Summary
Donald Trump criticized President Biden’s decision to commute the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates, calling them “violent criminals” and wishing them to go to hell.
Trump also took the opportunity to sarcastically wish a “Merry Christmas” to Chinese troops in the Panama Canal and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Trump’s post also included references to his previous attempts to purchase Greenland and his suggestion that Wayne Gretzky run for Canadian Prime Minister.
Would you be for a death penalty in cases where you can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the person that is accused is the perpetrator? And by shadow of a doubt, I am not referring to the very loose standards that most law enforcement relies on. I mean that the person was caught in the act.
In my case, no…for two reasons.
First, you can never be 100% sure you have the right person (especially given a lengthy history of police falsifying evidence, etc., and there can always be other factors involved). If you incorrectly put someone in jail you can attempt to make amends later, but how do you make amends to a person you murdered?
Second, given how human beings have evolved and how their brains function, life in solitary would be a far worse punishment if the goal is to punish or make them suffer for their crime. If your goal isn’t punishment or reform, but instead simple revenge, then I suppose this argument wouldn’t carry much weight for you.
I feel you are misunderstanding me. I am not asking about hypotheticals where the police lie. I am saying that in a hypothetical where YOU can prove beyond the shadow of a doubt.
It’s not about rehabilitation or punishment. It’s about logistics. If there is a dog that repeatedly attacks other people, children and dogs and rehabilitation has failed. The only recourse would be to terminate that dog as it is unsafe for society for the dog to be allowed out. Sure, you could build a secure containment facility to house your inmate dog but at what cost. At that point you are then taking resources that could be better spent to help people in need to contain a problem that will not be solved. I am actually in agreement with you that it’s a far crueler punishment to keep somebody alive in a non autonomous position that they would hate.
He’s got some real skill at expressing inarticulate, impotent rage.
And if there were a Hell, Trump would be headed for the least pleasant precinct in it.
He’s already there, and we’re living in it with him. This is the bad place.
Yeah but I actually think he is one of the Demon actors
I’m pretty sure his hell would be serving in a soup kitchen for thousands of years. Volunteering.
Trump is sad that he only gets execute one of the remaining three. The other two (Dylan Roof and Robert Bowers) are destined for bigger things in the Trump cabinet.
but he was the first “president” to march in the “pro life” rally 🙄
Why do we have to hang on every word this fucking arsehole says? He’s an utter cretin.
Four years.
Four goddamn years I had to wake up every day and pay attention to what asinine shit the President of the United States tweeted.
Because, unfortunately, that utter cretin had the nuclear button.
And now we have to endure another four years of the same.
Shit, for all the bad things you can say about Biden, you can at least say that whenever you heard a story start with “Today, the president said…” in the news, you weren’t immediately going “ah fuck here we go”. Four years I dealt with that kind of reflexive dread.
God, I wish I could just slip into a coma until 2029.
Honestly, if we get out of this one without some sort of nuclear exchange, I’m going to be mildly shocked. Remember: this is the guy who had to be talked down from nuking a fucking hurricane, and apparently it took a while to convince him it wasn’t the sharpest idea.
Well the media invested a lot of time and effort to get him elected and now they want to cash in on all that hard work.
Personally I’d like to keep up with the Canada comments considering he’s threatening to annex our fucking country. Americans, fix your country
It’s not my country. Mine has it’s moments but it’s not that stupid.
It doesn’t feel like it’s our country anymore either…
Ah sorry to imply you were. Edited my comment
Because he’s itching for vengeance against his enemies and is about to be in charge of the most powerful military and intelligence operations in the history of the world.
He sure does talk a lot of shit about death penalty for someone who allegedly committed high treason, punishable by death.
Reminder that about 1 in 25 people on death row are estimated to be innocent.
Reminder trumps been found very very guilty.
That seems very low.
And yet way too damn high
That’s a good thing.
In the great Christmas spirit.
He should do that himself, he would be right at home.
We don’t want him
Old man yells at clouds
“You first.”
Actually he said “Governor” Trudeau
were just given, incredibly, a pardon by Sleepy Joe Biden
dumfuk lying again. on purpose. trying to get the cult riled-up over ‘pardons’ that didn’t happen.
a commuted sentence is not a pardon.
these 37 men are still guilty. they are still in jail… for life… without parole. they will remain there and never be released.
The best part is nobody fucken knows what that means and they just believe these dudes are instantly set upon the streets.
It’s just insane to me how many Americans are so stupid that they don’t hear something like that, and think, “well that’s quite the claim, I wonder if it’s true…”
These people have zero incredulity. They choose to believe the most insane shit with no evidence based entirely on how they feel about the person who said it.
I mean I see it happen on Lemmy with fake tweets and such. Divide the parties into eight at least, destroy Citizens United and make its practices illegal. Only allow campaign donations from the public, no private entities. We have to fix this before we all fall to tribalism and the systematic deconstruction of education.
It’s one part demonization of education, and one part media stoking outrage.
A tyrant’s rage
A nation divide
Like toddlers tears
When rattles denied
“That was my thing!”
Now broken plans
As he wipes a tear
with little hands
Biden stole
His hateful thunder
Who’s next in sight?
I mustn’t wonder.
Who the fuck cares what this guy writes on Christmas. Dude just says the same ignorant shit over and over to rile up his supporters.
He’s so damn embarrassing. What the heck did I just read
