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Antifar
01/13/18 1:49:40 PM
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/chelsea-manning-files-to-run-for-us-senate-in-
maryland/2018/01/13/6439f0d0-f88c-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html

Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private who was convicted of passing sensitive government documents to Wikileaks, has filed to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, according to federal election filings.

Manning, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, would be challenging Ben Cardin, who has served two terms in the Senate. He was first elected in 2007.


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Irony
01/13/18 1:50:40 PM
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Looking forward to loss that people will call bigotry
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Warrior_Man
01/13/18 1:50:46 PM
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Manning is an unstable person. Just look at their twitter account. Constant ranting and raving. It will be amusing to see how they hold up to campaign scrutiny.
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TommyG663513
01/13/18 1:55:21 PM
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Warrior_Man posted...
Manning is an unstable person. Just look at their twitter account. Constant ranting and raving. It will be amusing to see how they hold up to campaign scrutiny.


I mean yeah. If you've read her full life story it's clear she has very deep emotional problems. Can't imagine her being able to stay very calm in tense situations.
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BLAKUboy
01/13/18 9:46:17 PM
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Warrior_Man posted...
Manning is an unstable person. Just look at their twitter account. Constant ranting and raving. It will be amusing to see how they hold up to campaign scrutiny.

So you're saying she's presidential material?
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UncleBourbon33
01/13/18 9:46:39 PM
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Fuck him. Piece of shit.
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littlebro07
01/13/18 9:47:47 PM
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Warrior_Man posted...
Manning is an unstable person. Just look at their twitter account. Constant ranting and raving. It will be amusing to see how they hold up to campaign scrutiny.


With those qualifications, all she needs is to say "Mexicans are sending rapists" and she'll be president
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Paper_Okami
01/13/18 9:49:02 PM
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Warrior_Man posted...
Manning is an unstable person. Just look at their twitter account. Constant ranting and raving. It will be amusing to see how they hold up to campaign scrutiny.


far more stable than the president.
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UncleBourbon33
01/13/18 9:49:39 PM
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He's literally a traitor. He'll fit right in with the dems then.
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hockeybub89
01/13/18 9:50:02 PM
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UncleBourbon33 posted...
He's literally a traitor. He'll fit right in with the dems then.

When did Trump flip teams?
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Paper_Okami
01/13/18 9:50:27 PM
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UncleBourbon33 posted...
He's literally a traitor. He'll fit right in with the dems then.


stop being a transphobe
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darkjedilink
01/13/18 9:50:38 PM
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Paper_Okami posted...
Warrior_Man posted...
Manning is an unstable person. Just look at their twitter account. Constant ranting and raving. It will be amusing to see how they hold up to campaign scrutiny.

far more stable than the president.

Yeah - getting a sex-change operation to stave off the death penalty is the epitome of mental and emotional stability.
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Paper_Okami
01/13/18 9:51:53 PM
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darkjedilink posted...
Paper_Okami posted...
Warrior_Man posted...
Manning is an unstable person. Just look at their twitter account. Constant ranting and raving. It will be amusing to see how they hold up to campaign scrutiny.

far more stable than the president.

Yeah - getting a sex-change operation to stave off the death penalty is the epitome of mental and emotional stability.


just because you spout nonsense doesn't make it true.
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darkjedilink
01/13/18 9:52:16 PM
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Sparksfanboy posted...
UncleBourbon33 posted...
Fuck him. Piece of shit.

*her

UncleBourbon33 posted...
He's literally a traitor. He'll fit right in with the dems then.


*She's, *She'll

I personally would - and have - take the moderation for choosing not to refer Manning as a female.
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darkjedilink
01/13/18 9:52:59 PM
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Paper_Okami posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Paper_Okami posted...
Warrior_Man posted...
Manning is an unstable person. Just look at their twitter account. Constant ranting and raving. It will be amusing to see how they hold up to campaign scrutiny.

far more stable than the president.

Yeah - getting a sex-change operation to stave off the death penalty is the epitome of mental and emotional stability.

just because you spout nonsense doesn't make it true.

You'd be right if what I was spouting was nonsense. The only reason Manning switched genders was to get President Obama to pardon.
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darkprince45
01/13/18 9:53:08 PM
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Manning is a traitor pos. Fuck that guy
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Garioshi
01/13/18 9:54:05 PM
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hoo hoo this is a spicy development
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hockeybub89
01/13/18 9:54:45 PM
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darkjedilink posted...
Paper_Okami posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Paper_Okami posted...
Warrior_Man posted...
Manning is an unstable person. Just look at their twitter account. Constant ranting and raving. It will be amusing to see how they hold up to campaign scrutiny.

far more stable than the president.

