Back in 2016, after the election, the NY Times put together a panel discussion with the creators of all the top TV political shows. Veep, The West Wing, Scandal, and others. Every producer and writer questioned said the same thing; if they'd had a fictional character say that the "liked soldiers who didn't get captured" on a show the netowrks and advertisers would demand that the character be hated and despised by every American.
Please no one tell this buffoon about the NKVD. He would drool for that kind of power.
What a travesty of a leader the GOP have chosen.
They want the USA to be the USSR in practice.
Plus a liberal dose of Nazi Germany.
But hey, we'd keep our guns!
And instead of three mass shootings a week, you'll have three a day. Yay!
It’s too bad the “bOtH siDeS” kids have their heads shoved so far up some long-dead antisemitic socialist’s ass to bother reading this.
The existence of a presidential pardon blows my mind. It assumes that some miscarriage of justice has occurred and the president is able to detect it in a way that the legion of criminal justice administrators could not. America has devolved into crony capitalism.
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