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IyMoon
Profile Joined April 2016
United States1249 Posts
November 26 2020 00:28 GMT
#57101
On November 26 2020 09:23 HelpMeGetBetter wrote:
So if Trump tries to pardon himself, doesn't he have to admit to a crime first?


Unless he just says I pardon myself for any and all crimes I may have committed ever....

To be honest I am not even sure Trump CAN pardon himself, or if he can do it for everything or if he would have to admit to crimes before hand.

Its going to be a wild day Jan 19th
Something witty
Neneu
Profile Joined September 2010
Norway492 Posts
November 26 2020 00:58 GMT
#57102
Regarding Trump pardoning himself, I thought pardons were only for federal convictions? If so that won't stop NY for prosecuting, if that is still their plan.
StasisField
Profile Joined August 2013
United States1086 Posts
November 26 2020 01:28 GMT
#57103
Can you be pardoned for something you haven't been charged with yet?
What do you mean Immortals can't shoot up?
Blitzkrieg0
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States13132 Posts
November 26 2020 01:43 GMT
#57104
On November 26 2020 10:28 StasisField wrote:
Can you be pardoned for something you haven't been charged with yet?


Nixon was given blanket immunity for anything he did before he was charged.
I'll always be your shadow and veil your eyes from states of ain soph aur.
Introvert
Profile Joined April 2011
United States4748 Posts
November 26 2020 02:33 GMT
#57105
Took a thread break, but just have to express my happiness that Flynn was pardoned. Besides Trump himself, he may have been the first and most wronged individual coming out of the Russian Collusion nonsense. At the very least that injustice will not be allowed to stand.
"It is therefore only at the birth of a society that one can be completely logical in the laws. When you see a people enjoying this advantage, do not hasten to conclude that it is wise; think rather that it is young." -Alexis de Tocqueville
StasisField
Profile Joined August 2013
United States1086 Posts
November 26 2020 02:49 GMT
#57106
On November 26 2020 10:43 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2020 10:28 StasisField wrote:
Can you be pardoned for something you haven't been charged with yet?


Nixon was given blanket immunity for anything he did before he was charged.

Glad to know our system doesn't condone corruption...
What do you mean Immortals can't shoot up?
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42682 Posts
November 26 2020 02:50 GMT
#57107
On November 26 2020 11:33 Introvert wrote:
Took a thread break, but just have to express my happiness that Flynn was pardoned. Besides Trump himself, he may have been the first and most wronged individual coming out of the Russian Collusion nonsense. At the very least that injustice will not be allowed to stand.

He was literally an agent of a foreign government and advancing their interests over American interests as national security advisor? What reality are you from? He’s guilty of a capital offence. They should have hanged him.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
BerserkSword
Profile Joined December 2018
United States2123 Posts
November 26 2020 03:38 GMT
#57108
On November 26 2020 11:50 KwarK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2020 11:33 Introvert wrote:
Took a thread break, but just have to express my happiness that Flynn was pardoned. Besides Trump himself, he may have been the first and most wronged individual coming out of the Russian Collusion nonsense. At the very least that injustice will not be allowed to stand.

He was literally an agent of a foreign government and advancing their interests over American interests as national security advisor? What reality are you from? He’s guilty of a capital offence. They should have hanged him.


Jfc

Says who?

He was coerced into a guilty plea. It's what the Feds do, unfortunately.

The DoJ has dropped all charges against him.

TL+ Member
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
November 26 2020 03:45 GMT
#57109
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Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States13926 Posts
November 26 2020 04:14 GMT
#57110
Even if Trump tries to parden himself (which would be a lol) it won't matter for shit for state cases like in new york. SDNY has been gearing up for taking the biggest pelt in its history for a while. this is what the tax return saga has been about.
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42682 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-11-26 04:37:14
November 26 2020 04:32 GMT
#57111
On November 26 2020 12:38 BerserkSword wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2020 11:50 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:33 Introvert wrote:
Took a thread break, but just have to express my happiness that Flynn was pardoned. Besides Trump himself, he may have been the first and most wronged individual coming out of the Russian Collusion nonsense. At the very least that injustice will not be allowed to stand.

