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Republicans fume after President Joe Biden pardons his son Hunter
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And those "small fries" were illegally buying a firearm and skirting $1,400,000 in federal taxes.
And I thought we were the guys who wanted stronger gun control and the rich to pay their taxes?? Does that go out the window when it's one of "ours"?
I’m not saying I agree with the decision, but as Biden, would you really want your son somewhere Trump could immediately fuck with him as soon as he wanted? Had Kamala won this would absolutely be a dumbass decision. With Trump incoming… I get it.
Who cares about what happens to Hunter "10% for The Big Guy" Biden? Maybe I'm just some poor peon who doesn't understand how the ultra-wealthy are, but "lying during a gun purchase and not paying $1,400,000 in federal taxes" seem like pretty avoidable crimes to me.
This is such an awful thing for Biden to do. The "both sides" folk are going to have a time with this for the next four years and they'll be absolutely right in this case.
“10% for the big guy”
With that one phrase you’ve gone FULL mask off lmao. You are the epitome of “both sides r the same”.
Yep that's a mask off to reveal the trumptard face moment. Trump supporters are garbage and we will remember who is one for quite some time.
Personally I'm boycotting any business with visible Trump support, and I make it a point to tell their staff that I won't be back and the reason why. Last time I had to do this I told them their Trump shit was fucking disgusting and I would never be back.
I'm of the, apparently wildly fascistic, opinion that vice presidents' sons shouldn't sell off their father's influence to foreign nationals.
But Trump placing his son in law, sons, and daughter into White House positions and using their fathers influence to obtain backroom deals with the Chinese government (ivanka) and securing a $3 billion loan from the Saudi royal family (Jared Kushner) is different right? 🤡
The problem with you and other ghouls like you is that your game doesn’t work when talking to people who have paid attention to events in the last 8 years. Not everyone is as willing to suspend facts as you are.
Absolutely right?
Dems did it once, Republicans live in this shit.
See: "whataboutism"
Based on how those crimes have been enforced, yes. The federal gun charge that says a drug addict cannot own a gun is rarely enforced historically and is being challenged in the courts by Republicans because the DOJ started using it against white supremacists. Yet Hunter Biden wasn't even allowed a plea deal because of the politics around him. As for the taxes, when he was caught, he paid them and the fines associated with them. For literally anyone else caught doing the same, that is the end of it. No jail time or further penalties.
Joe Biden tried to let the courts do their job and trusted that the courts would be fair. They weren't. This was clearly a political prosecution and I would have done the same in (Joe) Biden's shoes.
And yet it's still a felony. I thought we were the ones who support strong gun regulation?
No one is entitled to a plea deal. For the severity of Hunter's crimes, I'm fine with it.
Keyphrase: "When he was caught." He was just fine stealing the $1.4m from Americans otherwise.
That's not how it works and you know this is going to literally be Trump's argument on Day One when he starts pardoning his supporters, right?
"the severity of hunters crimes"
I fucking loled
Who is "we"? I want all of the working class to be armed.
"Under no pretext shall arms and ammunition be surrendered, and any attempt to do so should be frustrated, by force, if necessary" - Karl Marx
"The rifle on the wall of the workingman's cottage is proof liberty exists. Our job is to ensure it remains." - George Orwell
(I may have butchered the quotes a bit, but the meaning is intact)
Compared to the shit Flynn, Manafort, Stone, etc were doing? Yeah, small fry.
"Illegally buying a firearm"... My brother in christ, I literally know 10 people who did the exact same thing, because cannabis is legal in my state, and they lied on the 4473 to pass the background check.