Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) pressed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to pardon former President Trump following his recent conviction in his hush money trial.
“Donald Trump is a serial liar, cheater, and philanderer, a six-time declarer of corporate bankruptcy, an instigator of insurrection, and a convicted felon who thrives on portraying himself as a victim,” Phillips said in a post on social platform X Friday.
“@GovKathyHochul should pardon him for the good of the country.”
Because that makes total sense. God forbid Donnie face any fucking consequences. Who gives a shit if his base is pissed let them be. We do not kowtow to fascists.
… and this is why we are much better off with Joe Biden as the Democratic Nominee than Dean Phillips.
Hmm maybe we should try holding people accountable for a change, crazy thought I know
Amen, thank you.
No. Fuck Dean Phillips for even suggesting it. While we’re discussing it, Nixon should have never been pardoned either. It’s not good for the country. We need justice to be served. We were robbed the first time; let’s not make that mistake again.
The difference is that Nixon was able to secure a pardoned in exchange for fucking off and staying out of the public eye. And to be fair, he held up his end of the deal.
No way is Donnie going to fuck off.
It’s funny how this never gets brought up as far as non rich-white-person crime.
Like hey, this guy robbed a liquor store, but for the good of the community I think we should set him free. See? Doesn’t work. But for someone reason when it’s a much more dangerous type of criminal who’s part of the “tribe,” everyone starts nodding their heads and saying yeah, the good of the community, that makes perfect logical sense now that you put it that way.
They do it only because it shows the rich elites might actually face consequences of their actions. Red or blue they’re part of the same coin and us plebians aren’t welcome in their club, so they protect their own.
There is a decent chance this actually happens. If the sentence is actually prison time, that chance goes up to near 100%. Politicians have had this weird sort of pact that they don’t typically go after each other legally when they should (because the implication is it’ll happen to them too), and when they get in trouble they pardon each other. As the late, great George Carlin said: It’s one big club. And you’re not in it.
It’d be better for the country if the felon was sent to prison immediately.
Minnesota, vote this traitorous motherfucker out!
I’m in his district, I’ll see what I can do
He’s not running for re-election. I hope that the district can stay blue. Deano was the first democrat to win that seat in decades. Fuck Ramstad.
And fuck Erik Paulsen too
Fucking putz.
Fuck off, Dean Phillips. We had a dipshit pardon Nixon and now look where we are. We didn’t have enough hangings after the Civil War and now look where we are. Fuck a pardon.
Fucking hell, I thought this was talking about some Republican named Phillips. The dude is a Democrat?
“Democrat”
Probably a Democrat like Kirsten Sinema was.
I don’t know what happened to him but I lived in his district and he was a great breath of fresh air as the first democrat to hold that seat in decades. The NW burbs of the Twin Cities have shifted bluer and I hope they keep the seat.
There’s no way Phillips gets to continue LARPing as a Democrat after this.
I have this other weird idea. What if like, politicians don’t commit crimes instead? And if they do commit a crime, they go to jail. How about that?
Yes… I too think we should pardon the criminal who has spent his whole life never experiencing consequences for his actions.
But I was assured that this guy was our only chance to resist Biden because Biden was the guy doin a fascist takeover, and we had to nominate someone else instead, who wouldn’t be a fascist. Like Phillips.
Now I’m all perplexed about it. Surely the people saying that wouldn’t have been lying for some duplicitous reason
Is it too late to primary his nazi loving ass?
Fuck this guy.
He’s not running for re-election.
Good.
“lol” said the governor, “lmao”
That would actually be a kickass tweet if only it ended in
/sor an eye-roll emoji.From the other posts it apparently isn’t sarcasm and I’m so confused
I have no idea who this Phillips guy is so must be missing some context.
Democratic representative from Minnesota.
Him being a Democrat and the long list of horribleness followed by ‘he should be pardoned’ is why I initially assumed it was sarcasm.
Apparently Phillips is just a moron.
“You think pardoning is stupid?” Phillips, also a former presidential candidate, said in a Saturday post on X. “Making him a martyr over a payment to a porn star is stupid. (Election charges are entirely different.) It’s energizing his base, generating record sums of campaign cash, and will likely result in an electoral boost.”
Nixon had to resign to get a pardon
Hm, interesting, if Ronald McDonald first drops out of the race (and politics altogether) maybe then he can have a pardon.
