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Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View PostObama - pardoned 212, communed the sentences of 1,715
Trump - pardoned 25, communed the sentences of 10
OMG! Trump is abusing his pardon powers!
To add an interesting case here Thomas Jefferson pardoned every last person convicted under the Sedition Act. Even though that is pretty much a slap in the face to John Adams and the Federalist Party, nobody today seems to think he was being a king. Was Jefferson being a king, Jimmy because that is far more brazen than anything Trump has done with his pardon powers.
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostHere's an analogy to help you understand why people don't really bother with detailed responses to your posts:
Pseudo Jimmy: "The earth is flat and balanced on the back of a giant cosmic turtle!"
Interlocutor: "Dude, seriously, you're a moron."
Pseudo Jimmy: "I don't see a refutation, or an argument to the contrary, here."
That's essentially the nature of your political ramblings.
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Originally posted by JimL View PostThere is a difference in that Obama's pardons were an act of mercy and had nothing to do with himself personally, while Trump is pardoning his allies whose crimes are connected to, or parallel to his own. Trump also claims that he has the absolute right to pardon himself. In other words Trumps pardons are self serving, not acts of mercy as intended by the Framers. That's how a dictator operates, not how a president is supposed to operate.Last edited by lilpixieofterror; 02-24-2020, 06:53 AM."The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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