You can not use the “we’re just human” argument on a leader of a country. Their actions affect people’s lives and liberty, they have a responsibility to protect those.
I don’t care what you would do. It is corrupt. Pacifism is how we ended up with Hitler.
What lie? Who was directly related to him? We’re talking familial relations. You did not look at the lists, you did not verify my information.
The downvotes in my original comment are because of the two party system destroying people’s objectivity and reverting them back to tribalism. In other terms, democrats and republicans do not like facts.
The term “cherry-picked” isn’t applicable here since it implies I’m leaving out context or other information, but you already had context (the comments doing the opposite of defending), I simply showed you what you claimed to not see.
Pardoning family members is corrupt plain and simple. Justifying those actions based on the actions of others does not make it any less corrupt.
Loosing your ethical integrity in an effort to “get even” only favors extremists who do not care about a country. I suggest everyone reading this take an objective look at the situation and see where we’re headed.
I can’t stand this “not a good look” talk when democrats have to basically be squeaky cleak that they can’t even own a peanut farm or swear and yet 10 years into the “grab them by the pussy” guy who makes fun of disabled people, women, calls everyone names including his own party… Nobody bats an eyelash. I don’t care if Joe Biden lied for his son at this point, Donald pardoned and will continue to pardon dozens of family and staff and insurrectionists. It’s ok for Trump to lie about not knowing project 2025 and then immediately hire everyone involved with it days later… But Biden can’t lie once. Got it.
Trump’s entire stchick is gaming every system to manipulate things in his favour. The Dems always take the higher ground and always get pounded. Every single time - Gore in 2000, particularly.
If Biden ‘pardons’ his son to ameliorate Hunter’s political persecution, then it’s a step in the right direction to push back. Tame as it is, the Dems better learn to fight fire with napalm before all is lost.
A lot of people here missing the point. We don’t care about this because Hunter was the target of a witch hunt. The actual “crimes” weren’t impactful at all. The Republicans literally spent 8 years dragging him through the mud, digging for anything that he could be charged with, just because who his dad is. And Hunter didn’t even touch politics in the slightest.
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The gun charge is the moral equivalent of crucifying someone for having pirated music on their hard drive. It was a nothing crime, never enforced, and the only reason it was in this case was because they happened to find something they could latch onto.
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That’s why most of us don’t really care. The man is not important. He holds no position of power, nor has he expressed any intent to. He is not important, except as a whipping boy for their propaganda. And a pardon for such preposterous prosecution is fine with me.
And that’s just a few from this post.
A lot of these comments sum up to “if they can do bad, we can do bad”. Two party system will be the death of the U.S.
Nope no nopity nope. People who genuinely have good intentions and actually spark meaningful change will always win in the public’s eye.
Stopping down to the level of the “bad guys” will only make you a “bad guy”. This “us vs them” mentality some of you guys is to the detriment of a functioning government.
I just have to add “They do bad things, so we’re justified to do bad things as well” is such a bad argument.
“The other guys do bad things, so it’s okay for us to do bad things as well”. What kind of argument is that?
Pardoning your family members is corrupt plain and simple, doesn’t matter what political party they belong to, doesn’t matter who they are. It should be called out.
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I can guarantee you my paycheck won’t increase even a single percentage.
Yes I specifically sought out the comments you didn’t see, what’s so hard to understand about that?
I responded with the list of comments you claimed you didn’t see, you already saw the other comments, why would I include them?