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The Derek Chauvin pardon scuttlebutt sounds like key dangling at best, scuttlebutt without basis at worst.

Chauvin was convicted of both state and federal crimes so a pardon at this point in time does literally nothing for him anyways.

this is the truth, in fact Chauvin is better off in Fed jail then any State prison.

But you gotta admit it would be hella funny to see happen.
 
The reverse of this, by the way, is Camelot (Kennedy Enslavement Syndrome). There are quite a few reasons to like JFK (he got shot by the deep state for threatening its power, he launched Apollo), but he is romanticized to hell and back for being a rich handsome Yankee that got shot. He’s a blank slate for libtards to write their utopian fantasies on. He can play Lincoln to Johnson - to his own Johnson - except unlike Lincoln he didn’t actually preside over much of note.
BTW, I may have said this but I'm still going to cry every time:

RIP JFK. Fuck you govt spooks.
 
I just want to see Trump do this so I can watch BLM and it's acolytes melt down in real time.

Please god emperor Trump do this one thing before you leave office.

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Oompah Loompah Doopety Doo
I've got another lyric for you
Oompah Loompah Doopety Doo
If you are wise you will know what to do.

What would you get if I pardoned a cop?
Watch BLM burn and pillage your shop?
Ni-ggers and Tra-nnys will scream off their heads
Maybe you could shoot them dead?

Oompah Loompah Doopety Doo
I've got another lyric for you
Oompah Loompah Doopety Doo
If you are wise you will know what to do.
 
I'd argue another summer of love would fuck over democrats much more than repubs. Nigger fatigue is at an all time high and media ability to shift the fault on Trump has been scuttled heavily. I also want some dindu to try to loot a store then get blasted, and the whole nigger lottery bullshit getting destroyed from there.
Niggers are stupid enough to riot in response to nigger fatigue cutting down on black privilege.
 
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"yes thank you king grand sheik for having me over and the nice plane, and thank you for wearing your flip flops made of 2 pieces of duct tape"

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"Couldn't find a suit dip shit? figure you could afford one will any our money we send you. Fuck you"
I know this part of your post is supposed to be a criticism of Trump but it actually makes Trump look based to the extreme. Many such cases.
 
Are we really at the point where we accuse normal MAGA people of being paid shills? I get calling me a shill but come on
We've been here for while with those who are mad Trump won't take all the women from and then bomb everything in the Middle East afterwards.

Oh, and scream "HEIL HITLER!" like gay Yé recently.
They play nice with the US because the US protects them from other nations who see such a small but super wealthy country as easy pickings.
Like a certain desperate shithole by the the name of China.
 
Funds from migrants sent back home help fuel some towns’ economies. A GOP plan targets that
Associated Press (archive.ph)
By Fatima Hussein and Megan Janetsky
2025-05-14 19:42:50GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel Vail’s entire life in the small western Guatemalan town of Cajolá is built off the money that his three children send home from the United States.

The money from their construction jobs paid for the two-story white home where Vail now lives — and where his children, who are in the U.S. illegally, would also reside if they ever get deported. Vail, 53, invested some of the money in opening a local food shop, which he uses to keep his family afloat.

In small migratory towns like Cajolá, it is not unusual for the entire economy to be built off remittances, the funds sent by migrant workers back to their home countries.

“People here, they don’t live luxuriously, but they live off remittances,“ Vail said.

House Republicans have included in President Donald Trump’s big priority bill a 5% excise tax on remittance transfers that would cover more than 40 million people, including green card holders and nonimmigrant visa holders, such as people on H-1B, H-2A and H-2B visas. U.S. citizens would be exempt.

Trump also recently announced that he is finalizing a presidential memorandum to “shut down remittances” sent by people in the U.S. illegally. White House and Treasury officials have not responded to requests for comment from The Associated Press on specifics of the presidential memorandum that Trump previewed in an April 25 Truth Social post and how it would work.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum shot back against the measure and called on Republican lawmakers to reconsider it, saying it “would damage the economy of both nations and is also contrary to the spirit of economic freedom that the U.S. government claims to defend.”

“Remittances are the fruit of the efforts of those who, through their honest work, strengthen not only the Mexican economy but also the United States’, which is why we consider this measure to be arbitrary and unjust,” she said.

