Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she's 'disappointed' Trump is considering a pardon for men who plotted to kidnap her
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she's 'disappointed' Trump is considering a pardon for men who plotted to kidnap her
A clear message to Trump brand Nazis that they are free to kill his political opponents. Sure they'll have to suffer thru some jailtime, but he'll pardon them.
Hell, Hitler wrote about his struggle there.
'Disappointed' is certainly not the language I'd use in her position. I'd remind Trump that future presidents may follow his lead and pardon his attempted assassins. TACO in no time.
What the hell does it take for US centrist/centre-left politicians to be outraged?
Suggest universal healthcare, universal housing, or universal education(including college/university).
Being a leftist and calling for leftist policy probably
She should call for the pardon of Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh.
Like pardon his head back together?
If I were her, I would start preparing the National Guard and networking with other like-minded governors. If Trump is willing to pardon people who wanted to claim her life, then he wanted her dead. That is grounds for war.
IMO, the dissolution of the union has become nearly inevitable. The questions lie in the when, how, and whether good people come out on top. The good guys should set up mutual aid in advance, be it weather reports, treaties with Europe, Rainbow Panther militia, lawyers, or taxation that cuts out the federal government.
The fact that this comment has so many likes is bonkers to me.
Are you guys high?
Never did recreational drugs nor beer in my life. Lots of history books, though. In them, many governments turned to dust, and the US government has been deliberately creating the conditions to kill itself:
Manufactured famine and disaster by dissolving the NOAA weather service alongside FEMA, unchecked greed by the wealthy that is causing workers to give up on their careers, the abandonment of our science, medicine, and food standards, betrayal of our minority soldiers and civilians, de-legitimizing the rule of law, the loss of our foreign relations and trade, and more.
It is very likely that famine, plague, poverty, war, chaos, and death are the horsemen of our future.
As in, you’re baffled that people agree with the comment, and are upvoting it? Because it expresses a desire for an opposition politician to make real, meaningful, pragmatic preparations for the descent into fascism that we’re currently experiencing?
Best our leaders can do is... be disappointed.
Their job is to work within the set of laws we have set up for them. Their job is not to protest, rebel, engage in civil disobedience, etc.; that's our job. I'm tired of this sentiment that, by being an elected public official in a democratic system, we should also expect them to be martyrs for that system. That is a form of slacktivism. Cut it out. Go protest.
My only condition is that I be able to get away with it
Lord that's diplomatic
Can't wait until she sLaMs him on her way to the fucking gulags. Feckless corpodem bullshit.
Buy guns.
Anyone see the movie Devils Advocate with Keanu. It resonates with this administration. Watch it.
this movie is so good. not perfect, but very good. so many great scenes. that marble angel wall is forever stuck in my head.
I know. And how all the evil bastards of the world hang around each other. You can see it in their faces. While I don't see this in real life to me people who support Trump and Putin and those types all have a very certain look on their face.
Is he even attempting to make up a justification for it other than "help those who hurt the right people"?
I guess you mean he'll pardon them. It does seem to be pure vindictiveness, with no attempt to even dress it up. He just wants anyone he dislikes to fear for their life, and all his supporters and lackeys are on board with this.
The pardons are already paid. She can't do anything about it.
shes the one that is shilling for the gop.
Uh oh, after a democrat is disappointed they might gasp consider a sternly worded letter.
How can fascism survive such robust resistance?!
What do you want Whitmer to do?
Call Trump an illegitimate fascist cretin in a press release, for a start.
Execution followed by full pardon.
America is so boned.
Finger wags, finger wags for all!!!!
If things get any worse, there may be some raised eyebrows