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TCinLA's avatar

If one of the over-educated, under-intelligent, otherwise unemployable Twitter twits of the Washington Press Corpse asks him why he's "being so partisan," Biden can quote Harry Truman: "I tell the truth about them and they think it's hell."

the bullies don't know what to do when the nice buy comes up and punches their face in front of their fans.

That @#$%#$#@!! Gingrich is more responsible than any other Republican including Nixon for turning the party into the Kooky Kollection of Klucks who were ready for Trump. You can take the boy out of the trailer park (he really was raised n one) but you can't take the trailer park out of the boy. What a worthless piece of shit he has been since the day he was born. Just like Trump.

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J L Graham's avatar

While I believe a process of pardon is necessary for correcting errors and changing understandings of justice, it seems to be that pardons on the whim of presidents and governors is a remnant of imperial power in our democratic republican system, which lacks prudent checks and balances and which can (now obviously) be used to undermine just rule of law as well as to improve it. The pardon of Nixon was such an abuse of power, and Trump's abuses are as corrupt as hell.

“Power must never be trusted without a check.” – John Adams

I suspect that this is only one of several ways we are inclined to conflate a president with a king.

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