Trump Pardons Arpaio!

[Amarok]

And just in case it's not clear enough

From the article thump sights to end jesters fake narrative

PHOENIX — A federal judge ruled on Friday that Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his deputies had violated the constitutional rights of Latinos by targeting them during raids and traffic stops here and throughout Maricopa County.

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NO ONE SAID NOT TO ENFORCE THE LAW

[Thumpalumpacus]

His enforcement strategies were deemed unconstitutional by a federal judge, and he was ordered to stop his department from pursuing those unconstitutional measures.

Yeah, Trump loves that kind of thing.  Loves his white people, especially the rich ones who can buy his products and the poor stupid ones who support the rest.


Been thinking of you, Thumper.  Hope you're staying dry and safe!

Thanks, bud -- we're wet here, but mild winds and I'm on high ground and safe.

[Rev. Rye]

Well, it's nice to know that Trump is sticking with his promise to be everything the far-right wants and also proving to be a shining example of why it cannot work.

[chimp3]

So much for 'publicans convincing Latino voters that they are friendly towards their concerns.

[J a c k]

So much for 'publicans convincing Latino voters that they are friendly towards their concerns.

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Anyone... ANYONE... who can continue to support Trump after pardoning Arpaio is either a racist, or a racist enabler in my book. I said it before and people here told me that I was wrong. Not all Trump supporters are racists. They're not all bullies. I understood I was being prejudiced and I had to give people the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they were just ignorant. After Charlottesville and Arpaio's pardon, I will not accept excuses. You now know he's a fucking racist asshole and if you continue to defend him... fuck you. "You can't just be friends with people who agree with you." You're right. I understood that. But I will NOT be friends with racists or racist enablers no matter what. Fuck it. I don't care. I've lost friends since yesterday and I'm perfectly ok with that. Fuck them, too.

-A brown American.

[The Grand Nudger]

He was a blatantly racist douchenozzle before Charlottesville and Sheriff Joe - and so were his supporters.  

From the mopment that he proposed racist policies and his supporters either agreed with them or preferred them to hitlery - or nothing...they all condemned themselves as racists.

"Not my daddy", some girl says.

"Surely not my friends" - said John.

Yes, your daddy, your friends.  Let;s not pretend that any of us are legitimately surprised. We've all known this about them for as long as any of us can remember. There's just an unstated rule that you're not allowed to say it out loud.

Wouldn't be polite. Calling a racist a racist might get you seen as being judgemental or intolerant...which, apparently, is worse.

[Brian37]

The investigation into him began under Bush Jr back in 08. 45 is severely undermining law and intel with his behavior.

[Rev. Rye]

So much for 'publicans convincing Latino voters that they are friendly towards their concerns.

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Anyone... ANYONE... who can continue to support Trump after pardoning Arpaio is either a racist, or a racist enabler in my book. I said it before and people here told me that I was wrong. Not all Trump supporters are racists. They're not all bullies. I understood I was being prejudiced and I had to give people the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they were just ignorant. After Charlottesville and Arpaio's pardon, I will not accept excuses. You now know he's a fucking racist asshole and if you continue to defend him... fuck you. "You can't just be friends with people who agree with you." You're right. I understood that. But I will NOT be friends with racists or racist enablers no matter what. Fuck it. I don't care. I've lost friends since yesterday and I'm perfectly ok with that. Fuck them, too.

-A brown American.

Honestly, for me, the big problem with him pardoning Joe Arpaio is less about them sharing the same views on Mexicans (though that component is clearly present) and more about the fact that he virtually is Trump: cartoonishly corrupt, willing to do anything to self-promote (everything from making his own radio station to selling the pink underwear he forced his prisoners wear), almost entirely without shame (including his turning a blind eye to 400 separate rape cases and using Sandy Hook as an excuse to send armed men to grade schools, including one child molester), and the fact that through it all, he managed to avoid any consequences for all this shit for almost a quarter of a century, and this presidential pardon made it official.

(This is where I would have put in a video of Zeljko Ivanek's performance as Governor Devlin from Oz, but, surprisingly, I can't find any clips of him haughtily lording his power and obvious corruption over the media or the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary staff on Youtube, even if I know for a fact that scenes like those did happen, particularly the scene where he comes to Oz to deny that he bought crack from an inmate and is happy to actually have a scandal he can truthfully deny, but all I can find is the scene of Kareem Said refusing his pardon.)

Even disregarding his well-documented racism, it all adds up to this: to Trump, he's a man after his own heart; to every sane person, he's an odious individual who has made abundantly clear he never deserved to be elected to an office as high as a dogcatcher, let alone the head of the law for one of the most populous counties in the country for 24 GODDAM YEARS.

[A Theist]

He was a blatantly racist douchenozzle before Charlottesville and Sheriff Joe - and so were his supporters.  

From the mopment that he proposed racist policies and his supporters either agreed with them or preferred them to hitlery - or nothing...they all condemned themselves as racists.

"Not my daddy", some girl says.

"Surely not my friends" - said John.

Yes, your daddy, your friends.  Let;s not pretend that any of us are legitimately surprised. We've all known this about them for as long as any of us can remember. There's just an unstated rule that you're not allowed to say it out loud.

Wouldn't be polite. Calling a racist a racist might get you seen as being judgemental or intolerant...which, apparently, is worse.

Such a Drama Queen you are. At least it was Sherriff Joe who President Trump pardoned and not a vicious terrorist like Oscar Lopez Rivera whose sentence that Obummer commuted. I'd like to see more pressure put on so called Sanctuary cities that are harboring illegals and are ham stringing local athorities from reporting them to ICE.

[Anomalocaris]

He was a blatantly racist douchenozzle before Charlottesville and Sheriff Joe - and so were his supporters.  

From the mopment that he proposed racist policies and his supporters either agreed with them or preferred them to hitlery - or nothing...they all condemned themselves as racists.

"Not my daddy", some girl says.

"Surely not my friends" - said John.

Yes, your daddy, your friends.  Let;s not pretend that any of us are legitimately surprised.  We've all known this about them for as long as any of us can remember.  There's just an unstated rule that you're not allowed to say it out loud.  

Wouldn't be polite.  Calling a racist a racist might get you seen as being judgemental or intolerant...which, apparently, is worse.

Such a Drama Queen you are. At least it was Sherriff Joe who President Trump pardoned and not a vicious terrorist like Oscar Lopez Rivera whose sentence that Obummer commuted. I'd like to see more pressure put on so called Sanctuary cities that are harboring illegals and are ham stringing local athorities from reporting them to ICE.

Tell you want, let Sheriff Joe serve 35 years in Arizona heat in the tent prison he erected for immigrants, then we too will give him clemency.  Oscar Lopez Rivera had already served 36 years for crimes that were in principle not that different from those George Washington committed against Britain.