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In this house, every day is Star Trek Day
October 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
A bad President, for instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government; I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked. He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of securing allegiance to the government.
June 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant.
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November 22, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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Which Barney Fife are you today?
November 18, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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November 18, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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Like reptile namesakes
Football Gators know Smokey
Makes a nice hors d'oeuvre
#UFUTHaiku
November 18, 2024 at 12:39 AM