• Avicenna@lemmy.world
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    what is the end game here? Is he gonna say “look sex trafficking isn’t all that bad, if it was so bad they wouldn’t let him go would they? you should all forget about these Epstein files, it is not a biggie”

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      trumps planning to renovate/build a room that cost 200mil in the white house and decorate with all the gaudy gold plated room.

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    So, Diddy’s made a donation to Donny’s PAC. That’s the way it’s worked with so many other pardons anyway, naked corruption.

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    Pardons should be reserved solely for crimes against the state or crimes committed in service to eh state. Crimes against individuals by other individuals should not be pardonable.

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      Normally the function of pardoning was self-regulating in that the media would exscoriate any President who did it in such an abusive way and the electorate would punish them and their party accordingly at the ballot box.

      But corruption has become normalized and media has been completely hijacked by billionaires that reality isn’t so clear cut as it once was.

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        Reality is still clear cut people just choose to ignore it.

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      unfortunately presidential pardons have almost no restrictions, except a few. of course the republican congress wont stop trump.

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        The biggest limit is it can only apply to federal crimes. I’m sure Diddy had to have broken some state crimes in all that.

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      Well, I dunno. Pardons are good when the justice system fails and locks up innocent people for decades. The burden of proof on appeals is set so high that the appeals system is broken in and of itself. Think about all the racially motivated prosecutions throughout the years, the unjustly prosecuted anarchists, the bribed juries, the kangaroo court shenanigans, etc. How many stories have we heard of cops badgering the wrong person for dozens of hours in interrogation until they got false confessions? All because cops’ egos are so absurd that they refuse to admit they might have come to the wrong conclusions with incomplete information. I’m all for pardons in crimes against individuals. The problems isn’t in the case structure, it’s in the person doling out the pardons.

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    We can’t even do franchises properly. There is no way he would recruit Bill Clinton. This is like forming the Justice League but not including Superman.

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    It’s totally off the rails - releasing criminals and rapists. I don’t know if true but I just read he is spending a stupid amount to build a gold plated ballroom in the white house? All while openly screwing the public and tariff taxing the American people and bragging about it on an official wh post to the tune of over 150bn. People en masse being dissapeared ? We’re cooked.

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      Wowowow that’s a call for violence buddy and violence is bad!

      Try talking to the pedophiles and ask them to stop being fucking children. If that doesn’t work you can try a protest - may I suggest ping pong paddles? They won’t be as heavy to hold as a wooden sign.