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Re: Trump pardons convicted Binance founder

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The pardon power has been so abused these past few administrations that it's clear there should be constitutional changes in the pardon power, either congressional review, or strip it altogether.

Which congress do you want doing that review? The past several congresses have been unqualified to do any sort of constitutional reviewing in my opinion.

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I cannot comprehend how half of Americans are fine with this corrupt leader? He even does this bizarre maffia like deals out in the open for his own interest, that's how confident he is no one will say anything The message is clear from his circus administration, you can do anything as long as you bribe them

>I cannot comprehend how half of Americans are fine with this corrupt leader?

Don't think fox news is going to report that he enriched the prez...

Re: Trump pardons convicted Binance founder

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I cannot comprehend how half of Americans are fine with this corrupt leader? He even does this bizarre maffia like deals out in the open for his own interest, that's how confident he is no one will say anything The message is clear from his circus administration, you can do anything as long as you bribe them

Hi, Trump voter here. I'm NOT fine with this.

People are going to pile on you for not seeing this coming, but I really do appreciate your ability to change your mind and tell people about it.

People need space to make a U-turn. I hope you get some grace because it's a lot easier to say "I told you so" than "I was wrong."

Re: Trump pardons convicted Binance founder

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I cannot comprehend how half of Americans are fine with this corrupt leader? He even does this bizarre maffia like deals out in the open for his own interest, that's how confident he is no one will say anything The message is clear from his circus administration, you can do anything as long as you bribe them

Hi, Trump voter here. I'm NOT fine with this.

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Re: Trump pardons convicted Binance founder

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It's not half. I think close to 32% were fully supportive (voted for him) and around 36% sat at home or abstained, but in practicality they basically said they were fine with whoever won. I don't know which is worse, that 32% were in support of the corrupt leader or that 68% in total are either supported him or didn't care enough to support anyone else

> around 36% sat at home or abstained, but in practicality they basically said they were fine with whoever won. Or, they were not fine with whoever won. We've got two abismal parties to choose from. Yes, there's an agument for voting for the lesser of two evils, but it's not a great one. I'd like to believe at least some of those 36% would vote for a decent candidate/party. But once you lose faith in the system, and…

By not voting, you are clearly saying you are fine with whoever wins. If you were not fine with whoever wins, you would have voted for someone, anyone else.

Re: Trump pardons convicted Binance founder

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I cannot comprehend how half of Americans are fine with this corrupt leader? He even does this bizarre maffia like deals out in the open for his own interest, that's how confident he is no one will say anything The message is clear from his circus administration, you can do anything as long as you bribe them

Americans cannot accept they have a corrupt government lead by a corrupt politician who is now corrupting the justice system. They prefer to continue propagating the myth of a "healthy democracy" and "open market".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias explains so much of our world.

Re: Trump pardons convicted Binance founder

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Nope, Biden pardoning his son was also widely condemned across the political spectrum as an abuse of the pardon power.

Truly don’t understand the equivalence here.

I will help: people don't like it when the presidential pardon is used for self-serving shit.

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In many parts of Europe a couple of strikes would have taken place. Usans are numb or has no social conscience and muscle.

We inspired the French revolution and had a 7-million-person protest this past weekend.

Re: Trump pardons convicted Binance founder

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I mean, we shut down the government and so now we're just waiting (a year) for the midterms. What else do you expect people to do? Among other things, people are constantly challenging Trump in court and have reversed many of his policies. For example, my passport needed to be renewed this year and he signed an executive order saying I couldn't get an accurate one. The ACLU sued him and now I have an accurate passpor…

I'm from the UK and don't understand what you mean by accurate passport? Would you mind explaining?

It's about a question of if you get to decide the "sex" or "gender" field on your own documents or does the government get to decide and give you no input and no recourse.
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