Pardon a sign of 'worse to come'

[struggle4progress]

BY BRANDON CARTER - 08/26/17 09:12 AM EDT

The former director of the Office of Government Ethics ripped .. Trump for pardoning .. Arpaio, calling it "vile" and a "racist, pro-authoritarian gesture."

"What POTUS says 'exemplifies selfless public service' is: dehumanizing inmates, racial profiling, and gleefully defying a court order,"Walter Shaub tweeted Friday night. "Every one of you WH staffers owns this disgusting, un-American, racist pro-authoritarian gesture forever like it was tattooed on your forehead."

"This pardon also departs from procedural norms. And as an affirmative act by POTUS, it reveals an emboldening. A harbinger of worse to come" ...

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/348090-former-ethics-director-trumps-arpaio-pardon-a-sign-of-worse-to

[Moostache]

1. The only way out of this is going to be a coup d'etat...

Can Kelly and Mattis be trusted to oust the cancer and NOT convert to a military junta?
WE (the people) are well and truly fucked...there is no longer a rule of law in America if you are on the preferred team...if you're not? Let's just say I expect the rounding up of dissidents to start soon...

[Different Drummer]

3. If they're going to be rounding up dissidents...

they're going to have to come for me!

[struggle4progress]

7. No, we don't need a coup d'etat

[Dave Starsky]

12. There are perfectly legal means to get rid of him.

We just have to DEMAND that they be exercised.

If that means screaming impeachment at our elected Representatives whenever they DARE show their faces in public, then that's what it means.

The only way anything is going to change is when it becomes inconvenient for all the players to have things continue the way they are. That includes the big orange fathead; I've said from Day One that he is NOT leaving until HE chooses to go.

[LiberalLoner]

9. I sadly agree with your assessment.

God (or universe or whatever) help us.

[Texin]

10. We already had a coup d'etat. Its name is Trump.

This asshole is blowing through his so-called friends in Washington. The rethugs on the Hill are losing patience with his insane antics pretty quickly. They provided him cover previously, but at the rate he's going, he will have alienated anyone left there who could possibly save him from himself and from being ousted before his term is up, because the entire thing is blowing up in all their faces and he's now more of a liability than a useful idiot.

Besides, aren't there some legal restrictions and conditions that have to be met in any pardon? While the POTUS may well have the right to grant a pardon, but if the conditions aren't met by the pardoner and the pardoned person, this may not have the force of law.

[Cosmocat]

11. The only way out us November 2018

Nothing will happen before then, and the hope of the Grand Experiment lies with a lot more than us here to wtfu in a REALLY big way and clean republicans out of office.

Basically, about a 1 In 1,000 chance, at best.

[dalton99a]

2. Donald Trump is a cancer on our nation

A cancer that will get worse, not better

[NightWatcher]

5. Not to mention how sick the "treatment" will make us

Cancers never go quietly. How bad will things get as we try to slowly get rid of what he's done to us?

[Hugin]

4. Now that Trumpler has pardoned a violation of several Articles of the Constitution.

How is anyone in The Federal Government going to be able to take their Oath to Preserve and Protect seriously? I'm talking to YOU GrOPpers!

[colsohlibgal]

6. +1000!

I hope if it comes to it our military acts loyal to our nation and not this would be dictator.

[left-of-center2012]

8. Trump doesn't care about 'the rule of law'

nor the Constitution.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. Perch lipped, anus mouthed vile demented menace

to society.

[humbled_opinion]

14. Sadly I think we are about to see

Moderate Democrats get onboard with the rightwing tax plan and infrastructure, of course they will also approve debt ceiling increase, and with McCain and Menendez out from the Senate we may well see a repeal of the ACA after all, sad but the odds are increasing everyday, I wish Democratic Reps would start to get angry, it is past time to show emotion to the destruction of the USA>

[lark]

15. I can see him callling Manafort and Flynn.

Hey buddies, don't let Mueller rattle you, keep up the lies, protect me and I will pardon you before you are ever convicted. I'd be amazed if that call hasn;t already been made.