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    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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    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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      You probably get downvoted for saying that because it’s false as fuck. And besides being false, it’s the laziest shit ever.

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          Did a former Democratic president say he was going to make life difficult for his enemies? Nope.

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            This implies that the Democrats are now convinced Trump can control the Judiciary.
            Which means they don’t believe the separation of powers works anymore.
            So in essence, the US democratic system is now dead.
            One party killed it, and the other has given up their belief in it.

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              Are you implying that Democrats should have faith that the system works? Everyone has seen it doesn’t. The courts aren’t legitimate, and trump made sure of it.

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          Trump’s pardons wouldn’t make his top 150 crimes. I barely saw any reaction to those. so off the bat you seem entirely full of shit and looking for some lame excuse to pretend the parties are the same. you haven’t paid any attention whatsoever and that’s why you’ve a shitty lazy false argument. not weighing in is a good option for those like this.

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      That’s like saying Hitler and Gandhi are the same because they both breath air.

      Some people think you are stupid because it seems you can’t grasp that two things aren’t the same just because they share one attribute.

      Other people think you are actively lying, using an easy to see trough rhetoric to normalize the gross shit reps do.

      Pardoning your son isn’t the same as letting people die because you think their body belongs to you. They are not equally bad. One is clearly worse.

      And that is why you get down voted.

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      When one side plays by the rules and the other side doesn’t, then the side playing by the rules will always lose. That’s a lesson the Democrats are just learning.

      What’s important to note is who is willing to break the rules first. That’s your bad guy.

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      One’s a literal inssurectionist who pardoned all of his criminal cronies, who’s only defense against his attempts to steal the election was “I need criminal immunity”.

      Biden pardons his own son who absolutely wouldn’t have been targeted were he not a Biden. Trump pardoned Charles Kushner, Jared’s father.

      They are absolutely unequivocal.

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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        are you joking? hunter filled out a form wrong.

        Tell it to these chuds talking about death of democracy or whatever.

        This was a witchhunt targeted at Hunter only because he’s Joe Biden’s son. Good on him on doing this after that Orange cunt gloated how he’s going to come after ‘Biden crime family’.

        https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4045934-trump-vows-to-appoint-special-prosecutor-to-go-after-biden-if-former-president-wins-in-2024/

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        He pleaded guilty to 3 felonies and 6 misdemeanors for not paying $1.4 million over 3 years, including making false deductions and dipping into company funds. That’s not “filling out a form wrong”, and if it is, his father should pardon everyone who has been charged under the bad laws that allow people simply “filling out a form wrong” to catch 9 charges. Especially for the people who couldn’t afford accountants and lawyers to file the form correctly for them.

        Pardoning your own son only for any possible federal crime, not just the ones he was charged with, especially after saying you wouldn’t, is gross nepotism. And the pardon starts from 2014 when the tax and gun charges are for 2016 onwards, which implies there’s more Joe Biden knows about.

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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.