Ah yes. Fewer consequences for the rich is what we need.
Shut up romney.
I actually had an idea that Biden could pardon Trump, then Trump couldn’t plead the 5th when called as a witness against anyone else. So he would have the choice of truthful answers or perjury.
Seeing how this current judge has been handling him with kid gloves I wouldn’t expect anything bad to happen to him even if he did perjure himself.
Notice how he is minding every p and a, crossing every t and dotting every i?
That’s so that, when he’s done, there will be nothing to appeal.
They will still try, but try and achieve are so different they don’t even share a letter.
Well, not that we needed one, but I really appreciate you giving us a reminder for why we should never ever make you president, Mittens. It’s very thoughtful of you.
Don’t worry, at some point he’ll say one normal thing and people will remark on how he’s so reasonable compared to the others.
It is true, though. If he were to run for president, he’d be the best candidate the Republican party has put forward in 2 decades. And he’s still a gigantic piece of shit.
The smallest coil of shit turned out onto the chests of voters in decades!
You certainly have a way with words, my friend.
Flame wars must be, while we defend our lives against a butthole who would devour all; but I do not love the quip for its sharpness, nor the meme for its oddly specific irony, nor the troll for his lulz; I love only that which they defend
There’s a Netflix documentary called “Mitt” that follows him and his family throughout his 2012 run. I took two things away:
- It helped humanize Mitt a lot, such as loving a beat up, old pair of winter gloves
- I’m glad he was never President, and should never be President
If I were Mitt I would immediately transfer everything I own to rockandsock.
It’s really easy to say what you’d hypothetically do in someone else’s place isn’t it?
Just shows how much of a mistake pardoning Nixon was the first time. Now there’s a precedent for giving Presidents immunity to save face.
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We absolutely should!
How is welcoming someone for being new a bad thing?
how is this news? we already knew Romney was a turd
It may surprise you that a very large number of Republican politicians have spoken ill of Trump in the past, so it always makes it into the news when they flop on the issue and go back to subservience.
Ford pardoned Nixon. He didn’t get elected to a full term after finishing the remainder of Nixons. We can argue about if the pardon was the final nail in the coffin (The economy shitting the bed didn’t help, I’m sure.), but I think we can agree it was definitely one of the nails.
Nixon also resigned. There was no chance of him coming back but it didn’t do anything to convince conservatives in the 70s. The movie Dick is a great primer on how Nixon’s resignation radicalized Republicans.
He was talking some sense on his way out, then this. Repubs are incapable of being normal.
Right… he was one of the almost okay ones kind of for a sec at the end… and that’s the best we get
With these scumbags, “almost” is meaningless. I never gave Romney the benefit of any doubt because he’s ultimately as awful as any of the feral maga hogs—he wants the same inhuman things they do, he just wants more decorum about it
This does not surprise me one iota
And there ya go groveling to your orange master, Romney. What a spineless bitch.
Well, Trump could just try not being a criminal if they care so much about prosecuting an ex-president
When you think the law doesn’t apply to you then of course you’d think you can do anything you wanted and never be a criminal.
Doesn’t there have to be a conviction in order for there to be a pardon? Or is that a myth?
Nixon got a full pardon and I don’t think he was ever charged.
That’s what I was going to say. Pretty sure it’s true. I read something a while ago about people who had been pardoned, not realizing that it’s an admission of guilt. I think a person can even turn down a pardon on that basis, but I’m not positive on that last part.
I guess he would have to say he WOULD pardon him, to heaf off any charges.
None of that is true. Nixon was never charged, let alone convicted of any crimes. And pardons can be completely general and not even specify an explicit crime at all. President Ford’s pardon of Nixon, for example, was for “all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974” So, no. Neither charges or convictions are required, nor even a crime at all.
I see, but the guilt IS still a thing.
What? Anyway, that would never happen.
Yeah, who just pardons a criminal ex-presi- wait… never mind.
Maybe the ex-president shouldn’t have been such a criminal, Mitt.
