I did that!

Biden has always been a piece of shit. That said, he's old, his other son is dead, and his loser son got caught up in a shitstorm that had less to do with justice and everything to do with politics and optics. The country decided that it is happy to go down the a fully corrupt, inept and fascist rabbit hole, and Biden opted to save his loser son and tell everyone to go fuck themselves and go suck an mushroom shaped cock.
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EDIT: Don't get mad at an old man for choosing to save his son. Be mad at a system that allows a man to abuse his power to protect his friends and family from consequences. For once, a proper use of "Don't hate the player, hate the game".
- I'm not surprised or shocked he did it. Only saddened he refuses to do anything else
  
  Big time
  
  At least the chair is warm, I guess.
- I can hate both, I'm pretty good at it
- In this case the players make the game at least a bit.
- Couldn’t have said this better. Memes and all. Kudos.
- This is a great and nuanced comment.
  Comments like this are the reason I keep coming back to Lemmy.
- Biden issued a blanket pardon starting in 2014. What was Hunter Biden doing in 2014 and how does this reflect on the idea of him simply passively getting "caught up" in something?
  
  Because if he didn’t, Republicans would absolutely try to drum up some false charges to keep the party going

Him pardoning his son is a giant nothing burger.
Hunter was the victim of a partisan witch hunt that wanted to get him on Trumped up charges (pun intended) because of his last name.
- Indeed, it's just the Right Wing Media giving us more "It's only wrong when Democrats do it" bullshit.
  The real story shouldn't even be "Biden protects son from Partisan Witchhunt" it should be "Trump returns to White House despite the 14th Amendment saying he can't."
- TRUMP runs on ethnic clensing, claims he won't project 2025, wins, immediately puts authors of 2025 in every key position. Convicted of over 30 felonies, convicted rapist, says ''there will be some hardship'' while selling is economic strategies that will destroy US economy, wants to stop billions a day in trade from Mexico. Refuses to appoint anyone that can pass a background check. Decides he doesn't need to even PRETEND hell be lawful and ethical, caught on hot mic taking about disarming citizens. .
  soft to no press coverage . Biden pardons his son. .
  entire newscycle every day dedicated to the ABSOLUTE OUTRAGE this grievous crime is. Now the Presidential office is forever tainted.... . It's hard to even grasp how deeply loyal to Trump these institutions are.
  
  Especially since Hunter Biden was unfairly targeted just for being Joe's son, and it's clear the things he's guilty of are clear examples of selective enforcement.
  Anyone paying even the slightest attention just saw a father who was there for his son in his time of need.
- It totally and completely is. I mean, it's immoral and shitty, it's a rich white person getting off because of connections, but that's par for the course. It is expected. The annoying thing though, is the hypocrisy of a lot of the posters here. If Trump did something like this, they would be up in arms about how undemocratic and banana republic-like this all is. And this childish Harry Potter morality which determines how bad a thing is not by looking at the thing itself and its consequences but by looking at who's doing the thing really gets to me.
  
  Seriously, who cares? Voting this year showed everyone no one fucking cares. If you really care about punishing those who committed crimes, go after the convicted felon that will never see a day in prison. Get over it
- And there are tens of thousands of people in that exact position but didn't get pardoned because they don't have that last name.
  Like, he could have blanked pardoned that particular crime in general, but I presume that would have been too much paperwork and might have been too close to actually doing something good for his people.
  
  Like, he could have blanked pardoned that particular crime in general, but I presume that would have been too much paperwork and might have been too close to actually doing something good for his people.
  I have nothing to add to this, I agree
  
  Find me a case of another person being charged with purchasing a gun while being addicted to a drug. Or better yet tens of thousands. You might find someone arrested for attempting to buy a gun while on drugs, but none that reviewed their past logs and tried to find out they were possibly addicted at the time of a purchase of a gun.
  It was an investigation that I've never seen anywhere before. Any normal situation and a judge would have dismissed it completely as the person was not on drugs at the time of the charge, nor harmed/threatened anyone with the gun
  Note: several judges stated such laws were unconstitutional during the years of the investigation, so any Republican supporting it must admit that States have the right to restrict any and all gun purchases for any and all reasons as the constitution states no such laws pertaining to addiction over lap and gun purchases... Or the law cannot support that case
  Sidebar: whatever he did with taxes if it was unlawful and others do get charged with it, sure he should be charged

- Given the circumstances, I'd have vastly restructured the entire government using some Official Acts
- This is a blatant abuse of power by a totally incompetent President who represents a party of foolish woke children. But, by all means keep crying Orange Man Bad.. the vast majority of the population disagree.
  
  Small bit of relative truth mixed with hypocrisy, dog-whistle, complaint, misunderstanding of word, misunderstanding of concept or voting population.
  You hit all the highlights, personally i'd have gone with more dogwhistles, maybe something to do with immigrants ?
  A solid 8/10 shitpost.
  Vast means large btw, as in big.
  
  "vast majority" lul

Are people still shocked by this stuff? I just expect them to do whatever they want like they all have been for years.

