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Andrew Taake received a six-year sentence for assaulting officers on Jan. 6. He was arrested Thursday on an outstanding charge of soliciting a minor.

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[–] ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's crazy that a pardoned criminal broke the law. No one saw this coming.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you read it, he broke the law before Jan 6th. They had asked the administration not to pardon him because of his previous crimes. They did anyway. So in the spirit of efficiency, resources had to spend two weeks trying to find him again.
And they claim the dems are weak on crime...

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read or heard in the news that the reason it was a blanket pardon is because Trump got bored when they were discussing all the details lol

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well even if he didn't, it would have taken weeks to go through them all and make recommendations. They were in a rush to do lots of dumb things all at once, so it would be hard to continue caring.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump can’t read more than a few paragraphs without getting bored

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump can’t read ~~more than a few paragraphs without getting bored~~

ftfy

[–] ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did read it, and my statement is still the same, a criminal broke laws. I didn't say he did it after he was released.

Using "no one saw this coming" implied an order to the events. I apologize for implying you didn't read it. You just used a catchphrase in the wrong context. Seems like your heart is in the right place though.

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You mean to tell me the people that are willing to violently storm a government building riled up by an egomaniac with an inferiority complex were actually criminals to begin with? *surprised pikachu face*

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 25 points 1 year ago

Gosh, this is so stunning and shocking. Never would have seen this coming, I mean, he doesn't even look like an antifa drag queen.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Only their best and brightest, folks

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

"That's a pardonin'!"

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"You just stormed the capital, got charged with felonies, and got exonerated by the criminal leader of the Executive. What are you going to do now?"

Guy one: buy a bunch of guns!

Guy two: suicide by cop!

Guy three: Rape a child!

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woman one: I'm not going to accept this pardon.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Of the 1,600 that got pardons, 3 rejected them.

Good for them I guess. But there’s still 1,597 brown shirts.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 15 points 1 year ago

He was working undercover to take down the liberal deep state child trafficking conspiracy, on direct orders from Q himself

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re not sending their best.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh they are.

They best just objectively suck

[–] meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Justice isn’t blind—it’s just staggeringly inconsistent. Imagine getting a presidential pardon for beating cops on Jan. 6, only to pivot straight to preying on kids. Law and order, my ass. The same administration that fetishized ”draining the swamp” dredged up this clown, then set him loose to fail upward into darker crimes.

Democracy’s not broken—it’s a farce with enablers. Pardoning insurrectionists was always a gamble, but betting they’d not reoffend? Delusional. Now we’re stuck cleaning up the moral rubble.

[–] Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 9 points 1 year ago

Does that mean kyle ritterman is allowed to execute him?

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might be the first, won't be the last.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not the first. Hell one of the 1600 got himself killed by cops.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's the third I've heard of, the death by cop guy, this guy, and I can't remember the other but pretty sure there was.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

At least the third I have heard about.

[–] obre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone else remember the willie horton case and the attack ads that h.w. ran against Dukakis?

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

So… wasn’t Rittenhouse justified by these people for killing someone that was guilty of something similar?