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[-] ButtermilkBiscuit@lemm.ee 28 points 2 weeks ago
[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I bet more than half of us didn’t want him to go to jail for something that no one else would have gone to jail for if they weren’t a political pawn.

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

You don’t think people go to prison for gun crimes and tax evasion?

[-] derGottesknecht@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Gun crimes sounds bad until you you realize he ticked the wrong box on a form.

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[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Right, Hardly anyone goes to prison for tax evasion. Especially once it’s paid off.

You could be liable for UP TO 5 years. Which means your have to be pretty fucking flagrant.

Also he pled guilty, it wasnt the “minimum” bullshit you claim.

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[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Of course. We went from "Trump can totally pardon himself" to this and somehow this is going to make bigger headlines with the "law and order" Republicans.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 weeks ago

He could have abused his power like this to fix the justice system. Forgive student loans, Codify abortion. And all those other unfulfilled promises.

Instead Biden has fully destroyed the illusion of Democrat commitment to "justice" only to bail out a coke addict.

Both sides anyone?

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

I had a brother who was an accessory to a crime at 17 and went to prison for three years at 18, and that experience makes me viscerally angry that Hunter Biden is going to skate just because he's a member of the lucky sperm club. This is bullshit.

[-] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Just wait until Trump pardons himself

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't think that's going to be necessary after the SCOTUS ruling on official presidential actions.

But it's Trump. He might do that one day. After Biden pardoned Hunter yesterday, I 100% think he'll issue preemptive pardons for all of his family before his next term ends.

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[-] HorreC@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

Seems like they are dropping the idea they are not corrupt as the other team. Can only hope that the new idea that would go after the common worker can hold the mask on for a few decades.

[-] EchoCT@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 weeks ago

Why should he? It's already been made clear there is no law for the ruling class. Mind your place pleb.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Never change, Clintonian dynasty swamp monsters.

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[-] jaxxed@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Even if you think that HB was or will be unfairly treated, look at the size of the ethical door that was just opened. Of all of the "norms" that could have been broken, this is the one?

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 weeks ago

"Sir will you legalize mariuana and pardon all those black people who have suffered unfair trails"?

"Sir will you close the asylum detention camps pardon all those Mexicans people who have suffered unfair trails"?

[-] jaxxed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago
[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 weeks ago

Israel is violating the ceasefire mean while Bidens drumming up controversy to drown it out. What a pussy.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago
[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

The lamest of ducks

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, fuck it. 47 is a rapist and convicted felon. The Republic is lost.

[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

Leonard Peltier? Naw fam, we only DO fam

[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Anyway Hunter Barron 2028 im all in

[-] frozenspinach@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The comments in this thread are completely insane. Nobody remembers anything, so let's check in on the history of pardons:

Bill Clinton pardoned actual criminal Marc Rich.

George H.W. Bush pardoned actual criminals associated with Iran Contra.

George W. pardoned Scooter Libby for obstructing a CIA investigation.

Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio who did racial profiling in contempt of court.

Trump is about to pardon everyone from Jan 6th.

Ford pardoned Nixon and Andrew Johnson pardoned basically the entire confederate south.

So if you're going to stand here and say that Hunter Biden's pardoning is a singularly unique, precedent-setting moment in American history signalling the downfall of democracy? I'm going to hand you a bouncy ball and some orange slices and tell you to go play in the corner. You are not a serious person.

Edit: And for the dipsticks here who think a "pre-emptive" pardon is new... Ford's pardon of Nixon was pre-emptive. So you're only like 50 years and 3 months out of date on that talking point. Oops.

[-] whithom@discuss.online 3 points 2 weeks ago

Lmfao. Okay, whatever.

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