38 points

GOP will bitch ofc… but really they just wanted another hillaries emails to fill empty spots in the news cycle so their bullshit would get overshadowed. Biden stopped that shit.

That said, where was this norm defying stuff the past 4 years?

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The same place it will be for the next two months.

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31 points

Good. Republicans don’t play by the rules. Democrats shouldn’t either.

P.S Biden is still a pussy for not having the entire supreme court thrown into jail for “national security” reasons.

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21 points

When no one plays by the rules anymore, and people on both sides accept that, your democracy is dead and buried.

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18 points

Why is that onus is on the Democrats only? What did they achieve by taking the high road all this time?

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8 points

What did this achieve? You’re cheering for nothing.

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16 points

Hot tip. Our democracy is already dead and buried.

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your democracy is dead and buried

I’ll let you in on a secret: I’m not a USAmerican.

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7 points

I don’t think they meant you specifically…

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18 points

Republicans lie and cheat to advance their agenda, I’m glad Joe finally bent some rules to accomplish nothing for Americans.

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7 points

Implying republicans bend rules to accomplish something for Americans…

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5 points

am I?

I’m saying they’re accomplishing long term gains towards their objectives.

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4 points

Ah, man. Great job putting my feelings into words.

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15 points

The new Presidency will absolutely spin and use this event.

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35 points

No need to spin. I think we can all agree that pardoning Hunter after saying for years that he wouldn’t is bad.

I don’t blame him because…fuck it, the system’s broken anyway…but I’m not gonna pretend like I support it

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5 points

They will spin it regardless:-P.

Not everyone seems to be agreeing that this is bad.

Yes the system is broken but the optics here look REALLY bad.

I liken it to what happened to the post office: first they shoot it in the leg, then blame it for being slow, then move to kill it off, citing how poor its performance is and thus deserving of blame and yeah sure “that” is why it must be killed off.

Now they have that much more support to kill off the DOJ - b/c despite how the President can do whatever he wants, now the previous President also did whatever he wants too (not really but again, optics, especially to those who will refuse to dig deeper into learning about something, even prior to showing up with a gun to help “defend democracy”).

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2 points

The way it looks looks bad?

Your country is fucked.

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12 points

To do the things they would have done anyway. This is what we chose for ourselves.

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0 points

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

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Yes but now it will be that much more difficult to fight against it - assuming anyone even tries.

Hunter himself pleaded guilty, and this pardon is prior to sentencing (there are reasons for such obviously), and the justification is not that he is innocent, but that people who commit this crime usually are punished in a civil rather than criminal manner. Plus Biden seemed to be firm that he would never do this, until then he changed his mind and did - which on top of “DOJ bad” adds a measure of “President can do however he pleases”. Especially for people who aren’t paying attention, these are powerful symbols.

Conservatives were going to try, and who are we kidding almost certainly will have succeeded (definitely eventually anyway, even if heavy pushback might have lengthened the timetable more than they would have preferred), but their chances of succeeding right away are now higher than they were last week.

I wonder what the alternative would have been - 16 months in jail for the crimes he committed (that was only for one of the two though), vs. what now that will shake the foundation of our nation?

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It’s clear from Trump’s first term that he is not constrained by “optics” or “precedent” at all. He already pardoned a large number of his allies for personal gain. He was always going to abuse the system regardless.

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I think he was going to do that regardless and come up with a bullshit excuse. Now he doesn’t need a bullshit excuse and he’s still going to do it. Big deal.

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I mean, it’ll make it harder / less likely for people to oppose things. Unless I’m still way too naive even after this last term. I’m still way too naive even after this last term aren’t I!?:-(

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On a more personal level, I think any parent would’ve given that pardon if they felt their child was targeted for their political career. I think he would’ve always regretted not putting his pride aside. On a political level, holy shit. Brace yourselves, folks, and take lots of notes.

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Ya, next thing you know they’ll pardon Charles Kushner and make him ambasssador.

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https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/presidential-pardons-explained

Tried to educate myself on what the pardon consists of (why?)…and found that there is no real separation between the executive branch and the judicial branch, because prosecution is up to the executive branch and the president can pardon whomever e.g.

For instance, George Washington pardoned participants in the Whisky Rebellion, in part because they enjoyed considerable popular support.

Meaning, you are above the law if you are popular enough: i.e. president, their friend, their agent or even just his rioter. Good thing the opposition to trump is popular too, right?

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Is this “global news”?

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America is on the globe, last time I checked

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