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Should be a wild four years.

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Is Putin really going to sell out Iran and side with the Israeli cult? If true BRICS seems to be doomed to fail
Quite frankly, I welcome putin showing face like this. This is a true commitment to the west.
Yes, I hate shitrael, but the ayatollah needs to GO, their brand of goat herder idolatry is worse than the choosen ppl's. The saudis also should be left to rot - but what can you do. One at a time.

I think putin knows brics is done for - his syria adventure didn't pan out either.
He just wanted to have a front row seat at the european table and I think he got it, paid for in blood. Now he may lord over them second to the U.S.
 
If you're really concerned about Indians in the United States I'd keep a close eye on any talks about caste discrimination, nepotism in hiring and Hindu nationalism vs the Khalistan movement.

Those nut jobs are largely Canadian *or* live in deep blue liberal hellholes and did their time in liberal hellhole public schools.
 
Because in the 60s it made people mad that the government spent money sending shit into space and not on free school meals for blacks or other nonsense social spending.

Bring back the good old days I say.

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A rat done bit my sister Nell

This seems to be the new #RESIST tactic--they are declaring everything Trump does to cut the budget or even control Executive Branch and Cabinet agencies Unconstitutional. Basically if Trump performs any executive function it's Unconstitutional and the purview of the Legislature.

Under such a system, the President would exist to sign laws and make appearances. It would render the Presidency to have the same powers as the British King, a figurehead. They would then have to wrangle the Speaker of the House into a sort of Prime Minister with true Executive powers. It's a soft Constitutional change to parliamentary government.

Of course this probably won't work, but it won't matter. They can get these Deep State workers back in for now and spend gobs of money on shit like Transgender Line Dance Classes in Qatar and have the judiciary declare no take backsies once it's earmarked. Then if the SC sides with Trump, they got to blow trillions of $$ anyway.
 
Sorry if I came across as being arrogant. I don't use Reddit (not much at least — it's good for usage of topics regarding niche interests, like bicycles).

Still, further reading from the Wikipedia-article (which may or may not be insufficient and/or faulty) other than what I quoted, states as follows:

"There remains disagreement and uncertainty about the full scope and legal implications of federal pardons, due largely to the lack of historical precedent.[2] It is unclear how or whether the pardon power applies to cases involving obstructions of an impeachment;[10] whether pardons can be issued in secret;[11] or if the power includes the ability to grant a habeas corpus petition for a state offense where it has been denied by a federal court.[1][8] Likewise, it is debated whether a president can pardon themselves (self-pardon), as it has never been attempted, much less challenged in court.[12][2]"

"According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a total of 22,485 executive clemency actions were taken from 1900 to 2017. Since the late 20th century, the number of clemency grants, as well as the proportion of clemency petitions that have been granted, have declined.[2]"


It seems that there's a rather large amount of grey area as far as this institutional power goes.

Still, you seem to be far more knowledgeable about these kinds of matter than I am, and so I will defer to your expertise (I'm not being snarky or sarcastic here, just so you know).
American law is vast and deep indeed.
So the pardon power exists as it does as a stop gap for if an abuse of power happens. (See Jan 6 peeps)

And America should rather see guilty go free than innocents be incarcerated.

And once a fucking gain.

Trump is not saying that the pardons are invalid because they are shitty and stupid.

Trump is saying that Joe Biden did not make the decision about these pardons and his underlings committed fraud by forging his name by using the autopen without informing him.
 
Mussolini's biggest mistake was not pulling a Franco and just hanging out in the sidelines away from that retard.
Unironically would have worked out 10x better for the axis. Mussolini wouldn't have been hanged, Italy wouldn't haven't been fucked after war, Germany could have invested into ball bearing factories and other stuff in Italy and not had to worry about allied bombing as much, Germany wouldn't have had to worry about the Africa, Balkan and Italian front and could have focused it's resources into the east, and later the west too,
 
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