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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)

53 million in tax payer money meant for social services....

But Biden feels it's just not a big fucking deal.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He commuted all covid home release, non violent prisoners, I'm guessing none of them were as bad as this woman, but blanket sentance commutation sounds like a really bad policy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Stealing from pension funds is violence. When we say nonviolent crimes we mean crimes that aren’t morally wrong, but are technically illegal. Like hacking corporate emails or shooting healthcare execs.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I’m guessing none of them were as bad as this woman

Why?

What kind of criminals do you think were serving long prison terms but were approved for home detention instead?

Like, you'd have to be able to support yourself, so it's already people relatively well off without ill-gotten gains. And they're not risking jail to shoplift a Snickers.

If they risk jail its for very large amounts of money, especially because they can afford lawyers to get out of most stuff

The lists been out two days, I doubt this is the worst person who got it.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The kids-for-cash judge is, imo, worse, and he also got pardoned.

I think the really nasty pardons here, by nature of how they were selected, just ended up being a further continuation of the two justice systems we have for the rich and the poor.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

None of these are pardons; they are commutations

[–] zqps 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Also because, guess what, "non-violent" mostly just means white collar criminals.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah. this one upsets me way more than the one with his sone. this is some bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I haven't heard a credible argument against the pardon for his son. Even the lack of conditions was necessary since the new administration will definitely target him if possible. The only shitty part was Biden's need to telegraph his absolute faith in "X" system, which inevitably backfired, again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He could've pardoned any later trials for crimes dated before the pardon but allow the active trials to continue and let the courts decide the appropriate punishment. Instead he basically just exonerated him and now seems to be handing out pardons to make it seem like he's objectively reviewing these cases instead of abusing his authority.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I don't see a reason why he would allow active trials when they've already been targeting him. Pardoning later trials seems like an ambiguous distinction that would only harm him while he's trying to protect him from political targeting. He's not acting out of unsubstantiated fear of the future. It's a reaction to active events.

Your last sentence is just a baseless assumption.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not a huge fan of Biden's presidency, but it sounds like his commutations were based on whether society deemed them eligible for home release during covid. I'm assuming he didn't individually look at all 1,500 other commutations. Unless I'm reading it wrong, society deemed her low risk and she has been out of prison since 2021.

Definitely sloppy tho.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

society deemed her low risk

No.

A judge did

And Biden is about to hand over 42 judicial seats to trump because he couldn't even be bothered to nominate 30 of them

They had the numbers a couple times because Republicans kept missing sessions. A month ago Schumer held a vote on one and everyone celebrated instead of asking why he didn't do the other dozen that had nominations.

Moderates by definition will never fight as hard as they can. They don't want to win, they want a delicate balance which includes stopping their own party and helping the opposition.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's like 1.2 million people in USA prisons. Why this group in particular?? Just do what every dem president does and release all the potheads without actually fixing the war on drugs problem

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Biden has never given a fuck about marijuana legalization

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

He’s already put out blanket pardons for marijuana

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They literally set up parameters and pardoned everyone within those parameters. I’m sorry 2 errors got through, but 2 slips in 1500 is not bad

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did 2 errors get through, or did 1498 people get released as plausible cover to slip in two favors? We'll never know for sure, but judging Biden by the patterns of his other actions, he's flatly unworthy of the benefit of the doubt.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You got em! They did it just as a huge cover up for a person he has never met in his life /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jeff, do you honestly think Biden only does things with and for people he has "met?" Come on, Jeff.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

Can’t refute that conspiracy logic!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

stupid is as stupid does.

and Corrupt centrist trash is as corrupt centrist trash does.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

"It's a big club, and you ain't in it"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's like the Dems think "well might as well do a bunch of shit no one will like, we already lost"

As if people won't remember in 4 years when they try and convince everyone to vote for them again.

Which, admittedly, either people probably won't remember or Republicans will have another candidate where it won't really matter how bad the Democrats candidate is because the Republicans will be so much worse.

