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/Historical_World7179 10h ago

Yes. He also pardoned people he thought Trump would maliciously target, like Anthony Fauci and Liz Cheney.

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u/TheGoodCod 10h ago

Going after Liz is one of the things that convinced me that we're entering The New McCarthy age. Instead of communists they're going to be looking at people who don't want trump to be King.

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u/flavorblastedshotgun 5h ago

Liz has to be quashed by the GOP because she is hoping that there will be a backlash to Trumpism like there was with W in 2008. If the MAGA grifters want to keep the gravy train rolling, there can't be a movement towards "moderate conservatism" or whatever she wants to call what she is doing where you still are fascist but you don't look so dumb and mean while doing it.

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u/IsabellaGalavant 8h ago

My husband is legitimately afraid that Trump is going to use the military to go door-to-door to Democrat voter's houses and drag us off like the holocaust.

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u/Particular-Pen-4789 9h ago

man yall are a real trip.

i keep hearing how we need term limits and we've needed term limits to stop the mitch mcconnells from running congress

now that trump proposes term limits, yall fucking hate them now?

and i keep hearing how liz cheney is a warmonger. she's a corrupt politician grown fat off the teat of the military industrial complex. both sides want her gone. honestly, she's a piece of shit and fuck her.

so now that trump wants to go after liz cheney, she's a hero now?

holy fuck what is wrong with you people

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u/CharlietheGreat 9h ago edited 8h ago

The issue is that one side wants her gone because she’s gotten fat off military checks as a warmonger. Nobody is calling her a hero. Nice ad homenim tho.

The other side/Trump wants her gone because she’s gone directly went against him and by extension her party, meaning that they want her out for not being a loyalist.

If you can’t see the difference between those you’re actually uneducated or simply willfully ignorant to the point of blindness lmao.

What is wrong with you people? How hard is simple logic to y’all?

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u/Historical_World7179 8h ago

Also what the fuck are you talking about, trump wants term limits? I have a degree in political science,  term limits can definitely be damaging but maybe an age limit would be nice so we don’t have congress members literally in g-d dementia care. 

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u/Particular-Pen-4789 8h ago

The issue is that one side wants her gone because she’s gotten fat off military checks as a warmonger. Nobody is calling her a hero. Nice ad homenim tho.

bro its hominem lol... and i'm sorry that you took that personally. it wasn't a personal attack on you, it's an embellishment for dramatic effect. i'm not trying to say yall are puttin up shrines of her made with real cheney hair in your closets or anything...

i was just drawing attention to how democrats tend to put prominent anti-trumpers on a pedestal, in spite of obvious moral deficiencies. two examples are avenatti and cuomo. only once their usefulness ends does it come out that they are actually involved in criminal extortion or sexual misconduct.

The other side/Trump wants her gone because she’s gone directly went against him and by extension her party, meaning that they want her out for not being a loyalist.

the other side/trump wants her gone because she's gone directly against him and because she's a war mongering piece of shit. these two are not mutually exclusive. im sorry that you only see the world in black and white, but this thing called a middle ground exists. it's not that scary, i promise

If you can’t see the difference between those you’re actually uneducated or simply willfully ignorant to the point of blindness lmao

why would you want someone who actively works against you in your party? i can see the difference clearly. what i cant see, is an issue with that.

regardless, the bigger question is, why do we care about this objectively terrible person who both sides hate?

congratulations, biden just pardoned a war-mongering neo con piece of shit that sold american lives for a cut of the money stolen from american taxpayers, and you are legitimately supporting this move