Seeks asylum in another country while probably having a problem with people seeking asylum in the US
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2024
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Well his situation is different. Did you ever stop to consider that?
Thats right I forgot he is one of Trump’s “warriors”
9 month sentence? Just go do it you pussy. I've served longer for possession of fucking WEED.
You have to understand though, these people are cowards who absolutely do not think the laws or rules should apply to them, because they've never faced any consequences in their life up to this point.
As a Canadian I feel like I just saw a rat scurry under my bed while I'm snuggled under the covers.
Yeah, now We got to root the bastards out.
Since Trump's going to pardon them, justice will never be done by the judicial system. So if justice is to be done, it will be by other means.
Keep Alberta rat-free
Do the time, assholes
Get him the fuck outta here.
He's just waiting out the clock, Trump is almost certainly going to pardon his insurrection accomplices.
Why would he do that?
What do they have to offer him now?
Adoration from his base.
It's a mistake to assume because he's been voted in his base has nothing left to offer.
For him to fully seize permanent autocratic power or even implement the most horrific parts of his agenda, he needs Congress to stay under his thumb. The pardon will cost him nothing, and keep his base rabid, which will keep Congress in line.
Edit: A few important additional reasons:
- Trump never admits he's wrong and never forgets being "wronged."
- Pardons continue to overwrite history of Jan. 6th with the narrative he was the victim.
- They help create noise to drown out signal as to whether it was an insurrection, demotivating people to further seek justice.
- They solidify further his claim related prosecutions (including of him by extension) were politically motivated.
- They demoralize his opponents by subjugating reality to his own narrative (a classic Putin move, maybe not coincidentally).
It's doubtful he consciously thought any of this through. If probably just "feels right" to him. But in typical Trump fashion, by pardoning those involved, he'd be doing something deeply nefarious for coincidentally shallow narcissistic and instinctive reasons.
Someone else on Lemmy referred to him as an instinctual fascist, and I really thought that was a succinct way of framing the "just feels right" aspect you laid out here
I wonder if he has to physically sign each pardon. That alone could keep him from getting everyone off.
I doubt he's ever gotten anyone off.
Sounds like a something a piece of shit traitor would do. Fuck that guy and his mother.
Hopefully they catch another charge for resisting, which isn't pardoned.
This is why trebuchets were invented. Load them up and yeet them back to the USA.
Make sure you secure a rope around his neck that will reach over the boarder.
No need to bring another character into this
(It's spelled 'border' when talking about the line between countries; a boarder is a person renting a place to sleep)
this headline needs some work. I can see a few different meanings...
dude is seeking asylum in Canada with his mom
they're both seeking asylum because they skipped prison
dude skipped his prison time (for some other offense) to go storm the Capitol with his mom (awww...)
one or both of them stormed the capitol, got prison time, skipped it, and have fled to Canada to ask for asylum.
...
probably some others...
They probably did that deliberately, to draw you into reading the article to solve the conundrum
Well he only has a few more weeks until he's pardoned.
Send him back. We don’t need no seditionists.
Just shoot him and save us both some tax money. He's Asian so the people that should care, won't.
Ain’t you about to be da fiddy first state doe?
“I really thought that the police were keeping their oaths to the constitution and were stepping aside to let us exercise our constitutionally guaranteed rights,” he told WISH. “I thought it was totally permitted.”
on one hand, this is so dumb that i have a very hard time believing anyone would actually think this. on the other hand, he is a trump supporter, and he did walk into the capital with his mom and then take pictures of it. i’m really at a loss here.
This is one of donvict's patriotic heroes. He should come on home since donvict will likely pardon all these pillars of humanity.
"Political persecution", LOL.
They could just return Jan 20 at noon, and kneel and lick the boots of their master and beg for a pardon, and maybe get a pardon.
Some 4d chess there. When Canada becomes the 51st state, they’ll have to extradite him. But when Canada becomes the 51st state, all Jan 6ers will be pardoned.
Hypothetically, if Canada and the US merged, wouldn't they add like 10 states?
They know so little about Canada that they think it's just one continuous state.
Technically there are zero states in Canada
True, was just using it loosely kinda like we call our states states in the US, but it could also refer to a nation state, or separate providences, etc