• northernlights@lemmy.today
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    7 hours ago

    On March 5, a court in Florida sentenced Andrew Paul Johnson to life in prison for molesting a 12-year-old boy and a girl of the same age. To keep the children quiet, Mr. Johnson is said to have promised to bequeath to them part of a Jan. 6 restitution payment from the federal government that he claimed he would receive. He used the online gaming platforms Discord and Roblox to reach out to the children after Mr. Trump freed him from prison. On Jan. 6, Mr. Johnson entered the Capitol through a broken window and accosted police officers.

    Dafuq? How could he find the accounts of these kids?

  • AmbientDread@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    Criminal enterprise administration begets criminal followers begets criminal anti social behavior. The fish rots from the head down.

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    4 days ago

    Of course they are: they can count on a second pardon, and then it’s time for elevenses.

    We really shouldn’t have bitched about the fact Trump left his insurrectionists high and dry. He pardoned them later, and now they are spreeing crime all over the nation.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    You know, I’m not the kind of guy who thinks “If we didn’t have laws, people would just do horrible things to one another because we’re all libidinal animals shackled by the threat of state violence.”

    But if I’d just stormed the US Capital Building, spent six months in iPad timeout, and then received a Presidential pardon to Do As Thou Wilt, I might get a little freaky with it under the preconception that laws really don’t apply to me.

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      4 days ago

      Personally I’d be in the mindset of “Damn I got lucky better keep my head down” but I wouldn’t be in that situation to begin with so… I guess your probably closer to their headspace on that one.