US Politics Thread

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

They would do it anyway. They don’t need a door opening.

It just amplifies the 'both sides' bullshit.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

He’s going by the new rules.
The rule of law in the US is gone and that’s what the people voted for.

He's still potus, the 'new rules' take effect after the inauguration. This is all Biden, and during his presidency.

 

[inbetween]

I can’t get my head around a justice system that allows him do it.
This validates anything Trump comes up with. It really is crazy that the Judiciary is not separate to the political system.
If it’s wrong for one side it’s wrong for both.
If it’s not wrong for either then the system that allows it is wrong in my eyes.

Exactly, this equalises the narrative really.

I mean bloody hell, the Democrats ran on a ticket of going after tax evaders and here is the president using a privilege of pardon to let off his son, a now convicted tax evader.

It seems like Joe knows he is destined for irrelevance out of the political eye so why not give your son a leg-up out of the mess he has created for himself?

The optics couldn't be poorer.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

It just amplifies the 'both sides' bullshit.

It doesn't amplify it, it confirms it.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Trump doesn’t need anything to validate his actions. This just gives him a real reason rather than him having to make something up. End result is the same.

Should be evident from my post that it doesn’t validate anything in my book.
His cult followers will find justification fir all his actions however.

It normalises stuff we don’t find normal at all. Hey! It’s what they voted for. And I’m in no way assuming the public are naive.
I’ve said it in here to Trump supporters.
They know full well what is normal in society and they accept the reality.
They are getting precisely what they voted for.
It is not a normal that would interest me.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

It doesn't amplify it, it confirms it.

You’d already confirmed it in your mind so spare us.

What it does it gives Trump the excuse to do whatever he wants whenever because “Biden did it.”

And you’ll be right there telling us he’d never have done X if Biden hadn’t pardoned Hunter.

When he would have of course.

 

[Username Required]

It's not been used in such ways in living memory, pre trump.

Bill Clinton.

Almon Braswell, who gave Hilary's brother $200k to go to bat for him. The money was returned when it became public.
Linda Evans and Susan Rosenburg - Weather Underground actual DOMESTIC TERRORISTS.
Marc Rich! lol corruption at it's finest.I'd forgotten about him.
Susan McDougal! lol nothing to see here. Hilary's favorite pardon.
Dan Rostonskowski. The big man himself. Nooooo nothing corrupt about this one.
Mel Reynolds. Democrat. 12 counts of sexual assault of a child. It's all good.
Roger Clinton.
16 members of the Puerto Rican FALN DOMESTIC TERRORIST group.
Patty Hearst - another DOMESTIC TERRORIST.

Trump made Clinton do it.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

You’d already confirmed it in your mind so spare us.

What it does it gives Trump the excuse to do whatever he wants whenever because “Biden did it.”

And you’ll be right there telling us he’d never have done X if Biden hadn’t pardoned Hunter.

When he would have of course.

Hey, I'm a dad myself - I'd do the same for my son in that position.

 

[Username Required]

“Look, I stand by what the jury has concluded,” he said. “The jury system works, and we have to abide by it.”
Joe Biden on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict.

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Meanwhile, several jurors who convicted Hunter Biden have said politics was not a factor in their decision. "I was never thinking of President Joe Biden," one juror told the BBC.

"Out of all the jurors, nobody mentioned anything about political motivations," he added.

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“Compare and contrast the difference in reaction between the Republicans and the Democrats," Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin said in a hearing.
Referring to Trump's criminal conviction, he said: "The Republicans are attacking our entire system of justice and the rule of law because they don’t like the way one case came out, whereas the son of the president of the United States is prosecuted and I don’t hear a single Democrat crying foul.”

except the leader of the Democrat Party claiming his OWN DOJ is weaponized against his son.

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“I will accept the outcome of this case and… continue to respect the judicial process."
Joe Biden.

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On Thursday, June 6, the president told ABC News' David Muir that he will accept any outcome in Hunter's trial. He also affirmed that if a guilty verdict is reached, he will not use his presidential pardon power to help his son walk free.

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"I — look, the president — I can speak for the president, and he said he would not pardon his son."
KJP

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"And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people.

This is a nation that believes in the rule of law. We do not repudiate it.

They don’t understand what every patriotic American knows: You can’t love your country only when you win. (Applause.) It’s fundamental."
Joe Biden.

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bUt TrUmP mAdE hIm Do iT!!!!

 

[kaz7]

Didnt trump pardon someone last time he was in , he can pardon himself ffs