Never gonna give you up 🏹

I care that he's not pardoning people in immigration detention. Instead he just pardons his crackhead son and leaves.

I think pardoning a child for a dumb drug offence is fine. 🤷‍♂️

His son is hardly a child at 54 years old. Biden is also responsible for thousands of people behind bars because of "a dumb drug offense".

I don't think that Trump should be the bar for morality and ethics in this country. It's lazy to bring him into this conversation.

I love how libs are utterly incapable of discussing things without using Trump for framing. He's also not pardoning drug offenses, he's pardoning the whole Burisma thing which is at the very least a FARA violation. That's why the pardon is sweeping from the start of 2014.

All drugs should be legal.

We all know humanity will refuse to unclench our collective butthole regarding capitalism during our lives. At least let us get high as fuck on whatever we want while we wage slave to barely make it.

Perhaps it's more about the working class suffering then it is about money and power. Remarkable if that's true.

there are so many other people's children in jail for dumb drug offences...

It does seem pretty banana republic-y

...A child?

That is very cute but any time you start talking about Russian spies republicans can now say Hunter Biden. What you meant to say is you only care when Trump does it.

Now, even if he does do things that will help Americans, nobody will notice because of the pardon.

I don’t know why you’re so concerned for Genocide Joe’s legacy, but if his last 47 months are any indication, he’s unlikely to uncharacteristically give Americans what they actually need in his 48th.

Who cares if anyone notices the good being done? Do it anyways. How does this prevent that?

Why would the man that wrote the crime bill and helped throw millions of Americans in jail do anything to help Americans? 🤔

They’re already trying to finalize rules, complete process do previously passed initiatives can be nailed down. The government can be very slow, and that’s a good thing for stability and fairness. It’s especially good to reduce the promised dumpster fire of the next four years.

Is there really anything he can start at this point that would have lasting effects? Going hog wild with shenanigans may be satisfying but not likely to do anything more than create headlines

They have some good policy. So don't forget that. If Americans voted based on policy alone they would do themselves a lot more good. That said, the DNC fails to win elections and have sceded so much power to the GOP already they might as well be the same.

Yo, Fascism already won my dudes. Biden is just seeing the writing on the wall and adapting to the change.

So i infer from your attitude you too will be adapting to this change? My dude?

This had better be bait. Fuckin libs mannnnn quit breathing my air

Not a USAmerican, so not exactly talking about the politics, but some issues.

The irony of blasting Biden for going against his word in his son's best interest while Trump is about to become president is the most laughable hypocrisy I've ever seen

Why not?
It's not like Trump is supported by the leftists in lemmy.

It just shows them that Biden is not very different from Trump. They have been saying that and pushing for 3rd parties or other President nominees.
Biden chooses to do this rather than set guardrails or do something to ensure that Trump is not given free reign.

This is further validation for their view.

And since Trump becoming president is a grave thing, does it mean that the Democrats are bad, because they have not done enough to stop it?

I look forward to watching y'all eat crow as Israel wipes out Palestine, the US leaves NATO, and western democracy collapses.

Palestine is being wiped out even under Biden.
US leaving Nato would be big, but we can never know how the effects would be like, right?

I look forward to watching y’all eat crow as Israel wipes out Palestine

Wow, the liberals are straight up admitting their monstrous racism now?

the US leaves NATO

This would be good for the Global South, which is why Trump won't do it

and western democracy collapses.

The West hasn't had a workable implementation of Democracy to begin with, though if you finally recognize that are you going to sit out or do something about it?

Not like either side is helping us. Kamala, Democrats, and Joe biden ran the last 4 years quietly and campaigned on no change. They lost the election by not convincing 250k voters in 4 states to not vote for them.

Joe biden pardoning his son is his legacy. Joe said he would be a one term president then tried to run for a second term ruining a primary. Democrats chose Kamala harris and she accepted. This country was founded on old people letting go of power and stepping aside and down. If George Washington wanted to he could have been a king. The old dems are grasping at power and control rather than trusting a populist candidate.

Joe Biden could be abusing his power and fighting for change from the bully pulpit to affect Americans and make an outcry but instead went back in his word twice and pardoned his son abusing his power for selfish gain.

Kamala instead of campaigning to fight hatred and cause change went with joy and changing nothing . She even capituatated to right wing talking points moving Democrats to the right. Even though policy wise leftist policy is good and ppopular policy.

Lastly the democrats ran a Hilary Clinton style campaign being a nerd with stats and defended institutions. Obama won because change Biden won because change.

Very well said. I'm NOT looking forward to watching anybody eat crow if all that shit happens. We will have far more pressing concerns than gloating over a bunch of petulant dickweeds who didn't show up. They didn't, and that's that. The reality is settling in that America may be about to end - like every civilization does. It was fun while it lasted - Cheers!

All the trolls that were “liberals = genocide” or “eggs are $99” or “cant afford gas” while completely ignoring normal egg prices, seriously low gas prices, and trump’s plan to let the Israelis do whatever they want have switched to “Biden bad because pardon!” Again, completley ignoring trump’s pardons of criminals in his administration, family by marriage, and the fact we got a law absolving the president of any “crime” committed while president if the (captured) SCOTUS says it’s fine. But no…who cares about trump. Biden bad!!

Not only that, he's never running again, he has literally nothing to lose, and doing this isn't going to affect votes/popularity of whoever runs next.

99% of people in his position would do the same.

Looking at Trumps upcomming cabinet I am both in horror and anticipation for what is going to happen. We'll either see a slow decline of US power, a world war or just nothing great will happen at all.

I also would have said fuck it and have Trump and friends sent to guantanamo.

Hunter did get it rough solely because of who his dad was.

If you lined up all the crack heads in America and ranked them "has it the most rough" to "least rough", I would challenge you to find 1% who have it better than Hunter.

WW2, but it was a side objective, kind of a bonus

Yeah a lot of people blaming Biden when we all had a fair shot at voting against fascism. We suck. May as well actually accept that.

I agree with you that the sentencing was incredibly unjust and clearly politically motivated. I'm just incredibly frustrated that Biden is not doing anything that's useful to Americans during his last few months in office.

Exactly how I feel. It is certainly favoritism that undermines our justice system, but I think very few people would choose not to intervene to save a child they loved from great suffering, even if they knew their child had earned the punishment. It may be wrong, but it's very understandable that in this case he prioritizes being a good father over being a good president.

They didn't punch us directly. They paid people for that. That's why they are better than everyone. See how they sit above us?

You really start to get all those older writings about the dangers of upper classes cause they really do get apathetic and assume moral superiority just on existence after a while.

That was the point, he didn't. he used it selfishly for his son. which is understandable. but we're mocking him for it because he didn't use it to do anything useful. Which coincidentally is also why we didn't want to keep him or harris as president.

No offense, but Harris more than capably tanked her own campaign by being as milquetoast as biden when it comes to supporting the working class.

Red China is long gone mon ami. Communism with Chinese Characteristics loves the rich, but only if you're aligned to the correct clique.

Neither of those things are going to break the country. It’s a matter of priorities. Dems sell themselves as the adults in the room who are going to fight against fascism. And this is what Biden is doing instead.