Do you think Trump should be allowed to self-pardon?

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Re: Do you think Trump should be allowed to self-pardon?

Post by Fife » Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:51 pm

pineapplemike wrote:
Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:45 pm
just for the record, i'm on team i dont think the president should be allowed to pardon him or herself. fuck em

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Agreed. 100 %.

We would have to transport ourselves back to the coup of the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia to do anything about it, however.

What good reason is there for a president to have the pardoning power, at all?

Why should the "president" do anything other than preside over meetings of the legislature/parliament?
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Re: Do you think Trump should be allowed to self-pardon?

Post by C-Mag » Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:52 pm

SuburbanFarmer wrote:
Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:35 pm
C-Mag wrote:
Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:24 pm
SuburbanFarmer wrote:
Mon Jun 04, 2018 4:02 pm

If you can hear me up there, could you please remind me what vote I should have cast that was “anti-war”?

While you’re at it, could you remind me which of “my friends” you’re talking about?

One more thing... are you proposing nuclear annihalation of any terrorist “threat”, or uppity dictator from now on? Because that’s what Total War means now.
I'm speaking to you as an average American citizen.
Less than 1% serve and see the working end of US foreign policy.

Nuclear weapons have more negatives that positives for our current force.
But they are in the arsenal and can be used if necessary.
Again, if you had total control over the results, which candidates were the “anti-war” choices?

And we’re already spending over half the national budget on 1% of the population serving. You think we should increase that number?

Long Low intensity Wars serve the Banksters and Military Contractors, short violent wars not so much.
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Re: Do you think Trump should be allowed to self-pardon?

Post by DBTrek » Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:52 pm

What if we pass an Amendment saying only the First Lady can pardon the president?
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Re: Do you think Trump should be allowed to self-pardon?

Post by clubgop » Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:56 pm

DBTrek wrote:
Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:52 pm
What if we pass an Amendment saying only the First Lady can pardon the president?
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Is this related to "FLOTUS has a black eye." stories we are seeing. They can talk about Alex Jones all they like, MSM is just as horrible.

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Re: Do you think Trump should be allowed to self-pardon?

Post by DBTrek » Mon Jun 04, 2018 6:10 pm

No, I was thinking more that it would bolster strong, traditional marriages and encourage presidents to be good role models.
...because I can name more than a few where the First Lady might have been like “Nah, book ‘em, Danno”
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Re: Do you think Trump should be allowed to self-pardon?

Post by clubgop » Mon Jun 04, 2018 6:20 pm

DBTrek wrote:
Mon Jun 04, 2018 6:10 pm
No, I was thinking more that it would bolster strong, traditional marriages and encourage presidents to be good role models.
...because I can name more than a few where the First Lady might have been like “Nah, book ‘em, Danno”
New First Lady Ivanka Trump.

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Re: Do you think Trump should be allowed to self-pardon?

Post by clubgop » Mon Jun 04, 2018 6:22 pm

My stance on the OP.

He can, he won't, he trolls, they overreact, blue wave turns into a morning mist.

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Re: Do you think Trump should be allowed to self-pardon?

Post by Fife » Mon Jun 04, 2018 6:23 pm

FLOTUS > POTUS is a fantastic idea, DB.

Why do Americans GAF about an executive pooh-bah in the first place?

Is there an explanation more complicated than the feckless c---ery of G.W.?

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Re: Do you think Trump should be allowed to self-pardon?

Post by TheReal_ND » Mon Jun 04, 2018 6:24 pm

This whole thing strikes me as some kind of concern troll at this point. On the one hand it would be cool to just fuck off millions of dollars of investigations over a which hunt with a simple amnesty however, that's not really what the pardon is intended for. Not that it was ever intended as anything other than an appeal to the jewdiciary anyway.

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Re: Do you think Trump should be allowed to self-pardon?

Post by DBTrek » Mon Jun 04, 2018 6:35 pm

Fife wrote:
Mon Jun 04, 2018 6:23 pm
FLOTUS > POTUS is a fantastic idea, DB.

Why do Americans GAF about an executive pooh-bah in the first place?

Is there an explanation more complicated than the feckless c---ery of G.W.?
Flouts has no power unless POTUS gives it to her by requiring a pardon. You’re overreacting as the excitable and simple mountain people of your humble hamlet are apt to do.
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