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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/06/2025
very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
A bad President, for
instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to
revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous
power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the
dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you
succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and
you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will
pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government;
I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure
but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done
with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How
inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent
power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked.
He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of
securing allegiance to the government.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2025
in addition to being brazenly unprincipled, this is evidence that the conservatives KNOW trump is a mad king, but still want to imbue him with royal authority — against the well-documented history and tradition of the united states — out of their blinkered devotion to a narrow ideological project
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
every single person in this image is accused of rape or sexual assault, wonder if their awful behavior and treatment of others have anything to do with all the negative coverage. who knows!
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
there are many things creepy about this fuckin creep but one thing is how he openly enjoys the corruption and venality that power brings just zero pretense he has anyone elses interests at heart
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
If members of the press are worried they didn’t give enough coverage to the cognitive decline of a sitting president, they have an amazing opportunity to make up for it right now.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2025
there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
We have failed young men like these, alienated from modern society, with nothing to strive for except perhaps a cabinet position or a job taking away people’s Social Security
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/04/2025
imagine being this pathetic, servile and eager to gulp up the slop
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I’ve been sort of idly keeping track of all the points in the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars that arguably apply to the Trump Admin. This is the first four-in-a-row I’ve hit. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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