Yeah - getting a sex-change operation to stave off the death penalty is the epitome of mental and emotional stability.

just because you spout nonsense doesn't make it true.

You'd be right if what I was spouting was nonsense. The only reason Manning switched genders was to get President Obama to pardon.

Why didn't every criminal for the entire Obama administration "choose" to be trans then? What percentage of presidential pardons under Obama went to trans people?
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runuts27
01/13/18 9:54:52 PM
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I think it's good that the country was able to see that collateral murder video, but Manning seems like kind of an idiot.
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EnragedSlith
01/13/18 9:55:08 PM
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Pretty liberal here. Shes a traitor, catty, and emotionally unstable. She passive aggressively grandstands on social media for validation. One of the most contemptible people alive.

Which is funny, because that also describes our current president.
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Bio1590
01/13/18 9:55:55 PM
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Well this topic sure went down the expected path with the expexted people involved.
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Warrior_Man
01/13/18 9:56:06 PM
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On another note I still think it's funny as shit that Manning's twitter handle is @xychelsea
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Antifar
01/13/18 9:56:29 PM
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darkjedilink posted...
You'd be right if what I was spouting was nonsense. The only reason Manning switched genders was to get President Obama to pardon.

Prove it. Provide one fucking piece of evidence to support your claim.
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darkjedilink
01/13/18 9:56:31 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Paper_Okami posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Paper_Okami posted...
Warrior_Man posted...
Manning is an unstable person. Just look at their twitter account. Constant ranting and raving. It will be amusing to see how they hold up to campaign scrutiny.

far more stable than the president.

Yeah - getting a sex-change operation to stave off the death penalty is the epitome of mental and emotional stability.

just because you spout nonsense doesn't make it true.

You'd be right if what I was spouting was nonsense. The only reason Manning switched genders was to get President Obama to pardon.

Why didn't every criminal for the entire Obama administration "choose" to be trans then? What percentage of presidential pardons under Obama went to trans people?

No idea, but are you seriously going to suggest that President Obama pardoned Manning - despite everyone in his cabinet and the vast majority of Americans disagreeing - on the merits of the case, and not because he could spin it as a political ploy to gain LGBT votes for the party?
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hockeybub89
01/13/18 9:58:05 PM
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EnragedSlith posted...
Pretty liberal here. Shes a traitor, catty, and emotionally unstable. She passive aggressively grandstands on social media for validation. One of the most contemptible people alive.

Which is funny, because that also describes our current president.

Honestly this though.

But Trump put an R next to his name and isn't part of that liberal trans fad, so That's different because uh.... *fkees*
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darkjedilink
01/13/18 9:58:16 PM
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Antifar posted...
darkjedilink posted...
You'd be right if what I was spouting was nonsense. The only reason Manning switched genders was to get President Obama to pardon.

Prove it. Provide one fucking piece of evidence to support your claim.

President Obama made no mention of pardon until after Manning claimed to be trans. President Obama's entire cabinet disagreed with pardoning Manning, but Manning saw an opportunity to get a pardon.

Now prove it's legit. Provide one fucking piece of evidence to support your claim that Manning legitimately has a partially female brain.
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Paper_Okami
01/13/18 9:58:56 PM
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The military killed civilians and they deserved to be exposed. If you think that someone is a traitor for exposing shit like that, it says a LOT about you.
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hockeybub89
01/13/18 10:02:39 PM
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darkjedilink posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Paper_Okami posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Paper_Okami posted...
Warrior_Man posted...
Manning is an unstable person. Just look at their twitter account. Constant ranting and raving. It will be amusing to see how they hold up to campaign scrutiny.

far more stable than the president.

Yeah - getting a sex-change operation to stave off the death penalty is the epitome of mental and emotional stability.

just because you spout nonsense doesn't make it true.

You'd be right if what I was spouting was nonsense. The only reason Manning switched genders was to get President Obama to pardon.

Why didn't every criminal for the entire Obama administration "choose" to be trans then? What percentage of presidential pardons under Obama went to trans people?

No idea, but are you seriously going to suggest that President Obama pardoned Manning - despite everyone in his cabinet and the vast majority of Americans disagreeing - on the merits of the case, and not because he could spin it as a political ploy to gain LGBT votes for the party?

But why did he pick that specific trans woman and not another or more than 1? Is Chelsea Manning the luckiest person on Earth for somehow successfully pulling off such a risky gambit?

