• midas22@lemmy.wtf
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    There’s something special with Trump and all his sexual assault and pedophile friends.

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    Add pardons for Keith Raniere, R Kelly and Andrew Tate and there might be enough cover to get away with Maxwell. “I don’t have a favorite sex trafficker, we’re taking care of all of it. I don’t play favorites” - trump, likely.

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    “I’m putting together a team. The best team. The best people–look, there’s a lot of, shall we say, bad folks. Can I say bad folks? The woke don’t like that too much, you can’t say anything nowadays, but if they had it their way, I’d just say that I disagree, but I don’t just disagree, they’re bad folks with bad ideas and they’re very low IQ. The sleepy Joe Biden people were just so incompetent and they left me with nothing and it’s horrible, and they should be arrested for what they’ve done, and I’m gonna look into it. But with these South Park, have you seen this? It’s unbelievable, but the left got to them and now they don’t do Obama anymore, and they make things up about me, and it’s actually not small, not even, like, it’s really quite large, but you won’t hear that because I’m very humble, but I have to tell you that I’ve heard many girls say that it’s not small, and more than they want, and not just from the very young and small girls either, but I shouldn’t talk about that. My lawyers say ‘Sir! Sir! Don’t talk about the young girls!’ but I have a very popular, they can’t keep their hands off me, and what am I supposed to say? ‘No’? ‘Wait until you’re 16, 17, 18’? There’s no, and it’s very unfair how they’re treating me, and it never would’ve happened to any other president. The Clintons were very bad people, both of them, and they don’t even hide it, but it’s always me that gets attacked by the fake news media, and I’ll never get any credit for the deals…
    But which one are you? Kanye or R Kelly? Because I want you both, you could really help me out with the blacks, and I could really help you with the pardon. And perhaps there could be a little get together at the southern white house, and we could talk about things and meet some young girls together, and it’s not gay so long as the balls don’t touch, they say. Many people say that.”

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    Pardons should be reserved solely for crimes against the state or crimes committed in service to eh state. Crimes against individuals by other individuals should not be pardonable.

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      Normally the function of pardoning was self-regulating in that the media would exscoriate any President who did it in such an abusive way and the electorate would punish them and their party accordingly at the ballot box.

      But corruption has become normalized and media has been completely hijacked by billionaires that reality isn’t so clear cut as it once was.

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        Reality is still clear cut people just choose to ignore it.

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      Well, I dunno. Pardons are good when the justice system fails and locks up innocent people for decades. The burden of proof on appeals is set so high that the appeals system is broken in and of itself. Think about all the racially motivated prosecutions throughout the years, the unjustly prosecuted anarchists, the bribed juries, the kangaroo court shenanigans, etc. How many stories have we heard of cops badgering the wrong person for dozens of hours in interrogation until they got false confessions? All because cops’ egos are so absurd that they refuse to admit they might have come to the wrong conclusions with incomplete information. I’m all for pardons in crimes against individuals. The problems isn’t in the case structure, it’s in the person doling out the pardons.

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      unfortunately presidential pardons have almost no restrictions, except a few. of course the republican congress wont stop trump.

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        The biggest limit is it can only apply to federal crimes. I’m sure Diddy had to have broken some state crimes in all that.

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      trumps planning to renovate/build a room that cost 200mil in the white house and decorate with all the gaudy gold plated room.

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    It’s totally off the rails - releasing criminals and rapists. I don’t know if true but I just read he is spending a stupid amount to build a gold plated ballroom in the white house? All while openly screwing the public and tariff taxing the American people and bragging about it on an official wh post to the tune of over 150bn. People en masse being dissapeared ? We’re cooked.

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    pedophile avengers, the Winter rapist, 2nd installment: pedophile avengers, epstein list civil war, finally: Pedophile avengers, endgame where all Pedophiles try to throw each other under the bus to save themselves.

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    “Honey, we have to move.”

    “Why? The kids like it here, and they’ve settled in nicely at school.”

    “A MAGA is moving in next door.”

    “Well, we can’t allow him around the kids. Where do you want to move to?”

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      Wowowow that’s a call for violence buddy and violence is bad!

      Try talking to the pedophiles and ask them to stop being fucking children. If that doesn’t work you can try a protest - may I suggest ping pong paddles? They won’t be as heavy to hold as a wooden sign.

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    Is this a baseless fear:

    What if the conservative groups have thought to make sexual crimes unpunishable for men, and thus they have created a plan to increase the risk of a woman without the protection of a male.

    ( I mean this in the eye of the public, not in the reality of what our biological Make up is. )

    As a kind of, fix for the male loneliness epidemic. Kind of reinforcing the need for a patriarchal structure.

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      so, like. that’s they- conservative Christians, especially conservative christian men- think the world should be.

      remember that the biblical practice was men buying their wives from their fathers. (and also remember, that if a man raped a young woman who was unmarried, he could make that acceptable by paying the bride price and taking her as a wife. rape was a property crime in their world view.)

      Anyone who insists biblical morality is the end-all-be-all of morality is either a straight up monster, or someone who doesn’t understand biblical morality. Usually both.

      (just to be clear, biblical morality has less to do a particular culture- that was a normal practice across the region. it’s bronze age men being assholes, not a specific group.)

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      It will also help with getting more people being born (combine this with making abortions illegal). So you remove all the immigrants and replace them with forced babies.