ITT: people who wouldn't lift a finger to save their family from a corrupt incoming DoJ
- If that was Biden's motivation, then where is Fauci's pardon? Or Adam "Enemy from Within" Schiff's pardon? Or what about Liz Chenney who is supposed to face treason charges according to Trump, where is her pardon? What about Jack Smith, where is his pardon? Kash Patel has an appendix in his book which is a literal enemies and prosecution list, any pardons for anyone on that list?
  If Biden was concerned about the Trump justice department going after his political enemies, and Biden wanted to protect those people, there's probably 80+ pardons he should be handing out.
  But instead he only issued one. For his son. So Biden is either actually concerned about overreach of the Trump justice department but he's only willing to save his son, and leave everyone else hanging. Or, Biden isn't actually that concerned with the Trump justice department and is just abusing his pardon power to protect his shithead son from the consequences of his own actions. Either way, fuck Joe Biden.
  
  I'll entertain that argument once he's no longer president and can no longer give those other pardons.
- Biden is sharpening the knife that will be used against every other family while saving his crackhead failson.
  
  Biden is not sharpening the knife: he simply placed a knife sharpener on the counter and is a good sport about letting others use it .
  It always was a caretaker presidency, that’s what I thought when he first got into office.
  I expect thoughtful words from his speeches as he gently leaves office
- If I were a career politician I would simply not raise a crackhead.
- Nevermind elected officials in power... let's point out the cowardice of people in a Lemmy thread.
  in the meme board, at that, lmao, of all places

He has nothing to lose, #YOLO.
- He protected his own, and proved we weren't a part of it.

To quote a friend of mine, "Joe Biden is the used car salesman his daddy always wanted to be."

In the sense that a cat leaves you to die; he is crawling off to expire.
- Without timing, it's not comedy, it's just a cry for attention.

Presidents are kings now. Scrotus said so. Blame them.

full agreement with the message but you're gonna get clowned on by sycophants
- They're busy kicking and spitting on Palestinians.

- I doubt they're the ones that see anything wrong with this.
- Oh course. Certainly don't mention the Democrat party that ran two uncompelling candidates against the most flawed opponent in history, spent 2.5 billion dollars in 15 weeks while having almost no presence nationally, and give the American people nothing to get excited about, exerting no effort while expecting IQs above 100 and plenty of involvement from every voting American in order to win, even though those Americans don't really understand that inflated prices aren't going down but that's not the administration's problem, they're not going to change anything.
  WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
  
  What could go wrong is millions of childish idiots would decide to walk across broken glass barefoot because they don't like the choices of shoes available. And then blame it on whoever brought the shoes.

“Hypocrisy isn’t illegal, nor is it particularly unusual in politics,” Stewart said Monday about Biden’s pardon. “It’s not like he’s ever going to run again. So why not take care of your kid, even if you said you weren’t gonna? I respect it. I don’t have a problem with it.”
Suck it whiners.
Go pass your own purity tests.
- Drug addicts get kicked in the face in jail. I guess when your dad is famous and you're not brown, the rules just don't apply.
- Democrats can complain, although I'm not a fan of the decision, I get it.
  Republicans can go suck a giant dick. You've lost your right to complain after electing a treasonous, orange rapist.

May I ask, why does this get so downvoted?😅
- Because if Biden refused to leave that would be pretty shitty... you know, to reject the results of an election.

He could literally order Trump shot in the street as presidents now have blanket immunity.
- Won't, tho!
  Because when we voted for Biden, we voted a coward into office.
  Full on COWARD DEFENDERS up on Lemmy.
  Corporate Democrat Apologists lmao.
  DEFEND YOUR OWNERS, SHEEP
  
  Oh hey look. It’s someone who may have sat out the election in 2020 because “both are bad”!
  Did you do that this year because Harris wasn’t perfect? Or vote third party? Were you complacent to aid the convicted felon’s victory by voting for “divided we fall”?
  
  lol lemme guess, you didn't vote and then get angry when fascism wins

Is their blood blue?

Ops point is that he watches Murdoch media, and they didnt mention anything.
That's why trump won. He consumed the news cycle with his temper tantrums whilst the adults were out working
A quick Google however has lots of lists of things he accomplished https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/02/joe-biden-30-policy-things-you-might-have-missed-00139046
- What is your favorite flavor of boot, personally?
  I'm quite partial to black leather, good thing that will be in fashion next year.
  
  What's yours?

Dang, telegram is working over time today flooding Lemmy with propaganda, oops I’m mean “memes” looks like I was right
- Memes can be propaganda lmao
  
  yeah... thanks for clarifying my point.
- We are trying to get Donald Trump to win the election from Kamala Harris. Don't tell anyone the secret!
  
  Nice try but a vote for anyone other than Joe Biden is a vote for Trump.
- oh, no. I'm being challenged!
  "Haha, I'm gonna say Rogan, telegram, Russia or Altright and fuck off because I have no opinion outside of spoonfed leftist media, haha"
  The only difference between you and a Trump voter was the position of your hand on the ballot.
  
  Drivel

DEFEND YOUR OWNERS, SHEEP
THIS ONE SHOOK THE WOLF'S HAND
- "baa"

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