Current Events > Joe Biden: "No one is above the law."

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Patriotwolf posted...

He lied or went back on his word. In both cases it makes him a hypocrite. And essentially used the same defense as Trump. Losing the moral high ground in the process..

OH NO!

Anyway. I don't care, this is such a non issue to go pearl clucthing over.

It's sad seeing the moral backsliding of liberals in this topic. You would think this would be a slam dunk opportunity for Democrats to prove they're above the tribal behavior of Republcians but instead they choose to stand by the millionaire nepo baby criminal because.... We hate Republicans?

It's so fucking bizarre. I thought we didn't like corruption, political nepotism, and the rich getting away with crimes due to their priviledge. You don't know Hunter Biden. You probably wouldn't even like the dude if you met him. Why are you going to bat for him? Are you really so fucking reactive to conservative criticism that you just take the opposite stance conservatives do? How utterly fucking gutless and morally bankrupt.

Fuck Hunter Biden. He's a rich corrupt white dude who brazenly comitted crimes and will now get off scott free. That should piss you off if you actually stand by your ideals.

God fucking damn it, you broke your necklace.

Pearls all over the fucking floor.

DrizztLink posted...

God fucking damn it, you broke your necklace.

Pearls all over the fucking floor.

"Don't care about things. Don't have ideals. Don't cause any waves. Just accept things as they are."

Some of us strive to not live like hypocrites. If you think ideals are worth shaming someone over then that speaks a great deal about you.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

It's sad seeing the moral backsliding of liberals in this topic. You would think this would be a slam dunk opportunity for Democrats to prove they're above the tribal behavior of Republcians but instead they choose to stand by the millionaire nepo baby criminal because.... We hate Republicans?

It's so fucking bizarre. I thought we didn't like corruption, political nepotism, and the rich getting away with crimes due to their priviledge. You don't know Hunter Biden. You probably wouldn't even like the dude if you met him. Why are you going to bat for him? Are you really so fucking reactive to conservative criticism that you just take the opposite stance conservatives do? How utterly fucking gutless and morally bankrupt.

Fuck Hunter Biden. He's a rich corrupt white dude who brazenly comitted crimes and will now get off scott free. That should piss you off if you actually stand by your ideals.

This post is so oversaturated with hollow sanctimony that I read it twice hoping to find clues that you were actually being sarcastic.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

"Don't care about things. Don't have ideals. Don't cause any waves. Just accept things as they are."

Some of us strive to not live like hypocrites. If you think ideals are worth shaming someone over then that speaks a great deal about you.

...now you're just clenching your fist around the pearls .

You're gonna need a new string if you want a proper clutch.

Go for a good fishing line, it's got tensile strength.

masterpug53 posted...

This post is so oversaturated with hollow sanctimony that I read it twice hoping to find clues that you were actually being sarcastic.

LOL...It gave me a few good laughs reading through it. Tried to imagine the person that would make that post seriously and only could imagine a great big clown nose.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

I thought we didn't like corruption, political nepotism, and the rich getting away with crimes due to their priviledge.

We don't like those things.

However, in the current time and context, we couldn't possibly care less about this pardon compared to the much worse shit Trump does that nobody seems to care about, so there's no point to give this anything than a shrug and an "Oh well." Actually choosing to get upset over it and act like it's this huge terrible thing is ridiculous and typically indicative of somebody desperate to whiff their own farts.

Is it bad? Sure. Say it's bad and move on. Don't drop to your knees screaming "I need to pray to Baby Jesus for our souls, there's been a murder of morality!"

LightSnake posted...

I can admit Biden lied about this.

I just don't care. When Kash Patel was put up, the equation changed. It was made painfully clear the DOJ would be used against Hunter

Exactly. Hunter would have definitely been a clear target. They would try to add more charges and penalties once Trump returns to office. President Biden did the right thing against a side who doesnt follow the rules to begin with.

^I don't remember saying that, lol.

masterpug53 posted...

