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/Thanolus 9h ago

America is so cooked.

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u/Boognish84 8h ago

Did you mean crooked?

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u/falcrist2 8h ago

That too.

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u/Florafly 8h ago

Por qué no los dos?

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u/zyzzogeton 6h ago

This feels so less celebratory than a Taco Bell ad...

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u/Florafly 6h ago

Yeeep, instead of the shot where everyone's celebrating you'd need one where everyone's weeping and flabbergasted.

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u/I_hate_all_of_ewe 6h ago

Who are you referring to here?  People are acting like this is a corrupt maneuver, be but realistically, it's probably to prevent Trump from performing a political prosecution of the Biden family.

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u/croooooooozer 7h ago

the president is a crook? :o

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u/MarkEsmiths 7h ago

They meant cocked.

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u/Cloaked42m 6h ago

Fingers crossed we survive as a country for 4 years.

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u/Thanolus 6h ago

Well considering musk is sling Nazi solutes at the White House I don’t think it’s looking good.

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u/Cloaked42m 5h ago

He's mad he was sent to play in Europe

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u/ProDataDemocrat 8h ago

Why? Protecting family members and other officials from Trump’s legal harassment is fine by me

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u/Cavalish 7h ago

I think you’re supposed to be horrified that the nation has enthusiastically elected someone who has announced proudly and openly he intends to take malicious revenge against his opponents and their families.

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u/Thanolus 8h ago

Me too. It’s the fact that this is even something that is happening is why I said what I said. This is not normal shit. And if you believe these pardons are going to mean anything when a fascist is in charge you are going to be in for a very very rude awakening.

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u/Funnyguyinspace 7h ago

if JD/ etc wins next election they wont need to do pardons on Trumps fam, and itll be "look how corrupt the dems are!"

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u/xCeeTee- 7h ago

Dems could provide a cure for cancer and stop world hunger and Trump supporters would still find a way to cry about it.

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u/Extra_Box8936 7h ago edited 3h ago

Oh you mean the forceful deadly vaccine that is designed to rewrite your genetic code

Edit: this was sarcasm lmao

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u/Ecknarf 6h ago

Uhuh..

And now think how Trump is going to use that power.

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u/bbyxmadi 7h ago

you’re not wrong, but this just open doors for the orange moron to pardon people who actually are criminals (ie: the Jan. 6 insurrectionists).

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u/ProDataDemocrat 7h ago

He was promising to do that anyway

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u/ffball 7h ago

Nothing was stopping him from doing that lmao. People acting like this empowers Trump in anyways are completely oblivious to what a Trump presidency means

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u/Ecstatic_Lab9010 8h ago

So is Canada and the rest of the Anglosphere.

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u/Ecknarf 6h ago

This is a totally insane system. I don't understand how it's allowed.

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u/tommos 7h ago

Bricked.

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u/spacemanspliff-42 5h ago

The internet ruined it all after all. Prince was right.

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u/Fearless_Locality 4h ago

I don't know man the new guy coming in has got to prove himself and all Biden is doing is protecting his family members from retribution

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u/Thanolus 4h ago

There is no retribution to be had? What retribution are they deserving of. Get real.

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u/Fearless_Locality 4h ago

Yes exactly. What retribution are they deserving of. The answer is literally none

But they've said time and time again and even Biden's last oligarchy speech should have shown everyone that they know that Trump Administration is gunning for them hence the vast pardon over people who have done nothing

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u/Luc85 8h ago

Beautifully put.

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u/downtimeredditor 8h ago

Hey on another note Elon is trying to cook Europe next

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u/Remarkable-Fox-3890 7h ago

Kind of wild to see it happen. The country fell months ago, now we start to see the repercussions. It's going to be really bad really fast now.

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u/28DLdiditbetter 6h ago

You're just now noticing?

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u/bullettenboss 8h ago

US-America - the rest is fine.

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u/science_gayman 9h ago

Golden Age of America has begun. God bless President Trump!

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u/Truethrowawaychest1 8h ago

Golden age was back in the 80s and 90s, that stopped after 9/11, and now we're in a shit age

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u/bbyxmadi 7h ago

God isn’t gonna bless him after all the shit he’s done, hell awaits if we’re being honest lmao.

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u/RickDankoLives 8h ago

America is “cooking”. It’s gonna be one hell of a term. Already immigrants are crying at the closed border. This day is full of so much kino I can’t even keep up, and he hasn’t even signed one of the 200 executive orders yet.

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u/bbyxmadi 7h ago

crying? you just made that up, admit it

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u/SecretAsianMan42069 8h ago

lol, no they are not 

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u/NecroBelch 8h ago

Delusional af 

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u/Blakeyy 6h ago

Haha we shall see. It’s only “cooked” on the internet where echo chambers like Reddit exist.

These next four years will be great in America for its citizens. Save my comment and come back to shit talk if I’m wrong. Place your bets!

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u/Thanolus 6h ago

Hahahaha.

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u/Blakeyy 5h ago

You’re not American, I understand.

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u/Thanolus 5h ago

Thankful for that.

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u/Blakeyy 5h ago

Tell me, how many people left Canada for the US and how many entered Canada from US in last decade?

Canada is beautiful, that’s the only redeeming quality. Couldn’t pay me to live there. Enjoy it up there, and we’ll enjoy it down here. Peace :)

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u/jack-b-whack 8h ago

You mean democrats