The criming and corruption is endless, add this to the list of shit we need to fix. No wonder we can't have nice things. Is it now one step forward, twenty steps back? Fifty? How about we elect all Democratic women & see how that works out for a few generations.
I've started doing that too. When in doubt (because who has the time or the interest in looking up the records of every judge on the ballot of a large county?), vote for a woman. There are some bad ones, but they usually have TV commercials and mailers telling you how wonderful they are, so it's kind of easy to pick. A "D" next to their name helps too if it's there.
Pretty damn sure Air America, Inc. CIA dropping drugs into Mena, AR to disburse into black America inner cities to create a new and improved plantation capitalism private prison industrial complex should have been the early warning red alert that would have surely kept every neoliberal out of office. Oh wait, but that was another “Catch and Kill” news report so these bastards could get 2 million citizens warehoused inside those money making “Free Market” schemes. I suspect black Bill Clinton would disagree.
I still adore the ability of both parties who call those of us concerned with human rights “socialists” who hoodwinked citizens into believing if our jobs were shipped to actual Communists aka socialists (who at the time were literally murdering their daughter’s and shipping them to us) we’d be richer on that Free Market bs. Instead we got cheap disposable plastic crap and made these monsters a Superpower. Can’t make this up.
Excellent historical reminder Greg! Presidential pardons are supposed to pass through government pardon committee channels. However,corruption appears to have limited consequences in today’s political rift of the space-time continuum.
Rudy has always played sides of cartel justice, hence the Trump abyss we find ourselves in today.
And DeSantis says that, if elected, he’ll pardon Trump! Those who seek to overthrow our democracy have certainly done a good job of undermining public confidence in our elected officials!
Warnings like that, in addition to Trump pardoning the January 6th terrorist-seditionists, at least gives us warnings of parts of what is to come and will hopefully drive Democratic voter participation through the roof.
If "fuckateer" doesn't make into Websters dictionary then, er...I guess there is no justice.
Seriously of all the ways Congress can fuck with Presidents how does Trumps and Clintons, obvious participation in the crime, do the pardons remain in place and unchallenged? This has turn the rule of law in to a joke domestically and abroad.
George Mason, a prominent founding father from Virginia, refused to ratify the Constitution on the basis of a number of objections. In Nov 1787 Alexander Hamilton had them published them in Federalist IX. One of Mason’s objections was so prescient it’s almost as if he had a Time Machine: “The President of the United States has the unrestrained power of granting pardons for treason; which may be sometimes exercised to screen from punishment those whom he had secretly instigated to commit the crime, and thereby prevent a discovery of his own guilt.” Mason repeated his concern during the 1788 Virginia ratification convention* arguing that some future president might not have the rectitude of a George Washington. He further stated that the president “ ought not to have the power of pardoning, because he may frequently pardon crimes which were advised by himself. It may happen, at some future day, that he will establish a monarchy, and destroy the republic. If he has the power of granting pardons before indictment, or conviction, may he not stop inquiry and prevent detection? The case of treason ought, at least, to be excepted. This is a weighty objection with me.”
In Trump’s case the multiple instances of traitorous instigation were hardly secret, but he was, as Mason feared almost 250 years ago, unrestrained in his ability to screen from punishment his co-conspirators. Should Trump or someone favoring Trump regain the presidency Mason will almost surely and sadly have been proven right for all the efforts of Mueller, and Jack Smith will be for naught.
There is also a reminder in your post: whomever is elected president in 2024 will preside over the country's 250th birthday in 2026, which I assume will feature much pomp and circumstance. Even IMAGINING Trump or DeDumbass or Nikki Haley at the helm makes me ill.
Do you remember that video about Montenegro begging GH for help like "help" was given to Haiti? Fancy shit. Better than that when the freaking spy whales were found in Alaska like haha 8 years ago. I wish Franklin Graham didn't spend so much time in Alaska. Poor freaking cetaceans. Save the whales?
If only we had someone who could predict these kinds of attacks.
I admit to being a neophyte politico back in early 2001 when the Marc Rich pardon happened. I heard about it and saw the outrage, but never really understood the story until now -- the activities of the last two decades got in the way of researching that. Now, almost 23 years later, I can say that it smacks of shitty and crooked and whatever other descriptors like that you can place on it. AND, OF COURSE, reflected badly on Hillary, for reasons only Republicans can speak to. I suppose she would have been pilloried for saying the truth when she said that there was a vast right-wing conspiracy against her husband. It was actually against HER. Again, the stink of some of Bill's activities never rubbed off her, and that's just pure misogyny.
Trump, pardoning his co-conspirators IS orders of magnitude worse. There must have been several Masters of the Loophole in his administration, for he seemed to always find the crack he could slide his crooked, scheming agenda through. "Oh! ABSOLUTE pardon power? REALLY? I'm doing that!" I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that he was POTUS, that he's probably already on placemats at Stuckey's when they use their "Presidents of the United States" table settings. Ugh! Fuck a duck!
The Marc Rich pardon history is the type of "whataboutism" that's truly valuable. While I never thought Bill Clinton angelic, this pardon does validate the Clinton dirty tricks vibe and is useful to acknowlege in light of Trump's pardons. Really makes me long for the days of equal opportunity shame.
The criming and corruption is endless, add this to the list of shit we need to fix. No wonder we can't have nice things. Is it now one step forward, twenty steps back? Fifty? How about we elect all Democratic women & see how that works out for a few generations.
I always vote for women, whenever possible 😉 #EmotionalIntelligence
I've started doing that too. When in doubt (because who has the time or the interest in looking up the records of every judge on the ballot of a large county?), vote for a woman. There are some bad ones, but they usually have TV commercials and mailers telling you how wonderful they are, so it's kind of easy to pick. A "D" next to their name helps too if it's there.
