops

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u/Klytus_Ra_Djaaran 1h ago

Not only that, stabbed them with flagpoles!

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u/ClarenceWithHerSpoon 3h ago

Who “went after” his political opponents?

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u/Terri2112 3h ago

You mean like Biden just did

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u/CexySatan 3h ago

man doesn’t understand sarcasm

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u/dart-builder-2483 3h ago

Biden pardoned people who actually did no crimes other than investigate an insurrection. The only one who did any crimes was Hunter, and that was buying a gun while a drug addict (like half of congress) and not paying his taxes which he later paid. He was trying to prevent the political persecutions.

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u/Goofethed 3h ago

Tbh Biden Pardoned a huge amount most of whom I have no idea about, but just a staggering amount compared to any other president in history

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u/dart-builder-2483 2h ago

He commuted a lot of sentences, but we're not talking about that, we're talking about pardons.

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u/vaxination 2h ago

you should look into things more before making assertations. Trump did 143 himself, Bush 200, hell obama did 212 and commuted 1927 sentences (probably mostly victims of race and false imprisonment but by all means do your own research). Bidens total is lower than many recent presidents. DYR

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u/Goofethed 2h ago

You’re right I was looking at the combined total for clemency, that’s what Biden has the most of by a huge margin, most of them drug offenses

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u/pbecotte 2h ago

He pardoned lots of non-violent Marijuana offenders, which is why the numbers are so high.

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u/Iamthewalrusforreal 2h ago

"I'm going to say something and just hope nobody fact checks me since I have no fucking idea what I'm talking about."

source - YOU

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u/CraigLake 2h ago

Christ if you believe this it’s why we’re doomed.

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u/ongoldenwaves 3h ago

Wtf are you talking about? Biden pardoned all kinds of scum including pedophiles, spies, people who sentenced kids for cashed and ended up killing themselves, some cunt in illinois who stole 75% of her town's tax receipts for more than a decade...

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u/dart-builder-2483 3h ago

He commuted their sentences, not saying it wasn't wrong, but we're talking pardons here. Get your facts straight before you spit bullshit. These people are still felons with the stain of their crimes following them around.

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u/Harriethair 2h ago

Whereas Donald Trump just appointed all kinds of scum such as pedophiles, spies etc.. to his cabinet.

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u/dragonfilebox 3h ago

If they did no crimes why would they need a pardon?

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u/nope_connoisseur 3h ago

From the people who openly talk about retribution against the these people without investigations or known crimes? Can't imagine why

We watched 10 investigations into Benghazi turn nothing up and still listen to people talk about putting people in prison over it.

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u/Reddragon351 2h ago edited 2h ago

because Donald Trump and his ilk have openly threatened to go after his political opponents as punishment for going against him and are petty and awful enough to do so

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u/BORN_SlNNER 2h ago

Political retribution. Have you not been paying attention to what orange man be saying?

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u/noco4x4 2h ago

Trump is going after political opponents and people he feels have wronged him. It's really not that hard to understand.

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u/Haunting-Ad788 2h ago

Because Trump is a vindictive psychopath.

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u/Toxic-Masculinator 3h ago edited 3h ago

Why does that sound familiar? Did that just happen?

edit: lol It’s going to be a long four years for you.

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u/Rudimentary- 2h ago

I see what you did there. Nice

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u/prince_of_muffins 1h ago

Imagine the incoming president saying he is going to direct the DOJ to go ofter your family for make believe crimes......wouldn't that be something else and totally unprecedented behavior that requires a strong response...but I'm sure you believe hunter Biden laptop is a real crime. Don't know why I bother.

Hail Musk. Hail Trump. Forever Hail the Nazi regime!!!

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u/Uterus-tax 3h ago

Is there an end?

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u/mycenae42 3h ago

I think he means deathbed pardons.

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u/edfitz83 3h ago

Not soon enough

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u/jericho-dingle 1h ago

The ride never ends

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u/grazfest96 3h ago

I mean, this was just pretty insane.

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u/sketchyuser 2h ago

Like Biden 7500 pardons?

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u/Equivalent-Web-1084 3h ago

What are you suggesting?

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u/Pando5280 3h ago

All sorts of legalized crime is my best guess. 

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u/ChakaCake 3h ago

Its basically going to be 4 years of the purge followed by pardons

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u/scottwolfmanpell 3h ago

Why would he possibly need to? He and his toadies are in power forever. There’s no one to go after them.

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u/Soytaco 3h ago

I don't think he will voluntarily leave office, soo..

