I don’t know why people are acting like this is on Biden that his adult son broke a law or laws. Everyone’s got people in their family who are assholes.
bc one of their famed boogeymen is finally finding themselves in some sort of legal hot water. They’ve been foaming at the mouth to have HRC and/or George Soros locked up for years. This is the closest they’ve come to a “victory”, according to their dumb propaganda.
Also because so many Republicans are running on a platform of Pres. Biden being complicit in his son’s shady business dealings. As the evidence on that has gotten thinner and thinner, they are clinging to the gun charge to retain credibility with their voter base. They are trying to say “See?! He is a criminal just like we said, therefore we were right and the president is trying to protect him. That means he’s should be impeached, just like they impeached Trump!”
I wish I could watch the exploding heads at the NRA right now…
Ok good. Prosecute criminals. Conservatives think that liberals are also in a cult because it’s the only way they can imagine being
The fact that a lot of the laws on the books are almost never enforced unless cops want to punish someone is a conversation we are not ready to have yet as a nation.
The law that snagged hunter biden was one of thousands that create a kind of web of infractions, to the point that almost everyone is violating at least one law every day.
I’m fine with locking up Hunter if he did something wrong, which is different than if he broke the law.
Why do so many modern presidents have such embarrassing relatives?
Biden’s son, Dubya’s siblings, Clinton’s brother, all of George H.W. Bush’s kids, Reagan’s wife, Trump’s entire family…
Most people have embarrassing siblings.
You’re seeing it more now because there is heightened interest from people, so it sells clicks, and before that, it sold newspapers.
Maybe it’s just the combination of high profile and very rich that makes them seem way way worse than any embarrassing siblings of anyone I know.
Yeah, so my friend’s sister has an alcoholism problem, but she’s never, say, posed for nude photos and then campaigned on a family values platform, and you have to admit the incidence of serious substance abuse issues in the families of US presidents is… well, embarrassing. I don’t know what the statistics are compared to the average, but goddamn there seem to be a lot of drug problems among and around people with so much influence.
I take your point that it’s likely nothing new, but it’s disingenuous to imply that it’s normal compared to the average person.
It kinda seems like it is politically motivated in the other direction. They are taking this much more seriously and a wealthy white man usually would have to deal with.
I wish our system was unbiased and treated everyone equally
The specific charge might be even more political. Lying about drug use in the questionnaire. It gives me some conflicting thoughts.
On the one hand, I don’t gaf about Hunter Biden and if he’s guilty of crimes, he shouldn’t be shielded from that because he’s the son of the guy who was elected because he wasn’t Trump.
But on the other hand, the charge is such a beaurocratic safety theatre bullshit charge and I don’t think any kind of justice is served by charging anyone with this.
I think they are going for a “they not only wanted to change the law to protect the person they supported, but even reduced gun control to do so”.
Though a way around this might be to charge Hunter for the Ukrainian corruption stuff (if there’s merit to it) and fight all of the bullshit laws still on the books. Not to save Hunter, but so that no one ever has to deal with that bullshit.
Yeah same. I don’t care about the Biden’s. If they are corrupt then charge them and go through a trial.
Corruption is largely not illegal though from what I understand. Hell Trumps kids very transparently used their office to get wealth and afaik they have no pending charges at all.
