My new piece for @brennancenter.bsky.social: Trump will turn the pardon power on its head if he uses it to reward people who tried to ignite an insurrection and came very close to succeeding. Pardoning the insurrectionists is support for the insurrection itself. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trump-pardoning-jan-6-insurrectionists-would-endorse-attacks-democracy
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He’s Anthony Vo from Indiana- come get him and maybe earn a buck or two.
Seriously, anyone who comes up here and gets him and takes him back to the US and turns him in is my hero.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-capitol-riot-antony-vo-disappears/
Why is the DOJ not trying to get him shipped back to the US ?
He has the authority n has said he will pardon them.
Project 2025 is underway n the Rule of Law is going away.
F trump and fELON
Julius Caesar rewarded his warriors with plunder and power if they survived return to Rome. How will the orange one reward his warriors?
Imo
Narrator (off-stage to AG Garland sitting alone in the audience):
- It WAS an insurrection
- There WERE guns
The president shouldn't have a pardoning power at all. They are civil servants.
The static, un-moving nature of the US government leaves them with centuries old near deity status in a world that it disgusts.
We all know that but there is probably an audience who needs to be reminded.
These next 4 years, & if the Democratic Party can’t figure out their shit maybe even more, might undo almost everything we’ve built and accomplished in the 20th century.
And that’s their goal.
It's
a
coup
We can expect him to do whatever he can to turn traitors into heros.
Blue MAGA is just as delusional as Red MAGA.
and will feel liberated to recreate their mayhem anywhere in US without consequences.
They’ll be driving those trucks through crowds. Why? Cause trump said they could.
What are these damn politicians so afraid of? Grow a set will you?
If accountability for insurrection didn't exist then there wouldn't be language in the Constitution to address it
He IS DISQUALIFIED
He disqualified himself
#14thNOW
https://nowmarch.org
Sorry, that's weak.
It's a message from an authoritarian. (No "would be".)
It's a clear message the violence in favor of the regime will be rewarded, and encouraged.
It's another critical wound to the Rule of Law.
And we all just said, well okay.
Let's let that sink in.
I do not believe the court is superior to the Constitution. How is that a founding principle?
The Exorcist
No seriously, they can’t be helped, leave them to die of their own devices. And irony. They can certainly get fucked with irony.
Shock And Dismay After Trump Pardons Blackwater Guards Who Killed 14 Iraqi Civilians
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949679837/shock-and-dismay-after-trump-pardons-blackwater-guards-who-killed-14-iraqi-civil
Will it surprise anyone if the crowds go to The Capitol?
We all know they’re going to end up back in jail for more random violence.
We need to “Willie Horton” Trump. People in red states should be very afraid.
And now our POTUS may declare to the world that it was acceptable and THIS IS acceptable! How we’ve changed 😞
His only regret was that the insurrection was not a success.
So why wouldn’t he endorse it now?
There will be no fear of repercussions for grievous acts against those that Trump deams his enemies.
. . .
Except his aiders and abettors are in charge.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly-newsletter
Repubs SILENCE on
the immorality
of EVERYTHING
surrounding trump…
speaks volumes…
whether they realize it or not.
Every:
HATEFUL word,
VIOLENT act,
ABUSE of power,
BURIED truth,
TWISTED conspiracy…
the “right-wingers” have
accepted, endorsed
and encouraged IT ALL!