I internalized a long time ago when doing customer service that people don’t write you when they’re happy.

I know it seems almost impossible, but it might be that the group of people who complained about the sentence, may be a different group than the one who complain about the pardon.

you know there's a pretty massive gap between "double lifetime sentence + 40 years w/ no chance of parole is too harsh" and "10 years w/ full pardon expunging the record is bad". A really, really fucking massive giant gap between those, in fact.

But surely it's just that people love to complain, right? Can't possibly be that they thought something like 25yr was more reasonable?

Pardons are inherently political. If your guy does it, it's good. If other guy does it, it's bad. And like most political topics, it's hard to have a earnest convo divorced from that simple dynamic.

Aren’t most comments in this thread supporting the pardon?

are they the same people?