Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
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“I won’t do it tonight because I don’t want to cause any controversy.”
If only he applied that metric to every feckin’ thing that dribbles out of his face hole or gets tiny-fingered in to his tweeter bleed.
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After contemplating both NYT and WoPo’s articles, I am non wiser on some things: who appealed for the pardon, and when? I thought after reading an editorial in the WaPo last week that there was no such appeal, so did the president act on his own accord on this? Also, if there was an established way (via the DoJ) which now was bypassed, does that have any legal implication?
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It’s a smokescreen. Don’t look at that Russian stuff over there. Look Here! Doesn’t that just piss you off that I did that?
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I decided some time ago to never again visit the US. Looks like I made the right decision. Too bad, America, you were once pretty decent.
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As I understand it that event was officially a “campaign rally” (why a president in his first year in office needs a campaign rally is another story…) and so if he announced official presidential stuff there then it would be in violation of campaign rules.
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It’s Friday. Clearly they have an arrangement with daddy that he can do the worst stuff on the Sabbath whilst they’re being conveniently religious. Then on Monday they can let it be known through ‘sources’ that they’re ‘disappointed’.
That way, Trump gets to do do what he wants and Ivanka gets to burnish her image as being a moderating influence whilst in reality she is wholly complicit with every action that goes on in the White House.
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They happen quite regularly, but they tend to be low profile cases. The most famous early pardon was Ford’s pardoning of Nixon after about a month in the White House.
What’s unusual about this one is that Arpaio is a high profile case and that the DoJ wasn’t involved.
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It’s weird that people with libertarian leanings can also embrace papers-please authoritarian law enforcement, even when it violates the Bill of Rights. More so because they’re also big believers in slippery slopes.
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Libertarians are just fascists with different sheen. Both ideologies are might makes right, capitalism should run society, if you fail you’re an untermensch and deserve it. All the horseshit about “you have the freedom to succeed!” is just a veneer over their social darwinian.
They also get really mad when you compare their fascist ideals to fascism and brigade your posts, so be careful about comparing nazi supporters, whoops, there I go again, free speech enthusiasts, to nazis.
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The original libertarians weren’t
But then the right wing stole the term in the 1950s to 60s. It’s not a lost battle in Europe though.
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Know all about that, hear about it every time I denounce libertarians, really don’t care because not relevant to the discussion here. Everybody knows which type we’re talking about because it’s 2017 and left libertarians have called themselves Anarcho Socialists for about fifty years longer than the Libertarians “stole” the word.
It’s why the fascists are trying to be hip and with it by calling themselves Anarcho-Capitalists.
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THIS. Also likely hoping that if hurricane response is godawful after the fact due to a half staffed govt, then the news will be too busy on this.
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Ideal libertarianism isn’t anything like that. But the label has been co-opted by people like the Koch brothers to serve their own ends (seriously, one of the Kochs actually ran for vice-president on the Libertarian party ticket). Here’s a related article that is very timely:
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Maybe. I think a direct challenge may be possible, based on separation of powers. The linked article is a good explainer on that.
Reason recently published an op-ed asserting thay fascists and anti-fascists are on the same side. Which in my mind is akin to claiming “bacterial infections and antibiotics are on the same side” or “the Black Panthers are White Supremacists” or “firefighters are indistinguishable from arsonists.”
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The image accompanying this story at The Washington Post appears to capture Arpaio experiencing some momentary foreboding, as if he is calculating the REAL cost of what his “Get Out of Jail Free” card will be…
Yeah, this is unprecedented, as he ignored proper procedure and gave a pardon for violation of a court injunction. New, ugly territory.
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Well, tehnically not nothing, but yeah, it’s more about whether they want to or not.
Yea, but as the impeachable offenses start stacking up, it gives more ammunition to those who want to go that way, and more pressure on those who don’t.
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I never understood why Trump’s use of immigrant labor to steal jobs from good, hardworking, American nazis was so readily accepted.
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