After the election, I completely checked out of all news. No CNN or MSNBC. No online newspapers. No political podcasts. No SNL or late-night talk shows either. But the news about Hunter Biden’s pardon did break through:
No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.
I’m happy for the Bidens to put this behind them. It says a lot about Joe that he wrestled with this decision. He has always tried to do what is right and mostly succeeded. We are now in a somewhat dark period in this country where truth doesn’t matter because millions of people don’t know anything. Despite limitless access to human knowledge, only the viral and sensational have reach.
Democrats need to rethink the old rules. Democrats need to say and do what’s right without giving a fuck what anyone else thinks. This pardon might be the first step.
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Randy Botti well said. You have a front row seat in the hornets nest (Texas)
Bryan Hard agree. The opposition would’ve pardoned far more heinous acts without a second thought, and their supporters wouldn’t bat an eye.
Jared Smith Nailed it. Trump is going to use the “politicized prosecution” excuse to pardon J6ers regardless of what Biden did or didn’t do with the actually-politicized prosecution of Hunter — it’s time to stop unilaterally disarming ourselves.
Jason Becker I sent this message to a friend:
You know what? Good. We all know that this prosecution was motivated, the crimes were not that big a deal and would have gotten plead out if he was anyone else and possibly not even prosecuted, and there’s 0 chance that Trump isn’t going to (continue to) abuse the shit out of this power, so for a father who actually loves his son to do this… fine.
Jarrod Blundy It’s difficult for me to let go of the instinct to “take the high road”. Half of me totally agrees that we should all just do what we think is right. But the other half of me worries about a slippery slope. I think that half of me just worries, period.
Jeff Baxendale Biden spent his 40-years long career campaigning on ever-harsher drug and gun laws. Directly and proudly claiming responsibility for putting countless others behind bars based on the same web of compounding infractions and technicalities for far less, and who will get no leniency reason.com/2024/12/0…
I do not blame him for pardoning his son, and think the leaked phone call was the most humanizing thing about Biden I’ve seen. But I think Stephen A. Smith sums the furor over the 10 year blanket pardon well enough www.youtube.com/watch
Manton Reece @jarrod It’s a fair point. I worry about that too, but less so now than I would’ve pre-election. As long as we don’t get lost down conspiracy rabbit holes, I think we’ll be okay. Doing what’s “right” has to be grounded in truth.
Michael Grant @bryan Not “would have”; Trump has.