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Elon knows millions of Americans hate him and are coming for him so he wants every single super-villain free to team up together.
No. He wants a racial war and Chauvin walking free is a surefire way to start one.
Couldn't he only be pardoned for the federal level conviction and not the state? Looking at his Wikipedia article, he has a 21 year fed sentence and a 22.5 state.
But yeah, this is a way to force violent protests and eventually martial law.
IIRC, Chauvin made the plea deal on federal charges so that he would do his time in the relative safety of a federal prison.
Which would mean that if he gets pardoned on federal charges, then he would have to serve out his remaining state time in a state pen... the very thing he wanted to avoid. He would probably be dead in under a month unless he spent the next decade or more in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day (like he did in his pre-trial detention).
Which would be a crying shame, of course...
Maybe it won't be protests this time and just 30,000 people turning his body into something that doesn't resemble a human.
Nazi child of apartheid encourages elevated racial tensions, more at 11.
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
Yup, same with the tariffs. Drop the stock market by two percent and as the richest person in the world you’ve just invested billions
They're trying to Reichstag fire up their own Reichstag fire. Martial law in America as a toe dip for their invasion of Canada.
I find it funny how people on the right want the cop who shot that lady during the Jan 6 riot to be punished, yet think Chauvin was in the right....like how can you be so stupid....then again they probably don't care the cop shot her they care cuz he's black.
One cop shot a minority. One cop shot a Republican. To them one one of the victims is considered human. Take a guess as to which.
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)
People lose their shit over jury nullification, yet somehow pardons are A-OK
Pardons should not be a thing, in my lifetime its pretty much only been used for scummy shit.
They just want to cause riots. Trump and Elon are agitators.
This. I'm convinced at this point they're attempting to instigate riots so they can declare material law and seize full control over the US government.
I agree. This is just intended to cause civil unrest to distract from everything else they’re doing to tear America apart.
But also, Musk is a Nazi.
elon can fuck right off with this bullshit
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.
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.
It kinda feels like both hands are doing a lot of damage....
I think the ultimate goal is martial law, and I think he is unconcerned about what triggers his ability to declare it.
Why not give Zimmerman a Presidential Medal of Freedom while you're at it?
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.
They want riots so they have a reason to put troops on the streets and “come down hard” to please their base.
Gotta throw red meat to the racist AF base to distract from how fElon and his Incel Clown Posse is stealing from the American people...
They reeaally doing anything they can to get that martial law step started from their project 2025 handbook
I can nazi why not.
I'm sorry, folks. I'm trying a variation on the old adage. I'm terribly sorry.
Not for that cop, though, he deserves to rot.
Now they're forcing the martial law.
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.
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
A possible motive is to push the power of the executive. If Trump can somehow seize this power, there's nothing that can stop him.
That or just trying to embolden the police, but I'm guessing it's even worse than that.
I'd say it's to embolden police and violent racists, in hope of helping encouraging their race war to destabilize the country so that they can divy it up.
The interesting lack of forethought from the oligarchic billionaires is that their billions mean nothing without the US dollar and NYSE. The majority of their hoards of wealth are not backed by anything tangible that could be of use in the event that the US dollar ceases to be relevant. I suppose that this kind of thought isn't likely to occur to sociopaths that were born with platinum spoons in their mouths.
A gun. A gun can stop him. They work well. American has more guns than people, and a second amendment designed to stop this nonsense when needed.
It’s needed.
Not gonna happen, he can cry about the federal charges but MN has him owing 22 years.
So which company building we burning down first? I vote for Wal-Mart.
I scrolled all the way to the bottom of these comments, then breathed a sigh of relief.
Because the comments that I'd see on reddit, the ones all the way at the bottom that show up every time George Floyd is mentioned, weren't there. I hadn't even thought about those comments until I got to the end.
Nazi Musk does nazi things.
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.
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.