Trump's Day 1 Showed How Criminal Presidents Could Become the Norm

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Frank Bowman: We may be entering a prolonged era of legal impunity for presidents, their families, friends, and even criminally violent supporters.

Posted by retort at 11:23 PM | 12 COMMENTS | permalink

Our criminal president just pardoned the people who abetted his coup attempt.

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-- Jon Cryer (@mrjoncryer.bsky.social) January 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM

Comments

Judging from Trump's first couple days in office, the destructive tentacles of the Kraken have been unleashed.

#1 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-01-23 02:28 AM

One thing the Reich is not taking into account.
'Americans leaving America'.

Good luck governing the Husk when all the good
people leave.

#2 | Posted by earthmuse at 2025-01-23 06:18 AM

"One thing the Reich is not taking into account.
'Americans leaving America'."

The US claims jurisdiction over and taxes US citizens worldwide. They already charge a huge fee to give up citizenship, and that will likely go much higher.

#3 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-23 07:35 AM

The MSM is something else. Biden gave blanket pardons to his family and some political total allies and these people insinuate Trump may be setting a new norm. No matter how much you think you hate corporate media; it's not enough.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-23 12:15 PM

... Trump's Day 1 Showed How Criminal Presidents Could Become the Norm ...

There is a generation of social media-enabled children who are growing up learning that politics like this are the norm, rather than the aberration it is.

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-23 02:19 PM

Bullets are still relatively cheap.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-23 03:59 PM

#4 | Posted by BellRinger

The new norm was set when trump attempted a coup. Anything after that is automatically a new precedent because everything is unprecedented now. We've never been in a situation where an entire party has pledged fealty to a con man who attempted a coup, and who protected anyone who broke the law for him with pardons.

#7 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-23 05:32 PM

And an electorate of slobbering morons

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-23 11:09 PM

I wondered where the drama queens were meeting and here....I found you..( except for bluewaffles usual fine response _

.this thread is amazing.....

if you still watch soaps on daytime tv..........and plan on watching "the notebook" later

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-24 07:12 AM

#4 no, you're just a f^%*ing idiot.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-24 10:50 AM

I wondered where the drama queens were meeting and here....I found you..( except for bluewaffles usual fine response _

.this thread is amazing.....

if you still watch soaps on daytime tv..........and plan on watching "the notebook" later

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan

And you popped in to remind us that you can't refute a thing liberals are saying, but you can't resist gloating about how your support for fascism upsets the people that you feel inferior to.

#11 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-24 01:36 PM

This author is talking as if there will be another president after trump. How can people still be so naive?

#12 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-24 06:05 PM

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