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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.
As in , I thought the extradition request was to be sent to USA for a trial.
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> barbaric rushed executions Source?
I shouldn't have assumed everyone knew about this. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/15/trump-admini... This story is especially sad. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/05/lisa-montgomer...
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> barbaric rushed executions Source?
Think they're referring to this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55236260
Is this not just a coincidence of scheduling though? Or do courts normally schedule executions for presidential transition periods?
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A. We did not know anything on Nov 3 B. There is a process in the US that involves state electors having their votes counted and certified and the new government installed C. No country in the world instantly swaps governments at election result time.
It's pretty swift in a number of European countries, days not weeks. Fact is the civil service is not being swapped, just the political leaders of the departments. Perfectly fine to just swap ministers in a matter of days.
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Don't forget to have the additionally-pardoned Michael Liberty join the efforts to attract investors. Over $50 million defrauded [0][2] from investors, and it wasn't his first rodeo with the SEC[1]. [0]: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2018/lr24092.htm [1]: https://www.pressherald.com/2016/11/30/sec-charges-ex-maine-... [2]: https://www.pressherald.com/2018/04/02/liberty-in-sec-crossh...
...is a Presidential pardon final come the next Administration? Or has that not really been tested in court?
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.
The comedy of it all, is that Trump running was merely an arrangement with his former pals the Clintons (arranged in a phone conversation with Bill Clinton prior to declaring [1]). He was supposed to just target and knock off Jeb Bush as a favor. The reality TV style name attack gimmick (low energy Jeb, sleepy Joe, etc) worked so well that it became clear there was a runway to the Presidency and he took it.
Trump is a populist opportunist narcissist, all in one. Party is irrelevant to him, he isn't a partisan at all. He would have happily run as a Democrat - which is what he was previously - if he could have gotten to the Presidency easier that way.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150819083634/https://www.washi...
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>kids in cages, wtf?!?) I'm sure you've heard this before, but Obama built the cages.
> I'm sure you've heard this before, but Obama built the cages. I'm sure you've heard this before, but Obama implemented policies to limit the necessity for their use, while the Trump Administration deliberately maximized their use.
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The "ok" hand sign isn't a white power sign just because some people have decided it to be. It's meant ok since as long as anyone can remember. I'm not willing to accept I can't say okay now because some liberal thinkers have decided that that's now become racist. People need to lighten up a bit and not make everything an affront.
The white supremacy sign is a white power sign because white supremacists use it to signal each other. It is called a "dog whistle" because people like you cannot hear it accurately.
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Or you can use context instead of absolute judgment. When done under water in a scuba suit, it probably means ok. When done when posing with Steve Bannon it probably means white power sign.
Having researched the issue carefully [0] I would suggest there is an alternative symbolic interpretation. One that goes something like "our opponents believe anything they read on the internet". Even if it is used extensively as a political symbol, it doesn't represent white power. It represents a political sub-group disrespecting their opposition for being gullible. Insofar as it even could represent white power -…
As for white power not being associated with anything heinous, yeah "Hail victory" also sounds good. Who doesn't want victory?
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'm not entirely sure that it was possible to pardon Assange as he hasn't been convicted with anything yet? As in , I thought the extradition request was to be sent to USA for a trial.
Trump pardoned Steve Bannon for example and he has not yet been convicted (he has been charged). Assange has been charged with various things by the Feds, which is what Trump would pardon. The floated theory went that Trump could plausibly pardon himself as well, for any likely future charges.