Ford pardoned Nixon. GHWB pardoned the Iran-Contra crew. Clinton pardoned Marc Rich and his half brother. Trump pardoned Steve Bannon, Mike Flynn, Roger Stone, and Charles Fucking Kushner!
Joe Biden pardoning his own son doesn't come close to any of those truly controversial pardons. Get a grip.
Joe Biden pardoning his own son doesn't come close to any of those truly controversial pardons. Get a grip.
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The Economist now. This bullshit pearl-clutching. Literally a convicted felon just received a pardon he preemptively granted himself via his personal SCOTUS to reclaim the presidency and populate the government with crooks and psychos. We give even fewer fucks about Hunter’s choices than before.
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Apparently this is just not acceptable at all, says Weiss.
Do you see the difference at all?
And that doesn't change the fact that Trump sucks.
The degree to which the main stream media continue to let the right dictate what is newsworthy is pathetic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/us/politics/trump-charles-kushner-france-ambassador.html
These cocksuckers hate Dems and it shows.
At worst, it's a bad pardon. In the present context, it's barely an asterisk.
https://youtu.be/3wJMO7cmhHo?si=oOQ0tRtaTRzHGDqT
And from now on, the FBI will be even more politically motivated.
You can’t see how this drags down standards and wastes political capital to do something actually decent?
Like that?
Pardoning Hunter took the target off his back that the new admin wanted to put on it.
The entire punditocracy has lost its collective mind over this.
I’m glad they’re mad.
Also, these are not normal times and with a cast of vengeful sycophants running things he couldn’t risk an even bigger target on his son’s back.
For the gun charge or the $1.4 million guilty plea to tax evasion?
The media just cannot overcome their mob mentality
Doesn't bother me, though. I don't expect to vote for Hunter or Joe ever again.
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-history-of-the-pardon-power
They can die mad about it and will still never be half as based as Hunter Biden lol.
A constitutional power.
(Haha… kill. LOL. Yep. murderers got pardoned, too.)
get ready to give your scroll finger a workout.
At the rate they are going, they'll wear out by the end of Thursday and we'll be on to something else.
Facts.
a) it's bad in the same way
b) he specifically said he would not do this
c) pardons for us, fascism for you, good luck with that jack
>before the voters put someone in office who...
That was always a strong possibility and should have been taken into account when he first made a decision about it. Trying to imagine your reaction if Biden had said 'I'll pardon him if Trump wins'.
The pardon of Nixon introduced us to the modern era of zero accountability for the elite. We don’t even prosecute bankers for stealing money from 16 million customer accounts. We just let them retire to multimillion mansions.
I’m guessing Dems will run a safe, Christian white male; to ‘please the masses’.
TBH, if we get an election in 2028 I'll bite my tongue & vote for that cishet xian dude.
R persecution: held to any standard at all
But fuck pardoning Trump for anything. He’ll pardon himself anyway.
That would be wild, lol
If it’s good enough for Trump, it’s good enough for us.
Pardon away, Joe.
This Slate article argues pretty well that the lack of other pardons highlights the personal favoritism:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/hunter-biden-pardon-injustice-crime-joe-trump.html
And will open investigations regardless of pardons - these will be crippling and repeated, and unlikely to be blocked by Republican judges
I hear the electorate is big on being entertained, Biden should give us all something to ooh and aah about.
It applies to the Federal workforce.
DJT abuse of DoJ can be nobble by protecting his intended targets
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/state-and-federal-info/federal-death-penalty/list-of-federal-death-row-prisoners
Pardon gabbard for acts of treason just for kicks
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y87kpg8rpo
#FuckMalarkey
If I change my position, I've grown and changed my mind. If an opponent changes their position, it's hypocrisy. You can check it out in the dictionary.
It kind of makes me hate him even more
The best he can do is pardon his douchebag kid, meanwhile the rest of us are just hung out to dry. "Good luck in the camps!"
The only reason the 🤡 can run is because has not yet been convicted of sedition.
is the hashtag we need. 😡
The majority of us figuring out social media & BS here, have to continue to fight, show the younger set (who use media all day) that we must push back against the absurd, ludicrous, preposterous trumpism that is setting in. Again.
FFS.
All this coverage is just politics as entertainment…
They can shove it.
It's a circular self-defeating argument that empowers the opposition.
1) Hunter unfairly persecuted and prosecuted.
2) the criminal pres-elect bent on further revenge prosecutions and persecution of Hunter.
The people who might be held accountable by the press are on their way out the door.
And damned if they aren't going to try to make one last scandal
The pardon is the correct thing to do as Trump and his pick for the FBI director has repeatedly said they are going after their enemies list, using the full power of the US government to prosecute.
Damn Ford! 🤬
National Enquirer type nonsense
His significant accomplishments will be forgotten, at least in the near term.
Yet you assume I’m a racist. We’re all shocked at the election outcome and the looming demise of our republic - but the fight isn’t with each other.
It’s with MAGA - passive and active MAGA.
All Presidents make mistakes. It helps no one to paper over mistakes.
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-j-trump-2017-2021#Jan202021
Others, including some in congress, are exhibiting signs of age-related memory loss.
“Of course he pardoned his son! We all see the storm clouds of fascism and retribution with every cabinet pick by the incoming admin. We’ll do anything to protect as many as possible from harm posed by these authoritarian a-holes!”
Give me a reason to support you, not “hey, could be more terrible, right?”
I mean, why not also pardon any number of people deserving of justice? Like, go big. Use clemency for good.
The freakout here is that Biden's actions have stained the presidency, and my point is that argument is nonsense given the history.
Yes, it actually matters that some people were worse if they're claiming Biden is really the worst.
I’m more ok with breaking norms if it helps ppl, like if you used some arcane rule to feed ppl, I’m on board.
Pairing this with many other pardons could have helped shape the news cycle.
As in, surely in most administrations it wouldn't have even gotten this far...
I'd do the same for mines. He needs to pardon more.
It certainly feels like it, much of the time. Then gems like Hunter’s pardon drop.
I do wonder what short- and long term strategies the Dem party is lining up that are still under wraps