The odds make it seem like her gender is secondary. Hypothesizing she was pardoned for hating America has much as Obama somehow seems less crazy.
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Antifar
01/13/18 10:03:11 PM
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darkjedilink posted...
not because he could spin it as a political ploy to gain LGBT votes for the party?

If it was such a vote getter, why did he wait to do until after the election, a week before leaving office?
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hockeybub89
01/13/18 10:03:47 PM
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darkjedilink posted...
Antifar posted...
darkjedilink posted...
You'd be right if what I was spouting was nonsense. The only reason Manning switched genders was to get President Obama to pardon.

Prove it. Provide one fucking piece of evidence to support your claim.

President Obama made no mention of pardon until after Manning claimed to be trans. President Obama's entire cabinet disagreed with pardoning Manning, but Manning saw an opportunity to get a pardon.

Now prove it's legit. Provide one fucking piece of evidence to support your claim that Manning legitimately has a partially female brain.


No one has a "partially female brain" so no one can prove that.
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The Great Muta 22
01/13/18 10:05:07 PM
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Whole lot of moderations going to happen in this topic
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darkjedilink
01/13/18 10:05:39 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
darkjedilink posted...
Antifar posted...
darkjedilink posted...
You'd be right if what I was spouting was nonsense. The only reason Manning switched genders was to get President Obama to pardon.

Prove it. Provide one fucking piece of evidence to support your claim.

President Obama made no mention of pardon until after Manning claimed to be trans. President Obama's entire cabinet disagreed with pardoning Manning, but Manning saw an opportunity to get a pardon.

Now prove it's legit. Provide one fucking piece of evidence to support your claim that Manning legitimately has a partially female brain.

No one has a "partially female brain" so no one can prove that.

Uhhh, that's literally the physical reason for transexualism - that significant portions of your brain resemble that of the gender your chromosomes don't match.
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darkjedilink
01/13/18 10:06:47 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
But why did he pick that specific trans woman and not another or more than 1? Is Chelsea Manning the luckiest person on Earth for somehow successfully pulling off such a risky gambit?

The odds make it seem like her gender is secondary. Hypothesizing she was pardoned for hating America has much as Obama somehow seems less crazy.

Then why was Manning, a convicted traitor, pardoned?
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Paper_Okami
01/13/18 10:07:03 PM
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darkjedilink posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
But why did he pick that specific trans woman and not another or more than 1? Is Chelsea Manning the luckiest person on Earth for somehow successfully pulling off such a risky gambit?

The odds make it seem like her gender is secondary. Hypothesizing she was pardoned for hating America has much as Obama somehow seems less crazy.

Then why was Manning, a convicted traitor, pardoned?


how was she a traitor?

for exposing a military killing civilians?
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southcoast09
01/13/18 10:07:32 PM
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#bradleymanningforprison
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hockeybub89
01/13/18 10:07:59 PM
#38:


darkjedilink posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
But why did he pick that specific trans woman and not another or more than 1? Is Chelsea Manning the luckiest person on Earth for somehow successfully pulling off such a risky gambit?

The odds make it seem like her gender is secondary. Hypothesizing she was pardoned for hating America has much as Obama somehow seems less crazy.

Then why was Manning, a convicted traitor, pardoned?

Why was Joe Arpaio pardoned? Because Presidents pardon people and sometimes we don't agree. You say convicted like that matters. Every pardon isn't of some poor sap wrongfully incarcerated. Pardon kind of implies that.
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Antifar
01/13/18 10:09:09 PM
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darkjedilink posted...
President Obama made no mention of pardon until after Manning claimed to be trans

Pardons generally aren't announced three years ahead of time. Manning spent significant time in solitary confinement, on suicide watch between coming out and being pardoned. If Obama was committed to pardoning someone based on their trans status, what took him so long?

For her part, Manning has written that she began shopping for women's clothing in February 2010, three months before she was arrested
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/19/chelsea-manning-dont-ask-dont-tell-facing-my-fear-column
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darkjedilink
01/13/18 10:09:55 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
darkjedilink posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
But why did he pick that specific trans woman and not another or more than 1? Is Chelsea Manning the luckiest person on Earth for somehow successfully pulling off such a risky gambit?

The odds make it seem like her gender is secondary. Hypothesizing she was pardoned for hating America has much as Obama somehow seems less crazy.

Then why was Manning, a convicted traitor, pardoned?

Why was Joe Arpaio pardoned? Because Presidents pardon people and sometimes we don't agree.

