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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yikes. This is not going to go over well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Well that's a robust fuck you to republicans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

But Biden said he was the justice guy and he would not intervene!

All the excuses to pardon Hunter out of "fear of Trump" could be used to excuse things that actually helped the public

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Its not the first time dems look indistinguishable from republicans (who are fascists) on Joe's watch, is it.

Biden is a guy who participated in obvious war crimes that 88% of his party didnt support-- as a democrat.. And imperiously ignored the key issues of the campaign. Of course he's going to pardon his shitty d-bag lobbyist son on the way out the door. Biden has lowered the bar for his party, for democracy, and for the entire western world order straight through the floor and deep into bedrock. We'll need some sort of engineering miracle to ever even raise the bar up to ground level, much less hold it any higher anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Most of the country clearly stated that they don't give a fuck about the law. Why should Biden insist on crucifying his son on some cringe gun ownership violation, while the government gets stacked with criminals? and you're going to equate this to republicans? with Trump pardoning all his scumbag cronies who committed crimes on his behalf? The criminal elect who tried to steal the 2020 election? Get the fuck out of here

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To all the people in this thread claiming he needed to pardon him or trump would do something, without naming what that something is or using hyperbole, trump doesn't care about hunter. The hunter case was about

  1. Dragging the Biden name through the dirt and making them seem like a crime family. They don't need to do this anymore because Biden hasn't been a threat to trump since that last debate. Its not like he's afraid to run against him in 2028

  2. To call out them dems for there hypocrisy and try and make some equivalence with trumps convictions. This pardon plays perfectly into that narrative and now gives trump an excuse to pardon himself and all his accomplices.

Hunter is of no use to the trump administration now, don't try to sell this as anything but a powerful father bailing out his failure of a son.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

NOW gives him an excuse? Did you not hear of the 238 pardons Trump gave last time? He needed this to happen as an excuse to do that again this time around?

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