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*Beekeeper » 05 Dec 2024, 7:50 am » wrote: ↑

05 Dec 2024, 7:50 am

Chuck Todd cares. HE even kicks your side DEAD IN THE *** for your boy's PARDON OF HUNTY!! YOU should actually READ the massive *** KICKING AND CURB STOMPING he gives you for your UTTER STUPIDITY and MORONIC POSTS!!

So that "rule of law" you care so much about, you really don't give 2 **** about and NEITHER DOES YOUR PARTY!! YOU LOST all "moral high ground" on this issue the SECOND BIDEN LIED AND ISSUED HUNTY THAT PARDON!!

YOUR best option here is to SHUT THE **** UP AND BURY YOUR HEAD AND *** IN THE GROUND BECAUSE THE MORE YOU KEEP GOING, THE MORE YOU ARE GOING TO GET CURB STOMPED HERE!!

Biden has now borrowed Trump’s rhetoric to describe what he views as Hunter’s experience with the justice system. What kind of precedent will we have set if both parties accept the premise that whoever’s elected is going to politically prosecute his or her opponents? It’s part of Biden’s rationale for the pardon. And it will surely be Trump’s rationale for future pardons.  

 What’s the general public supposed to think of the justice system now? The leading Republican in the country (Trump) and the leading Democrat in the country (Biden) have both claimed the system is unjust because of politics.   

 Explain to me who’s got the high ground now on this issue. At this point, does it even matter who started us down this road, if everyone believes in the same conclusion? This is where I’m tempted to say, “Welcome to Thunderdome,” because a “Mad Max” reference feels relevant right now, though also a bit too doom and gloom even for my cynical taste. 

 Biden made a huge mistake, and it really is going to make a lot of people question everything they thought they understood about him in public service.    

 Character is revealed in tough moments, when the chips are down. Joe Biden had a choice between what was best for himself and his personal conscience and abiding by the oath he took as president. And he may have done what was best for his family, but he did not do what was in the best interest of the nation. 

 A word of warning to Democrats pulling a muscle trying to defend Biden’s decision here. If you’re a frustrated Democrat because you think Republicans spend too much time trying to defend every move and every appointment Trump makes because they fear punishment for stepping out of line, then don’t behave the same way. I get the sense that many Democrats feel duty-bound to somehow defend Biden’s decision here even if they can’t defend it. 

 I get there’s empathy for Hunter Biden’s becoming collateral damage in a massive political fight. Some Democrats also fear their criticism of Biden will get weaponized by the right-wing media. Well, so what? Wrong is wrong; take your medicine now. Trying to wish this away or sweep this under the rug as a one-off move from a loving father is a mistake. 

 This will be a pardon that will reverberate down the road. If you believe it’s bad for the country if Trump mixes his business and his family with governing, then it’s bad when a Democratic president behaves even remotely similarly. This slope is very slippery, and it’s why it’s hard not to ask whether we are witnessing the Trumpification of Joe Biden. He let a personal grievance dictate a presidential decision.