Remittance experts, local leaders and former migrants say that banning, limiting or adding a tax on certain remittances could damage communities that rely on them, prove burdensome to American citizens and firms and, paradoxically, end up causing even more illegal migration to the U.S.

The influx of money provides an important economic lifeline to residents of poorer towns that often have little access to jobs or income. Remittances provide opportunities for people in their home country, making it less likely they would take the risk of migrating to the United States, the experts say.

”Any measure to reduce remittances will have a negative impact on the U.S. national interest,” said Manuel Orozco, director of the Migration, Remittances, and Development Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. “It will have an effect on the homeland.”

Proponents of efforts to target remittances say they are an effective tax on people in the U.S. illegally and could be a revenue generator for the U.S. government.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigration think tank, acknowledges that limiting, banning or taxing remittances would make it more difficult for immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

“One of the main reasons people come here is to work and send money home,” Krikorian said. “If that’s much more difficult to do, it becomes less appealing to come here.”

Legislation to control remittances — through taxes on money transfers, both internationally and domestically — has been proposed in 18 states in the past few years. Almost all of those efforts have been voted down.

The exception is Oklahoma, which in 2009 passed a tax on remittances: a $5 fee on any wire transfer under $500 and 1% on any amount in excess of $500.

Steven Yates, who is now a senior research fellow at the Heritage Institute, wrote for the America First Policy Institute that every state should adopt this policy as a way to combat the impact of illegal immigration.

Other high-ranking Trump administration officials have also supported efforts to tighten controls on remittances. Vice President JD Vance, as an Ohio senator in 2023, co-sponsored the WIRED Act, which would have imposed a 10% fee on remittances out of the U.S.

The intention of the bill — which would allow people who could prove their citizenship to get the fee back as a refundable tax credit — was “penalizing illicit activity, such as drug and human smuggling.” The bill did not make it out of committee.

“This legislation is a common sense solution to disincentivize illegal immigration and reduce the cartels’ financial power,” Vance said at the time of the bill’s introduction.

According to the World Bank, remittances sent to home countries in 2023 totaled about $656 billion — equivalent to the gross domestic product of Belgium. The money that Mexican migrants send home to their relatives grew by 7.6% in 2023 to reach a record $63.3 billion for the year.

Remittances are also a major factor in the global economy, often sent from American wire services rather than banks and credit unions. India, Mexico and China are the biggest recipients of those funds, according to the World Bank.

In response to the proposal to tax remittances in the new Republican House bill, Orozco said: “Some senders would find ways to send money differently, through unauthorized channels. Others would send less.”

“Sending less would have an impact on the receiving households, limiting the capacity to save, and in turn may increase the intention to migrate,” said Orozco, who also serves as a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Development.

Western Union said last month that while remittances have risen worldwide in recent months, payments sent from the U.S. to other countries in the Americas have taken a sharp dip. In the past year, remittance payments through Western Union have dipped 8%, something CEO Devin McGranahan attributed to falling migration levels.

Vail, the Guatemalan resident, said his small grocery business has been struggling since Trump took office in January and his sales of things like eggs, beans, sugar and more have slipped.

“When Donald Trump won, many people stopped sending remittances or they began to save money,” he said. “Business dropped off a lot.”

In Cajolá, local leaders say that has raised concerns as remittance flow has stopped young people from migrating because they see economic opportunities they otherwise wouldn’t have. Vail said losing that lifeline would deal a devastating blow to families like his and even cause his small business to fold.

“There’s a lot of fear,” Vail said. “Fear that for the people that live here in Guatemala, there won’t be work because the businesses will be all gone.”
 
"People's sense is that it's a total distraction and waste of time given [that there is] no path to victory," a senior House Democrat who was in the room told Axios.
Sense? In this Democratic party? Unironically stunned to be quite honest. Guess they learned from the first term.
 
The funny thing about Futurama, Nixon and the faggot Groening is that Groening make Nixon into the worst kind of character he could think of and the fans absolutely love it.

Nixon is most Futurama's fans favourite or near favourite (Zapp comes pretty high up there too) but Groening wanted some parody evil of what Liberals thought Nixon actually was but he ended up creating a awesome over the top villain everyone loved. Matt wanted to axe the character because the fans loved it but thankfully by the time the 3rd season rolled around Matt was off with Epstein fucking little girls in the ass and too busy to fuck up the show any further.

