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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreat Betty Bowers' Bluesky post today
If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up.
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2026-01-04T00:26:40.282Z
But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.
vapor2
(3,787 posts)which I reposted on BS
Mrs BB is often worth a repost!
OldBaldy1701E
(10,204 posts)The ones that will bow to Orangina get pardons and freedom.
In December 2025, President Trump granted a full pardon to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who had been convicted in a U.S. court for large-scale drug trafficking and weapons offenses. Hernández had been sentenced to 45 years in federal prison in June 2024 for conspiring to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S.
A_Steel_Magnolia
(114 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(10,204 posts)How much cocaine?
BradBo
(930 posts)ananda
(34,447 posts)Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Isn't it odd that the United States has enough money to suddenly run Venezuela,
but not enough to run our own country?
There is always cash in the piggy bank for bombs to kill people,
but never for healthcare to keep them alive.
bornsunny
(52 posts)Cha
(316,849 posts)Skittles
(169,617 posts)yes indeed
LetMyPeopleVote
(175,022 posts)It's the Monroe Doctrine (singular). It bars European powers from aggression in the Americas; it does not give the US that right. And Donald has no idea what the Monroe Doctrine is.
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2026-01-03T18:33:48.786Z
Time to trot out the cartoons of the giraffe and camel again.
calimary
(89,047 posts)Or referring to it without stifling laughter. May be only toadies and suck-asses who refer to it seriously.
LisaM
(29,496 posts)I never know truth from face with this gang of idiots.