Joe Biden's time is up

[Ax^]

Would be lols but you can’t be pardoned until found guilty.

The optics of this are awful, regardless of what Trump has said, Biden has rubbished the rule of law in the US. Just imagine that today you are up for sentencing for tax evasion, facing years, decades behind bars. And this cunt gets a free pass cos of nepotism…

bide. rubbished the rule of law by letting his own attorney general sit on his fucking hands for 4 years and now we have a convicted fellow as president of the USA.. who attacked Congress

bide. giving his son a pardon is a drop in a bloody ocean at this stage

 

[kebabking]

It's a pity that Biden only got ruthless about using the power at his disposal when it was about protecting his son - and I understand why he's done it, and his position I'd think seriously about doing the same - and not when it was about protecting his country from Trump and his assorted fascists, or Ukraine from the Russians....

 

[Rob Ray]

The optics of this are awful

As though a belief in optics made any appreciable difference to the election. He took his son out of what was obviously going to otherwise be the position of revenge target at the expense of personal reputation. That's the long and the short of it, and I don't he'll lose a moment's sleep.

 

[The39thStep]

Clinton issued a pardon for his drug trafficking half brother

 

[magneze]

The head of state shouldn't even have this power ffs.

 

[emanymton]

The head of state shouldn't even have this power ffs.

Really this. It's understandable why a father who is worried about his son staying sober might choose to pardon him.

It doesn't make it right to do it, and he just shouldn't even be able to.

It's nothing compared to how Trump will misuse it, but it still shouldn't happen.

 

[breadandcircuse]

I wish Joe would use some of those immunity powers that the SC handed over to help their guy. You know, he can do anything while in power as it's an "official" act. The example was allowing a president to take out an opponent. Have at it Joe.

I completely understand why he has done this. Imagine the bastard who keeps bragging about his upcoming retribution tour. Your son gets banged up when if he was anyone else he wouldn't have been, and you have the cronies surrounding the evil sack of shit with the power to do what they fucking want. His life would be under threat inside from Dumpty's cult, heck probably even from some of the guards.

I just wish the Dems had fought fire with fire sooner, and not been the nice guys who rolled over all the time in the face of a fascist.

 

[xenon]

Yeah isn't this the whole point of pardons. If you're gonna have them, they'll be used for exactly this sort of thing.

 

[emanymton]

Clinton issued a pardon for his drug trafficking half brother

He had served his sentence though, so not quite the same.

 

[The39thStep]

He had served his sentence though, so not quite the same.

Alls fair in the land of democracy and the rule of law