Biden has always been a piece of shit. That said, he's old, his other son is dead, and his loser son got caught up in a shitstorm that had less to do with justice and everything to do with politics and optics. The country decided that it is happy to go down the a fully corrupt, inept and fascist rabbit hole, and Biden opted to save his loser son and tell everyone to go fuck themselves and go suck an mushroom shaped cock.
but
EDIT: Don't get mad at an old man for choosing to save his son. Be mad at a system that allows a man to abuse his power to protect his friends and family from consequences. For once, a proper use of "Don't hate the player, hate the game".
I'm not surprised or shocked he did it. Only saddened he refuses to do anything else
Big time
At least the chair is warm, I guess.
I can hate both, I'm pretty good at it
In this case the players make the game at least a bit.
Couldn’t have said this better. Memes and all. Kudos.
This is a great and nuanced comment.
Comments like this are the reason I keep coming back to Lemmy.
Him pardoning his son is a giant nothing burger.
Hunter was the victim of a partisan witch hunt that wanted to get him on Trumped up charges (pun intended) because of his last name.
100%. I'm not buying into this bull shit "be outraged about this" campaign. Trump is a felon rapist and going into the WH again after a terrible first term and he's stacking his admin with unqualified loyalists. I don't care if Hunter was pardoned and no one else should either.
TRUMP runs on ethnic clensing, claims he won't project 2025, wins, immediately puts authors of 2025 in every key position. Convicted of over 30 felonies, convicted rapist, says ''there will be some hardship'' while selling is economic strategies that will destroy US economy, wants to stop billions a day in trade from Mexico. Refuses to appoint anyone that can pass a background check. Decides he doesn't need to even PRETEND hell be lawful and ethical, caught on hot mic taking about disarming citizens. .
- soft to no press coverage . Biden pardons his son. .
- entire newscycle every day dedicated to the ABSOLUTE OUTRAGE this grievous crime is. Now the Presidential office is forever tainted.... . It's hard to even grasp how deeply loyal to Trump these institutions are.
Especially since Hunter Biden was unfairly targeted just for being Joe's son, and it's clear the things he's guilty of are clear examples of selective enforcement.
Anyone paying even the slightest attention just saw a father who was there for his son in his time of need.
It totally and completely is. I mean, it's immoral and shitty, it's a rich white person getting off because of connections, but that's par for the course. It is expected. The annoying thing though, is the hypocrisy of a lot of the posters here. If Trump did something like this, they would be up in arms about how undemocratic and banana republic-like this all is. And this childish Harry Potter morality which determines how bad a thing is not by looking at the thing itself and its consequences but by looking at who's doing the thing really gets to me.
Seriously, who cares? Voting this year showed everyone no one fucking cares. If you really care about punishing those who committed crimes, go after the convicted felon that will never see a day in prison. Get over it
And there are tens of thousands of people in that exact position but didn't get pardoned because they don't have that last name.
Like, he could have blanked pardoned that particular crime in general, but I presume that would have been too much paperwork and might have been too close to actually doing something good for his people.
Find me a case of another person being charged with purchasing a gun while being addicted to a drug. Or better yet tens of thousands. You might find someone arrested for attempting to buy a gun while on drugs, but none that reviewed their past logs and tried to find out they were possibly addicted at the time of a purchase of a gun.
It was an investigation that I've never seen anywhere before. Any normal situation and a judge would have dismissed it completely as the person was not on drugs at the time of the charge, nor harmed/threatened anyone with the gun
Note: several judges stated such laws were unconstitutional during the years of the investigation, so any Republican supporting it must admit that States have the right to restrict any and all gun purchases for any and all reasons as the constitution states no such laws pertaining to addiction over lap and gun purchases... Or the law cannot support that case
Sidebar: whatever he did with taxes if it was unlawful and others do get charged with it, sure he should be charged
Like, he could have blanked pardoned that particular crime in general, but I presume that would have been too much paperwork and might have been too close to actually doing something good for his people.
I have nothing to add to this, I agree
Are people still shocked by this stuff? I just expect them to do whatever they want like they all have been for years.
ITT: people who wouldn't lift a finger to save their family from a corrupt incoming DoJ
If that was Biden's motivation, then where is Fauci's pardon? Or Adam "Enemy from Within" Schiff's pardon? Or what about Liz Chenney who is supposed to face treason charges according to Trump, where is her pardon? What about Jack Smith, where is his pardon? Kash Patel has an appendix in his book which is a literal enemies and prosecution list, any pardons for anyone on that list?
If Biden was concerned about the Trump justice department going after his political enemies, and Biden wanted to protect those people, there's probably 80+ pardons he should be handing out.
