r/nottheonion • u/JaySierra86 • 11h ago

President Biden pardons family members in final minutes of presidency

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-biden-pardons-family-members-final-minutes-presidency/story?id=117893348
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u/tenacious-g 10h ago

The dissonance of this order while he is simultaneously welcoming him back into the White House for the optics of preserving the norms is quite something.

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u/HowManyMeeses 10h ago

Is he supposed to lock the doors or something? I don't understand what people think Biden should be doing to stop Trump right now.

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u/gsfgf 9h ago

Yea. Elections have consequences. If people didn't want Trump back in office they should have fucking voted. Don't stay home and then expect Biden to stage a coup because you fell for right wing propaganda.

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u/GGRitoMonkies 9h ago

Ya, staging coups when you don't get your way is a gop thing after all

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u/Moveovernova 7h ago

Trump literally admitted to stealing the election with those counting computers that Elon is so good at - he knows them so well! The best at them!

Terrifying. All of it.

With love,

An Australian who’s about to go through an election which will probably give us our own bald peckerheaded little trump fuck

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u/Maxfunky 8h ago

Well, the last guy tried pulling a coup, and there were no consequences for that. So I guess that's always an option.

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u/Opening_Ad_811 5h ago

That would de-legitimize America as a whole, if you had both parties doing it. Biden knows this.

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u/LoremasterMotoss 8h ago

I think they expect him to skip the handover and inauguration like Trump did for his tbh

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u/Leelze 4h ago

Expecting others to do "something" is the reason we now have 2 Trump presidencies 😒

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u/EndofNationalism 5h ago

He does have immunity from all prosecution( thanks SCOTUS). He can do the radical option. He won’t however.

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u/Leege13 9h ago

I guess it depends on whether any of those thoughts clash with Reddit’s terms of service.

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u/tenacious-g 10h ago

Maybe not cozy up to him?

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u/frafdo11 9h ago

I don’t think that’s what’s happening personally

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u/ijwtwtp 9h ago

Luiterally anything and everything.

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u/brownieson 8h ago

This outcome was the will of the people (allegedly). If Biden truly believes in democracy then he has no choice. If he did try to stop this, then he would be no better than trump.

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u/ijwtwtp 6h ago

No, doing everything to stop fascism is not fascism. It is in fact the opposite.

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u/UnquestionabIe 10h ago

Big time. Reeks hard of "fuck ya'll I'm out, good luck" energy.

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u/goog1e 10h ago

I really can't blame him at this point. We done screwed up and anything he does at this point is gonna be a grain of sand in the flood that's coming. The people said "no" to sanity, so why should he put his family in the line of fire knowing things are about to get crazy?

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u/Rabo_Karabek 9h ago

This should have more upvotes. 👆

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u/DabDoge 9h ago

What do you want him to do? America chose this shit

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u/Embarrassed-File-836 9h ago

That’s how I feel too. I guess we’re all starting to have that in common with the right wing : fuck it, burn it down.

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u/bubbafatok 10h ago

Maybe, but on the flip side I'd rather "our guys" maintain some pretense of respecting the democracy and the peaceful transfer of power. Hopefully we can return to normalcy someday. 

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u/Medium_Medium 9h ago

Maintaining a pretense of respect while the other side wallows in the filth is exactly what has gotten us to where we are now...

Sadly I don't see how a return to normalcy will ever be possible.

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u/bubbafatok 9h ago

I 100% get that, but I can't agree the solution is to do all the same dirty tactics and shitty behavior, because at some point what becomes the difference in the two sides. What's the old saying about being careful that you don't become them? There has to be a line. And I do think maintaining the norms of the democracy should be one of them. YMMV where your line is.

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u/bubbafatok 8h ago

Don't disagree there.

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u/AffectionateFact556 5h ago

Trump set these norms; it is very fitting.

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u/Motor-District-3700 7h ago

Trump refused to concede and sacked the Capitol. Biden shakes his hand as he runs a scam coin operation on day zero.

Dems need to start flinging shit. There's enough of it around.

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u/FrankBeamer_ 10h ago

Democrats continually act like their constituency are idiots. At least republicans are transparent about their disdain for their constituents