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I literally don't care about the Hunter pardon. Trump pardoned Russian spies. I think pardoning a child for a dumb drug offence is fine. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I care that he's not pardoning people in immigration detention. Instead he just pardons his crackhead son and leaves.
Yup he could on the way out make dreamers and none criminal migrant citizens but nope. Remember it's a small club and we ain't in it. Also shows Democratic leadership is happy with any outcome of elections because they still come out on top regardless. Did Nancy Pelosi's or Obama's life become more difficult because of the election? Nope. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are still going to get their beachfront Villas in Gaza. So they never really try to win.
He can't blanket pardon people. He would have to do one for each person.
He could still pardon them all, it's not like his hand would cramp from signing too many papers! Go through, one by one, and pardon them all.
And all the people on federal death row, that Trump is going to kill.
And all the people with federal marijuana charges.
And people like Leonard Peltier and Julian Assange while he's at it.
What's stopping him?
Forty-five years of neoliberal salami slicing via lesser-evilism is how we got to this place.
His son is hardly a child at 54 years old. Biden is also responsible for thousands of people behind bars because of "a dumb drug offense".
I don't think that Trump should be the bar for morality and ethics in this country. It's lazy to bring him into this conversation.
You're right. I should have said "his son" instead.
I'm sure parents always will see their children as children, no matter their age.
I'm specifically talking about the silly framing of "a child" rather than "his child"
I love how libs are utterly incapable of discussing things without using Trump for framing. He's also not pardoning drug offenses, he's pardoning the whole Burisma thing which is at the very least a FARA violation. That's why the pardon is sweeping from the start of 2014.
I also love the "protect Hunter at all costs" framing. "a child" not "his child", "a child", a 44-54 year old child.
lol yeah he's a middle aged crackhead
he was just a kid
Sure but the Republicans have been going after hunter hard. That isn't normal circumstances.
there are so many other people's children in jail for dumb drug offences...
All drugs should be legal.
We all know humanity will refuse to unclench our collective butthole regarding capitalism during our lives. At least let us get high as fuck on whatever we want while we wage slave to barely make it.
Perhaps it's more about the working class suffering then it is about money and power. Remarkable if that's true.
Tell Biden drugs should be legal to his face he'd have you enslaved at your nearest private prison. This is how little of a shit he gives about criminals and their upbringing. He should have kept that same energy, but as always, rules are for the poors.
Meth? Crack? Fentanyl?
Yes.
Making drugs illegal doesn't stop use. It just makes it essentially impossible to know you're getting a clean supply that isn't laced with something else, or accidentally 100x as strong and it kills you. Plus it does nothing to address why these people felt the need to turn to these highly addictive and deadly drugs. If anything it makes the problem worse.
Based.
If everything else was legal, people would stop dying from drugs laced with fent.
No they should not be without the other support networks in place. BC in Canada decimalized and it made shit worse. You need the support infrastructure in place to help people with addiction also.
Drugs should be legal, driving recklessly with guns while high should definitely not be legal. I don't think Americans deserve to die for walking around despite how much I hate their country.
...A child?
Does "an offspring" sound better? A "progeny"!?
If you can't deduct that they mean HIS child then I'm sorry but you're why disinformation is so effective.
It does seem pretty banana republic-y