Never gonna give you up 🏹

I care that he's not pardoning people in immigration detention. Instead he just pardons his crackhead son and leaves.

Forty-five years of neoliberal salami slicing via lesser-evilism is how we got to this place.

I think pardoning a child for a dumb drug offence is fine. 🤷‍♂️

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.

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.

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.

...A child?

It does seem pretty banana republic-y

Sounds like some classic whataboutism. What time is it in Moscow, comrade!?

That is very cute but any time you start talking about Russian spies republicans can now say Hunter Biden. What you meant to say is you only care when Trump does it.

Now, even if he does do things that will help Americans, nobody will notice because of the pardon.

I don’t know why you’re so concerned for Genocide Joe’s legacy, but if his last 47 months are any indication, he’s unlikely to uncharacteristically give Americans what they actually need in his 48th.

Why would the man that wrote the crime bill and helped throw millions of Americans in jail do anything to help Americans? 🤔

His administration is hopeless at messaging anyway so no one has known nor will they know anything Biden has done.

Who cares if anyone notices the good being done? Do it anyways. How does this prevent that?

They'd notice if he had Trump and all his goons disappeared to a black site... You know, as an official act... Against terrorism and traitors even

I think Biden should have gone hog wild with shenanigans that Americans actually need 4 years ago, but you're right that now would still be a good time.

They’re already trying to finalize rules, complete process do previously passed initiatives can be nailed down. The government can be very slow, and that’s a good thing for stability and fairness. It’s especially good to reduce the promised dumpster fire of the next four years.

Is there really anything he can start at this point that would have lasting effects? Going hog wild with shenanigans may be satisfying but not likely to do anything more than create headlines

They have some good policy. So don't forget that. If Americans voted based on policy alone they would do themselves a lot more good. That said, the DNC fails to win elections and have sceded so much power to the GOP already they might as well be the same.

Not a USAmerican, so not exactly talking about the politics, but some issues.

The irony of blasting Biden for going against his word in his son's best interest while Trump is about to become president is the most laughable hypocrisy I've ever seen

Why not?
It's not like Trump is supported by the leftists in lemmy.

It just shows them that Biden is not very different from Trump. They have been saying that and pushing for 3rd parties or other President nominees.
Biden chooses to do this rather than set guardrails or do something to ensure that Trump is not given free reign.

This is further validation for their view.

And since Trump becoming president is a grave thing, does it mean that the Democrats are bad, because they have not done enough to stop it?

I look forward to watching y'all eat crow as Israel wipes out Palestine, the US leaves NATO, and western democracy collapses.

Palestine is being wiped out even under Biden.
US leaving Nato would be big, but we can never know how the effects would be like, right?

Yo, Fascism already won my dudes. Biden is just seeing the writing on the wall and adapting to the change.

So i infer from your attitude you too will be adapting to this change? My dude?

This had better be bait. Fuckin libs mannnnn quit breathing my air

No no no, you don't understand. We're not responsible for the consequences of our voting decisions if Kamala ran a weak campaign.

I look forward to watching y'all eat crow as Israel wipes out Palestine

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds

Not like either side is helping us. Kamala, Democrats, and Joe biden ran the last 4 years quietly and campaigned on no change. They lost the election by not convincing 250k voters in 4 states to not vote for them.

Joe biden pardoning his son is his legacy. Joe said he would be a one term president then tried to run for a second term ruining a primary. Democrats chose Kamala harris and she accepted. This country was founded on old people letting go of power and stepping aside and down. If George Washington wanted to he could have been a king. The old dems are grasping at power and control rather than trusting a populist candidate.

Joe Biden could be abusing his power and fighting for change from the bully pulpit to affect Americans and make an outcry but instead went back in his word twice and pardoned his son abusing his power for selfish gain.

Kamala instead of campaigning to fight hatred and cause change went with joy and changing nothing . She even capituatated to right wing talking points moving Democrats to the right. Even though policy wise leftist policy is good and ppopular policy.

