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“Gather the entire federal judiciary into a stadium. Then have them listen and watch while the judges are beaten to death,” one wrote. “Cut their heads off and put them on pikes outside” the Justice Department.

Others called for killing Trump’s political critics after former House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, an influential Democrat, called the pardons “an outrageous insult.”

“If someone successfully whacked Pelosi, I would consider them a hero,” one Patriots.Win commenter wrote. Another wished for Liz Cheney, the Republican who defied Trump by spearheading the congressional investigation of the violence, to “hang.”

And there it is - the crazed rantings of pure evil...

These are Trump's supporters - the ones he defends and pardons - and these are examples of the type of violence and chaos they want to bring to America...

And it's coming - you voted for it MAGA-friends, now you're going to get it...and all the blame...

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Yes it will. As will Musk's nazi salute.

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The ‘proud boy’ in the photo is so proud he has to hide his identity. What a loser.

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Support for the extreme rightwing will backfire.

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Support for the extreme rightwing will backfire.

Hmmm…doubt it, and it’s not so much support for them, more like injustice done towards them.

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https://x.com/walkabout24/status/1881622782209036711?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ

Remember how you are always complaining that ‘the libs’ ignore context?

A photo still is not the same as a video.

Also certainly not the same as making the same gesture while shouting about ‘saving civilization’.

Try again.

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Hmmm…doubt it, and it’s not so much support for them, more like injustice done towards them.

Including the 69 pardoned who had pleaded guilty for assaulting police with a deadly weapon?

Remember all those posts you made about ignoring police orders, fafi, it’s all their fault etc? Only applies to the darker complexion?

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Including the 69 pardoned who had pleaded guilty for assaulting police with a deadly weapon?

Yes

Assault is bad, I get it, but murder?

https://apnews.com/article/leonard-peltier-biden-pardons-eba525b713f2ec739b84aa4426366775

Remember all those posts you made about ignoring police orders, fafi, it’s all their fault etc? Only applies to the darker complexion?

Race again? Here we go….

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Including the 69 pardoned who had pleaded guilty for assaulting police with a deadly weapon?

Yes

You claimed several times recently that Vance is “shrewd”.

He stated on Fox News that those who committed violence obviously should not be pardoned.

Now you disagree with him. Which of you is wrong?

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bass4funk

Including the 69 pardoned who had pleaded guilty for assaulting police with a deadly weapon?

Yes

You stated you have a policeman brother but you willingly support violent people who attacked Capitol police officers.

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You stated you have a policeman brother but you willingly support violent people who attacked Capitol police officers.

No, I don’t support violence. But they served enough time whereas the thugs from the summer of 2020 didn’t serve anytime for looting, rioting and injuring over 6000 officers and left $2 billion in damages.

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He stated on Fox News that those who committed violence obviously should not be pardoned. 

Now you disagree with him. Which of you is wrong?

Yes, I love Vance, but he’s not the President.

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No, I don’t support violence. But they served enough time whereas the thugs from the summer of 2020 didn’t serve anytime for looting, rioting and injuring over 6000 officers and left $2 billion in damages.

You keep repeating this but it simply isn’t true. There were over 14,000 arrests and over 300 people were charged with federal crimes and imprisoned.

Did you not know this?

Now you disagree with him. Which of you is wrong?

Yes, I love Vance, but he’s not the President.

Can’t you answer the question?

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The commutations cover the sentences for 14 far-right extremists from the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys who were convicted or charged with seditious conspiracy.

Their guilty convictions and criminal records remain in place.

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No, I don’t support violence. But they served enough time whereas the thugs from the summer of 2020 didn’t serve anytime for looting, rioting and injuring over 6000 officers and left $2 billion in damages.

There were prison sentences for some including murder. They were not trying to overthrow the government.

https://kevscohall.medium.com/the-truth-about-blm-riot-arrests-b5d25015db

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Well, yeah, course it will embolden them. That was his entire reason for doing it. So he has a larger group of thugs to wind up and send off to cause mayhem wherever he wants it caused.

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I'm seeing some reports online - not yet corroborated, I should add - that at least a couple of the people pardoned have already reoffended and been arrested again, and this time for state crimes...which the President can't pardon.

If true, this would be the funniest thing ever.

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You keep repeating this but it simply isn’t true.

It’s very true and you don’t speak for me.

There were over 14,000 arrests and over 300 people were charged with federal crimes and imprisoned. 

And only one person killed who was Trump supporter

Did you not know this? 

Yes, now if Some of these people MURDERED someone you would have a valentine point to your outrage, but sadly, a riot doesn’t qualify as a valid one.

Can’t you answer the question?

I did

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I'm seeing some reports online - not yet corroborated, I should add - that at least a couple of the people pardoned have already reoffended and been arrested again, and this time for state crimes...which the President can't pardon.

If true, this would be the funniest thing ever.

Yes, “if” true

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I'm seeing some reports online - not yet corroborated, I should add - that at least a couple of the people pardoned have already reoffended and been arrested again, and this time for state crimes...which the President can't pardon.

If true, this would be the funniest thing ever.

Yes, “if” true

No "if" about it....

"Jan. 6 rioter whose case was tossed after Trump pardon arrested on pending weapons charges".

https://abcnews.go.com/US/jan-6-rioter-case-tossed-after-trump-pardon/story?id=117982390

More violent criminals released to rob, pillage, and plunder innocent Americans....

And we know who to blame...

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You keep repeating this but it simply isn’t true. 

It’s very true and you don’t speak for me.

Facts don’t speak for anyone. They are facts.

Yes, now if Some of these people MURDERED someone you would have a valentine point to your outrage, but sadly, a riot doesn’t qualify as a valid one.

Relax, calm down. Stick to the facts. No need for valentine thanks.