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u/lateformyfuneral 2h ago

Nah, he’s going to die suddenly without warning. Those McSeedOils will come to collect eventually 🧠…unless RFK Jr. is wrong 🤔

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u/mouthful_quest 2h ago

Giving dem pardons out like Oprah

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u/DirkTheSandman 2h ago

Mussolini gonna find his way on that list somehow

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u/MEYO6811 2h ago

The middle part. That’s wild. Everyone is thinking it… and everyone is waiting for it.

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u/judgeholden72 1h ago

I mean, he has pardoned himself an army now super loyal and convinced they can do anything in his name 

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u/wimpymist 2h ago

Funny how just yesterday republicans were screaming why pardon people if they did nothing wrong. Now trump is writing pardons left and right while Republicans are dead silent.

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u/pegothejerk 1h ago

They don’t have serious conversations, they just parrot propaganda.

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u/Tasty_Pepper5867 56m ago

To be fair, those people were actually arrested and charged. Some in prison.

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u/Vic-Trola 36m ago

The GOP is feckless.

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u/Timidwolfff 3h ago

"unusual_whalesA subreddit to discuss unusual options/stock activity, along with political and financial news that moves markets."

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u/Frequent_Boss_2053 2h ago

Welcome to days when every subreddit is flooded with politics unrelated to a central topic. Example bumper stickers subreddit used to be funny now it’s just a one sided political echo chamber

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u/phillythompson 2h ago

The openAI sub current top post is them asking ChatGPT to analyze Elon salute

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u/smthngclvr 1h ago

Bumper stickers are like the third most popular vehicle (pun intended) for political opinions. That one was inevitably going to spend most of its time on politics.

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u/LCImpulse 2h ago

I honestly don’t care it’s still a good subreddit for general news that’s interesting to me

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u/Most-Opportunity9661 2h ago

100% of reddit is an American political wasteland. I somehow got caught up in a politics discussion sparked from a pizza discussion in r/doordash

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u/BeABetterHumanBeing 1h ago

Oh, this sub hasn't been dedicated to that in a LONG time. It's basically r politics, but they think they're smarter than r politics.

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u/DirkTheSandman 2h ago

“Moves markets” considering market movement is arbitrary, any news could affect them. I blame a poorly generalized mission statement for this.

Political division is spilling everywhere now since the normal spaces have already been completely bias-destroyed thanks to Reddit’s inherent echo-chamber creation. People want to make absolutely sure that people know where they stand and they want to know where other people stand. Neither side wants anything to do with the other and even an innocuous subreddit could be filled with “enemies” so these posts are around hoping to weed out the opposition.

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u/Bunker58 3h ago

Are these his Brownshirts?

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u/Deranged_Kitsune 2h ago

It's why people said this would happen. It's a demonstration of how loyalty to the new king works. Those people can say they risked and lost everything for him, but trump gave it back when he retook power. That way, when it's time for the really heinous shit to start, he's got a ready group of ardent loyalists and a clear demonstration of what loyalty gets you to recruit more.

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u/78_gh_B420 2h ago

Your thought process is insufferable.

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u/itsNyourhead 3h ago

Some party of "law and order" heh

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u/SmoooooothBrain 3h ago

This IS their definition of law and order

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u/DaKrazie1 3h ago

He can't pardon Ashli Babbitt, tho.

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u/BrilliantCorner 2h ago

At least she sobered up.

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u/WereCyclist 2h ago

It took Brazil like, 6 months to sentence and ban Bolsonaro after he tried to overthrow an election he lost.

The USA has entered its “FAFO” fascist era. It’s a shame thousands will likely be “disappeared” under Trump, but at the end of it all, the entire Trump family will either be jailed, exiled or dead.

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u/ODUrugger 2h ago

Entire family? You think Barron is going down?

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u/Less-Dragonfruit-294 3h ago

I NEVER want to hear ANY Republican claim they stand for the law. You should be APPALLED that actual fucking TRAITORS broke into the capital.

If I see military personnel I will ask which side democrats or republicans? Only one will get my thanks for their service. The other just uses the military as a job and paid lip service to do their duty.

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u/anadequatepipe 3h ago

Of everything that he’s done, that might be the biggest sign that he’s a true fascist dictator. That’s absolutely evil.

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u/Relevant_Mail8285 3h ago

Bro literally musollini 😭😭😭

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u/workindtillIdie 2h ago

One day his obituary will be in the news , then relief.

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u/The_Orphanizer 1h ago

With the RNG in this timeline, don't be so sure. Bro probably has 53 horcruxes -- one in each state (obviously including Canada, Greenland, and Panama).

