It boggles my mind democrats are so committed to decorum that while they understand that trump will probably govern like a fascist they also handed power to him with zero real pushback.
No fan of Biden but I get why. T is vindictive AF and takes personal pleasure from others suffering. I'd want to at least protect my family as well. Too bad they couldn't do anything to protect the rest of us like, I dunno, have laws apply to the wealthy? That would have saved us.
Biden should’ve had Trump arrested on January 20th 2021, dedicated his entire term to prosecuting and exiling Donald Trump while not running for a second term- if he did just that he’d be regarded as the single greatest one term president of all time. But Dow Jones must go up.
Good, now he's got four minutes to go through the census records and put everybody's name there. That would be the right thing to do if Trump is going to abuse his power. (So it's the right thing to do.)
I get that you believe Biden is responsible for everything….. but journalists should get their facts straight, “ not whole family” siblings and spouses.
I hope Joe gave himself a pocket pardon, too. There is no depth to which Republicans and the Trump Cult will not stoop. The lawlessness of Trump acolytes, and the lack of courage within the GOP, at DOJ, and in our judiciary, are now going to make Trump's first term look like a Mr. Rogers episode.
I have to assume it was made clear by scotus that they actually wouldn't allow a president pardoning themselves to stand. Otherwise, trump absolutely would have, and he didn't.
Understandable in that Trump now sits with unchecked power in 3 branches of government and is set to use the Department of Justice to go after his perceived political enemies.
We are not friends. Biden pardoned himself for his family's involvement in cobalt mining and what happened in Gaza. Everything else isn't a concern for him.
I'm not blind to Biden's monstrosities. That much is clear by way of the slaughter of thousands of Palestinians. That alone should land him in the Hague.
I thought he pardoned his family for their involvement in hiding national secrets in a bathroom in Florida and charging foreign adversaries 50 cents to “take a dump”
Ken- any chance you could reach out to, Clemency recipient, Leonard Peltier? You are one of the few people I would trust to present his story in an unbiased way. Under normal circumstances his release would be Headline News.
The Biden Pardon Attorney was fully briefed on Peltier's case, and vowed to do "all she could" to effect his release. Obviously her plea fell on deaf ears.
We all knew Trump is going to do the absolute same. This seems like the first and last reasonable thing the Biden administration did this year, just to save us the headache of the endless Fox Hunter drama.
So basically there really are two justice systems, anyone applauding this must remember to take a seat when Trump does the same, or someone worse in the future.
Assuming there are still presidential elections going forward, I suspect that a first day ritual will be the blanket pardon of the incoming administration from future prosecution for crimes.
The nyt article originally (as of 11:16) said that no biden family members were preemptively pardoned, but now makes no mention of these specific pardons.
Just when you think Dems can’t take a bigger L… pardoning your entire family after your political opposition brands them a crime family. It’s hard to imagine a more complete political defeat than this.
Much like how the Whigs collapsed because of their internal tensions over slavery, the Democrats are going to collapse over their internal tensions over market ideology.
If the Democrats can't do basic shit like this, Biden is looking a lot like Millard Fillmore.
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B-b-but the dems told me he just has so much respect for institutional norms
So ….
Understandable in that Trump now sits with unchecked power in 3 branches of government and is set to use the Department of Justice to go after his perceived political enemies.
If the Democrats can't do basic shit like this, Biden is looking a lot like Millard Fillmore.