The rule of law is being followed…under law Biden can issue pardons
President Biden pardons son Hunter, reversing course after pledging that he wouldn’t
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I wouldn't have lied to the press beforehand. That is where the problem is. Nor would I, as a father, facilitated his using my position as a Senator and VP to be the bag man for influence peddling. I wouldn't be corrupt. Nor enabled his drug addiction for decades.
He has, essentially, stated that members of his family are above the law. Please note it was a blanket pardon, for ALL CRIMES, charged or not, for the last ten years. Why do that unless he knows about more crimes?
And this after all the talk about rule of law, no one is above it. His words.
Even his fellow Democrats are against this one. As I said, Trump now has carte Blanche. Even to do himself.
So long as you continue to support the so called lesser evil, you will never achieve the greater good.
Nope, nor when Clinton pardoned his half brother. It was a glaring omission by the Founding Fathers.
The point you are missing is, anyone in this position will protect themselves and their family. You will jump up and down over Biden protecting his son but will give Trump a pass on anything he has done and will do.
Do you not believe there is a big difference in pardoning one's son compared to the eventuality of Turnip pardoning the capital rioters?
I wonder if it means that macron has to shake his criminal hand
among other things. This appointment would be hilarious if it wasn’t so scary.
It is expected that a Biden will protect his son.
But he lied that he will never pardon.
So he has shown himself to be no different than Trump when it comes to using his position per his convenience, to help his cronies/family/loyalists.
I think Gavin Newsom is a closer likeness to Trudeau. Hunter is just a President's son.
You could make the same (and possibly more likely) argument that Don Junior will run for President.
It's obvious the foreign opportunities and dollars that he was bestowed would have not occurred if Hunter wasn't a President/Vice President's son.
If we project the hypothetical that Hunter was not a President's son, Hunter would likely have received punishment for something a lot earlier. Maybe something less serious. Perhaps his path in life would have looked differently for the better or for the worse.
Parties in the U.S. have regenerative properties. The question will the progressives in the Democratic party take another shot at the brass ring.
Gavin Newsom is the obvious leader of the progressive wing of the party. Can he convince the American people to follow his California liberalism?
Now that the dust has settled, we can see Joe Biden's Presidency was a rare confluence of events. We had an aging but relatively likeable moderate running in an odd crisis where campaigning and public appearances were minimized.
Biden's agenda in office was dictated by the progressive left. If we think he was calling the shots in 2021, we certainly don't think he has been calling the shots now or even last year. So basically the people behind the scenes wrapped Biden's moderate political persona around a progressive agenda.
In the past when I have said this, the progs here have a fit proclaiming the Biden Democrats are the real moderates and Trump is the hard right extremist. If the November election taught us anything, it's that the two parties are in a state of flux. Biden or Harris were not JFK. Trump is not Ronald Reagan.
I almost thought this was written by AI, but then I remembered what the I stood for.
What the last 4 years taught us is put a green plant as potus and the US suddenly has the highest growth GDP on the planet
But that is soon to be put to challenge. i often wrote that nothing is more socialist then the economy. because we are all ready and willing to invest when the social status of the society is calm, even boring.
I have no idea what you're trying to say.What the last 4 years taught us is put a green plant as potus and the US suddenly has the highest growth GDP on the planet
But that is soon to be put to challenge. i often wrote that nothing is more socialist then the economy. because we are all ready and willing to invest when the social status of the society is calm, even boring.
Sometimes attempts at unusual slang and clever patter don't translate on social media.
I have no idea what you are saying half the time either...
You do realize I was responding to another poster that brought up the hypothetical of Hunter not being the President's son.
So please spare us your gender confused grandparents.
I heard there's a bunch of snowflakes finally have to courage to come out after a week of crying...
