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Militia seizes Federal building

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Inky_Wretch, Jan 2, 2016.

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  1. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    Like the moderators did with Dick, you mean?
     
  2. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Trump can’t get arrested for pardoning these people, therefore you can’t get mad.
     
  3. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    LOL. Your issues with Dick are hysterical.

    It's like putting him down makes you feel better about your own insecurities.

    Why is that, because he once wrote admirably about your career? Is that why you chose him as your foil?

    Do you put him down, because it makes you feel better than the guy who went back to school, and got a good job, with a steady paycheck, while you keep chasing the dream, after your career peaked?

    Does it cover up your pain, to put down the guy who's in a happy marriage, to the mother of his kids?
     
  4. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Dick was punished plenty of times on this board. To the best of my knowledge Smallpotatoes has yet to beat up anybody here.
     
  5. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    What other people have done is not relevant to the conversation. We're not talking about the larger issue here.
     
  6. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    First, I want to make some general comments about pardons and commutations of sentences. Article II of the Constitution gives the president broad and unreviewable power to grant ''Reprieves and Pardons'' for all offenses against the United States. The Supreme Court has ruled that the pardon power is granted ''[t]o the [president] . . ., and it is granted without limit'' (United States v. Klein). Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes declared that ''[a] pardon . . . is . . . the determination of the ultimate authority that the public welfare will be better served by [the pardon] . . .'' (Biddle v. Perovich). A president may conclude a pardon or commutation is warranted for several reasons: the desire to restore full citizenship rights, including voting, to people who have served their sentences and lived within the law since; a belief that a sentence was excessive or unjust; personal circumstances that warrant compassion; or other unique circumstances.
     
  7. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    As opposed to Yankee Fan's bad parent who would let his kids off the hook when they point out that their friends' parents let them get away with the same thing.
     
  8. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Says who? Why not?

    I'm the one who posted the story about Trump issuing the pardons. I don't remember setting any boundaries on where that post might lead the conversation.
     
  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    LOL. This is a good line of attack. Keep repeating it. I'm sure it will work eventually.
     
  10. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    If you are intentionally misspelling your posts on purpose responding to @YankeeFan , that is great trolling.
     
  11. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Don’t you ever miss a joke like that again.
     
    SnarkShark and YankeeFan like this.
  12. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    You know I'm not that smart.
     
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