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Why not give Zimmerman a Presidential Medal of Freedom while you're at it?
Ever see the south park episode on that?
elon can fuck right off with this bullshit
They're trying to Reichstag fire up their own Reichstag fire. Martial law in America as a toe dip for their invasion of Canada.
Couldn't he only be pardoned for the federal level conviction and not the state? Looking at his Wikipedia article, he has a 21 year fed sentence and a 22.5 state.
But yeah, this is a way to force violent protests and eventually martial law.
IIRC, Chauvin made the plea deal on federal charges so that he would do his time in the relative safety of a federal prison.
Which would mean that if he gets pardoned on federal charges, then he would have to serve out his remaining state time in a state pen... the very thing he wanted to avoid. He would probably be dead in under a month unless he spent the next decade or more in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day (like he did in his pre-trial detention).
Which would be a crying shame, of course...
Maybe it won't be protests this time and just 30,000 people turning his body into something that doesn't resemble a human.
Now they're forcing the martial law.
Presidential pardons are one of the dumbest powers. Change my mind.
(Plenty of more stable countries get on fine without it, and don't have to deal with this nonsense to boot)
People lose their shit over jury nullification, yet somehow pardons are A-OK
Pardons should not be a thing, in my lifetime its pretty much only been used for scummy shit.
Chelsea Manning tho. Only non-scummy instance I can think of right now
Shout outs to pardoning Ross Ulbricht, while blaming Canada for fent
Frankly, I'm surprised he hasn't already.
I can nazi why not.
I'm sorry, folks. I'm trying a variation on the old adage. I'm terribly sorry.
Not for that cop, though, he deserves to rot.
Can someone kick off from ketamine? Cos I really hope he just does a little too much one night
Yes, but it's generally folks who IM it who do.
Matthew Perry is probably the most famous example. But growing up in the party scene, it does happen fairly often.
Not really. And I wouldn’t pin this behavior on something that has therapeutic use anyway, ketamine deserves better.
Yeah, Ketamine doesn't cause racism
Chauvin would join Kash Himmler's near future SA or NKVD private security detail. The single finger salute goes out to the neo-Nazis and their Government of Putin supporters.
If Trump pardons him he still has 20+years of state sentence to finish, this is a distraction….
They are about to do the biggest grift ever with the tax cuts for the rich.
All of this is a distraction
Yup, same with the tariffs. Drop the stock market by two percent and as the richest person in the world you’ve just invested billions
The fact that Elon Musk is for pardoning someone who murdered an innocent person speaks volumes. Also, I can't see how this wouldn't lead to riots.
They want riots so they have a reason to put troops on the streets and “come down hard” to please their base.
Why haven't there already been riots? Of all the reasons to start widespread riots, hasn't the last 2 months given enough of them?
Americans are capable of riots, but it seems to require so marination before some trigger event happens on their soil that causes emotions to suddenly spark.
Almost like he's trying to flick the bic
The tech oligarchy as a tight grip on the population. They control the narrative.
If he gets pardoned I hope that will push the Americans harder to overthrow these sycophants. On the other hand it could be to try to trigger something so Cheeto Mussolini can crack down on the protests with violence.
There will be mass protests, looters will take advantage of these times. Martial law will be declared in those places and never given back. Nothing would make them happier
If the United States commits their military to enforcing martial law on their own soil then it'll be more difficult for them to escalate their current economic wars into actual wars.
have you seen their police force and equipment?
They don't need to use the military.
I still have hope in our military. I sincerely hope they'd never follow those orders. I have infinitely more respect for the army than the police.
I presume martial law is bad for the economy too
This is the sleight of hand they want you paying attention to. Instead, keep an eye on the other hand;
Because that is the one doing the damage.
It kinda feels like both hands are doing a lot of damage....
The real trick is the fact that both of these do damage, and you can't afford to ignore either.
Signaling to the police that the executive branch has your back and will support you when you kill poor black men is going to get people straight up murdered.
He also has people's back when they murder/injure police. So, if you're a cop, do not take it as a show of support.
Only has your back if you are harming people they don't like
That should go over well.
Honestly, a part of me wants this to happen because I believe it would cause some serious protests.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but i believe that is the point.
I think it's a reasonable assessment of the current situation. He wants/they want to put us in a situation where our military must or can be used to restore order. They want to normalize military use against US citizens.
On the plus side civil unrest in the US requiring a stronger domestic military presence means the US may have less support to wage war on other countries. That's easier to do when the population is calmly falling in line.