But instead he only issued one. For his son. So Biden is either actually concerned about overreach of the Trump justice department but he's only willing to save his son, and leave everyone else hanging. Or, Biden isn't actually that concerned with the Trump justice department and is just abusing his pardon power to protect his shithead son from the consequences of his own actions. Either way, fuck Joe Biden.
I'll entertain that argument once he's no longer president and can no longer give those other pardons.
Biden is sharpening the knife that will be used against every other family while saving his crackhead failson.
If I were a career politician I would simply not raise a crackhead.
Nevermind elected officials in power... let's point out the cowardice of people in a Lemmy thread.
in the meme board, at that, lmao, of all places
He has nothing to lose, #YOLO.
He protected his own, and proved we weren't a part of it.
To quote a friend of mine, "Joe Biden is the used car salesman his daddy always wanted to be."
I'm GLAD Biden understands the SEVERITY of the Upcoming Trump Presidency and is doing EVERYTHING he can to Protect the American People and NOT just His Family!
The upcoming Trump presidency and everything that comes with it is the Americans people's fault.
Oh course. Certainly don't mention the Democrat party that ran two uncompelling candidates against the most flawed opponent in history, spent 2.5 billion dollars in 15 weeks while having almost no presence nationally, and give the American people nothing to get excited about, exerting no effort while expecting IQs above 100 and plenty of involvement from every voting American in order to win, even though those Americans don't really understand that inflated prices aren't going down but that's not the administration's problem, they're not going to change anything.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
Presidents are kings now. Scrotus said so. Blame them.
“Hypocrisy isn’t illegal, nor is it particularly unusual in politics,” Stewart said Monday about Biden’s pardon. “It’s not like he’s ever going to run again. So why not take care of your kid, even if you said you weren’t gonna? I respect it. I don’t have a problem with it.”
Suck it whiners.
Go pass your own purity tests.
Democrats can complain, although I'm not a fan of the decision, I get it.
Republicans can go suck a giant dick. You've lost your right to complain after electing a treasonous, orange rapist.
Drug addicts get kicked in the face in jail. I guess when your dad is famous and you're not brown, the rules just don't apply.
He could literally order Trump shot in the street as presidents now have blanket immunity.
Let’s say he did.
Which outcome would you rather see- Joe go to jail for murder, or his act setting precedent for future Presidents?
Neither outcome seems desirable.
I want the dam to break.
Won't, tho!
Because when we voted for Biden, we voted a coward into office.
Full on COWARD DEFENDERS up on Lemmy.
Corporate Democrat Apologists lmao.
DEFEND YOUR OWNERS, SHEEP
Not that I'm expecting much logic after a message like this, but you do realize that by calling Biden a coward for not assassinating the president elect, you are supporting him doing the exact kind of stuff that trump tried to do when he lost? In other words you're praising the actions of trump as strong and brave. Because only one of those maniacs would truly want the president to have the power to assassinate a presidential elect because he isn't on your team.
There are a lot of problems in the world, there are many in just the US, but this just ain't it chief. Will trump try to do that shit again? Probably. The problem however isn't that Biden is a "coward" who will not literally incite civil war 2 by killing him because it's not even trump that is necessarily the problem.
This time Trump won the popular vote, the people decided that is what they want. The only way that it can change is with the opinion of the people. Attacking the people on your "team" and being divisive just because they don't wanna be dictators in blue instead of red means you're part of the problem. You're causing infighting, you're causing division, you're helping obfuscate the real problem. You're being part of the problem.
Grow up, realize that murder isn't the answer. I would find myself happy if that rotten orange peel dropped dead too, but an assassination would just empower the movement more.
Use your brain.
May I ask, why does this get so downvoted?😅
Because if Biden refused to leave that would be pretty shitty... you know, to reject the results of an election.
Is their blood blue?
Ops point is that he watches Murdoch media, and they didnt mention anything.
That's why trump won. He consumed the news cycle with his temper tantrums whilst the adults were out working
A quick Google however has lots of lists of things he accomplished https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/02/joe-biden-30-policy-things-you-might-have-missed-00139046
What is your favorite flavor of boot, personally?
I'm quite partial to black leather, good thing that will be in fashion next year.
What's yours?
Dang, telegram is working over time today flooding Lemmy with propaganda, oops I’m mean “memes”
We are trying to get Donald Trump to win the election from Kamala Harris. Don't tell anyone the secret!
Nice try but a vote for anyone other than Joe Biden is a vote for Trump.
oh, no. I'm being challenged!
"Haha, I'm gonna say Rogan, telegram, Russia or Altright and fuck off because I have no opinion outside of spoonfed leftist media, haha"
The only difference between you and a Trump voter was the position of your hand on the ballot.
Drivel