Lastly the democrats ran a Hilary Clinton style campaign being a nerd with stats and defended institutions. Obama won because change Biden won because change.

I look forward to watching y’all eat crow as Israel wipes out Palestine

Wow, the liberals are straight up admitting their monstrous racism now?

the US leaves NATO

This would be good for the Global South, which is why Trump won't do it

and western democracy collapses.

The West hasn't had a workable implementation of Democracy to begin with, though if you finally recognize that are you going to sit out or do something about it?

Very well said. I'm NOT looking forward to watching anybody eat crow if all that shit happens. We will have far more pressing concerns than gloating over a bunch of petulant dickweeds who didn't show up. They didn't, and that's that. The reality is settling in that America may be about to end - like every civilization does. It was fun while it lasted - Cheers!

All the trolls that were “liberals = genocide” or “eggs are $99” or “cant afford gas” while completely ignoring normal egg prices, seriously low gas prices, and trump’s plan to let the Israelis do whatever they want have switched to “Biden bad because pardon!” Again, completley ignoring trump’s pardons of criminals in his administration, family by marriage, and the fact we got a law absolving the president of any “crime” committed while president if the (captured) SCOTUS says it’s fine. But no…who cares about trump. Biden bad!!

Looking at Trumps upcomming cabinet I am both in horror and anticipation for what is going to happen. We'll either see a slow decline of US power, a world war or just nothing great will happen at all.

Once trump gets in office, no one will ever be able to remember any of this because the shit will be a full never ending flow into a turbine

Yep. There's literally a massive laundry list of BS trump did in 2016.

Biden honestly can do whatever the hell he wants because it'll be completely buried in three months.

Not only that, he's never running again, he has literally nothing to lose, and doing this isn't going to affect votes/popularity of whoever runs next.

99% of people in his position would do the same.

Lmao there are loads of those comments in this thread. I need to start blocking libs because they say so much fascist apologia

And the people clearly voted overwhelmingly for fascism. So like, why go against the will of the people?

I also would have said fuck it and have Trump and friends sent to guantanamo.

WW2, but it was a side objective, kind of a bonus

You can’t vote your way out of fascism but you can certainly vote your way into it.

Maybe one of these days the liberals will fucking learn from history.

Yeah a lot of people blaming Biden when we all had a fair shot at voting against fascism. We suck. May as well actually accept that.

Hunter did get it rough solely because of who his dad was.

If you lined up all the crack heads in America and ranked them "has it the most rough" to "least rough", I would challenge you to find 1% who have it better than Hunter.

My big issue with it is basically summed up by this meme. By doing this he's established that he's willing to break promises and take advantage of systems that republicans are abusing, but only when it benefits him personally. He could executive order a bunch of different things, and go on a pardon spree, but what he does with his power is just to pardon his son. Unlike the rest of us, a Trump presidency will basically not affect him at all, and the little it would/did has to do with his son and he doesn't even have to deal with that.

Do I want his son in prison? No, not really. But considering he all but lied about being a 1 term president and refused to step down making a primary impossible, which at least contributed to the dems loss, it's an extra slap in the face that the only real consequence he had to face is able to be erased by a stroke of his pen, and yet he seems to be doing nothing to protect or help anyone else who has been hurt by his decisions. I don't think Hunter should suffer because of who his dad is, but his dad is making (and has made) us all suffer and is unwilling to do anything about it.

I'm not making a fuss about it, but if I was, it'd not be about the pardon, it'd be about how his big move as a lame duck with immunity confirmed by the Supreme Court is to get his son out of prison and watch everyone else suffer.

Wasn't solely because of who his dad was. If his dad was just a regular rich dude with political connections, maybe. If he was one of the thousands of black men currently incarcerated under the law that Biden championed himself, hell no.

Really, he should have just taught his son to do powdered cocaine instead, since that is a rich person drug and thus has a much lower penalty.

