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Democrats decry ‘sham for justice’ after prosecutors drop Trump charges
(www.theguardian.com)
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Who is going to stop Trump from just pardoning himself?
A heart attack before inauguration.
But then we have a couch fucker.
And I'm not sure which would be worse. Vance might be a bit more moderate on some things but his competence and ability to work with others makes him more dangerous on those.
I've been debating this with myself, and my conclusion is that Trump might be worse because Vance is at least a politician. He has some knowledge and "respect" (maybe) for the trappings of the office, whereas Trump gives no shits for rules or regulations and is all too happy to trample on every right and freedom we have.
But who knows, I could go both ways on which would be worse.
Vance is a smarmy piece of shit who will do anything for power and will bend over backwards for his owners who picked him to be vice president to make sure they had control when Trump dies.
Vance is absolutely much more the issue cause he won't have enough charisma and self aggrandizing to stand up for his own ideas like Trump does that slows his party down and occasionally creates tension. He will just "yes and" whatever is needed to be done.
You just described the entire Republican party.
But more to the point, the other side of the coin is that either Trump's views align with those of his owners, or he's just as easily manipulated, and either way, he believes himself to be a dictator and acts accordingly. He has no morals and no qualms about breaking the law. He says that people who disagree with him politically should be locked up and talks about how he needs generals like Hitler had. He has been putting people loyal to him in positions of power since day one of his first term. What infighting he has created in the Republican party may slow him down, but it might create more collateral along the way from his cronyism and disregard for rules of politics. At least Vance wouldn't be ignoring the FBI vetting his appointments and talking about replacing the heads of the FBI with people more loyal to him.
Both are bad for the country, I just don't know if I can say one would be worse than the other. Vance is the corrupt official while Trump is the Florida man riding the high of who only knows what squared up to fight 5 cops who will probably win the fight.
Well I know vance aint crazy enough to just willy nilly and launch nukes, unlike trump who's just batshit crazy, but he's more capable to doing more damage to democracy.
Nothing for the Federal stuff, I guess.
He can't pardon the state felony convictions he has, though. That's the case that worries me in this regard.
You can't pardon yourself if you haven't been charged or if the case was dropped 😉😉
Oh yes you can.
Ford's pardon of Nixon states:
Whether or not any crimes were charged is irrelevant. Whether or not any charges were made and then dropped is irrelevant. "All offenses."
I sit corrected.
Who says so? Nixon was pardoned for a crime he wasn't even charged with.
They can't arrest a husband and wife for the same crime 😉