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Elon Musk Calls on Trump to Pardon Ex-Cop Derek Chauvin, Who Murdered George Floyd
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this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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Can someone kick off from ketamine? Cos I really hope he just does a little too much one night
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Presidential pardons are one of the dumbest powers. Change my mind.
(Plenty of more stable countries get on fine without it, and don't have to deal with this nonsense to boot)
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The fact that Elon Musk is for pardoning someone who murdered an innocent person speaks volumes. Also, I can't see how this wouldn't lead to riots.
Why haven't there already been riots? Of all the reasons to start widespread riots, hasn't the last 2 months given enough of them?
Americans are capable of riots, but it seems to require so marination before some trigger event happens on their soil that causes emotions to suddenly spark.
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That should go over well.
If Trump pardons him he still has 20+years of state sentence to finish, this is a distraction….
They are about to do the biggest grift ever with the tax cuts for the rich.
All of this is a distraction
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If he gets pardoned I hope that will push the Americans harder to overthrow these sycophants. On the other hand it could be to try to trigger something so Cheeto Mussolini can crack down on the protests with violence.
There will be mass protests, looters will take advantage of these times. Martial law will be declared in those places and never given back. Nothing would make them happier
If the United States commits their military to enforcing martial law on their own soil then it'll be more difficult for them to escalate their current economic wars into actual wars.
I presume martial law is bad for the economy too
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Honestly, a part of me wants this to happen because I believe it would cause some serious protests.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but i believe that is the point.
You conspiracy theorist!
I think it's a reasonable assessment of the current situation. He wants/they want to put us in a situation where our military must or can be used to restore order. They want to normalize military use against US citizens.
On the plus side civil unrest in the US requiring a stronger domestic military presence means the US may have less support to wage war on other countries. That's easier to do when the population is calmly falling in line.
It’ll be interesting to see how the next week or so plays out.
can't wait to be interested
This is the sleight of hand they want you paying attention to. Instead, keep an eye on the other hand;
Because that is the one doing the damage.
It kinda feels like both hands are doing a lot of damage....
Elon trying to use this to distract from all the federal firings he's done
The real trick is the fact that both of these do damage, and you can't afford to ignore either.
Signaling to the police that the executive branch has your back and will support you when you kill poor black men is going to get people straight up murdered.
He also has people's back when they murder/injure police. So, if you're a cop, do not take it as a show of support.
Only has your back if you are harming people they don't like
But that guy was convicted of murder wasnt he? Is Felon now doubting a jugdes decision? I really think he is losing his shit. Did for sometime but now its getting obvious.
Elon's brain got damaged by ketamine usage. At his level of power and wealth, he basically runs the planet and the drugs embolden him to shamelessly call for whatever shits he believes
He's basically Baron Harkonnen with a broken dick.
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They reeaally doing anything they can to get that martial law step started from their project 2025 handbook