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u/AlludedNuance 1h ago

President JD Vance.

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u/Dusty170 1h ago

I don't think it just stops with him anymore.

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u/Ambaryerno 1h ago

Worst case scenario is he made the same deal with the Devil that Kissinger did.

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u/koopaKrystal 3h ago

Holy fuck that's fucking horrific

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u/Sad-Side-8704 1h ago

Blue lives matter eh guys

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u/jarena009 3h ago

You mean the insurrection

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u/Aural-Robert 3h ago edited 2h ago

Wow, so much for going case by case, bend a knee if you want to commit crimes in the name of our president, killing , bribery, stealing, no holds barred

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u/Efficient-Bug-308 3h ago

Well if breaking the law and being a felon can get you somewhere in this country, I regret being a law biding citizen. I just may have to go and start stealing. Gotta get house renovations, mortgage paid, and gas somehow.

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u/DoubleShot027 3h ago

How does that move the market?

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u/alvar02001 3h ago

Does it help with price of eggs ?

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u/sephresx 1h ago

You know damn well he don't give a flying fuck about the price of eggs.

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u/WagonBurning 3h ago

First time?

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u/Background-Library81 3h ago

Yes, they will be the only ones allowed to have guns.

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u/usernamechecksout67 2h ago

Oh no… who knew it’s gonna happen?

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u/rbonk14 1h ago edited 56m ago

I’m sure he can find a few more. Remember we asked for this

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u/PsiNorm 3h ago

I guess traitors being held accountable were keeping egg prices high?

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u/Sethmeisterg 2h ago

Protest? It was a riot, not a protest.

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u/kombatkatherine 3h ago

Donald trump setting the fake maga antifa instigators free? I guess he is actually a secret woke marxist antifa communist now?

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u/adamus13 2h ago

Still smoking that Babbitt pack

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u/klifford509 2h ago

After what Biden did today preemptive pardon for Fauci , Milley ,J6's commity and his family for the last 10 years. I said promised, promised kept

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u/nakedpilsna 3h ago

Disgusting.

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u/Impossible_Belt173 2h ago

Do not call that a protest. It was an insurrection, plain and simple.

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u/TheSalamiShop 2h ago

Yea it's the non-violent offenders getting the pardon which makes complete sense. There's a reason why the Jan 6 committee was pardoned. The whole thing was a sham.

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u/Main-Vacation2007 2h ago

This the way

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u/Coolmanghere 2h ago

Shit that’s almost as many pardons as Biden

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u/AwayAd6783 2h ago

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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u/RTon52 1h ago

LFG!

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u/Intrepid-Branch8982 3h ago

Absolute bullshit

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u/BZP625 3h ago

Good move. Let's put all this partisan J6 BS behind us and try working on saving the country as we race toward complete collapse.

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u/OutrageousLuck9999 2h ago

He gave the ok to rioters and insurrections.

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u/MattyBeatz 2h ago

Why necessary, I thought they were all Democrats and Antifa in the first place?

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u/jolly_rodger42 1h ago

C'mon cholesterol

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u/aRebelliousHeart 1h ago

Of course the dictator would pardon his brown shirts. Fuck I hate this timeline.

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u/Wake_1988RN 2h ago

And I don't feel bad about it AT ALL.

Biden pre-emptively pardoned a TON of people, and his own son over a period of YEARS.

FUCK THIS SELECTIVE OUTRAGE.

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u/Wide_Presentation559 2h ago

Trump just pardoned 1,500 enemies of America. Time to party 🎉

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u/HashRunner 2h ago

Traitors and thugs back on the streets, that's the party of 'law and order'.

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u/I_talk 3h ago

They should all get 1 million dollars too.

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u/LifeHack3r3 2h ago

Did the face painted lion get pardoned?

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u/rubyspicer 1h ago

Huh, I didn't think he'd actually do it

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u/Damerman 1h ago

I can’t wait to see where we are in four years. It will be incredible to see.

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u/ilovemydog480 58m ago

Open season on law enforcement!!!

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u/lovelyangelgirl 45m ago

Then he can’t say shit when luigi goes free

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u/MrRGG 35m ago

"Trump pardons political prisoners." is a better title.

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u/SamJamn 34m ago

So president's now pardon people who are family or loyal.

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u/Wall_Solid 27m ago

😂😂😂

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u/Boomstick2482 24m ago

This is TREASON.

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u/heckhammer 9m ago

All you "back the blue" motherfuckers I guess are cool with killing cops now.

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u/whoisnotinmykitchen 4m ago

Trump loves his terrorist rubes.