No, there's a reason. Arpaio was pardoned because President Trump supports Arpaio. So either you're going to argue that President Obama pardoned Manning because President Obama supports traitors to the United States, or he supports transgenders.
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UncleBourbon33
01/13/18 10:10:14 PM
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Sparksfanboy posted...
UncleBourbon33 posted...
Fuck him. Piece of shit.

*her

UncleBourbon33 posted...
He's literally a traitor. He'll fit right in with the dems then.


*She's, *She'll

No I was right the first time.

I don't care if I get moderated for this. Manning is a terrible human being.
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darkjedilink
01/13/18 10:10:32 PM
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Antifar posted...
darkjedilink posted...
President Obama made no mention of pardon until after Manning claimed to be trans

Pardons generally aren't announced three years ahead of time. Manning spent significant time in solitary confinement, on suicide watch between coming out and being pardoned. If Obama was committed to pardoning someone based on their trans status, what took him so long?

For her part, Manning has written that she began shopping for women's clothing in February 2010, three months before she was arrested
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/19/chelsea-manning-dont-ask-dont-tell-facing-my-fear-column

I've shopped for women's clothing, too. Doesn't prove I'm trans.
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Tmk
01/13/18 10:10:37 PM
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Shouldn't her name be Chelsea Womanning?
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darkjedilink
01/13/18 10:12:12 PM
#44:


Paper_Okami posted...
darkjedilink posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
But why did he pick that specific trans woman and not another or more than 1? Is Chelsea Manning the luckiest person on Earth for somehow successfully pulling off such a risky gambit?

The odds make it seem like her gender is secondary. Hypothesizing she was pardoned for hating America has much as Obama somehow seems less crazy.

Then why was Manning, a convicted traitor, pardoned?

how was she a traitor?

for exposing a military killing civilians?

You know that Manning released far more than that, right? And that, regardless of reason, it's illegal because there's a chain of command?

Manning could literally have taken the info straight to the President of the United States, and gotten the info to the public that way, and would have been completely legit.
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Jiggy101011
01/13/18 10:13:38 PM
#45:


Warrior_Man posted...
Manning is an unstable person. Just look at their twitter account. Constant ranting and raving. It will be amusing to see how they hold up to campaign scrutiny.


So what you are saying is she has a chance to be President.
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Antifar
01/13/18 10:14:34 PM
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darkjedilink posted...
I've shopped for women's clothing, too. Doesn't prove I'm trans.

http://nymag.com/news/features/bradley-manning-2011-7/index4.html

Meanwhile, Mannings concerns about his sexual identity were intensifying. In November 2009, he made contact on the web with a gender counselor back in the States. When I met the counselor, he was easygoing and upbeat for someone whod spent hours talking to servicemen who believed they were inhabiting the wrong body. He knew what he was talking about, though. In person, his gender was difficult to discernhed begun his transition as a teenager. Bradley felt he was female, the counselor told me. He was very solid on that. Quickly, their conversation shifted to the practicalities: How does someone transition from male to female? He really wanted to do surgery, the counselor recalled. He was mostly afraid of being alone, being ostracized or somehow weird. To the counselor, it was clear Manning was in crisis.


[The article was written before Manning publicly came out as trans, hence the pronoun choices]
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Paper_Okami
01/13/18 10:14:37 PM
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darkjedilink posted...
You know that Manning released far more than that, right? And that, regardless of reason, it's illegal because there's a chain of command?


lmao

who cares about doing the right way, the military would 100% have covered it up.
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KhanJonson
01/13/18 10:14:52 PM
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Dumbass
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Paper_Okami
01/13/18 10:15:33 PM
#49:


darkjedilink posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
darkjedilink posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
But why did he pick that specific trans woman and not another or more than 1? Is Chelsea Manning the luckiest person on Earth for somehow successfully pulling off such a risky gambit?

The odds make it seem like her gender is secondary. Hypothesizing she was pardoned for hating America has much as Obama somehow seems less crazy.

Then why was Manning, a convicted traitor, pardoned?

Why was Joe Arpaio pardoned? Because Presidents pardon people and sometimes we don't agree.

No, there's a reason. Arpaio was pardoned because President Trump supports Arpaio. So either you're going to argue that President Obama pardoned Manning because President Obama supports traitors to the United States, or he supports transgenders.


Joe Arpaio grossly violated human rights, it says something about trump from pardoning subhuman garbage like Arpaio.
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Cj_WlLL_VVlN
01/13/18 10:18:49 PM
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It is absolutely disgusting that he wasn't executed and a gross miscarriage of justice to commute the sentence. Hope the people of Marlyand are smarter than this.

One of the few things that Obama did that actually made me angry.

Hell as a felony can she even vote for herself.
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