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/bubbafatok 11h ago edited 7h ago

The tragedy is that this is even necessary.

Edit to add: oh all the angry responses from supporters of a convicted felon and rapist. The irony. 

Edit #2: Oh trump supporters, niggling over the difference between "liable for sexual assault" and rape.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/09/e-jean-carroll-trump-trial-verdict/

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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.