Sharing this here because the difference in responses to this guilty verdict couldn’t be more stark. During his time in office, Trump pardoned close associates of various crimes. Out of a sense of integrity, Biden has said he won’t pardon his son.
The charges are absurd, but he was found guilty by a jury of his peers, and Biden won’t put his thumb on the scales.
Trump put his children in the white house, making them politically relevant. If Trump had said anything about pardoning his children, thst would have been political news.
Hunter has nothing to do with politics other than Republicans trying to equate having children with nepotism. This is not politics.
Conservatives love making children political though.
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Having sex but don’t want children? You’re a godless slut.
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Pregnant and don’t want children? You’re not capable of making decisions about your body.
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Had an abortion? You’re an evil baby killing slut.
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Have children you don’t want? You’re a slut who shouldn’t have sex if you couldn’t feed your kids.
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Child of a Democratic president going through awkward teenage years? You’re a horse face, Chelsea Clinton.
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Try to reach American soil to claim asylum? We’re gonna keep your kids in cages, argue in front of a judge that we’re not obligated to give them any hygienic items like soap or toothpaste, and deport you. Hope your home country isn’t as dangerous as you thought it was!
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You’re a loving couple in a committed relationship who want to adopt one of the many “unwanted” children in our foster system? Get fucked queers; our god says only the straights get to enjoy being parents.
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Your child needs medical care? Why should my tax dollars pay for that?
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Your local public school sucks? Well maybe you should have been able to afford private tuition to a school that definitely doesn’t exist because public schools were forced to integrate. Oh, and we’re gonna siphon more money out of your kids’ school to pay for ours- that tuition ain’t cheap, you know.
And, for international flavor:
- You don’t want your kids to be genocided by Israel? Then maybe they shouldn’t have been one of the more than 50% of Gaza’s population who either weren’t born or weren’t old enough to vote 16 years ago when Hamas held their last election.
Yes, conservatives love pretending that non-political things are political. Per your examples having children is political, which would make the term political meaningless if we let them define political.
Trump, under a clear and disgusting display of nepotism, put his completely unqualified family members into positions of power.
Fixed that for you.
The charges are absurd
Why? Lying on the gun purchase background check form is a felony. It says so right above the signature line on the form. The evidence he lied on the form looks pretty strong.
I do realize the crime is not prosecuted often, but that seems like a mistake. The Charleston church shooter, for example should have failed his background check and been prosecuted for the same crime.
Theres no way to prove beyond a reasonable doubt he was on substances when he purchased the firearm. The form asks if you’re a USER of drugs. If he was not using substances when he was buying the firearm, he didn’t lie.
That’s fine. If this is now precedent, the government needs to go and retroactively charge all users, and not just a spotlight democrat.
27 CFR § 478.11 addresses that. The court is not making new law here.
Such use is not limited to the use of drugs on a particular day, or within a matter of days or weeks before, but rather that the unlawful use has occurred recently enough to indicate that the individual is actively engaged in such conduct. A person may be an unlawful current user of a controlled substance even though the substance is not being used at the precise time the person seeks to acquire a firearm or receives or possesses a firearm.
Who cares if they do? They literally lie to slander the “radical left” as they call it. They’re shameless and half the eligible voters are too.
That saying of you don’t stoop to your enemies tactics means a lot here. Just because they do illegal shit, doesn’t mean everyone else should just say fuck it. Someone has to uphold the law. If the law is unjust then change the law
They go low, we go high.
And they get the Supreme Court: https://youtu.be/MAbab8aP4_A
So, we’re now prosecuting all gun owners who have done drugs in the past?
Shout-out to all you 2nd Amendment bros.
Oh no, not all gun owners who’ve done drugs. Just certain ones.
The 2nd amendment bros aren’t going to help in this case. The NRA declined get involved in the police shooting of Philando Castile who was licensed to carry his gun and who told the police he was legally carrying it. The NRA said it was because he also was in possession of Marijuana, which makes it illegal for him to have a gun.
Do not lump the NRA in with gun owners. FUDDs are basically the only people who donate to the nra anymore. They’re a trash ass organization that just shills for repubs. Every gun owner who isn’t suckin the nras tit, thinks that the Castile case was bullshit, same with the Taylor shooting. Those cops should be in jail for murder.
They still mostly all vote for Republicans. The NRA doesn’t need to radicalize them if they are already going to vote for the NRA’s candidate (Republican).
So, we’re now prosecuting all gun owners who have done drugs in the past?
Florida would become a prison colony
I can clearly imagine the response from the Trumpers:
“Biden WANTED to convict his son so he could make it SEEM like the justice system is fair, when really its all RIGGED!!!”
The conspiracy mind is hard to crack, and while I like seeing a fair an impartial system at work I don’t think it will actually sway many people who think it’s corrupt.
That’s exactly what they’ve gone and done: https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/112599403639743473
Hunter Biden’s conviction is the best possible evidence that the president is not “rigging” the criminal justice system. Will that stop Trump and his apologists from claiming otherwise? Of course not
“What are you a blind sheep? This is CLEARLY a RIGGED FALSE FLAG conviction that the CROOKED Democrats did to make everyone think that the justice system is fair but we’re TOO SMART for that and us REAL AMERICANS can see what they’re trying to do
Anyway donate money to my campaign”
and then trump shits himself and takes a nap or something, idk
What a poser. The other guy racked up more than 11 times as many conviction. Hunter is an amateur.
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