He was literally an agent of a foreign government and advancing their interests over American interests as national security advisor? What reality are you from? He’s guilty of a capital offence. They should have hanged him.


Jfc

Says who?

He was coerced into a guilty plea. It's what the Feds do, unfortunately.

The DoJ has dropped all charges against him.


Says Flynn. After it came out that he was an unregistered foreign agent he registered as a foreign agent and filed papers declaring that he was paid $500,000 by Turkey.

Are you this out of touch with reality?

The US requires foreign spies to register themselves with the state department. Obviously it's not really expected that they will but it automatically gives something to try them with, failure to register, when they don't. Once the news broke that Flynn was taking money to advance Turkish interests while NSA and was therefore an unregistered foreign agent he submitted paperwork registering his status as a foreign agent to get in compliance with the law. In a sane world that would help him with that charge but fuck him over because members of the government shouldn't be working on the side for other governments. But this is the Trump administration and so they didn't give a fuck.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
Introvert
Profile Joined April 2011
United States4748 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-11-26 04:38:45
November 26 2020 04:37 GMT
#57112
On November 26 2020 11:50 KwarK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2020 11:33 Introvert wrote:
Took a thread break, but just have to express my happiness that Flynn was pardoned. Besides Trump himself, he may have been the first and most wronged individual coming out of the Russian Collusion nonsense. At the very least that injustice will not be allowed to stand.

He was literally an agent of a foreign government and advancing their interests over American interests as national security advisor? What reality are you from? He’s guilty of a capital offence. They should have hanged him.

And even if that story is 100% accurate that has what to do with the farce of trying to first get him on the Logan Act (good idea, Joe Biden!). They were clearly out to get him from the very start.

Another reason I don't want to hear complaints about "peaceful transitions of power." The last president hobbled the current one from before he was even sworn in. This is a good day.
"It is therefore only at the birth of a society that one can be completely logical in the laws. When you see a people enjoying this advantage, do not hasten to conclude that it is wise; think rather that it is young." -Alexis de Tocqueville
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42682 Posts
November 26 2020 04:38 GMT
#57113
On November 26 2020 13:37 Introvert wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2020 11:50 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:33 Introvert wrote:
Took a thread break, but just have to express my happiness that Flynn was pardoned. Besides Trump himself, he may have been the first and most wronged individual coming out of the Russian Collusion nonsense. At the very least that injustice will not be allowed to stand.

He was literally an agent of a foreign government and advancing their interests over American interests as national security advisor? What reality are you from? He’s guilty of a capital offence. They should have hanged him.

And even if that story is 100% accurate that has what to do with the farce of trying to first get him on the Logan Act (good idea, Joe Biden!). They were clearly out to get him from the very start.

Another reason I don't want to hear complaints about "peaceful transitions of power." The last one hobbled the current from before he was even sworn in. This is a good day.

When you say "even if it's accurate" are you saying that you don't believe Flynn registered himself as a foreign agent after the news broke? Which part of this are you skeptical about? Flynn literally filed paperwork to declare that he was getting paid by Turkey while working as NSA. Do you think he lied on that paperwork?
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
Introvert
Profile Joined April 2011
United States4748 Posts
November 26 2020 04:43 GMT
#57114
On November 26 2020 13:38 KwarK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2020 13:37 Introvert wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:50 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:33 Introvert wrote:
Took a thread break, but just have to express my happiness that Flynn was pardoned. Besides Trump himself, he may have been the first and most wronged individual coming out of the Russian Collusion nonsense. At the very least that injustice will not be allowed to stand.

He was literally an agent of a foreign government and advancing their interests over American interests as national security advisor? What reality are you from? He’s guilty of a capital offence. They should have hanged him.

And even if that story is 100% accurate that has what to do with the farce of trying to first get him on the Logan Act (good idea, Joe Biden!). They were clearly out to get him from the very start.

Another reason I don't want to hear complaints about "peaceful transitions of power." The last one hobbled the current from before he was even sworn in. This is a good day.

When you say "even if it's accurate" are you saying that you don't believe Flynn registered himself as a foreign agent after the news broke? Which part of this are you skeptical about? Flynn literally filed paperwork to declare that he was getting paid by Turkey while working as NSA. Do you think he lied on that paperwork?


