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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1461311
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1461311
Performative bullshit piled on the usual reich-wing bullshit, where can it lead? Where it always does, an ever higher Bullshit Mountain from which it becomes increasingly difficult to return.
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Pardons[edit]
Before his 2020 reelection, Parson issued very few pardons, but since then, he has begun issuing them monthly.[92] As of June 2021, he had a backlog of about 3,000 requests for clemency.[92]
In July 2020, Parson proactively pledged to pardon Mark and Patricia McCloskey, a St. Louis couple who pointed guns at unarmed George Floyd protesters walking past their home on a private street, if they were convicted of crimes and if there was no significant change in the facts as they were understood at the time.[93][57] In August 2021, he pardoned the McCloskeys after they pleaded guilty to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and misdemeanor harassment.[94]
In June 2021, Parson declined to pardon Kevin Strickland, an African-American man imprisoned for triple murder since 1978, saying it was not a “priority”.[92][95] Strickland, who had been convicted by an all-white jury, had maintained his innocence, and the case’s prosecutor said she believes him to be innocent.[92] He had become the subject of a bipartisan clemency petition by state lawmakers, and several judges and other politicians had called for his release.[92] In November 2021, a judge set aside the conviction and Strickland was released.[96] Parson also refused to pardon Lamar Johnson, an African-American man convicted for murder on the basis of one eyewitness’s testimony; a conviction integrity unit later found that there was overwhelming evidence of his innocence.[97] Critics contrasted Parson’s decision to decline to pardon Strickland with his decision to pardon the McCloskeys.[94]
^ this is from the Wiki. I’m not sure with MO’s term limits if Parson can run again for governor in 2024, or if filling out Greiten’s term counts for or against a person only serving two terms as governor. The law states he can only serve 8 years, in a 12 year period.
I bring this up because don’t politicians with pardoning power not advertise in advance who they would pardon?
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Trump To Room Full Of Christians: ‘I’m Being Indicted For You’ | Crooks and Liars
While speaking at a Christian event to whip up support from his evangelical base, Trump tried to claim that he was being persecuted, but he was doing it for them. “I’m being indicted for you,” said the twice-indicted former President recently found liable for sexual abuse.
Simple, he was indited for your sins
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Violence, conducted in the name of right-wing ideology is apparently justified and always OK. Violence in the name of civil and reproductive rights is un-American, and is apparently worthy of death. So say the coo-coo clucks.
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May he suffer the same fate.
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No suprise, but notable
Trump has been ‘quietly diverting’ money away from his 2024 re-election campaign: report - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism
A slight change in the small print in Donald Trump’s online disclosures reveals an increase in the money contributors have been donating to help him win the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination is being shifted to help to pay his legal bills.
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C’mon, do you really want the asshole coming back after three days? 
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“God so despised the World, He gave his only missbegotten failson…”
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It’s an actual fucking cult!
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Contrast election night, 2008 and now. We were in possession of a great deal, and we squandered it, starting in the 2010 Congressional elections.
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Come on, give a little to credit to the r/w media (i.e. Fox and its cohorts) which has kept stirring up this hornet’s nest timeand again.
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Yeah I’m with you Rowlf on this, except I don’t want to see DJT being venerated to centuries to come.
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They see themselves as latter day late eighteenth century “minutemen” opposing an oppressive social safety net state that protects people not like them. They see themselves, when jailed, as political prisoners. Those other people are criminals and unlike them deserve punishments.
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So I tried to fomulate a response based upon the idea that “the emperor has no clothes”, but then I recoiled in horror and revulsion, so we’ll just have to leave it there… 
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TY for sparing all of us.
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Touché.
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What the fuck did i do to deserve this kind of celestial retribution?!?!?!
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You know what you have done.
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Laundry??? 
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