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Biden Spared 37 Killers From Execution. Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment.​

Even America’s harshest federal prison, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, was too good, one official said; ‘I’ve got no problem with gruel’​


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“Among the last actions by former President Joe Bidenbefore leaving the Oval Office was commuting the death sentences of 37 convicted murderers.

Hours after President Trump took over, he ordered the life sentences of these men be made, in effect, a living hell.

With that guidance, officials canceled plans to transfer most of the inmates to mainline prisons. Instead, Emil Bove III, the acting deputy attorney general at the time, ordered all but a handful requiring specialized medical treatment be housed in the U.S. Penitentiary at Florence, Colo., the harshest institution in the federal system.

Inmates at the Colorado prison—intended for the nation’s most violent—typically spend 23 hours a day alone in their cells. At a meeting in May with Attorney General Pam Bondi for families of loved ones killed by the 37 convicts, some officials said they wished conditions at the prison, known as ADX, were even worse.

… While the president’s authority to grant clemency for federal crimes is virtually unfettered, the power to impose vengeance via prison assignments isn’t clear.

There are two arguments: After juries found the 37 inmates deserving of death, shouldn’t they suffer the harshest treatment short of execution? Or, is it unjust to make their conditions worse than those of other murderers serving life without parole?…”
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23 hours a day in solitary, they might as well put them to death, they are torturing them and killing them slowly.
 
nycfan said:
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🎁 —> The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Weirdly reminiscent of Nicolae Ceausescu, who was deeply repressive (to be clear, on a completely different level of authoritarianism than anything even Stephen Miller is trying here — insane oppression, fear and torture of Romanians) at home, but active in the world stage and bust self-enriching himself along the way.

Ceausescu initially positioned himself as a reformer, permitting some press freedoms and other rights when he took over, and showing a willingness to buck Moscow, which bought him a lot of contacts on the international stage. But he pretty quickly turned brutal on internal policy, creating an insanely invasive security surveillance state that enforced a cult of personality for himself and his wife that he based on what he saw in a visit to North Korea in 1971.

He and his many slavish admirers even referred to a golden era of Romania:

“… Thereafter ideological orthodoxy retained a tight hold on all intellectual life, and meaningful reforms failed to materialize. After assuming the newly established position of president of the republic, Ceausescu was increasingly portrayed by the Romanian media as a creative communist theoretician and political leader whose "thought" was the source of all national accomplishments. His tenure as president was known as the "golden era of Ceausescu." The media embellished all references to him with such fomulaic appellations as "guarantor of the nation's progress and independence" and "visionary architect of the nation's future." In 1989, Ceausescu functioned as the head of state, the PCR, and the armed forces; chairman of the Supreme Council for Economic and Social Development, president of the National Council of Working People, and chairman of the Socialist Democracy and Unity Front.…”
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trump hates America.
 
nycfan said:
I did not know that
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I remember reading it back in the 90s when the series was popular.

Obviously, the Antichrist in the series is based in the book of Revelation, but there is not really that much detail there so the authors used Ceausescu as a modern model for how the Antichrist might behave in real world terms.
 
SnoopRob said:
I remember reading it back in the 90s when the series was popular.

Obviously, the Antichrist in the series is based in the book of Revelation, but there is not really that much detail there so the authors used Ceausescu as a modern model for how the Antichrist might behave in real world terms.
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I read those books, such a waste of time.

The last the were simply painfully poorly written. I have a tendency to try and finish what I start, really paid for it here.
 
UNCatTech said:
I read those books, such a waste of time.

The last the were simply painfully poorly written. I have a tendency to try and finish what I start, really paid for it here.
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Yeah I read those when they were coming out and I made it a ways in the series but like you said it was bad and I didn’t finish
 
UNCatTech said:
I read those books, such a waste of time.

The last the were simply painfully poorly written. I have a tendency to try and finish what I start, really paid for it here.
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I only read the first 6 or so (I'm not actually sure at this point). They were really action packed and not terribly written for mass fiction, but they certainly weren't great literature by any stretch of the imagination.

They seem more of a product of their time and cultural milieu (fundamentalist Christianity) than a work that actually provides any real insight into the apocalyptic writings of the Bible.
 
SnoopRob said:
I only read the first 6 or so (I'm not actually sure at this point). They were really action packed and not terribly written for mass fiction, but they certainly weren't great literature by any stretch of the imagination.

They seem more of a product of their time and cultural milieu (fundamentalist Christianity) than a work that actually provides any real insight into the apocalyptic writings of the Bible.
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Yes, but the last three were really bad. I believe they were just tired of writing and threw them together. I believe I read something about the final production timelines.
 
UNCatTech said:
Yes, but the last three were really bad. I believe they were just tired of writing and threw them together. I believe I read something about the final production timelines.
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Probably a good bit of money to be made and they knew that quality didn't matter much at that point.
 
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