“Never had the nation guaranteed its people a right and then taken it away. Until June 24, 2022.”
Vote like it’s 1973 🌊 #TimesUp for the old patriarchs 💃🏻
Pretty damn sure Air America, Inc. CIA dropping drugs into Mena, AR to disburse into black America inner cities to create a new and improved plantation capitalism private prison industrial complex should have been the early warning red alert that would have surely kept every neoliberal out of office. Oh wait, but that was another “Catch and Kill” news report so these bastards could get 2 million citizens warehoused inside those money making “Free Market” schemes. I suspect black Bill Clinton would disagree.
Like minds Eponastribe! Was about to mention that, and the ignoble poltroons huddled around Clinton as he signed away Glass Steagal...
I still adore the ability of both parties who call those of us concerned with human rights “socialists” who hoodwinked citizens into believing if our jobs were shipped to actual Communists aka socialists (who at the time were literally murdering their daughter’s and shipping them to us) we’d be richer on that Free Market bs. Instead we got cheap disposable plastic crap and made these monsters a Superpower. Can’t make this up.
Laughable if not so poignant!
Comrades Trump and Giuliani plotted to sell presidential pardons.
Godspeed, Special Counsel Jack Smith 😎 #AboveTheLaw no more.
Excellent historical reminder Greg! Presidential pardons are supposed to pass through government pardon committee channels. However,corruption appears to have limited consequences in today’s political rift of the space-time continuum.
Rudy has always played sides of cartel justice, hence the Trump abyss we find ourselves in today.
Whoa! Wow.
Excellent as always, Greg!
The Bulwark has a piece on pardons this morning too. Must be something in the water. I shared yours with them, so I’m sharing theirs with you. Enjoy.
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/trump-and-the-abuse-of-the-pardon-power
Thank you, Greg...I think 😕
And DeSantis says that, if elected, he’ll pardon Trump! Those who seek to overthrow our democracy have certainly done a good job of undermining public confidence in our elected officials!
Warnings like that, in addition to Trump pardoning the January 6th terrorist-seditionists, at least gives us warnings of parts of what is to come and will hopefully drive Democratic voter participation through the roof.
If "fuckateer" doesn't make into Websters dictionary then, er...I guess there is no justice.
Seriously of all the ways Congress can fuck with Presidents how does Trumps and Clintons, obvious participation in the crime, do the pardons remain in place and unchallenged? This has turn the rule of law in to a joke domestically and abroad.
George Mason, a prominent founding father from Virginia, refused to ratify the Constitution on the basis of a number of objections. In Nov 1787 Alexander Hamilton had them published them in Federalist IX. One of Mason’s objections was so prescient it’s almost as if he had a Time Machine: “The President of the United States has the unrestrained power of granting pardons for treason; which may be sometimes exercised to screen from punishment those whom he had secretly instigated to commit the crime, and thereby prevent a discovery of his own guilt.” Mason repeated his concern during the 1788 Virginia ratification convention* arguing that some future president might not have the rectitude of a George Washington. He further stated that the president “ ought not to have the power of pardoning, because he may frequently pardon crimes which were advised by himself. It may happen, at some future day, that he will establish a monarchy, and destroy the republic. If he has the power of granting pardons before indictment, or conviction, may he not stop inquiry and prevent detection? The case of treason ought, at least, to be excepted. This is a weighty objection with me.”
In Trump’s case the multiple instances of traitorous instigation were hardly secret, but he was, as Mason feared almost 250 years ago, unrestrained in his ability to screen from punishment his co-conspirators. Should Trump or someone favoring Trump regain the presidency Mason will almost surely and sadly have been proven right for all the efforts of Mueller, and Jack Smith will be for naught.
*https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/07/25/the-pardon-power-and-original-intent/amp/
There is also a reminder in your post: whomever is elected president in 2024 will preside over the country's 250th birthday in 2026, which I assume will feature much pomp and circumstance. Even IMAGINING Trump or DeDumbass or Nikki Haley at the helm makes me ill.
Do you remember that video about Montenegro begging GH for help like "help" was given to Haiti? Fancy shit. Better than that when the freaking spy whales were found in Alaska like haha 8 years ago. I wish Franklin Graham didn't spend so much time in Alaska. Poor freaking cetaceans. Save the whales?
If only we had someone who could predict these kinds of attacks.
This is another reason that Ivory Tower bows to rawint but rawint bows to gifts. Better be fucking specific and credible.
I admit to being a neophyte politico back in early 2001 when the Marc Rich pardon happened. I heard about it and saw the outrage, but never really understood the story until now -- the activities of the last two decades got in the way of researching that. Now, almost 23 years later, I can say that it smacks of shitty and crooked and whatever other descriptors like that you can place on it. AND, OF COURSE, reflected badly on Hillary, for reasons only Republicans can speak to. I suppose she would have been pilloried for saying the truth when she said that there was a vast right-wing conspiracy against her husband. It was actually against HER. Again, the stink of some of Bill's activities never rubbed off her, and that's just pure misogyny.
Trump, pardoning his co-conspirators IS orders of magnitude worse. There must have been several Masters of the Loophole in his administration, for he seemed to always find the crack he could slide his crooked, scheming agenda through. "Oh! ABSOLUTE pardon power? REALLY? I'm doing that!" I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that he was POTUS, that he's probably already on placemats at Stuckey's when they use their "Presidents of the United States" table settings. Ugh! Fuck a duck!
The Marc Rich pardon history is the type of "whataboutism" that's truly valuable. While I never thought Bill Clinton angelic, this pardon does validate the Clinton dirty tricks vibe and is useful to acknowlege in light of Trump's pardons. Really makes me long for the days of equal opportunity shame.