(If there will be an election at all that is ...)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

He only won because he was not Donald Trump, not because he was a good candidate. I’d still take him over Trump, but this is not surprising behavior.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If only there were warnings about this type of activity coming from him back in 2019-2020.

Actually there were warnings but leftists were told to sit down, shut up and vote for the status quo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's the same people that will vote blue no matter who all their lives. Warnings are not needed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Unfortunately, die-hard and centrist Democrats are in their own bubble of ignorance. I had an argument with a Democrat who maligns everyone who voted for Trump, including black and Latino and white working-class voters, as dumb, racists, misogynists and any put downs relating to bigotry you can think of under the sun. The centrists put fingers into their ears, utter "la la la" and put their heads into the sand refusing to acknowledge that economic insecurity is the root cause of America's democratic backsliding (because centrist Democrats do not want to admit admit they benefit from the current oligarchic status quo even if they say they are feminists, anti-racists, etc). Anyone worth their salt have been ringing the alarm bells, nearly a decade ago, that the world is entering into another gilded age and there will be another mass revolt coming sooner or later.

People want change but since what the status quo all could say is "I am not my opponent" and throwing few bread crumbs to calm the anger. However, this only delays the inevitable. The warnings have not been heeded. Like in stocks, perhaps centrists are trying to cash in on the growing wealth inequality for as long as possible before it crashes.

Although there is a ray of hope. Many centrists and die-hard Democrats are finally slowly admitting, with regret, that perhaps they should have let Bernie run instead. Probably the most remarkable thing I heard against Bernie is that he is not able to gather support from black voters; as if the past election that just came didn't show that black and Latino voters are willing to vote for a talking orange. If a misogynist and racist orange could take votes from a demographic that would normally hate him and his party, then imagine what if a man who has always been on the side of social and economic justice had run instead as the Democratic opponent.

At the very least, progressive Democrats have the laugh and "told you so" moment on centrist and corporate Democrats. As soon as Trump won, progressives immediately pointed out the reason for Harris' loss: that the party did not go further left enough-- especially, especially on economic issues. If the Republicans know people want drastic change and have gone further right and won, then there is no reason for Democrats not to go further left and return to their working class roots.

Edit: autocowreck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's not necessarily people who will vote blue no matter who, but rather people who vote blue because red is so good damn intolerable that anyone who is blue cannot possibly be as bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

As a leftist myself, that is still the correct move. He maybe could have actually won if he weren't horrible though. This is nothing compared to what Trump has already done, and likely that's way less than he will do. I don't like it, but if Biden didn't win Trump would, and he did.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

His kid makes sense. This makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wow. And this guy was everyone's hope?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was him or orange Hitler 2. Which funny enough we get again! There was just a pause for the sequel.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So the hope you all had was sorely misdirected then.

Don't worry tho, everyone here will find justification to vote them, again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Misdirected? No, the respite was good for the country overall. Could it have been better? Of course, but you've got to work with what you've got. Hopefully it's not immediately burned to the ground.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was it? It helped things a bit in the short term, but it also gave them 4 years to come up with a new game plan. Project 2025 is very concerning

Conversely, if we were just getting out of 4 more years of Trump things would be worse, but we might've had the oomph to push for important issues for once

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Honestly don't believe we'd be getting out of a trump term if he'd have won a 2nd back to back. The attempted insurrection proves how little that group cares for law or order. I'm hoping that there will be more resistance to his vitriol this go around. But if not sadly it's my neices & nephews problems really, my time is just spent hoping there's a world left for them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This guy was the best option we were given and we were told we should be happy to have even that. It's no wonder so many of us are at our breaking point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah repeating mistakes over and over will do that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

But Leonard Peltier stays huh?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The presidential pardon must be eliminated if ever we manage to restructure our idiotic constitution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

And presidential immunity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

First his crackhead son, then the guy who sent kids to jail for cash, now this lady.

Fucking scumbag Biden.

[–] Texas_Hangover 2 points 1 week ago

Seriously. Biden is but a shitstain in a paragraph of a history book. Way to fuck it up Joe!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I was seriously questioning shit when he pardoned hunter biden and people defended him