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Pardoning Derek Chauvin [1]

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Date: 2025-03-06

Elon Musk, and Ben Shapiro have been floating a “trial balloon” with the idea of Orange Jesus pardoning Derek Chauvin, for murdering George Floyd. I guess they feel officer Chauvin was kneeling to pray, and just happened to do it for 10 minutes, on George Floyds windpipe. The old “Freedom of Worship” defense!

I watched a progressive podcaster “Hawk” who previously had a segment urging the black community to take to the streets to show dissatisfaction to a federal pardon for Chauvin. Hawk’s later video was a confession that he was wrong to suggest large protests if tRump does the federal pardon.

Hawk explained the large number of comments from the black community, gave him a different perspective that his whiteness caused him to overlook. It’s a trap, pardoning Chauvin is the bait they explained. tRump and Steven Miller (little Goebbels) would like nothing more than to have an excuse to declare martial law, and call out the National Guard, and his various brown shirts, to quell any disturbances. Dozens of Kyle Rittenhouse wanna-bees would flock to any large protest, assault rifles in hand, to show those uppity blacks, who’s boss. In tRump’s sick mind the TV ratings would be “better than anyone has ever seen”, and he would get some of that dictator street cred.

For now, don’t take the bait. (A federal pardon would be symbolic as Chauvin was convicted by a State jury, so he will probably still be in prison) But remember the black, and brown community should not be expected be the only ones doing the heavy lifting when it comes to standing up to these fascists. That should be an all hands evolution, for all liberals and progressives.

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