What Flynn did would earn almost anyone else a slap on the wrist. Turkey isn't even the main story here

The reason that Flynn put his name to something he knew was not true was that Mueller’s investigators were squeezing him on an unrelated matter.
In August 2016, Flynn took a contract to represent a Dutch firm known as Inovo BV on a project aimed at investigating and defaming Fetullah Gulen, a charismatic Turkish cleric who had become a mortal enemy of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and was living in exile in Pennsylvania. In 2016, Erdogan survived a military coup he blamed on Gulen’s followers. Erdogan’s regime sought Gulen’s extradition back to Turkey, where he would almost certainly have faced the death penalty.
Taking that contract showed horrendous judgment on Flynn’s part. He was the Trump campaign’s national-security adviser and had no business getting himself in the middle of this. That said, it was a potential political problem for Trump, not the national-security threat that many in the resistance now say it was. It’s fair game for journalists and Democrats to make a stink about the Inovo contract. But it was highly unusual for Flynn’s missteps in this case to be the basis for a criminal prosecution on the grounds that Flynn had violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Before Mueller was appointed special prosecutor, FARA violations were treated for the most part the way you’d treat a speeding violation. A 2016 Justice Department inspector general report found only seven criminal prosecutions for FARA violations in the half-century from 1965 to 2015. Most of the time, violators were told to amend their forms and at worst pay a fine.
Mueller decided to use FARA as a useful cudgel to nail people he wanted to flip to get them to spill the beans on Trump. He brought a FARA charge against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who was also convicted on more serious charges of money laundering and other crimes. Mueller’s team decided they could use the threat of a FARA prosecution to squeeze Flynn as well.
Flynn had initially registered the Inovo contract in August 2016 through a less stringent law known as the Lobbying Disclosure Act. He did so on the advice of his counsel at the time. And when Flynn took the contract, that advice was sound. The legal environment for FARA registrations was quite permissive at the time. But at the end of 2017, and with Mueller in hot pursuit and with unlimited resources, Flynn—and his son, Michael Jr.—could have found themselves facing years in prison. So Flynn, in financial ruin and wishing to get his son out of Mueller’s crosshairs, agreed to cooperate.
And cooperate he did. Before his first sentencing hearing at the end of 2018, Mueller’s team initially recommended no jail time for Flynn, in part because he was a good cooperative witness. Over time, though, Flynn began to regret his decision. Some of this was because of the failure of Mueller’s investigation to bring a single charge against any American for coordinating with Russia’s influence operation in 2016. Some of it was also because details about the government’s own misconduct in the investigation began to leak out. So in 2019, Flynn ended his relationship with his lawyers from Covington and Burling, the ones who had filed his initial FARA registration forms on the Inovo matter and who had also represented his partner Bijan Rafiekian, who had also been indicted on FARA violations.

Flynn also began to back out of his cooperation with the government’s case against Rafiekian. In July 2019, prosecutors decided they would not call Flynn as a witness and threatened to prosecute Flynn as a co-conspirator. At first Flynn’s lack of cooperation didn’t matter because that same month, a jury found Rafiekian guilty of being an unregistered agent for the government of Turkey. But the judge in the case overturned the jury verdict in a blistering judgment on the prosecution. “The government has failed to offer substantial evidence from which any rational juror could find beyond a reasonable doubt” that Rafiekian was an agent of Turkey
The judge’s ruling was significant for Flynn in one important respect. In 2017, during the run-up to Flynn’s plea agreement, the Wall Street Journal reported that Flynn and his son had been approached by Turkish government officials to try to kidnap Gulen and bring him back to Turkey in exchange for $15 million. A November 10 story in the Journal said that Mueller’s team was investigating the matter. Flynn’s lawyers have categorically said this episode never happened. There is no mention of the episode in the prosecution of Rafiekian. The one on-the-record source for this allegation was former CIA Director James Woolsey, who himself sought a contract with Turkey to defame Gulen.