^I don't remember saying that, lol.

Sorry, quoted your post quoting him instead of his. Fixed it.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

Fuck Hunter Biden. He's a rich corrupt white dude who brazenly comitted crimes and will now get off scott free. That should piss you off if you actually stand by your ideals.

What crimes would those be Pogo?

havean776 posted...

What crimes would those be Pogo?

https://www.justice.gov/sco-weiss/pr/robert-hunter-biden-convicted-three-felony-tax-offenses-and-six-misdemeanor-tax-offenses

Pogo_Marimo posted...

https://www.justice.gov/sco-weiss/pr/robert-hunter-biden-convicted-three-felony-tax-offenses-and-six-misdemeanor-tax-offenses

He was late paying his taxes and paid the fine and .A-a-a misdemeanor?! The horror.

I understand your rage now. Even if I lived to be a billion years old I don't think I could ever forgive this monster!

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They have flouted their own ethics because Republicans did it. What do you want, a pat on the back? "I was a good person until it became difficult so I stopped". If your ethics and beliefs are dependent on the circumstances you find yourself in then you don't have beliefs. You have conveniences. Now you all weasel out of our responsibilities for accountability by using the same language as the Republicans. "Why should we play by the rules when the Democrats don't?!" The reality is you never wanted to play by the rules, just like them. You wanted to win. If that's how you want to live your lives then so be it. As snakes who shed their beliefs as easily as they shed their skin.

If you cannot fathom being good when it is difficult then you were never good to begin with. You just wanted the prestige of it. When the prestige of righteousness is no longer useful to you you discard righteousness as a burden. Then you look at me with contempt?

Jesus, it got more sanctimonious.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

They have flouted their own ethics because Republicans did it. What do you want, a pat on the back? "I was a good person until it became difficult so I stopped". If your ethics and beliefs are dependent on the circumstances you find yourself in then you don't have beliefs. You have conveniences. Now you all weasel out of our responsibilities for accountability by using the same language as the Republicans. "Why should we play by the rules when the Democrats don't?!" The reality is you never wanted to play by the rules, just like them. You wanted to win. If that's how you want to live your lives then so be it. As snakes who shed their beliefs as easily as they shed their skin.

If you cannot fathom being good when it is difficult then you were never good to begin with. You just wanted the prestige of it. When the prestige of righteousness is no longer useful to you you discard righteousness as a burden. Then you look at me with contempt?

Really you should be thanking us, you wouldn't be able to get high off your own farts from atop your sanctimonious high horse without us.

You're welcome in advance, now kindly shut the fuck up.

havean776 posted...

He was late paying his taxes and paid the fine and .A-a-a misdemeanor?! The horror.

I understand your rage now. Even if I lived to be a billion years old I don't think I could ever forgive this monster!

I'm sure you would treat this with the same grace and compassion if this rich white person was a Koch brother or Elon Musk.

Hunter Biden is not your friend. He's cut from the same stock as all these others extravagant rich assholes.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

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In a few years when this country is reeling from the effects of handing a venomous pack of crooks and rapists the keys to the federal government, never let yourself forget that you among all of us were the shining pinnacle of human morality for browbeating the outgoing POTUS towards throwing his only living son into the jaws of a hyper-weaponized justice system over charges so petty that most people can't even remember what they were ten seconds after it's been explained to them.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

I'm sure you would treat this with the same grace and compassion if this rich white person was a Koch brother or Elon Musk.

Hunter Biden is not your friend. He's cut from the same stock as all these others extravagant rich assholes.

Trump literally released his rich buddies and war criminals, including murderers and didn't get this kind of outcry from either side.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

I'm sure you would treat this with the same grace and compassion if this rich white person was a Koch brother or Elon Musk.

About being late to pay taxes. Yeah I would.
About ticking a box he wasn't supposed to on a form. Yeah I would.

You are so desprate to make it out that Biden just pardoned a murderer.

