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[–] 107 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

Ridiculous. A man who breaks laws and violates the constitution daily calling out his predecessor for using the wrong kind of pen while attempting to protect people from persecution. If there were a functioning justice system this would be dismissed out of hand.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My concern here is whether anyone is actually going to stand up to him. He's clearly flagging that he's going to go after these people and it's going to be dependent on whether the DOJ actually pushes back or not.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Presidential pardons most definitely should NOT exist. But also, F Trump.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    To be fair, someone willing to abuse pardons that wantonly is never meant to become President in the first place. The Electoral College was supposed to be one protection against that, but obviously that has been a massive failure.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    This is another one of those ‘scary and must riot’ thresholds.

    Americans are known to miss that boat. Remember when Americans rioted over the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia when they dropped bombs on the city and let blocks burn? Or that time when Americans rioted over the police and government firebombing Tulsa? Or that time Americans rioted over the people who caused the '08 financial crisis not receiving justice?

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sounds like a sovereign citizen “where’s the wet ink signature?” kind of complaint.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    ha, says the guy who wants to make things declassified by his thoughts alone.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Man I am getting so tired of saying “I fucking told you so” to so many people.

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    [–] 49 points 2 years ago

    after autopen controversy

    There go the media again implicitly giving credence to Trump's nonsense. There was no "autopen controversy" except Trump making this groundless assertion. They make it sound like he's responding to a real controversy.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    By his logic, we could treat Trump's pardons as 'void and vacant' as well.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What, are you suggesting that our virile Supreme Leader, renowned for his stamina and attention span, didn’t sign all 1,600 J6 pardons by hand?

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I hate when articles like this use words like controversy. There is no controversy when someone just makes up that a standard thing is now an issue.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If this sticks, then maybe the next democrat in office can reverse all of the Jan 6 pardons?

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That is wishful thinking. The democrats have never responded in kind to republicans breaking precedent. If there's any lesson to be learned from the 2024 election, it is that democrats hold "precedent", "decorum", and "mature pragmatism" to be more important than winning (or quelling fascism).

    It's the same wishful thinking as people who were saying "Biden could use the new presidential inmunity SCOTUS ruling to legally assassinate trump!"

    Understand that both democrats and republicans are driving us off a cliff.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In fact, every law that wasn't written by hand with an ink-dipped quill is illegitimate! The magic spells won't work if we don't follow the rituals exactly.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    They've been signaling this for a week on r/conservative

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    If they want to disqualify for being mentally incompetent, then all of Trump's and at least half of Regan's terms are also void.

    I also love that dipshit who still can't even admit that Biden won the election.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    You can keep pretending things go back to the way they were after trump. I've given up on that illusion. Do yourself a favor and realize now that trump will not freely cede power.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The irony of them calling Biden a "President Puppet" when we all know Trump is a poorly disguised Russian Puppet

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    Making it even more clear that he never expects there to be another president.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    He’s also trying to draw attention away from the illegal deportations they did over the weekend.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Something here is "void and vacant" to be sure, but it isn't Biden's pardons.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    [Trump wrote] “The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden.”

    "Not explained to."

    Dipshit is really telling on himself here that actually reading an EO didn't even occur to him, he relies on others to dumb them down for him.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Last week, the group challenged the legitimacy of the orders signed by Biden claiming that an “autopen signature” was used across almost “every document” it could find.

    However, a Fox News examination of President Donald Trump’s executive orders during his first and second administrations found “the signatures were also the same.” Twenty-five of Trump's signatures on the Federal Register’s website from across both terms also found signature matched, according to a separate analysis by the Daily Mail.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    The king declares.....

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    They're exposing the constitution of for the flawed document that it is

    Sorry, trying to be positive

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