The whole sad tale of Flynn's case is here: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/eli-lake/michael-flynn-gets-railroaded-by-the-fbi/

Recommended reading for anyone interested in what happened to him.
"It is therefore only at the birth of a society that one can be completely logical in the laws. When you see a people enjoying this advantage, do not hasten to conclude that it is wise; think rather that it is young." -Alexis de Tocqueville
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42682 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-11-26 04:49:48
November 26 2020 04:47 GMT
#57115
On November 26 2020 13:43 Introvert wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2020 13:38 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 13:37 Introvert wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:50 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:33 Introvert wrote:
Took a thread break, but just have to express my happiness that Flynn was pardoned. Besides Trump himself, he may have been the first and most wronged individual coming out of the Russian Collusion nonsense. At the very least that injustice will not be allowed to stand.

He was literally an agent of a foreign government and advancing their interests over American interests as national security advisor? What reality are you from? He’s guilty of a capital offence. They should have hanged him.

And even if that story is 100% accurate that has what to do with the farce of trying to first get him on the Logan Act (good idea, Joe Biden!). They were clearly out to get him from the very start.

Another reason I don't want to hear complaints about "peaceful transitions of power." The last one hobbled the current from before he was even sworn in. This is a good day.

When you say "even if it's accurate" are you saying that you don't believe Flynn registered himself as a foreign agent after the news broke? Which part of this are you skeptical about? Flynn literally filed paperwork to declare that he was getting paid by Turkey while working as NSA. Do you think he lied on that paperwork?


What Flynn did would earn almost anyone else a slap on the wrist. Turkey isn't even the main story here

What Flynn did was treasonous. He cancelled a planned US/Kurdish attack on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa because it would have given a victory to the Kurdish YPG which was contrary to Turkish interests. He literally prevented an attack on ISIS because Turkey asked him to.

At a certain point Introvert even you have to stop defending the guy who is on the side of ISIS over the United States.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
ChristianS
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States3188 Posts
November 26 2020 04:55 GMT
#57116
On November 26 2020 13:47 KwarK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2020 13:43 Introvert wrote:
On November 26 2020 13:38 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 13:37 Introvert wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:50 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:33 Introvert wrote:
Took a thread break, but just have to express my happiness that Flynn was pardoned. Besides Trump himself, he may have been the first and most wronged individual coming out of the Russian Collusion nonsense. At the very least that injustice will not be allowed to stand.

He was literally an agent of a foreign government and advancing their interests over American interests as national security advisor? What reality are you from? He’s guilty of a capital offence. They should have hanged him.

And even if that story is 100% accurate that has what to do with the farce of trying to first get him on the Logan Act (good idea, Joe Biden!). They were clearly out to get him from the very start.

Another reason I don't want to hear complaints about "peaceful transitions of power." The last one hobbled the current from before he was even sworn in. This is a good day.

When you say "even if it's accurate" are you saying that you don't believe Flynn registered himself as a foreign agent after the news broke? Which part of this are you skeptical about? Flynn literally filed paperwork to declare that he was getting paid by Turkey while working as NSA. Do you think he lied on that paperwork?


What Flynn did would earn almost anyone else a slap on the wrist. Turkey isn't even the main story here

What Flynn did was treasonous. He cancelled a planned US/Kurdish attack on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa because it would have given a victory to the Kurdish YPG which was contrary to Turkish interests. He literally prevented an attack on ISIS because Turkey asked him to.

At a certain point Introvert even you have to stop defending the guy who is on the side of ISIS over the United States.

I think we’re kinda glossing over “prosecuting Flynn means Democrats can’t complain about Trump trying to steal an election he lost.” That’s easily the more embarrassing take imo
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -Robert J. Hanlon
Introvert
Profile Joined April 2011
United States4748 Posts
November 26 2020 04:59 GMT
#57117
On November 26 2020 13:47 KwarK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2020 13:43 Introvert wrote:
On November 26 2020 13:38 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 13:37 Introvert wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:50 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:33 Introvert wrote:
Took a thread break, but just have to express my happiness that Flynn was pardoned. Besides Trump himself, he may have been the first and most wronged individual coming out of the Russian Collusion nonsense. At the very least that injustice will not be allowed to stand.

He was literally an agent of a foreign government and advancing their interests over American interests as national security advisor? What reality are you from? He’s guilty of a capital offence. They should have hanged him.

