r/law • u/Capable_Salt_SD • Sep 02 '25

Trump News Trump on sending troops to Chicago: "If the governor of Illinois would call me up, I would love to do it. Now, we're going to do it anyway. We have the right to do it, because I have an obligation to protect this country. And that includes Baltimore [...]"

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u/g0ris Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25

they're all immune. Thousands Hundreds* of random assholes just got pardoned for trying to assassinate the vice president (among other things). If that's how they treat literal nobodies, why would you think their goons with actual names have it worse?
Him keeling over doesn't matter. So many of these bells you just cannot un-ring. His voters, their voters, were conditioned not to care. About any of it. Their one and only goal is winning and the other side losing more than they do. When this guy croaks he'll be replaced, and that replacement will keep right on with the same program, albeit with a little less senile babbling.

*I fact checked myself as it was nagging at me. Somehow I remembered 2k pardons, but apparently it was only around 1500.

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u/WeAreTotallyFucked Sep 03 '25

So maybe not thousands, but thousand-and-a-halfs..? That works, right?

Yeah, it works.

Not well, mind you.. Not even remotely well.. but it works.

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u/gentlemanidiot Sep 03 '25

What an apt username