Current Events > Biden hopes to avoid divisive Trump investigations, preferring unity

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Fucking pussy

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Im, personally, not seeing the issue with the incoming President vowing to stay out of DoJ affairs.

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Democrats are a bunch of ball-less, useless, evil and corruption enablers. I'm starting to believe the conspiracy theory where they're just the controlled opposition even if they're not that on purpose

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Aressar posted...

I actually think it's more likely we'll have a 'next Trump' if all Republicans in general are demonized and publicly ridiculed. Since they're still a significant amount of the American people, they can't simply be brushed aside like a small minority of loud-mouthed extremists.

I think that's going to happen regardless given just how popular Trump's tactics have proven. Trump being charged or not isn't going to make his supporters go away.

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Aressar posted...

I actually think it's more likely we'll have a 'next Trump' if all Republicans in general are demonized and publicly ridiculed. Since they're still a significant amount of the American people, they can't simply be brushed aside like a small minority of loud-mouthed extremists.

Like it or not, they're there and they're not going anywhere, and I fear that the more they will be blamed, shamed and ridiculed, the more they will support some charismatic alt-right populist who will say that they are the good guys. That is also the reason why many of them voted Trump in the first place. They felt they were being shamed by literally everyone (i.e. a handful of loud-mouthed pronoun correctors on social media).

Sadly Trump has created a lot of division and enabled racist behaviour on his supporters' part, and inflated the idea that every announcement and source that doesn't speak in your favor is fake news.

These kind of developments definitely need to be extracted from society, but I sincerely believe that gradually building toward unity and cooperation is a more productive and pragmatic approach than condemning and ridiculing Republicans/conservatives as a whole.

You think were more likely to have a criminal president if we dont prosecute criminal presidents. The rest of that entirely misses the point and its insane to me that anyone is legitimately going crime is fine if your supporters wont like you being prosecuted.

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We didn't prosecute Nixon, we didn't prosecute Reagan, we didn't prosecute GWB, and now we're not going to prosecute Trump. We'll get someone worse next time, with an even more degenerated Republican Party and court system and public. And establishment Democrats will legitimately be surprised when democracy collapses on their watch because they thought other things were more important than enforcing it.

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legendary_zell posted...

We didn't prosecute Nixon, we didn't prosecute Reagan, we didn't prosecute GWB, and now we're not going to prosecute Trump. We'll get someone worse next time, with an even more degenerated Republican Party and court system and public. And establishment Democrats will legitimately be surprised when democracy collapses on their watch because they thought other things were more important than enforcing it.

People get the government they deserve.

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How many days until Senate Republicans launch a formal investigation into Hunter Biden's laptop?

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If anything not investigating Trump will divide his own support base not to mention Democrats in Congress

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Biden: *is laughably naive and optimistic about unity*

Republicans: "Joe Biden is a divisive Far-Left Marxist!"

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What a piece of garbage. But we knew this going in. At least people dont expect much of this senile fuck like they did baquack obama.

kawalimus posted...

What a piece of garbage. But we knew this going in. At least people dont expect much of this senile fuck like they did baquack obama.

I feel like this post is racist

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ITT: People who didn't actually read the article

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Doom_Art posted...

ITT: People who didn't actually read the article

I did, no one cares about state investigations

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Doom_Art posted...

ITT: People who didn't actually read the article

Does anyone read the articles posted on CE?

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Lol

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SSJCAT posted...

Those 73 million Americans deserve something awful

They are, Joe Biden

Way to avoid holding anyone accountable for four years of corruption.

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I hope Biden gets arrested by the next GOP pres... guy needs to grown a spine and understand that you can't take the easy road when it comes to justice.

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Veggeta X posted...

How about educating and converting the ones that we can? Every Repub or Trump supporter that comes to their senses is an ally not just to us but to the human race.

But they literally ignore facts though.

You can't reason with someone that is unreasonable

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Extremely lame and also extremely predictable. At the end of the day the system is designed to protect guys like Trump and Sleepy Joe ain't gonna change that.

The states won't do shit to Trump either and he'll continue to spread his poison till the day he dies.

legendary_zell posted...

We didn't prosecute Nixon

to be fair nixon was pardoned

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Screw unity. Arrest those fuckers.

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President-elect: Yo how about we take a step forward instead of trying to just mash the delete key on the last four years, so when 2024/2028 rolls around the next person won't be mashing delete on my stuff too. That's how we stay stagnant.

This topic: "PROGRESS BAD FORWARD MOVEMENT BAD"

Jesus, people

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Irony posted...

