The article isn't loading for me, but if the headline is accurate, there is no way to logically cast this in a positive light because you're arbitrarily playing with people's lives to match a number that happens to be a round number in base 10.
I think we all know that there aren't going to be exactly 250 people who deserve pardons. So either they are pardoning too many people and letting criminals go free without completing their sentences, or there are more than 250 people who deserve pardons. Imagine being the 251st person. "Sorry, but Trump wanted exactly 250, so you don't get a pardon."
Your in jail for smoking weed, guy next to you in there for rape, murder, armed robbery and arms smuggling alright and 250th pardoned is this guyyyy as they help the other guy up to be let go
I chuckled at your “deserved pardons” line. As if that has anything to do with who would be chosen. Going by the pardons this administration has been handing out so far, just pick the top 250 business moguls doing time for fraud. Boom. 250 easy.
Release Barabbas! Release Barabbas! Seriously, is it any more clear that any pretense of good governance has been abandoned and it is all just turning into bread and circuses? I’d like to observe that while roughly 9% of presidents have been assassinated, about 40% of Roman emperors were, so this whole “bread and circuses” might not work as well as they think.
All of his pardons so far have been political, that is to loyalists or those who were willing to pay him a bribe campaign contributions. If he were to make pardons of mercy, the public would suspect they were political merely based on the precedent he's already set.
However, I can't even imagine Trump willing to make mercy pardons at all. Trump really is that stuck in a transactional mindset, and cannot do a positive thing even as a publicity stunt. Every step he takes has to enrich him.
With any other president, I can see the pardon as a sign of compassion. With him, it is a pay-for-pardon scheme for criminals that managed to align with the Conman in Command.
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WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 178 pts · 37d
Nothing says "250th anniversary of the nation's founding" quite like the Felon-in-Chief pardoning even more of his criminal cronies and sycophants.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 37d
We do have the highest incarcerated population on the planet, it's pretty on theme.
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 79 pts · 37d
You just know Ghislaine Maxwell is on that list. Someone has to get her body double out of Club Fed.
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 37d
Gonna suck for the double. I doubt the retirement is very long.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 67 pts · 37d
Lol you could do 250 of thousands of different things that would all be objectively better than pardoning 250 convicted criminals.
Serinus@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 37d
It'd be pretty easy to hand out 250 pardons to reasonable, reformed or innocent people.
Of course he won't. He'll pardon anyone who pays him.
charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works · 52 pts · 37d
Has anyone noticed that this Trump guy is kind of a cunt?
GMac@feddit.org · 38 pts · 37d
So.. 250 people charged in connection with epstein files?
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 37d
Possibly. Or it'll be 250 people that will pay the Drumpf family the most money for the pardon.
Or both.
huppakee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 37d
Tbf auctioning off 250 pardons would bring in a lot of money for him
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 37d
Gotta keep the grifting going.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 10 pts · 37d
250 Pardons for himself.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 37d
Maybe. More likely just more bribes.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 36d
Or 250 preemptive pardons for himself and all his cabinet members.
CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 37d
250k per pardon
BillyClark@piefed.social · 28 pts · 37d
The article isn't loading for me, but if the headline is accurate, there is no way to logically cast this in a positive light because you're arbitrarily playing with people's lives to match a number that happens to be a round number in base 10.
I think we all know that there aren't going to be exactly 250 people who deserve pardons. So either they are pardoning too many people and letting criminals go free without completing their sentences, or there are more than 250 people who deserve pardons. Imagine being the 251st person. "Sorry, but Trump wanted exactly 250, so you don't get a pardon."
GarboDog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 37d
Your in jail for smoking weed, guy next to you in there for rape, murder, armed robbery and arms smuggling alright and 250th pardoned is this guyyyy as they help the other guy up to be let go
reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 37d
I chuckled at your “deserved pardons” line. As if that has anything to do with who would be chosen. Going by the pardons this administration has been handing out so far, just pick the top 250 business moguls doing time for fraud. Boom. 250 easy.
GarboDog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d
Idk if that’s better or worse tbh
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 37d
I wish hell was real.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 37d
And each pardon only cost $250,000.
Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 37d
lol, no try 1 to 8 million.
Muffi@programming.dev · -1 pts · 36d
whoosh
chahn.chris@piefed.social · 20 pts · 37d
I feel like this is what happens if the penguin becomes president.
qt0x40490FDB@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 37d
Release Barabbas! Release Barabbas! Seriously, is it any more clear that any pretense of good governance has been abandoned and it is all just turning into bread and circuses? I’d like to observe that while roughly 9% of presidents have been assassinated, about 40% of Roman emperors were, so this whole “bread and circuses” might not work as well as they think.
Bohne93@feddit.org · 14 pts · 37d
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 37d
100%, they're all like 16 year old idiots.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 37d
"Letting Criminals Go Free" seems to track now that "Law and Order" is on the wane.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 16 pts · 37d
Why stop there? Try 250 war crimes while you're at it oh look, a convenient war.
Red_October@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 37d
If you saw this in something like the Hunger Games you wouldn't bat an eye.
auzy1@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 37d
No doubt they'll be the people least deserving
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 36d
All of his pardons so far have been political, that is to loyalists or those who were willing to pay him
a bribecampaign contributions. If he were to make pardons of mercy, the public would suspect they were political merely based on the precedent he's already set.However, I can't even imagine Trump willing to make mercy pardons at all. Trump really is that stuck in a transactional mindset, and cannot do a positive thing even as a publicity stunt. Every step he takes has to enrich him.
Dymonika@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 36d
Oh yeah, that reminds me, whatever happened to the Silk Road guy after release?
Snapz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 37d
Will be a list full of overt distractions all to hide the 3-5 pardons he REALLY doesn't want you to focus on.
itisileclerk@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 37d
If the president weighs 250 pounds on the 250th anniversary, that would be awesome.
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
I don’t think he could lose that much weight that fast
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 36d
It is not a birthday, it is an funeral. 🫤
SuperEars@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 37d
Somebody shoot him another email.
RedWeasel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 37d
Preferably written on copper
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 37d
More criminals on the roads.
With any other president, I can see the pardon as a sign of compassion. With him, it is a pay-for-pardon scheme for criminals that managed to align with the Conman in Command.