• @Maggoty
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    61 month ago

    Paying minors for sex is hard time in prison. If evidence of such a thing became public the DOJ would essentially be forced to prosecute him. Right now they can just ignore it. Which they prefer to do because they like being employed.

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      1 month ago

      Is it hard time in prison though? He trafficked them across state lines, meaning it goes to a federal court which makes it eligible for pardon

      I could be wrong, but I thought it went federal soon as it crosses the border

      • @Maggoty
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        21 month ago

        A pardon for actual pedophilia might just be too much, even for Trump.

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          21 month ago

          Hard to compare the actions of a pedophile and the Russian asset he pardoned before. But yeah, one might look worse to the public. Not like he needs to care about what the public thinks anymore.

          • @Maggoty
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            11 month ago

            Even dictators have to care. There isn’t a military in the world that can stop a million angry peasants.

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              Nah, just has to have the media to sell it so there are a million angry peasants to counter those million peasants, and most of them not able to see how they would be able to feed themselves in a week if anything actually happened.

              Edit: Sorry, just being contrary today it seems.

              • @Maggoty
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                21 month ago

                Yeah and if I’m mad it’s not at you. The reason though that countering one crowd with another doesn’t work is that all you’ve done is create a civil war at that point. The idea for any leader is to avoid a crisis of legitimacy so bad that you have to deal with an angry mob in the first place.

                • @[email protected]
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                  21 month ago

                  Nah your good, thought it was comical I realized we were commenting about to different posts back and forth on 2 separate accounts haha

                  • @Maggoty
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                    21 month ago

                    Oh that happens so often I don’t even really look anymore.