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Bitter Scribe's avatar

DON'T FUCKING PARDON HER. Giving in to bullies NEVER works.

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Gern Blansten's avatar

Another angry crazy Repukey white lady who is the real victim here!

Amazing how all these conservative low lifes claim to be all about law and order until they finally get caught being very unlawful and disorderly.

Or is it?

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Hank Napkin's avatar

They bear the color of the British Redcoats. They bear the color of the Communist Soviet, of the Communist Maoist. They bear the color of Loss and the color of Debt. Leaving us to bear all actual Loss and all real Debt.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

If Polis pardons Peters, Pedo will probably still try to punish Colorado just because he can.

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fair_n_hite_451's avatar

Lesson 25,974 regarding "appeasing a bully never works"

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Herr Snackmeier's avatar

When this is all over, and it may take generations, the way this ends is with the presidency of the United States being relegated to that of a sort of super city manager. You know, an expert who can administer efficiently, but only within the radius of the leash that the governing body provides.

If the Republic survives the lesson that will undoubtedly be taken, because lessons taken are always in the extreme and always an exercise and shutting the barn door long after the horse is gone will be to see the presidency as far too powerful. And the solution, which future generations will craft, will likely be a combination of constitutional amendments and laws that neuter the presidency.

We will remove corruption from the executive branch, by and large, and we will implicitly require expertise. But The job will no longer be one of global prominence. That will fade, surely. Perhaps it's a just trade, given all the chaos and division and pain and death this exemplar presidency is providing.

To ensure that our grandchildrens grandchildren live in a just, equitable, verdant happy future, the only adaptive solution possible under our constitution and with the predictable your rationality of the human animal, we may have to accept that the American constitutional order is no more important than Denmark's, or Luxembourg's or South Africa's.

And that might just be okay.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

"Purchasing Manager" is the term.

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Maelen Moonsinger's avatar

The head of the American government will be a world figure, however neutered he gets. Look at how much news exposure the opinions of King Charles of England get, and he's got no real power at all.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Excellent Shortbread, though.

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Megan Macomber's avatar

They should give her another nine years for the Nikken scam. I had to fend off serious--SERIOUS: boxes of dvd testimonials and booklets, plus an admittedly lovely water purifier that relied on mysterious rocklike objects--Nikken overtures from some very dear friends who got roped in not long after its inception. They live down south; I was supposed to exploit a virgin market in New England.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, I had a brain tumor to attend to and demurred as politely as I could. But Nikken could have destroyed our friendship. Tina Peters, being a sociopath, likely doesn't have friendships to destroy. She's a variant of Trump in that way: just another con artist, using whomever she can inveigle into her schemes.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

TYPO

"...while the big dog himself" should read "...while the big dong itself"

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fair_n_hite_451's avatar

i assumed that the word "wet" was missing from the sentence.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Urine luck.

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Why So Lugubrious?'s avatar

I keep reading the headline as

"TRUMP TO DESTROY COLORADO IN EFFORT TO FREE TINY PETERS"

And I'm like, that tracks.

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Warren's avatar

She forgot the copper bracelets and the diet that the Apostles ate.

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Jamoche's avatar

About 30 years ago there was a very frequent ad for some sort of snake oil concoction with ingredients "in Biblical proportions!" And my bestie and I would look at each other and snark "massive quantities?"

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Sherry's avatar

I’ve said it over and over. Do NOT give into a bully. IF he does this then all the other cases will fall apart.

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Major Kong's avatar

"magnetic bed & pillow". Do they work when they get wet, and what is with these right wing grifters and pillows?

On a serious note, could you imagine if any Democrat withheld funding from a Red State (never mind that only Congress has the power of the purse).

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Jamoche's avatar
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A nickel's worth of scrap foam in an equally cheap bag, and next thing you know it's a perpetual-two-for-one sale of $40 pillows.

(I first heard of MyPillow on Consumerist, because perpetual two-for-one-sales are illegal. It's basically admitting that it's really a $20 pillow.)

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My Erdos Number Is Five's avatar

I fear this is real.

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Karen Krebser's avatar

What is it with these people and magnets? Do they all just see a magnet and screech "SORCERY!" and all the others come running with their wallets out?

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Skunk Formerly Known As Stoner's avatar

Given Trump’s personal, hmmm, issues with magnets, he probably needs Peters in his cabinet as the magnet czar.

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Zarquon's avatar

It will be easy to thwart DT's plans to free her - everyone knows that if you spill water on magnets everything just stops working, so just arm her guards with water pistols!

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JunkYardDogg's avatar

Peters deserves to spend the rest of her wretched, foul life in prison. What she did was to allow her group of Insurrection activists of Fascist MAGATS to copy all the software of the election system used in her county. And she showed, & encouraged others who were in similar positions elsewhere, to do the same. In all likelihood, these election manipulators probably have been able to copy the software of every voting system used in the U.S. with the Masters of the Universe Tech Bros assistance, it is entirely possible for them to alter the software in order to manipulate the tabulation. If these people are willing to copy the software, they are just as willing to install their own corrupted software back into the various systems. And we do not know of where else this has been done. There are reports that Peters has been beat up a couple of times already in the joint. And the ‘mastermind(less) behind all of this, Broke Ass Busted DimeBag Mike Lindell, has never been prosecuted & has been appointed by Trump into some election official job.

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