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Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 10 days ago

Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon?

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Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 10 days ago
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  • Triumph@fedia.io
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    We got Trump in no small part because Nixon was pardoned.

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      14A3 disqualification and legally nullify the entire second term (erases all pardons and eliminates all immunity), impeachment, prosecution for crimes against humanity, put him against the wall

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    Nope. Pardoning Nixon was a mistake that should not be repeated.

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      Giving him a general pardon and not for specifics was the mistake. Alternate history for Nixon going to trial or any other course other than the one he took is a wild ride. As is most points in history, but it would have been an ugly America, so Ford’s spoken motive had some merit. Whether Reagan makes it in seems to be a debated point, depending on how long the Nixon trial(s) go.

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      But he was not a crook, someone said?

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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        Then that someone has slept in school, or had an American education.

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          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh163n1lJ4M

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            Instead of just throwing in a random YT link, how about some information?

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              My first comment referred to a fact that might be considered widely known, but somehow not by you as you didn’t get it. That’s ok - so I took the effort to find you the video that informs you about it. If you still don’t understand it or are too lazy to inform yourself, I’m afraid I can’t help you, sorry.

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                No, your random comment makes no sense at all.

                If you took the “effort” to find it, maybe you should have provided a minimum of information. Imagine, there are people who don’t just click on random YT links provided by random people.

                If you don’t want to be understood, why bother at all?

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                  A certain Mark Twain quote seems to be appropriate here. But you don’t deserve any further effort.

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    I think the country needs nuremburg trials

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      10 days ago

      #GuillotineParty

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        Guillotines are tired and boring.

        #WoodchipperParty

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          Guillotines are a metaphor, implying the French Revolution.

          Wood chippers are a metaphor for Fargo, North Dakota.

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            Who said anything about metaphors?

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      Hear, hear! We need to have an absolute fuckton of trials for people involved in this blatantly corrupt administration.

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    Even if Trump copied Nixon by resigning early so Vance could pardon him, he’d still be facing various state charges. (And he could always be extradited outside the US for war crimes.)

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    Ford shouldn’t have pardoned Nixon.

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      Nixon looks like an angel compared to Presidents after him.

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    Fuck no.

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    Fuck no

  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The next president should arrest every other president and conscribe them to slave labor until the nation’s school lunch debts are repaid.

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      And private prisons all closed.

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        Replaced with The People’s Prison where I can throw things at all the incarcerated presidents like a horribly mismanaged zoo

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      Does this include digging most of them up and propping them up on trial in the manner of Pope Formosus?

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        I think that’s up to the president, sounds stinky

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    Absofuckinglutely not! Nixon shouldn’t have been pardoned either!

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    Bro what next president

  • fratermus@piefed.social
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    No.

  • pbhj@lemmy.world
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    You should drop him into Iran to face punishment from the Iranian families whose children he bombed at school.

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      There ain’t enough of him to go around. Willing to negotiate sending a musk, hegseth, or thiel though.

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    Should they or would they? Should they? Of course not. Will they ? Of course because no POTUS wants to set precedent of accountability.

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      It’s like that thing in the drive thru, where the person in the car ahead paid for your coffee. The President pardons the president behind him so the next president can pardon him.

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    Of course not. He should send Trump and his sons to Guantanimo.

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    NO. Pardons shouldn’t cover unrepentant criminals who know what they’re doing.

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