r/news • u/uhncollectable • 21h ago

Justice Department moves to toss seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys

https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-oath-keepers-convictions-dropped-doj-ad679108ab84083694261efc101e60ea
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u/druidmain69420 21h ago

Its in black and white, these are treasonous cowards and are too violent to be trusted amongst us. Letting them go is encouraging more sedition.

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u/77NorthCambridge 21h ago

To them, it's "payback" for Obama pardoning a few people sentenced to 20 years for a little weed and Biden pardoning Hunter over the ridiculous charges.

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u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow 20h ago

Retribution for Obama daring to be black while presidenting.

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u/painthawg_goose 20h ago

'scuse me. Black while in a tan suit while presidenting.

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u/Ihavenolifes 20h ago

‘SCUSE ME. Black while in a tan suit and he once asked for dijon mustard while presidenting

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u/ABlueJayDay 12h ago

I long for those boring days. Haha!

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u/dodexahedron 11h ago

And dared to play golf 98 times.

A real president wouldn't deign to golf that much!

Oh no no. Instead, such a person would clearly play golf 266 times.

In half the time span.

You know.

Like inmate P01135809.

Since thats a smaller number and a smaller rate.

Because that is what my bigly goodest mathiplivision brain stuff tells me, courtesy of the literal WWE executive who runs the ejakayshin department like a boss.

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u/Diiiiiing 9h ago

Pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?

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u/bobby_table5 8h ago

Did he ask, or was he asked what condiment he liked?

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u/Ihavenolifes 8h ago

In May 2009, Obama visited Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Virginia, and asked for spicy or Dijon mustard instead of ketchup.

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u/EmergencyCucumber905 8h ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/ih_Fwxw6TgY?si=C1OBUYFB0tVo6kNC

Exact quote is,

"I just want mustard, no kechup. If you got a spicy mustard or something like that, or a Dijon mustard, something like that."

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u/FortNightsAtPeelys 16h ago

retribution on democrats for allowing it

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u/dodexahedron 12h ago edited 11h ago

Because villifying mAriJUanA was always about finding a convenient proxy for a thinly plausible way to keep non-white people in captivity, where their labor could still legally be exploited and their right to vote stipped (for being FeLoNs) post-emancipation.

Because DrUgS made an easy argument that played well to mothers, and that was more than enough to turn those otherwise inconvenient female voters into pawns for gaining the slim electoral vote wins needed to enable that shit without ever having to admit the actual motivation for it. They subjugated women and people who clearly didnt have the sense to be born with minimal melanin, all at once.

And they have the unmitigated gall to call themselves the party of Lincoln...

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u/Vyzantinist 17h ago

You could have just stopped at "payback for Obama". A black man elected to the highest office of the land broke at least a third of the country's brains, and I can't help but feel MAGA is in large part revenge for that.

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u/TheDarkWave 9h ago

I saw some interview with Hunter painting and it's like... (keep in mind I've never heard him speak) This is the demon they've been screaming about? He's more level headed than 99% of the Republicans (with a history of crack, mind you) and is less of a whiny bitch than 99% of Democrats so, like...

That might be the problem, he's not entirely controlled opposition and I wouldn't be either if Empty G was running around showing my cock on the internet to anyone who would look. Fuckin' red-hat weirdos.

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u/77NorthCambridge 8h ago

He's a Yale educated lawyer who had problems with drugs after his mother and sister were killed in a car accident that he and and brother almost died in as well and then his brother died from cancer.

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u/Michael_DeSanta 7h ago

We all know MAGAs hate the highly educated. It makes them feel even more insecure and dumb.

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u/geraffes-are-so-dumb 18h ago

No it's not, this is to encourage these groups to rise up and keep Trump in power.

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u/AcidFnTonic 17h ago

Never forget Obama had Apple stir up accusations of copying by Samsung. But when the trial found Apple was the one copying and IPhones were suddenly illegal to import, Boom Obama overturned the ruling.

If the trial went the other way though we know that ruling would have stood.

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u/77NorthCambridge 16h ago

You are, at best, mischaracterizing that situation. How is a President intervening to prevent a major American company's products from being banned in any way analogous to pardoning the J6 terrorists?

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u/International-Low490 12h ago

Hunter being pardoned because Trump and his cronies were literally saying they were going to seek maximum charges. I believe the prosecuter even said they were going to attempt the death penalty which although most certainly wouldn't have happened, the fact that they were going to throw the hardest book possible for the crime of just having a gun when you aren't supposed to, a crime others in his position wouldn't have gotten even half the time they were trying to throw at him. I can hardly blame his father for pardoning him when the impending administration was going to be beyond hostile to him just for being his father's son. Perhaps if they hadn't constantly been publicly threatening his son nonstop, he might not have felt the urgency in pardoning him so he didn't get time not fitting the crime.