If hunters dad wasn't the fucking president and he weren't rich he'd probably have life in prison just for all the crack he smoked

Hunter did get it rough

there's a guy who doesn't care about who got it rough and his name rhymes with genocidin'

Whomst among us hasn't been given cushy jobs we aren't qualified for in corrupt Ukrainian companies by our dad and then done a bunch of blow with prostitutes and tax fraud and illegally owned guns!? Clearly this is a witch hunt.

They didn't punch us directly. They paid people for that. That's why they are better than everyone. See how they sit above us?

You really start to get all those older writings about the dangers of upper classes cause they really do get apathetic and assume moral superiority just on existence after a while.

I agree with you that the sentencing was incredibly unjust and clearly politically motivated. I'm just incredibly frustrated that Biden is not doing anything that's useful to Americans during his last few months in office.

How it looks is beside the point. If it's moral then it's moral, and people who are looking at it need to deal with it. As for what Trump's sycophants will do, they're going to do crazy s*** anyway.

When judges ignore plea deals, they are asking for people to strip them of power. That's what happened here, the judge deserved what they got. If you can't find justice in the courts, then to hell with the courts.

Yeah this is a man who committed a minor crime that’s rarely prosecuted who was sentenced because his father is President, he was about to have a real bad time because of who his father is if he wasn’t pardoned. I can’t judge Biden for this. He’d never have pardoned him if someone who would treat him on his own merits was the incoming president

Unfortunately Biden is known for packing up the slavery prisons with people who in any just country shouldn't be there and keeping them there for the profits of corpos. In this light him pardoning his son is even worse than just nepotistic abuse of power.

They'll cling to it but now that Hunter is pardoned all they can do is whine, just as Dems will do after Bonespurs pardons himself. But both will be done deals. Hunter Biden's case will be over - no more wasting congressional time and resources with pointless hearings and investigations.

Look, Biden only pardons drug offenders who are the victims of a concerted political effort to mess with their lives.

We all have standards. That's not the problem. You can have all the standards in the world when a fascist takes over. You can keep having standards as they walk you to the camps. And you can clutch tightly to the standards when they bring you to the showers. The world's about to change my dude.

Exactly how I feel. It is certainly favoritism that undermines our justice system, but I think very few people would choose not to intervene to save a child they loved from great suffering, even if they knew their child had earned the punishment. It may be wrong, but it's very understandable that in this case he prioritizes being a good father over being a good president.

That was the point, he didn't. he used it selfishly for his son. which is understandable. but we're mocking him for it because he didn't use it to do anything useful. Which coincidentally is also why we didn't want to keep him or harris as president.

compared to who Trump pardoned

...and will soon add himself to that list.

I so ready MTG as Magic the gathering..so i cast one colorless and one blue for time walk...

To Walk Back to Pre Trump era. Lets See whats gonna happen

What part of this post is about mothafuckin Trump homie?

Stop enabling lawlessness cuz it's from your colored team.

Neither of those things are going to break the country. It’s a matter of priorities. Dems sell themselves as the adults in the room who are going to fight against fascism. And this is what Biden is doing instead.

I'm not mad at Joe, I'm mad at the libs who are defending the behavior. The dude drove recklessly while on crack, if anyone else did that they would be a slave in a US supermax for the rest of their life.

You're absolutely right that they dont fight dirty enough. Hiwever, I'd say that Democrats lost largely because Kamala was too cowardly to distance herself from biden and his awful policies. She lost because she chose to court moderate Republicans (who gave her the finger and voted for the fascist. Big surprise!).

Biden pardoning his loser son does nothing for the most marginalized folks who will have to deal with Trump's fascist regime in the coming year. It's not a good look that the only time Biden "fights dirty" is to serve his own interests.

Democrats are also willing to fight dirty to win at all cost. They just did

You are confused what winning means for them. It is not forgiving student loan or raising minimum wage.