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JustAnotherGen

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Fri May 30, 2025, 08:53 AM May 30

What the maga Repubs think about Us [View all]

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Pardons a rapper convicted on guns related charges
https://apnews.com/article/nba-youngboy-chrisley-trump-pardons-c6fde937da0f112a132b6faecf4f55e8

Louisiana rap artist NBA YoungBoy, whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden and whose stage moniker stands for “Never Broke Again,” also received a Trump pardon.

In 2024, he was sentenced to just under two years in prison on gun-related charges after he acknowledged having possessed weapons despite being a convicted felon. Gaulden also pleaded guilty to his role in a prescription drug fraud ring in Utah.


Commutes Larry Hoover's sentence. Well Kanye and Drake (they not like us) said he should so . . .
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-commutes-federal-life-sentence-gangster-disciples-founder/story?id=122287759
Despite the commutation of his federal sentence, Hoover still faces a 200-year state sentence for the 1973 murder of William "Pooky" Young, a 19-year-old neighborhood drug dealer in Chicago. The federal charges, which resulted in six life terms in 1997, came decades after his state conviction



And thinks that makes up for pausing Job Corps which trains people to step into skilled jobs (welding, plumbing, etc etc).
https://www.pahomepage.com/news/u-s-department-of-labor-to-pause-job-corps-centers/


Don't fall for it. They hate Black people.
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