It goes to show that the Lefty's really really don't understand the average person at all.
Same with Archie Bunker's character (whoever made him), that I mentioned in my Great Wall of Text. They didn't INTEND for him to be a sympathetic, nuanced depiction of how a man can embody the prejudices of his time and still be a good person by overcoming those to see the person that's in front of him. They wanted him to just be LOL stupid old person.

They wrote him too well!


LBJ is the evil son of a bitch that Nixon gets portrayed as, and he's plenty eccentric enough to be a good villain. He even had a knack for attaching himself to "good" things to safeguard his legacy (Civil Rights, War on Poverty), which makes him even more compelling as he was a ruthless snake who cared only about himself.

This is the man that would whip his cock out, call it Jumbo and brag about it to journalists. LBJ NEEDS to be a cartoon villain.
 
BTW, I may have said this but I'm still going to cry every time:

RIP JFK. Fuck you govt spooks.
The thing that's always been fucked to me about the JFK assassination is that the first bullet missed and didn't kill him so for a few moments before the 2ne shot he was wondering who shot him. That's always been scary to me.
 
House Republicans have included in President Donald Trump’s big priority bill a 5% excise tax on remittance transfers that would cover more than 40 million people, including green card holders and nonimmigrant visa holders, such as people on H-1B, H-2A and H-2B visas. U.S. citizens would be exempt.
5%? You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers.
 
Remittance experts, local leaders and former migrants say that banning, limiting or adding a tax on certain remittances could damage communities that rely on them, prove burdensome to American citizens and firms and, paradoxically, end up causing even more illegal migration to the U.S.
'Experts' and lampposts belong in the same sentence. Making the border a military zone where you get hauled off to El Salvador if you trespass is a damn good deterrent against any 'paradoxical' illegal migration.
 
Trump will go down the same way; people that were alive and paying attention at the time will remember how he was slandered, but future generations will having nothing to go off but the spin.
I used to believe this as a fact until Nixon started getting re-examined by people. Like you said, people alive today don't know what it was like during Nixon's time as President we only know the spin. But now post-Trump people are starting to openly understand what was happening with Nixon the whole time is the same shit with Trump. Fool me once shame on you but fool me twice? Nixon didn't have the advantage of having the internet exist where people can freely report news and speak their minds as they wish, Nixon only had the MSM.

Nixon wasn't the only one that was smeared by the MSM, everyone successfully smeared by the MSM are starting to be seen differently to the public so it's hard for me to imagine all of this being forgotten in 20 years and everyone will just hate Trump because of what the MSM said. The MSM is losing it's power over people.
 
The Derek Chauvin pardon scuttlebutt sounds like key dangling at best, scuttlebutt without basis at worst.

Chauvin was convicted of both state and federal crimes so a pardon at this point in time does literally nothing for him anyways.
Even if he would successfully get pardoned, I doubt he would ever have a job at a police department again. Maybe a security guard, that is if he wasn't radicalized in prison.
 
House Republicans have included in President Donald Trump’s big priority bill a 5% excise tax on remittance transfers
:trump:
Please pass that bill. This and tariffs would clear the debt in no time. It would also heavily disincentivize this practice. I don't care that the Vietnamese nail tech works 80hrs a week to send money home. I have been radicalized.
 
I think it'd be better to pardon him on the way out of office or after the mid-terms than now. Doing it now will just give ammo to Democrats in 2 years.
Possibly, I think it hinges on how many normiecons still believe in the big lie that Floyd was murdered. They might huff and roll their eyes at BLM signs but they still parrot that lie to seem less bad to liberals. Because otherwise it could wind up like this South African refugee thing where these lefties get exposed for being totally deranged wanting to keep an innocent man imprisoned purely for vibes based reasons and not because he's actually guilty of murder.
 
Even if he would successfully get pardoned, I doubt he would ever have a job at a police department again. Maybe a security guard, that is if he wasn't radicalized in prison.
It'd be tough for him to get any kind of job if he was pardoned. I've never seen him speak so I assume he's an asshole with the charisma of a wet blanket which leaves out the podcast circuit.

He won't be getting a book deal so that leaves self publishing to scrape together some cash.
 
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