I feel like this post is racist

Quack=fraud. Which he was and is. Fuck Obama.

PatrickMahomes posted...

President-elect: Yo how about we take a step forward instead of trying to just mash the delete key on the last four years, so when 2024/2028 rolls around the next person won't be mashing delete on my stuff too. That's how we stay stagnant.

This topic: "PROGRESS BAD FORWARD MOVEMENT BAD"

Jesus, people

And not punish the assholes who broke a ton of laws? Nope.

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PatrickMahomes posted...

President-elect: Yo how about we take a step forward instead of trying to just mash the delete key on the last four years, so when 2024/2028 rolls around the next person won't be mashing delete on my stuff too. That's how we stay stagnant.

hell he isn't even saying "ignore Trump's bullshit"

the article in the OP explicitly says Biden's DoJ will be independent and can pursue shit on a case by case basis

And states are still able to go after him

it's just not gonna be Biden directing agencies to go after him

But this is another case of people online being dumb lol

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Biden should not direct his justice department to investigate a specific person. But if the justice department finds things let the card fall where they may \_()_/

CruelBuffalo posted...

Biden should not direct his justice department to investigate a specific person.

It's rather disappointing after seeing Sessions and Barr back to back that this is the sorta thing people are clamoring for more of

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personally I don't see what's so wrong or dangerous about the head of the executive issuing an order to investigate a known agitator and seditionist, who has openly bragged about divulging state secrets

Good thread, imo
https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1328725227703054337
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TheMikh posted...

to be fair nixon was pardoned

Before being charged, which was absolute bullshit

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jpenny2 posted...

Hard to have unity when one side is peddling insane conspiracy theories and trying to undermine democracy.

I guess i can see where he's coming from. Leave the investigation to those in charge and stay out of it himself. But damn, I really wanted him to just go all in on putting that fucker in jail.

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He didn't preclude federal investigations, he apparently said it wasn't going to be a major focus of his presidency. That doesn't remotely preclude a DoJ investigstion or any state charges.

Ease up. Normal presidencies don't get bogged down in DoJ matters.

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Doom_Art posted...

It's rather disappointing after seeing Sessions and Barr back to back that this is the sorta thing people are clamoring for more of

Like, there are legitimately "Trump tactics" we should absolutely take advantage of (acting cabinet, legislate by EO, national emergency for healthcare/stimulus/racial injustice/etc.), but this is not one of them. The DoJ absolutely needs to operate independently of the White House, or else whatever they do will have no real teeth.

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Antifar posted...

Good thread, imo
https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1328725227703054337

Now thats what I call Fucking Bleak

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DoJ + SDNY will be enough to take Trump down

K181 posted...

He didn't preclude federal investigations, he apparently said it wasn't going to be a major focus of his presidency. That doesn't remotely preclude a DoJ investigstion or any state charges.

Ease up. Normal presidential don't get bogged down in DoJ matters.

Yes, there's no way investigating and charging Trump administration officials wouldn't be big news. Definitely something you could do quietly jk Biden is going to let them off scot-free.

Yeah, actually reading it, it doesn't seem nearly as bad as the title made it seem. Long as others can go after him then it's fine. Best to let them operate without government influence.

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I think Biden has an urge to fit in.

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Biden will get all the hate for his DoJ going after Trump anyway. Does anyone seriously think a single Trump supporter will care about or be aware of the DoJ's independence? The only two options for this administration are being perceived as going after Trump or not going after him.

The only way to avoid that while still holding him accountable is to let the states handle it, but you'll still have the cultists screaming about deep state conspiracies and oppression and you'll still have the media talk about nothing else.

There's no universe where Trump is held accountable where a huge portion of public life isn't consumed by the investigation and trial. It must be done anyway, for democracy's sake.

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Intro2Logic posted...

How many days until Senate Republicans launch a formal investigation into Hunter Biden's laptop?

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1328734177370509314


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legendary_zell posted...

Biden will get all the hate for his DoJ going after Trump anyway. Does anyone seriously think a single Trump supporter will care about or be aware of the DoJ's independence? The only two options for this administration are being perceived as going after Trump or not going after him.

The only way to avoid that while still holding him accountable is to let the states handle it, but you'll still have the cultists screaming about deep state conspiracies and oppression and you'll still have the media talk about nothing else.

There's no universe where Trump is held accountable where a huge portion of public life isn't consumed by the investigation and trial. It must be done anyway, for democracy's sake.

Biden wouldnt want to do something that might get Democrats and the electorate excited or anything like that

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