Comment on Joe 3:16
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s ridiculous seeing people upset by this. Like, do these people have any idea of the long, corrupt list of people Trump pardoned?
I know this is whataboitism, but let’s be real for a minute. Biden sucks, but he’s a saint compared to Trump.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For some reason, the word “whataboutism” shuts down the capacity for people to compare two things.
I’m honestly more mad at Biden for the people he didn’t pardon than the one he did. This is one instance in which he should be more like Trump and pardon people his base cares about so they will like him more. Pardon everyone with a crack conviction. Pardon everyone who got strung up on a bullshit gun charge. Clemency for everyone severing time for a petty IRS charge (The taxpayer class with unbelievably high audit rates – five and a half times virtually everyone else – were low-income wage-earners taking the earned income tax credit.)
Then I’d shrug past the Hunter pardon on volume, rather than gagging at the corruption of this nepotistic pardon.