Roger Dorn wrote:Mueller investigation is basically worthless...Trump will pardon everyone...he has no respect whatsoever for the courts. Really dangerous.

Bipartisanship should protect against this...

Pretty gross to pardon that awful racist. Makes me pretty bummed.

Feel really terrible for the Latino community. all the ongoing ICE deportations and now this. GOP is a fucking disgrace

What the fuck is this shit. Sheriff Joe is a fucking disgrace and a presidential pardon for him is a slap in the face (actually worse than that, but I don't even have words) to Hispanic Americans. I've long thought Trump is trash but this is just even beyond that. It disgraces us all. America is no longer great, I honestly feel that this is just about the worst we've been in my lifetime. Fuck.

td11 wrote:Feel really terrible for the Latino community. all the ongoing ICE deportations and now this. GOP is a fucking disgrace

It will only get worse...DACA is next.

Republican gov Bruce Rauner vetoed $15/hr min wage bill

I am so fucking mad about the pardon. Sheriff Joe is an awful human being, has terrorized residents of Maricopa county for too long and is going to walk.

Trump is a pathetic asshole. You too, Brantt.

pacino wrote:Republican gov Bruce Rauner vetoed $15/hr min wage bill

I have spent a lot of time paying attention to what my profession has done to essentially middle class and the striver jobs. Automation has ripped out humongous segments of work but simply do not exist anymore. Good luck finding someone with the secretary who is in at the very very top of the company, you don't know anyone under 55 who would even consider a travel agent, and dozens of other examples. You see with the stories about automated shipping and tracking, so those functions are clearly on the chopping block, and a 24 hour work clock would be massively beneficial. Of list of potential they want to meet at jobs on and on.

I say this because I wonder what the breakpoint is where the price of labor is equaled initially and then recouped quickly through automation that people have not yet considered as viable. Is it $27900 per function (that is $15/hour)? That figure might seem low, that's also only 1860 hrs. and only. Tough question.

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Pam Keith‏ @PamKeithFL
In all seriousness, I would be willing to donate to families of Arpaio's victims to sue him in civil court. What say you?

He's already cost his county a $44 million dollar settlement

Doll Is Mine wrote:Trump just pardoned Arpaio. Piece of #$!&@.

What would stop trump from telling arpaio to go back and keep doing what you were doing - ill pardon you every time. It would be like trumps own super cop

I think it is time to reevaluate the whole concept of pardons, presidential and otherwise. It is an outmoded leftover of our monarchical past.

06hawkalum wrote:I think it is time to reevaluate the whole concept of pardons, presidential and otherwise. It is an outmoded leftover of our monarchical past.

The intention was a check on the courts and there are certainly cases where it's warranted but perhaps a review by congress should have been added

Not a lot of trumps bullshit has gotten to me lately but this pardon is bumming me out. Its real awful.

There are layers with in the layers to this pile of actions. First the timing, which is as the category four hurricane was carving into the central Texas coast line. Just about that very moment the confirmation of the transgender action comes across the wire with Sheriff Joe biting down the line to be in first place. It's an obvious Shell game where he challenges the media to cover his political actions while there is a human toll to be covered in Texas. Also he pulls these triggers as he climbs on the helicopter to get out of town.

It's amazing, disgusting, depending how you look at this particular strategy. Or use the term strategy sort of loosely, but he is a shrewd media animal. All of his time watching the morning shows is paying some dividends for him. Of course the pay off is that he can grass type of problems that he can Jen up for his next episode of Donald Trump in the White House. Challenging the median, with that be damned if you do damned if you don't scenario because he knows that they need to cover Texas and that they want to cover Gorka , but what will they do with the military and Arizona news? I dare you.

One of the damning things about the Arpiao is that, as many of you have some eyes, it provides a clear signal to friends of Donald that you can do whatever you want and he'll throw you a pardon. The focus of this is, of course, that you can do whatever you want in this Russia probe to cover yourself and more importantly him, and he's got your back.

Remember this article from a year and a half ago https://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/t ... itarianism

One. Year. Ago. This ad got a lot of pushback:

pacino wrote:One. Year. Ago. This ad got a lot of pushback:

worth re-emphasizing that Trump is also not an anomaly in the GOP.