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@flexghost Nixons pardon led to Trump’s nomination and election directly. It’s time everyone knows that Presidents ARE SUBJECT TO US LAWS. OR ONLY CRIMINALS WILL RUN FOR THE JOB.
@KT it absolutely did. And they expect a pardon.
@flexghost Whoopsie. I’m picturing Oprah going, “You DO NOT GET A PARDON, AND YOU DO NOT GE A PARDON….”.

Elected Governments should never be allowed to pardon their own.

It’s been used before for cover up, and obstruction and is a direct ticket to more executive branch criminal activity.
@KT they get to set policy then trade with (more than) insider information so it is on brand
@flexghost Wow, the former speechwriter for W thinks the Democratic President should pardon his GOP rival, for...reasons. Pass.

@Tweetfiction not sure what this both sides nonsense is from our nation’s “great” journalism centers.

Looking at you Maggie Haberman

@flexghost They like to pretend this is all still normal politics, and like the other "side" doesn't plan to kill us all.

Maggie Haberman can bite my left tit. She needs to go wash the orange off her lips before she writes anything else.

@Tweetfiction hahaha

Yeah they’ve been trying to normalize this. And saying the dems are weaponizing the DOJ would be funny if r’s weren’t so evil when they do it

@flexghost what is the sound of smacking amplified and projected onto Thiessens' face.
@flexghost Marc Thiessen can go fuck himself. And Danielle Pletka, too.
@flexghost No, letting Nixon off was stupid. Trump and the GOP need this lesson to hurt.

@flexghost

I see it's time for the weekly "You know how Democrats could win? By giving Republicans everything they want" thinkpiece.

@flexghost

Well, MY opinion, of this opinion piece is that the opinion presented is complete horseshit.

@flexghost Hell No!!! I still haven't forgiven Ford for his pardon of Nixon
@flexghost Marc Thiessen was an unreformed Trumpster who backed Trump the moment he got elected. I've learned how to ignore him...
@toxtethogrady and WaPo gave him a mic
@flexghost They did the same for George Will way back when. The NYT platformed David Brooks. The theory was to be egalitarian. The WSJ did the exact opposite by giving Alexander Cockburn a platform in the Reagan years. I don't mind it as long as they don't adopt it as the conventional wisdom...
@flexghost hell no. Fuck no. No goddamned way.
@flexghost that would just embolden the next Trump wannabe. Are we a country of laws or aren't we?
@RacerX kinda. For which class?
@flexghost fair point, but shouldn't an audio recording of bragging about committing treason land you in the slammer? what is a bridge too far for this unrepentant sociopath?
@flexghost A short, and simple "no." If I was Pres. Biden, I would be like "Pardon me, ya giant orange blimp: Hell no.."
@customer228 @flexghost were the situation reversed the Republican Party would hang Biden on live tv and put his head on a pike .
@flexghost Absolutely not. No. So many reasons no.
@flexghost are they fvcking stvpid?
@flexghost what a surprising take from you, Marc! Very original. Care for some more tea before bedtime?
@flexghost an oppositional pardon should require acknowledgment of wrongdoing and, ideally, some degree of contrition.
@flexghost Yes but then how would other people with money and/or in power keep getting away with their crimes (because that is what this is really about)... 🤑 👀 🙃
@flexghost I read this shit at politico today. Bill fucking Kristol's opinion, I believe? National Review. Sounds like the magat, nationaist movement is begging for mercy. Fuck em.
@flexghost
Can Biden then make Trump President again too?
@flexghost ……….. and they laughed and laughed and laughed ………..
@flexghost Remember, the opinion pieces run by a newspaper give strong indications of the bias of the organisation as a whole.
@StarkRG NYT has entered the chat

@flexghost

Torture enthusiast Marc A. Thiessen has opinions

@paezha this needs to be more widely known
Marc Thiessen, Double Effect, and the Torturer’s Dilemma

Both Marc Thiessen and his critics have misunderstood an important moral distinction on the question of torture.

Public Discourse
@flexghost Ugh, absolutely should not be pardoned. Barf! Terrible for a country pretending to actually have "rule of law", and care about national security, etc, etc. Pundits pushing pardon are pissants.

@flexghost

Woof.

Sometimes I say something like there should be a 100% tax bracket for billionaires and think "hoo boy, people are going to get angry."

But then I stand in the presence of true courage and feel acutely my overwhelming cowardice.

@flexghost Read the comments on the original WaPo article. Hilarious…to a one, they all express that this idea is, at best, hooey.
@flexghost How did we get from the Rosenbergs to a pardon for someone stealing and distributing classified documents about the National Security of the United States! Guess 45 was right, when your a “star” they’ll let you do anything!! Ughhhh, Republicans!!!
@flexghost He and Hewitt are the reason I cancelled my subscription. Just the most ridiculous and inane comments and I won't subsidize that crap.
@flexghost Ford pardoning Nixon is how they got here.
@flexghost And become history’s next Gerald Ford.