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[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@lemm.ee 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I bet more than half of us didn’t want him to go to jail for something that no one else would have gone to jail for if they weren’t a political pawn.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You don’t think people go to prison for gun crimes and tax evasion?

[–] derGottesknecht@feddit.org 2 points 7 months ago (21 children)

Gun crimes sounds bad until you you realize he ticked the wrong box on a form.

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[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Right, Hardly anyone goes to prison for tax evasion. Especially once it’s paid off.

You could be liable for UP TO 5 years. Which means your have to be pretty fucking flagrant.

Also he pled guilty, it wasnt the “minimum” bullshit you claim.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 28 points 8 months ago (16 children)

He could have abused his power like this to fix the justice system. Forgive student loans, Codify abortion. And all those other unfulfilled promises.

Instead Biden has fully destroyed the illusion of Democrat commitment to "justice" only to bail out a coke addict.

Both sides anyone?

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[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

Of course. We went from "Trump can totally pardon himself" to this and somehow this is going to make bigger headlines with the "law and order" Republicans.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I had a brother who was an accessory to a crime at 17 and went to prison for three years at 18, and that experience makes me viscerally angry that Hunter Biden is going to skate just because he's a member of the lucky sperm club. This is bullshit.

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[–] HorreC@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Seems like they are dropping the idea they are not corrupt as the other team. Can only hope that the new idea that would go after the common worker can hold the mask on for a few decades.

[–] EchoCT@lemmy.ml 25 points 8 months ago

Why should he? It's already been made clear there is no law for the ruling class. Mind your place pleb.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

Never change, Clintonian dynasty swamp monsters.

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[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 7 months ago

Israel is violating the ceasefire mean while Bidens drumming up controversy to drown it out. What a pussy.

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Even if you think that HB was or will be unfairly treated, look at the size of the ethical door that was just opened. Of all of the "norms" that could have been broken, this is the one?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Sir will you legalize mariuana and pardon all those black people who have suffered unfair trails"?

"Sir will you close the asylum detention camps pardon all those Mexicans people who have suffered unfair trails"?

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago
[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

The lamest of ducks

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago
[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 8 months ago

Leonard Peltier? Naw fam, we only DO fam

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Anyway Hunter Barron 2028 im all in

[–] whithom@discuss.online 2 points 8 months ago

Lmfao. Okay, whatever.

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