Quote (IceMage @ Dec 2 2024 04:57pm)
Uhhh I think Trump critics were focusing on the Jan 6th, classified documents, and GA election interference cases, which obviously weren't singling him out politically because the nature of all three cases have to do with him being president and taking actions that no other recent president has. Those cases are moot now because the American public re-elected a blatant criminal, but they clearly had plenty of merit, and Hunter Biden's cases are a much more obvious example of someone being singled out.
On the pardon, I can't play this silly game where norms and corruption matter for Democrats but not for Republicans. The American people clearly don't give a shit about norms or corruption, because they just re-elected Trump, so who gives a shit that Biden handed out a meritless pardon to his son? Trump handed several out 4 years ago to people he wasn't related to.
Democrats need to stop caring about things that voters don't care about. They need to find some sort of populist nihilism that works politically, because that's where voters are at. Voters do not truly care if you corruptly pardon your son... they might pretend to care for 2 seconds but it will fade away, just as every bad thing Trump has done fades away.
I thought you cared about stuff like integrity, honest from politicians, character, respectability, etc.
I never cared about what personally happens to Joe or Hunter Biden as personal consequences, these are irrelevant to our country. Nor is it reprehensible for Joe Biden to pardon his own son. If anything, thats what I'd expect from any father. Nor does it matter in the slightest Hunter's promiscuity, drug use, reckless firearms/driving/etc- they don't matter to our country.
What does matter is that Joe and Hunter Biden engaged in some pretty blatant bribery with corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs that dragged us into a war. That is a huge issue. What does matter is Joe Biden, president of the united states, repeatedly lied to the public about his intentions for the sole purpose of manipulating an upcoming election. He lied over and over again.
I don't think its hard to weight the relevance of these stories. Hunter Biden's dick pics are an inflammatory sideshow. Hunter Biden receiving millions from Burisma while Joe's entanglements draw us into a losing war that get hundreds of thousands of people killed and cost us billions and bring us to the brink of nuclear apocalypse- kind of a big deal. Biden doing something we all expected him to do and even think he
should do, isn't a big deal. Biden lying about it every time he opens his mouth, is.