Ahh - US politics. You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Weird that he’s been pardoned for buying a gun and evading taxes. I thought those things were supposed to be rights in the USA.
Joe Biden pardons son Hunter in final weeks in office
Submitted 5 months ago by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to worldnews@aussie.zone
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Nath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
eureka@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Weird that he’s been pardoned for buying a gun and evading taxes. I thought those things were supposed to be rights in the USA.
Gun rights and tax evasion are privileges!
spoiler
- People and companies rich enough are avoided by the IRS as it’s too much work to put a case against them. Taxes for the poor, not the powerful. - Gun control legislation has repeatedly been enacted after anti-slavery, worker strikes (during red scare) or when minority groups armed themselves (The Mulford Act, which even the NRA supported). Gun control for the poor, not the powerful.
ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s a big club, and we ain’t in it.
Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 5 months ago
The pardon was because the Republicans undid his plea deal that the department of justice had agreed to. THAT was corruption. Political opponents should not be able to break up an already done pleas deal. The plea deal was fair and Biden said as much, but when Republicans broke up the deal, that’s when he decided to issue the pardon.
You really should read more than the headline.
zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Your conclusions aside, I think it’s fair to say people should read not only more than the headline, but more than this article or the statement by Biden.
For those interested, here is one reasonably expansive account: web.archive.org/…/inside-hunter-biden-plea-deal.h…
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Biden could be doing wild shit with the bully pulpit right now. He’s doing this instead. Sure, its a pen stroke, but bruh doesn’t give a shit about the republic.
No1@aussie.zone 5 months ago
In 4 years:
“Make me president for life and I will pardon you all!”
Ilandar@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Biden should have pardoned Trump at the same time and framed it as “putting an end to this era of retaliatory politics” or something. It’s not like any of the indictments against Trump actually matter given his age and the fact that he won the 2024 election.
ProIsh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Good.
Cleggory@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sycophant.
Delphia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Honestly he was president, his career and likely American democracy is over. I’d be saving my sons ass at the last minute too.
Is it corrupt as shit? Sure. But thats Americas new (at least openly) normal. I couldnt care less about this.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Let’s hope that Joe delivers that pardon and Hunter accepts it before Trump takes office. Then again, with the state of our government, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Supreme Court decided to throw away precedent.
FireTower@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The Supreme Court isn’t going to do that. Art. 2 Sec. 2 and the 5A’s double jeopardy clauses are quite clear on the matter.
They’d sooner overrule Wickard v. Filburn than do that.
Delphia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They wont do it because it would set precident for if the dems ever do get back into power to do it right back to them.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I doubt double jeopardy applies, because that would mean they’d charge and prosecute him again. Reversing a pardon has nothing to do with prosecution.
Also there is nothing in the constitution that states a pardon is final. Only the Supreme Court has said that, and we all know that a later Supreme Court can (and has) overrule a previous Supreme Court decision.
And Wickard v. Filburn is a red herring.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is a small step in the right direction.
However… anyone who isn’t fooling themselves knows it won’t matter by itself.
I’d be surprised if any of the Bidens are still alive in 4 years. The Trump admin has admitted they intend to go after anyone who defended the Bidens, including governors. If governors are at risk, I doubt family members are off the table.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Smart choice.
He’s a lame duck, might as well.
If I were him, I also wouldn’t let my son fall in the hands of a justice department controlled by a wannabe dictator.