And even if that story is 100% accurate that has what to do with the farce of trying to first get him on the Logan Act (good idea, Joe Biden!). They were clearly out to get him from the very start.

Another reason I don't want to hear complaints about "peaceful transitions of power." The last one hobbled the current from before he was even sworn in. This is a good day.

When you say "even if it's accurate" are you saying that you don't believe Flynn registered himself as a foreign agent after the news broke? Which part of this are you skeptical about? Flynn literally filed paperwork to declare that he was getting paid by Turkey while working as NSA. Do you think he lied on that paperwork?


What Flynn did would earn almost anyone else a slap on the wrist. Turkey isn't even the main story here

What Flynn did was treasonous. He cancelled a planned US/Kurdish attack on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa because it would have given a victory to the Kurdish YPG which was contrary to Turkish interests. He literally prevented an attack on ISIS because Turkey asked him to.

At a certain point Introvert even you have to stop defending the guy who is on the side of ISIS over the United States.

And this is why "even if..." is one of my favorite openings. Because then we fairly dismiss all other claims and even accept the typically un-balanced KwarK take from, you know, what we were actually talking about.

Was he railroaded for his Turkish lobbying job? No? Alrighty then! The FBI was looking for anything and the best they came back with was lying to the FBI about a phone call with the Russian ambassador.

At a certain point Introvert even you have to stop defending the guy who is on the side of ISIS over the United States.


As for this line, I'm half-tempted to quote it somewhere. It's simple, but a masterpiece.
"It is therefore only at the birth of a society that one can be completely logical in the laws. When you see a people enjoying this advantage, do not hasten to conclude that it is wise; think rather that it is young." -Alexis de Tocqueville
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42682 Posts
November 26 2020 05:00 GMT
#57118
On November 26 2020 13:55 ChristianS wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2020 13:47 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 13:43 Introvert wrote:
On November 26 2020 13:38 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 13:37 Introvert wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:50 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:33 Introvert wrote:
Took a thread break, but just have to express my happiness that Flynn was pardoned. Besides Trump himself, he may have been the first and most wronged individual coming out of the Russian Collusion nonsense. At the very least that injustice will not be allowed to stand.

He was literally an agent of a foreign government and advancing their interests over American interests as national security advisor? What reality are you from? He’s guilty of a capital offence. They should have hanged him.

And even if that story is 100% accurate that has what to do with the farce of trying to first get him on the Logan Act (good idea, Joe Biden!). They were clearly out to get him from the very start.

Another reason I don't want to hear complaints about "peaceful transitions of power." The last one hobbled the current from before he was even sworn in. This is a good day.

When you say "even if it's accurate" are you saying that you don't believe Flynn registered himself as a foreign agent after the news broke? Which part of this are you skeptical about? Flynn literally filed paperwork to declare that he was getting paid by Turkey while working as NSA. Do you think he lied on that paperwork?


What Flynn did would earn almost anyone else a slap on the wrist. Turkey isn't even the main story here

What Flynn did was treasonous. He cancelled a planned US/Kurdish attack on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa because it would have given a victory to the Kurdish YPG which was contrary to Turkish interests. He literally prevented an attack on ISIS because Turkey asked him to.

At a certain point Introvert even you have to stop defending the guy who is on the side of ISIS over the United States.

I think we’re kinda glossing over “prosecuting Flynn means Democrats can’t complain about Trump trying to steal an election he lost.” That’s easily the more embarrassing take imo

That too. Trump was hobbled by requiring his appointees to obtain security clearances and declare conflicts of interest which are the basic requirements that every appointee should have been able to pass. Insisting that those requirements didn’t give Trump’s foreign agent appointees a fair chance is a weird take.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
Introvert
Profile Joined April 2011
United States4748 Posts
November 26 2020 05:02 GMT
#57119
On November 26 2020 13:55 ChristianS wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 26 2020 13:47 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 13:43 Introvert wrote:
On November 26 2020 13:38 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 13:37 Introvert wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:50 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:33 Introvert wrote:
Took a thread break, but just have to express my happiness that Flynn was pardoned. Besides Trump himself, he may have been the first and most wronged individual coming out of the Russian Collusion nonsense. At the very least that injustice will not be allowed to stand.

