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NanceeM's avatar

Haven't you heard: If it's out in the open, it's not corruption, it's transparency. There's no longer rule of law for everyone, no longer process for granting pardons. Across the board Trump has trashed everything.

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P J Johnston's avatar

You bet it's corruption with a CAPITAL C! Just like everything else they are doing. They are throwing innocent people in jail for making fun of him or whatever he deems as treating him wrong but on the other side of the coin (I hope it isn't crypto) he's letting people go that have actually committed the worst of crimes!

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Time For D’s To Go Mad Max On GOP/Nazis

The House Rules committee just voted to NOT condemn fascism In a New Republic piece, “A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends,” wrote Vice President Henry A. Wallace for The New York Times in 1944

Pretty well sums it up for the Nazi/GOP Perry Bacon in his podcast(https://bit.ly/4nZ1Izx) talks about it’s time for D’s to take their gloves off and begin an anti-corruption campaign to salvage the country from the Nazi/GOP who has shown that it’s ok for immoral conduct, disgusting political retribution, reprehensible immigrant policy, political monetary opportunism, attempted government oligarchic takeover, rigging elections and persistent gerrymandering, attempting to buy elected offices, abuse of executive power, abuse of SCOTUS power The American public has seen and had enough

36 House Nazis are not seeking re-election in 2026 They’re seeing the writing on the wall The jig is up….the MAGA façade has been ripped away and there is no turning back But a unanimous House vote for the Epstein file release cannot wipe away decades of power grabbing politics with nothing in return to the American people Vote the Nazis out until they have a moral compass if that's at all possible because I think this Nazi group is beyond hope

And do it with tenacity and a "no holds barred" approach No reaching across the aisle SCOTUS enlargement to 13 Meaningful election reform to eliminate gerrymandering and other red state anti voting legislation Repeal of past tax legislation and 50% tax on billionaires in order to pay down national deficit Restitution of a Constitutional mandated bimetallic standard(gold/silver standard) Voiding all Cheeto executive orders Restitution of Biden legislation Impeachment of Cheeto and his cabinet including Just Dance Vance Begin grifter tax on misinformation sources Change the pardon power

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Pardon should not be for sale to anyone. That is not what the pardon power is used for . Seems like the next election that the Congress and the Senate must establish a constitutional amendment for pardon power that they are not for sale and codify it. Thank you for the article.

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Jessica LeCroy's avatar

I wish we celebrated those individuals, companies, schools who have bucked the trend and stood up against the vagaries of the Trump administration

As Much

As we lament and grab our pearls over these individuals, companies and schools who promote and have fallen in line with these cruel, unfair, greedy and constitutionally suspect policies.

We would all be better off if the emphasis on bravery were properly focused

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Deena Drandoff's avatar

Is Congress asleep. Why are they not intervening.

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Agara R Sudhindra's avatar

Che sera sera!

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Charles Rizzo's avatar

Rule of Norms out the door!

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Ginger's avatar

he's insane blood thirsty and a meglomaniac

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

Ed Martin should have been disciplined by the Missouri Bar. I have wondered if Trump is getting secret and illegal payments in returns for his pardons and commutations.

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Roger Helbig's avatar

Probably Trump benefits with each pardon, even those of the J6rs who he now wants to enrich at our expense just like he did the family of Ashli Babbitt with a $5m settlement of a law suit that DoJ would have vigorously disputed, but the Bondi DoInjustice readily caved in to. Ed Martin, like Bondi is an election denier as is the Speaker of the House. Bondi is shown pushing out the Big Lie, as is Vance and Patel in this video https://www.thebulwark.com/p/breaking-revenge-obsessed-kash-patel . The J6rs are mentioned at the top of pg 83 and you should also read the first 25 pages of Government's Motion for Immunity Determinations at https://bit.ly/4lEgn21.

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Jason Merchey's avatar

These are mind-numbing, Orwellian times.

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