Much the same as Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon back in 74.

Trump and Flynn would be perfect cellmates..

Two wrongs ain't supposed to make a right.  Pence could pardon (wrong # one) Illegitimate (wrong # two) POTUS.

Doesn't make up for yesterday's 400 point drop which was caused by:

...He wants to know if Trump could pardon himself in order to remain President.

You don't have to be a legal scholar to realize what a dumb question that would be.  If  that were possible, it would make actual impeachment impossible. The OP isn't always the brightest bulb, but only the likes of fg is THAT dumb. Or at least I hope it isn't that dumb.

Yes, Big Papa has it right.  Can Trump pardon himself while he's President?

Just like you did after Brexit, after Trump won the election and every other time you see a bit of news you don't like.

I'm just helping you w/your arithmetic!  400 points is a LOT more than 50 points!🙂

Although I would expect and hope he would be impeached because of it and as Dr. Beeper pointed out, impeachment is specifically excluded from pardons. It would let a President off the hook from prosecution though. As for post dated pardons (pardon for future actions), I don't know of any example where it's been done or attempted. I would fully expect the SCOTUS to eventually adjudicate that post dated pardons are unconstitutional. They may have already but I don't know about it.

repeatedly and openly bragging about it is priceless.

...am NOT counting on my Social Security as you are.  Would you call it "bragging" that you're counting on your Social Security to survive your declining years?  

I hope SS is privatized as well. and if that means I will never get a single penny of all the hundreds of thousands (actually millions as an employer) I have put into the system, well so be it. I never expected to see a penny of that money ever again anyhow and was resigned to that possibility/probability ever since I was in my twenties and figured out what a ridiculous Ponzi scheme it was even at that young age.

He mooches wifi from the public library.  He can't afford his own computer, so the library is his only option.

You asked a question, I just gave you one of the more likely answers if impeachment were to occur.

Just mention Taffy's name and he comes romping out of the soup line to let us know how validated he is by being made fun of on a fuck board.
And not a single word of rebuttal, so I guess he does mooch free wifi and computer time at his local library.

he's an embezzler and a grifter.

First of all, while R's do claim to want SMALLER government, they don't express a desire for NO government. If you really don't think the entitlements are in DEEP trouble, you are not paying attention.

He was basically laughed off the stage although he made some VERY good points and eventually somebody is going to have to face the fact that people living longer, combined with less people entering the work force, not to mention funding SS with nothing but IOU's is going to break the system.

Dow is barely three hundred points or less than 1 1/2% off of the record highs set during it's recent run, hardly the meltdown you have been predicting since Trump won back in November. And the broader indices have done even better with the NASDAQ over 6,100 and the S&P within range of 2,400.

Like "The Dems (sic) solution is to 'tax the rich until there (sic) are rich no more." In fact, the Dems' solution is simply to remove the ceiling on income that can be taxed.  That would solve the whole problem.  So of course the Reps hate it.

Lets say a self employed person works his ass off and makes a million dollars in a year. Do you REALLY think it's fair for him to be forced to contribute over $150,000 into the SS system in a single year? Is THAT your idea of fair?

...Social Security?  You've said many times that you don't expect to see a single penny of it, so you don't care if the government gambles SS away by privatizing it.

Like graduating the amount he has to pay on his upper income.  And who said anything about Buffett? He's practically begging to pay more in tax, plus the whole world knows hedge fund managers need to be taxed at more than the capital gains rate.  The whole system is unfair (to use a term you Trumpies love), but we're not talking about overall tax reform here, just about ways to save Social Security.
And, BTW, by blowing health care reform (you don't think that's gonna happen now, do you?) and drowning himself in a sea of unforced errors that have now resulted in Mueller looking up Trump's skirt for the next couple of years, do you really think tax reform is going to happen?
Dream on.

If/when he's impeached AND he realizes that he would be removed, he'll resign "to spend more time w/family and biz."

That wasn't me!

If you didn't address your posts to me it would be almost impossible to tell just who the fuck you were talking to.

and I really hope the younger people aren't counting on this giant Ponzi scheme to take care of them in their old age. Madoff only scammed the American people out of fifty billion or so, he's a piker compared to the TRILLONS that's been taken in by SS.

He can fuck himself and he does it several times a day.

How about condemning him live with Laffy and Bigpapa 24/7?

Do I need to worry you about your mental stability BP?

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Look back 7 days to our PMing - I told you that I just bought a bunch in the market.. sound like a guy who believes the market will tank?!?  Not!

But it's just a tad more important we know about Trump's.

...Why are you white knighting for ed when those are HIS ACTUAL WORDS?  Two years ago he said he was "counting on" Social Security.  He didn't say he "wants it."  Come on man, read the damn link!!

This conversation was two years ago and while I have a pretty good memory, no one can be expected to remember every exact word said from two yeas ago.

Not only am I "just fine if [you] had to put another several million into the system to save it," I am COUNTING ON IT.  But don't worry, I promise to spend it on hookers. ROFL.

you may wish to pull this post, too.
rofl

...keep worrying about your retirement - it's getting closer and closer.

This is what I said to him when he used a similar dodge to try to explain away his "counting on" Social Security:

I will just stop declaring any "earned Income" at all, and your old ass can join LTM&L at the soup kitchen when people like me say "fuck this" and stop putting anything at all into the system

If you think I'm in the same boat as ed on SS, you are so WRONG it's just laughable.  And if you think I'm going to discuss my finances on this (or any) board, well, I'll give you enough credit to assume you're not THAT dumb.  Please note, I did NOT say you're not dumb.  Just not THAT dumb. LOL.

Like I said, if I loan you $150K I WILL be counting on you to pay it back. That has ZERO to do with whether I need it to survive. Only someone like you would think paying me back is optional. I never said I NEEDED SS to survive. You made that all up.  

I AM "counting" on you to continue to work for as long as possible, and then a few year more, just to keep the system afloat.  

...it will probably only pay for one mid-range hooker per month.  I'll wait until I'm 70 to collect it so I can get a hooker upgrade, lol.  I haven't contributed to SS in over 20 years.

Johnson pulls his. He just might, given that he's responded to himself SEVEN times already.

...Sucks to be a wage slave.  Sucks to be you.

"...I’m only a couple of years from retirement and I am counting on SS...."

"Does this go all the way back to the time you once informed me that you had just done a me a "solid" so therefore I should come on here and stick up for you? Is that it? I still have your PM if you want me to post it. "  
 
No, it doesn't go back to 2009.  Yes, I still have the PMs too.  At that time, there wasn't the hostility on the board like there is now and like there is between Dems and the GOP.   Our PMs were quite collegial.  Yes, I did you a solid but I asked nothing in return.  You absolutely, 100% have my permission to post our exchange to show what a liar you are.  Go ahead, I'm calling your bluff.  Put up or STFU.  

Ok, maybe I will discuss it just a bit.  

Have you got any collateral?

We were discussing public revelations about our income or net worth. . . .  

There is nothing to pardon himself for. Being accused of made up crimes by one's political opposition is not pardonable.