He was literally an agent of a foreign government and advancing their interests over American interests as national security advisor? What reality are you from? He’s guilty of a capital offence. They should have hanged him.

And even if that story is 100% accurate that has what to do with the farce of trying to first get him on the Logan Act (good idea, Joe Biden!). They were clearly out to get him from the very start.

Another reason I don't want to hear complaints about "peaceful transitions of power." The last one hobbled the current from before he was even sworn in. This is a good day.

When you say "even if it's accurate" are you saying that you don't believe Flynn registered himself as a foreign agent after the news broke? Which part of this are you skeptical about? Flynn literally filed paperwork to declare that he was getting paid by Turkey while working as NSA. Do you think he lied on that paperwork?


What Flynn did would earn almost anyone else a slap on the wrist. Turkey isn't even the main story here

What Flynn did was treasonous. He cancelled a planned US/Kurdish attack on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa because it would have given a victory to the Kurdish YPG which was contrary to Turkish interests. He literally prevented an attack on ISIS because Turkey asked him to.

At a certain point Introvert even you have to stop defending the guy who is on the side of ISIS over the United States.

I think we’re kinda glossing over “prosecuting Flynn means Democrats can’t complain about Trump trying to steal an election he lost.” That’s easily the more embarrassing take imo


Almost the entire first half of Trump's first (prob only) term was consumed with "Trump is a Russian agent" and that being used as an excuse to oppose and attack him at every turn. It slowed the turnover of personnel, certainly prevented many qualified people from taking jobs in the administration, and gave the media something to attack Trump with while ignoring what he was trying to accomplish. Tweeting until he loses all his lawsuits or delaying by a few weeks the official transition is nothing in comparison.
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November 26 2020 05:03 GMT
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On November 26 2020 13:59 Introvert wrote:
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On November 26 2020 13:47 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 13:43 Introvert wrote:
On November 26 2020 13:38 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 13:37 Introvert wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:50 KwarK wrote:
On November 26 2020 11:33 Introvert wrote:
Took a thread break, but just have to express my happiness that Flynn was pardoned. Besides Trump himself, he may have been the first and most wronged individual coming out of the Russian Collusion nonsense. At the very least that injustice will not be allowed to stand.

He was literally an agent of a foreign government and advancing their interests over American interests as national security advisor? What reality are you from? He’s guilty of a capital offence. They should have hanged him.

And even if that story is 100% accurate that has what to do with the farce of trying to first get him on the Logan Act (good idea, Joe Biden!). They were clearly out to get him from the very start.

Another reason I don't want to hear complaints about "peaceful transitions of power." The last one hobbled the current from before he was even sworn in. This is a good day.

When you say "even if it's accurate" are you saying that you don't believe Flynn registered himself as a foreign agent after the news broke? Which part of this are you skeptical about? Flynn literally filed paperwork to declare that he was getting paid by Turkey while working as NSA. Do you think he lied on that paperwork?


What Flynn did would earn almost anyone else a slap on the wrist. Turkey isn't even the main story here

What Flynn did was treasonous. He cancelled a planned US/Kurdish attack on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa because it would have given a victory to the Kurdish YPG which was contrary to Turkish interests. He literally prevented an attack on ISIS because Turkey asked him to.

At a certain point Introvert even you have to stop defending the guy who is on the side of ISIS over the United States.

And this is why "even if..." is one of my favorite openings. Because then we fairly dismiss all other claims and even accept the typically un-balanced KwarK take from, you know, what we were actually talking about.

Was he railroaded for his Turkish lobbying job? No? Alrighty then! The FBI was looking for anything and the best they came back with was lying to the FBI about a phone call with the Russian ambassador.

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At a certain point Introvert even you have to stop defending the guy who is on the side of ISIS over the United States.


As for this line, I'm half-tempted to quote it somewhere. It's simple, but a masterpiece.

I genuinely mean it. I honestly don’t get how conservatives like yourself have become so ridiculously partisan that “my guy may protect ISIS for money but he’s still my guy” is a thing. Is there any line?
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