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Kulee Baba said:
It's undeniable how much political winds have shifted. Quentin Tarantino and his old friend Roger Avary went on the Joe Rogan Podcast to plug their podcast.
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Pretty sure Quinton has been on before. But if you are a big name or even a small name it would be dumb not to go on what people are calling ‘the podcast that won an election’ even if that is not actually true.
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It was just maybe 3 years ago that Jan 6 was still one of the biggest obsessions of the left, and it has just completely blown over in the cultural zeitgeist.
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It’s not blown over it’s blown up. You have practically all the biggist names in industries heavy left skewed openly going ‘it was bullshit and a clear set up by the feds’, as exampled in the vid above.

At this rate all we need know is Trump et al to reshow all the stuff they showed in 2020 about how it was rigged and people would be onboard with the fact he was cheated as well.
 
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Didn't Wray say he absolutely wouldn't resign? I wonder if he's angling for a pardon, too, for going after a former president.

Imagine being Biden and there's a multi-mile long queue of people begging for pardons. His legacy is garbage but he still has control over DC in one last gasp of political breath. Kiss the ring, suckers.
 
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nigel p poppycock said:
Didn't Wray say he absolutely wouldn't resign? I wonder if he's angling for a pardon, too, for going after a former president.

Imagine being Biden and there's a multi-mile long queue of people begging for pardons. His legacy is garbage but he still has control over DC in one last gasp of political breath. Kiss the ring, suckers.
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I imagine he is getting plenty of briefcases full of cash in his last month of relevancy.
 
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Biden, realizing there's nothing stopping him other than a gentlemen's agreement that the US system is built upon, decides to pardon 39 people and commute the sentence of 1500 people in the single largest number of such actions in a single day in history. And he's promising to do more.

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Literal criminal bailing out his family and buddies. Trump needs to find a way to challenge these.
 
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Susanna said:
Meh. Trump already was Person of the Year, and giving it to the new president each time is boring af. Most of them are utterly inconsequential.

I think it should have gone to 🥰 Luigi 🥰.
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Only if he shared the cover with a headless Thomas Matthew Crooks. Time People of The Year: Assassins would have definitely started conversations.
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
Biden, realizing there's nothing stopping him other than a gentlemen's agreement that the US system is built upon, decides to pardon 39 people and commute the sentence of 1500 people in the single largest number of such actions in a single day in history. And he's promising to do more.

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Can we get a racial breakdown on these pardons?
 
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SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
Literal criminal bailing out his family and buddies. Trump needs to find a way to challenge these.
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iirc the Sekulow gang from ACLJ (regularly arguing at SCOTUS, cited in Dobbs decision) has pointed out that not only is the pardon ability specifically in the constitution as a power of the president, it's pretty near the top, so however bullshit this is, it's extremely hard to argue a legal case against it
state charges and contempt for not testifying since they can't take the 5th is probably still on the table, but yeah from what I've heard there's really not a whole lot to do about presidential pardons
 
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General Emílio Médici said:
Reminder that if you are given a pardon by the POTUS you are no longer protected by the 5th Amendment. You have been forgiven after all, so you have no reason to hold back testimony of your crimes and try and argue for a defense (you don't need it, you already got off) which means that unless you reject the pardon you can be made to provide testimony of all your crimes and as such fuck over any accomplices you had.
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This is why you need to be married and commit any and all crimes with the wife as an accomplice as the 5th covers spouses.
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
Biden, realizing there's nothing stopping him other than a gentlemen's agreement that the US system is built upon, decides to pardon 39 people and commute the sentence of 1500 people in the single largest number of such actions in a single day in history. And he's promising to do more.

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given Biden's visibly declining mental state before the election swept it all under the carpet, he must be borderline vegetative for most of the day at this point, so giving Biden himself credit for all this clemency shit is very generous, I think. also, lol:

The sweeping act of clemency brings the number of pardons and commutations ordered by Biden during his four-year presidential term to almost 1,700. That is in range of Barack Obama, who showed clemency – mainly in the form of commutations – to 1,927 people across his two terms.

Obama can claim credit for having carried out the second-largest single-day act of clemency, having commuted the sentences of 330 federal inmates convicted of drug crimes as one of his final acts in office in 2017.

In his first presidency, Donald Trump pardoned only 144 people and commuted the sentences of 94. But many of those acts were highly controversial, including pardons for members of his extended family such as Charles Kushner, father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner who has now been tapped to become US ambassador to France, and close advisers like Steve Bannon.
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this article is so bitchy lol. comparing Biden to Black Jesus and then using it to shit on Trump's numbers. also excellent how they finger-wag Trump's pardons to family members but conspicuously fail to mention Biden's pardon of Hunter who plead guilty to federal gun charges - a pardon that mysteriously goes back 10 years despite those gun charges being from 2023 - and Biden making a public statement that federal prosecutors were trying to "break" Hunter and therefore "break" him by extension. what did he mean by this? maybe that's worth further investigation? no? you're right, Biden's such a great guy, I'm sure he's totally on the level. classic journoscum moment.

The White House said the 39 were all individuals convicted of non-violent crimes, including drug offenses. Among them were a woman who led emergency response teams during natural disasters; a church deacon who had worked as an addiction and youth counsellor; a doctoral student in molecular biosciences; and a decorated military veteran.
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ah, good that they're pardoning Decorated Military Veterans and Doctoral Students unlike those evil J6ers who are all white supremacist fascist terrorists and have literally no other connections or accomplishments or passions in their lives. why did these wonderful people need clemency from the fucking president? anybody? I guess they forgot to put that part in the White House press release, which seems mostly to be a bunch of empty bragging about all the good the Biden administration has supposedly done in this area. ah, well, it's not like the Biden admin has given anybody a reason to doubt their intentions before.
 
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