OT - Its really gotta suck to be Julian Assange right now

by hobbs, San Diego, Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 14:59 @ Jay
edited by hobbs, Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 15:08

Perhaps more than anyone Assange is responsible for Trump winning in 2016. Four years later as Trump leaves office he's decided not to pardon Assange.

Gonna be interesting to watch how this plays out now. Julian is now basically at the mercy of Merrick Garland & US Intelligence. His only leverage now is in selling out everyone in Trumpworld who was even tangentially involved in the laundering of stolen emails.

As for Snowden? Assange at least had some GOP factional support for a pardon for his work in "exposing" Hillary. Snowden? There was never any base of GOP support for him within the GOP. The only thing that giving a pardon to Snowden would accomplish is uniting the intel community with Democrats and Republicans.

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inauguration question - Jay, 2021-01-19, 09:42
- OT - Its really gotta suck to be Julian Assange right now - hobbs, 2021-01-19, 14:59
- OT a little related and maybe too late but [on IMPEACHMENT] - Grantland, 2021-01-19, 12:28
  - Avoiding impeachment is taking the stupid road - HumanRobot, 2021-01-19, 15:20
  - Impeachment is "taking the high road". - Bingo, 2021-01-19, 15:07
  - This is the problem with the 2 party system in America - Domer99, 2021-01-19, 13:09
    - We already did the "healing" bullshit last time around. - KGB, 2021-01-19, 14:07
      - By "last time" you mean Reconstruction, right? - PAK, 2021-01-20, 09:35
      - The amazing part of it all - Domer99, 2021-01-19, 14:32
        Mein Pillow is going to be Dominion-owned in short order - MattG, 2021-01-19, 14:35
        'Mein Pillow'. Nicely played* - hobbs, 2021-01-19, 14:39
  - You mistake the cowardly, politically-expedient, - KGB, 2021-01-19, 12:56
    - I am in favor of the Teddy Roosevelt approach - terribletr, 2021-01-19, 14:38
  - We are IN this position bc they let Nixon off the hook. - MattG, 2021-01-19, 12:42
  - I couldn't possibly disagree more. - domer.mq, 2021-01-19, 12:34
    - Answering all of you and your answers are predictable - Grantland, 2021-01-19, 13:03
      - A censure isn't particularly creative, either - HCE, 2021-01-19, 13:50
        Censures should be sponsored and named after Susan Collins.* - nedhead, 2021-01-19, 14:07
        The Collins Memorial Censure, brought to you by Soymilk* - Brendan, 2021-01-19, 14:44
      - Why is creativity a requirement?* - domer.mq, 2021-01-19, 13:45
- Also back and forth, but I think I've landed on... - domer.mq, 2021-01-19, 09:46
  - I'd do a simple ceremony - Rob (Rakes of Mallow), 2021-01-19, 11:25
    - In the "everything should be decided by covid" - nedhead, 2021-01-19, 12:53
    - Fair. Whatever it is needs to be public and outside or else - BillyGoat, 2021-01-19, 11:28
      - Yes* - Greg, 2021-01-19, 12:00
      - Sort of funny cause it's true. And the first thing I though - Grantland, 2021-01-19, 11:46
        Yeah. I'm serious. It's hard to imagine anything that would - BillyGoat, 2021-01-19, 11:54
        This I found scary, BTW... - domer.mq, 2021-01-19, 12:39
        
        We used to make fun of the Chinas and Russias of the world - Grantland, 2021-01-19, 12:15
      - Yep. We'll have "HRC is actually running the military."* - domer.mq, 2021-01-19, 11:43
  - This is where I am - okerland, 2021-01-19, 10:59
  - Agree, but - CK08, 2021-01-19, 10:20
    - I suspect they've thought of this. - domer.mq, 2021-01-19, 10:34
  - falling on this side too - Jay, 2021-01-19, 09:54
    - The military personnel need to be there anyway, right? - HCE, 2021-01-19, 10:20
  - Totally agree.* - BillyGoat, 2021-01-19, 09:51

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OT - Its really gotta suck to be Julian Assange right now