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President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden
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I can't stand this "not a good look" talk when democrats have to basically be squeaky cleak that they can't even own a peanut farm or swear and yet 10 years into the "grab them by the pussy" guy who makes fun of disabled people, women, calls everyone names including his own party... Nobody bats an eyelash. I don't care if Joe Biden lied for his son at this point, Donald pardoned and will continue to pardon dozens of family and staff and insurrectionists. It's ok for Trump to lie about not knowing project 2025 and then immediately hire everyone involved with it days later... But Biden can't lie once. Got it.
"The other guys do bad things, so it's okay for us to do bad things as well". What kind of argument is that?
Pardoning your family members is corrupt plain and simple, doesn't matter what political party they belong to, doesn't matter who they are. It should be called out.
It is "corrupt" (within quotation marks because it is also legal). But it can also be understandable. Given his circumstances, I know what I'd do. The same. Without a doubt. What would you do?
Of course he can be criticised, go right ahead. I don't care. But let's also be honest. We are no saints. No matter what, he will never be elected to anything again ever. Just huffing and puffing is fairly pointless and makes people look blustering, not principled.
You can not use the "we're just human" argument on a leader of a country. Their actions affect people's lives and liberty, they have a responsibility to protect those.
I don't care what you would do. It is corrupt. Pacifism is how we ended up with Hitler.