Trump

[Beany]

My bingo card of "people who advocated for trump and have been viciously turned on" is getting filled up faster than even I expected.

[Beany]

Add to that, the police.

Weirdly, they're not too happy about the president pardoning violent criminals who tried to directly (and succeeded indirectly) kill cops. Something about undermining the rule of law. Who'd have thought a convicted felon and someone notoriously ignorant of, and mocker of, the law would do this??

"The Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024."

As with a lot of Trump fans, they were quite happy to back him, riiiight up till he does something that impacts them personally.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/police ... -6-pardons

The leopards eating faces party is at serious risk of diabetes at this rate.

[Sundayjumper]

Yeah, it's tricky for the Police. They're OK with unaccountability for beating & killing black people ("donold good"), but far less keen on people being unaccountable for beating & killing Police officers ("donold bad"). Hard to square that one.

[Mito Man]

But Trump pardoning the rioters was always on the cards. I don’t think he’s done anything surprising yet so I don’t know why people are acting so surprised.

[speedingfine]

But Trump pardoning the rioters was always on the cards. I don’t think he’s done anything surprising yet so I don’t know why people are acting so surprised.

Pardoning Ross Ulbrecht was not on my bingo card..

[Sundayjumper]

The expectation was to pardon the non-violent ones, e.g. people just charged with trespass. The Police would have accepted that as a compromise. As recently as a couple of weeks ago Vance said violent offenders wouldn't be pardoned. Saying "yeah but trump lol" doesn't make any of it OK.

Pissing off large numbers of Federal employees will come back to bite him, it'll just take a bit of time.

[Sundayjumper]

But Trump pardoning the rioters was always on the cards. I don’t think he’s done anything surprising yet so I don’t know why people are acting so surprised.

Pardoning Ross Ulbrecht was not on my bingo card..

Long read on Silk Road:

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/

[Simon]

Pissing off large numbers of Federal employees will come back to bite him, it'll just take a bit of time.

I think Trump supporters have very short and selective memories.

[Beany]

They're also not the sharpest.

Votes for Trump

Applies for job in IRS

Fails to see the contradiction with this.

Gets verbal offer

Then gets told "sorry, job gone, executive order, no hiring"

[Sundayjumper]

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pol ... rcna188590

Fair Play to her...

I expect her to be arrested on her way home with half a Kilo to Meth in the trunk of her car

The Rebuke...



- Politics of Fear

And yet compared to Jones, that suddenly seems quite mild:

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[dinny_g]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... s-kentucky

[V8Granite]

This is a good way to flush them out as social media will be awash with naming and shaming hopefully.

Dave!

[ZedLeg]

What do you mean flush them out, they're doing this in broad daylight. The president wants them to. He released people serving decade long sentences for sedition.

Nothing's going to happen to them.

[DeskJockey]

Don't worry though, he's sorting the war in Ukraine. He's "told" Putin to end the war or face (more?) tariffs, sanctions and taxes. Who knew it was so easy? I'm sure Vlad is shaking... with laughter at his pet yipping as if he can make a difference.

[DeskJockey]

What do you mean flush them out, they're doing this in broad daylight. The president wants them to. He released people serving decade long sentences for sedition.

Nothing's going to happen to them.

This. This. This.

[Mito Man]

There’s gonna be one hell of a civil war in 4 years time.

[Rich B]

we were chatting about Trumps antics in the office today, which led to a co worker commenting how he was better than that lying cunt Starmer. i asked what he’s lied about and the response was “He lied about being bought glasses by Sadiq Khan whilst taking away old people’s heating”…

This was from a very intelligent and successful project manager.

The press has won. We’re doomed.

[Mito Man]

Trump is doing a better job of having a roadmap to follow and executing his vision (not saying the stuff in his roadmap is good here). Starmer and co are good at saying things and not much execution happening aside from the budget side of things.

[Jobbo]

How quickly we seem to forget - I love the fact that there isn’t a new crisis every couple of days with our current government. Trump will bring that back to the US. Do people really want to live their lives in that sort of world?

[DeskJockey]

The proverbial curse "may you live in interesting times" is as apt and unwanted as ever. The sheer momentum of the chaos that is about to unfold in the US will drag us along, while enabling all the wrong sort of people to "have a go". The damage he'll do will take decades to undo, assuming it can be undone.