Besides, you have made absolutely zero sense. None. Not a lick of it.

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And there it is - the crazed rantings of pure evil...

Yeah, sounds like your typical agents provocateurs.

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More liberal "experts" making emotionally charged over-the-top predictions.

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And there it is - the crazed rantings of pure evil...

Yeah, sounds like your typical agents provocateurs.

Indeed - far right agents and provocateurs.

Read the article again - the folks bragging about putting "heads on pikes" and bringing "nooses" were all far-right Trump supporters...the kind of folks he's released...

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More liberal "experts" making emotionally charged over-the-top predictions.

Crazy isn't it. I mean, it's not as if the President releases hundreds of convicted violent far right nutters, fires people who aren't, dines with Nazis, calls them 'good people', has a right hand man who supports actual German Nazis and gives Nazi salutes to hordes of far right supporters.

Nothing to worry about I'm sure.

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........a right hand man who supports actual German Nazis and gives Nazi salutes to hordes of far right supporters.

Next thing you know Trump will be adding the "f" back on to the end of his surname.

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On the Nazi salute thing....I can see a discriminatory problem where , at a Baseball game, an amputee with only one arm, tries to join in with the crowd doing a "Mexican Wave " and gets accused of doing a Nazi salute .

Could happen....

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"Proud Boys " sounds like a gay bands name.

Proud to be out !!!!

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Proud Boys = Brown Shirts

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The felon in the White House pardoned felons he sent to attempt a coup d'etat. What a surprise.

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But they served enough time whereas the thugs from the summer of 2020 didn’t serve anytime for looting, rioting and injuring over 6000 officers and left $2 billion in damages.

So?

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There is talk that Trump will pardon Diddy if Diddy helps Trump with some new Coin and can make Trump some money. Trump is always up for a deal and has the power to pardon anyone.

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Relax, calm down. Stick to the facts. No need for valentine thanks. 

Well, you don't have any valid points, you are just driven by pure emotion

Besides, you have made absolutely zero sense. None. Not a lick of it

I think it's actually the opposite truth be told.

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The felon in the White House pardoned felons he sent to attempt a coup d'etat. What a surprise.

Biden as well, an FBI murderer and a child molester, I think that would count as far worse.

Crazy isn't it. I mean, it's not as if the President releases hundreds of convicted violent far right nutters, fires people who aren't, dines with Nazis, calls them 'good people', has a right hand man who supports actual German Nazis and gives Nazi salutes to hordes of far right supporters.

Nothing to worry about I'm sure.

You tell me.

Leonard Peltier, who was serving a life sentence for the deaths of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a standoff at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, will now move to home confinement.

Former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan was convicted in 2011 in what was infamously called the “kids-for-cash” scandal, where he took kickbacks from for-profit detention centers in exchange for wrongly sending juveniles to their facilities. The case was widely considered to be one of the worst judicial scandals in Pennsylvania history.

Like all of the other nearly 1,500 people who got commutations from Biden this week, Conahan was freed from prison due to Covid. His house arrest was set to end in 2026.

The misconduct of Conahan and another Luzerne County judge led the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to throw out 4,000 juvenile convictions, and the discredited state judges were ordered to pay $200 million to the victims, according to the Associated Press.

Yeah, the left as usual have nothing....

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bass4funkToday 12:56 am JST

Former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan was convicted in 2011 in what was infamously called the “kids-for-cash” scandal, where he took kickbacks from for-profit detention centers in exchange for wrongly sending juveniles to their facilities. The case was widely considered to be one of the worst judicial scandals in Pennsylvania history.

Remember your team likes for-profit prisons, unpaid prison labor, and being "tough" on crime.

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bass4funkToday 01:55 am JST

Remember your team likes for-profit prisons, unpaid prison labor, and being "tough" on crime.

What does that have to do with Biden having the audacity to release a murderer and child molester?

I don't know, but it is clear that releasing 1500 police assaulters is worse.

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 other far-right groups, say experts

What "experts"? The talking heads in the legacy media?

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bass4funkToday 02:24 am JST

When there are 1500 of them, absolutely.

So none of these people were murdered,

Police officers died on January 6th. They didn't get into car accidents on the way to work.

but the ones who murdered an actual agent, two of them mind you is not as bad,

Collectively, no. There is only so much damage a now 70 year old man can do (unless he is president of the United States).

so you’re essentially saying a life of a person is not as valid as a person who’s alive but was physically attacked, but still alive??

5 police officers died from either the event or the effects of the event. And then we have the 174 officers who may have had life altering injuries from the event.

Do you know the average human being would think that thought process was beyond looney.

Only in the MAGA looneysphere where two deaths is a tragedy but five deaths is a statistic.

By the way the murderer had his sentence commuted after serving 50 years.

But he still murdered someone, commuted or not, he took two peoples lives, you can’t take that back, as the families of the deceased how they feel.

In the civilized world we don't lock people up for life at enormous public expense (we don't kill them at equally enormous expense either) unless the crime is particularly heinous like seditious conspiracy.

You'll have to post a link to the child molester claim as that has been rightfully removed from the decent part of the internet.

The main info is there, that is what the man was convicted of, that is why he was pardoned, otherwise no need.

Link or nonsense.

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*don't result in life imprisonment

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The experts are correct.

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What "experts"? The talking heads in the legacy media?

It would seem so.

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More far left alarmism.

We saw what that got them in the recent election.

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Police officers died on January 6th. They didn't get into car accidents on the way to work.

False.

NO police officers died on Jan. 6th at, around, or near the Capitol.

ZERO.

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Some of the nutters he pardoned have already been re-arrested for new fire-arm related offenses. The scum of the earth.

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About 140 of those pardoned violently injured police officers. Several police officers died after the attempted coup. Of course he pardoned them.

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