341–350 of 996 posts
The actual title is " Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grants of Clemency ". Took a second to realize that the editorialized title is referring to Anthony Levandowski[1] (of Waymo / Google / Uber). Upon first read I just saw the last name and thought it was related to his former campaign chair Corey Lewandowski[2]! [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Levandowski [2]: https://en.wikipedia.…
The fact that even fox news was onboard with pardoning Julian Assange and then he pardons Levandowski is... well ironic is an understatement. I am failing to find a word that encapsulates my feelings.
I was expecting a pardon for Assange if purely because he did Trump a solid during the campaign. I'm guessing it was killed by the national security types in his administration
While he had once entertained the idea, Trump decided against it because he did not want to anger Senate Republicans who will soon determine whether he's convicted during his Senate trial.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/politics/trump-self-pardon-wa...
I wonder how much it cost to buy this pardon.
It's important to note the reason the President has the power to pardon anyone for any reason is it's one of the checks and balances, the Constitution is full of them. It's meant as a check to blunt overzealous prosecutions. Note that the President does not have the corresponding power to convict anyone. An interesting set of pardons was when Andrew Johnson pardoned all the rebels in the Confederacy, including Jeffer…
As a foreigner Presidential pardons + the appointment (and life terms) of Supreme Court judges baffle me. How can a country that claims to be a leader in democracy have these two wildly abused bugs? Edit: fixed use of election instead of appointment
It's much better to be on an nth + 1 republic, let me tell you.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, you're saying it either means "white power" or "we're trolling people to think we mean 'white power'"? As for white power not being associated with anything heinous, yeah "Hail victory" also sounds good. Who doesn't want victory?
The whole thing was started as a deliberate meme by /pol/ to take an innocent, commonly used hand signal and make the left treat it as a white supremacist dogwhistle. So it can mean anything ranging from "ok" to "this will make the libs angry" to "I am an actual nazi among like minded friends". Which one it is must be discerned from context, meaning that the symbol itself is largely meaningless.
White supremacists - Nazis, the KKK, Evropa - love Trump. They use this symbol. Who cares whether someone is "ironically" using a symbol indicating their support for that cause or sincerely?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean serious criminals are being released from prison in CA due to Covid so I’m not sure he’s getting special treatment in that aspect.
What's not serious about stealing and selling trade secrets, jeopardizing life-saving R&D, blatantly disrespecting the law, and walking away with hundreds of millions of dollars expecting not to be caught?
IP laws exist for a good reason, but it's hard to say that he has done serious damage to society.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, I'll volunteer. It's a stupid conspiracy theory, and I have nothing but contempt for it. I use it all the time, and always will, regardless of context or the presence of gullible idiots around me.
Why do you insist and insult the people who are agaisnt the racist people who call out the symbol. If the symbol is so important to you then your fight should be with the actual white supremacists who have co-opted the symbol and not the people who don't let racists get away with recruitment/trolling/owning the libs by flashing their co-opted gang sign. It's like you being furious at black people because your great g…
Because they aren't against racist people. They are pro-idiocy. They're only pro a good thing (being non-racist) by an accident of history and circumstance, certainly not because of sober reflection and empathy. These are the same idiots who would be all in on bullying the Satanic Panic preschool teachers in the 80s, or burning witches ye olden days, or hunting Communists in the 50s
Is there an annotated list of this? I am pretty sure I cannot trust whatever is on that website describing the people pardoned.
The “/s” aside, if granting a pardon, perhaps it’s fair not to go into depth under these names on the badness in their past, as part of the pardon concept is getting beyond that to move forward. Talking up their “good” supports that too.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if the president pardoned literally... everybody. I wonder what would happen. Maybe he got drunk and wrote something down and handed it to somebody. It's such a simple action, nobody can stop it, he can't take it back when he comes to his senses. Would the system even respond to it? Would they just open all the federal prisons?
Pardons don't work like that. They have to actually be delivered to the recipient to be effective. Pardoning everybody would be a massive printing and mailing operation.