bpy005.bsky.social
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Why's Jared involved, again?
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Midterms are right around the corner!
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Is there anyone in the party that speaks on these issues? I mean, specifically to young men. The right has developed an ecosystem, I'm hard pressed to think of anything similar on the left.
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I hate that some number of these people will conclude, Ah yes, both sides are liars, equally
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SCOTUS will say it's a political question (a la Emoluments, remember that?), and Congress will do nothing. So, no one will stop him.
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I'm guessing to avoid an expensive primary in front of an expensive general in purple-ish NC. And per Carolina Journal, "Lara Trump, a Wilmington native, and campaign advisor and daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, dominates in a hypothetical Republican primary against Tillis."
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Old Musky might be biting off more than he can chew with this one. Even with the threat of a primary challenger, I think individual Republicans balk at this.
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I agree that Pres. Biden shouldn't have promised that. But casting him as corrupt, if he in good faith concluded the prosecution was unfair, political in nature, and perhaps malicious - that is, not simply the consequences of Hunters own actions - I think goes too far. I am in agreement to disagree.
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Is it unethical for family of the Pres to trade on that? Yes. Is it a crime, though? Maybe it should be, but Hunter was charged for things not usually charged. Is Hunter a shitty person? Yes. Was he being targeted because of his father? I think yes, and I think it follows a pardon is not corrupt.
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1) Yes. 2) Yes, or at least, it is reasonable to conclude that he was being prosecuted because who his father is, which is something unique to Hunter in this context. Yes, there are more deserving cases, but can you say Hunter is UNdeserving, if he is targeted for being the Pres.'s son? I say no.
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Are friends and family the only category of people not allowed to be pardoned? Even if that person is being targeted for political reasons? It seems implausible that the President can pardon anyone, EXCEPT for friends and family that are being targeted. If Pres. believed in good faith... not corrupt
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And in any event, I don't think Hunter would have been prosecuted but for being a Biden. Per the NYT: "Mr. Weiss told an associate that he preferred not to bring any charges, even misdemeanors, against Mr. Biden because the average American would not be prosecuted for similar offenses."
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I'll concede I conflated two things - Congressional Republicans criticizing the plea deal as a "sweetheart deal," and the judge, on independent grounds, rejecting the deal. However, going from the brink of a deal negotiated over many months, to pleading guilty on all counts, is strange.
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Hunter took a plea deal offered and agreed to by the prosecutors, which the Trump appointed judge threw out as being insufficiently punitive. Judges do not usually interfere with plea deals. These charges are not usually charged in the first place. But sure, it's the pardon that was corrupt.
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He got to the part where Andrew Jackson said of the Supreme Court, "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it," and thought it was a good idea.
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I have made peace with inflation being the primary downfall of Democrats this election cycle (as it has toppled most incumbents worldwide this recent election cycle). What I can't get over is how smoothly Trump won the R primaries.
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Definitely don't do that!
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I think a lot of these voters still feel that trump is just doing quickly what Biden was doing slowly (which is incorrect, obviously, but still).
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Not to be that guy, but I believe it was Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara that did this.
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I'm not a psychologist, but stolen valor seems like it could be an extreme form of it. You don't necessarily need to assume the identity of the thing in order to get the positive feelings of that thing, but just being associated with it would be enough.
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It's a psychological phenomenon known as basking in reflected glory (BIRGing)
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They should. But they won't.