Dark_Moon posted...

Trump literally released his rich buddies and war criminals, including murderers and didn't get this kind of outcry from either side.

Or from Pogo for that matter...

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You want the reality? The reality is this fucking hurts the Democrats you absolute dunce. Yeah, we're going to win back all the blue collar workers in the mid-term by pardoning rich white board members! You're so right! You're living in reality and dumb-dumb me, who doesn't understand anything! Hah! I don't realize that voters actual LOVE brazen corruption! That most be the reason they voted for Trump!

Stop pretending like your position is justified. It's not. You're petty and you hold this position for petty reasons. Because no sane political actor looks at this and says, "Yeah, that's good".

Pogo_Marimo posted...

I'm sure you would treat this with the same grace and compassion if this rich white person was a Koch brother or Elon Musk.

People's indifference for this is literally BECAUSE of shit like that routinely happening. Republicans have become so brazenly corrupt while democrats have to walk on eggshells that people just no longer care. The very fact that there could be multiple instances of what should be the same outrage from the people Donnie pardoned yet nary a peep from society while we have countless topics, think pieces, op-eds, and the need to express how much we dislike this over Hunter is proof enough of that.

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You don't have to give a shit but voters will.

Dark_Moon posted...

Trump literally released his rich buddies and war criminals, including murderers and didn't get this kind of outcry from either side.

He got this outcry from me. If Trump didn't get this kind of reaction from the left then the left only has themselves to blame.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

He got this outcry from me. If Trump didn't get this kind of reaction from the left then the left only has themselves to blame.

Self-important steam shooting out your ears and total lack of personal accountability? You're just the complete package, aren't you?

Pogo_Marimo posted...

You don't have to give a shit but voters will.

Voters OVERWHELMINGLY voted Trump. The most corrupt law breaking felon we have ever had as president.

No this will not harm Dems.

So no I don't care, neither do you. You only want to pretend to care because its a Dem doing the pardoning. So you can have your little faux outrage over such a minor thing.
You don't care about the crime.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

You don't have to give a shit but voters will.

The same voters that just elected a convicted felon who is filling his administration with equally as disgusting individuals? Those ones? Seems they don't particularly give a fuck about that sort of stuff if you just tell them eggs and gas are expensive.

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No, no, see, this injustice will secure a permanent spot in voters' minds and be an albatross around the Democrats' necks for years. Just like Biden's debate performance. And Biden's 'garbage' comment. And all the other scandals that the media and enlightened centrists gave the proper amount of attention to at the time (All. All attention.), and which ended up being clear, decisive factors that led to Harris' loss.

masterpug53 posted...

No, no, see, this injustice will secure a permanent spot in voters' minds and be an albatross around the Democrats' necks for years. Just like Biden's debate performance. And Biden's 'garbage' comment. And all the other scandals that the media and enlightened centrists gave the proper amount of attention to at the time (All. All attention.), and which ended up being clear, decisive factors in the Democrats' loss.

Sucks that Republicans can say and do the worst things ever and no one ever cares but if a Democrat does something half as bad, it destroys the parties reputation.

It is stupid.

creativerealms posted...

Sucks that Republicans can say and do the worst things ever and no one ever cares but if a Democrat does something half as bad, it destroys the parties reputation.

It is stupid.

You're right, but I should be clear that I was being sarcastic in my post. No one other than grossly-overpaid right-wing pundits will bother to remember this shit after the requisite media feeding frenzy dies down.

havean776 posted...

Voters OVERWHELMINGLY voted Trump. The most corrupt law breaking felon we have ever had as president.

No this will not harm Dems.

So no I don't care, neither do you. You only want to pretend to care because its a Dem doing the pardoning. So you can have your little faux outrage over such a minor thing.
You don't care about the crime.

I care about as much about Biden doing it as I do Trump. The only difference is liberals have had an absolute limp dicked response to Biden doing it, which I DO care about. I don't want to sit here and pretend that Democrats normalizing pardoning rich white dudes for nepotism is fine. This is not what I want my party to become, not more so than it already is, so yes I am going to push back against every person who thinks normalizing this garbage is okay. I don't want my party to be as blatantly corrupt as the Republicans are. Who the hell am I supposed to vote for at that point? I hope for someday for the Dems to finally get a strong President who fights back against the ever-growing corporate government we're stuck with, and that's not going to happen if we don't signal to Dem leaders that this type of behavior is unacceptable.

I'm sure I'm that sucker for believing in making your voice heard though. What if the conservatives catch wind of it? They might not reelect Biden in 2028 if we criticize him too much!

ok so question

literally who genuinely cares about hunter getting pardoned

like who could this pardon possibly affect in the real world

fwiw literally all i know about hunter is that he did cocaine a lot

Pogo_Marimo posted...

I care about as much about Biden doing it as I do Trump. The only difference is liberals have had an absolute limp dicked response to Biden doing it, which I DO care about. I don't want to sit here and pretend that Democrats normalizing pardoning rich white dudes for nepotism is fine. This is not what I want my party to become, not more so than it already is, so yes I am going to push back against every person who thinks normalizing this garbage is okay. I don't want my party to be as blatantly corrupt as the Republicans are. Who the hell am I supposed to vote for at that point? I hope for someday for the Dems to finally get a strong President who fights back against the ever-growing corporate government we're stuck with, and that's not going to happen if we don't signal to Dem leaders that this type of behavior is unacceptable.

I'm sure I'm that sucker for believing in making your voice heard though. What if the conservatives catch wind of it? They might not reelect Biden in 2028 if we criticize him too much!

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And no, you literally do not care as much about Trump doing it as Biden. If you had, then a full half of the active topics on this board in late 2020 would've been you ranting about Trump's pardons.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

You're petty and you hold this position for petty reasons.

Dude literally had the lack of self-awareness to make that statement. This is awesome stuff.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

I care about as much about Biden doing it as I do Trump.

So 0%?

The only difference is liberals have had an absolute limp dicked response to Biden doing it, which I DO care about.

But you where a okay with Trump doing it for actually murderes. "B-but I expect Trump to be bad so it's fine when he is."

I don't want my party to be as blatantly corrupt as the Republicans are.

Why not? They might win the SC, the senate, the house and the presidency. Perhaps being the bigger man and lossing everything should not be the path foward.

Oh my, we have a live one here. Endless sermons about how awful this pardon is, fatally flawed by the sermonizer delivering their spiels from atop Mt. Hypocrisy while wearing clown shoes and a rubber nose. The clown honking noises don't help.

Pogo_Marimo posted...

I care about as much about Biden doing it as I do Trump. The only difference is liberals have had an absolute limp dicked response to Biden doing it, which I DO care about. I don't want to sit here and pretend that Democrats normalizing pardoning rich white dudes for nepotism is fine. This is not what I want my party to become, not more so than it already is, so yes I am going to push back against every person who thinks normalizing this garbage is okay. I don't want my party to be as blatantly corrupt as the Republicans are. Who the hell am I supposed to vote for at that point? I hope for someday for the Dems to finally get a strong President who fights back against the ever-growing corporate government we're stuck with, and that's not going to happen if we don't signal to Dem leaders that this type of behavior is unacceptable.

I'm sure I'm that sucker for believing in making your voice heard though. What if the conservatives catch wind of it? They might not reelect Biden in 2028 if we criticize him too much!

...Are you okay?

HashtagSEP posted...

...Are you okay?

Bro is not okay

The American public just showed that they don't give one shit about political "ethics" so continuing to play by rules that aren't even part of the game anymore does nothing but guarantee losing.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1864796008896504177
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lclp4os3nk2h Non-Twitter link

See? Good thing President Biden did pardon Hunter. Republicans are still trying to get him.

Let them waste their time

They are idiots