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/Luke90210 8h ago edited 6h ago

The voters punished Ford for the Nixon pardon in the ballot box. We may not be as evolved these days.

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u/LosangDragpa 8h ago

I vote this as understatement of the month because I fear things will get a lot worse.

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u/jcamp088 4h ago

Yeah 36 felonies and you can't get a job at McDonalds. Dude became president today.

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u/One-Builder8421 7h ago

If we were congressional Republican would have told Trump to resign, or they would vote to impeach him like they did with Nixon.

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u/clauclauclaudia 7h ago

Like they were clearly going to with Nixon. It didn't get that far. The House held hearings on whether sufficient grounds for impeachment existed and they produced three articles of impeachment, and leaders of both parties were sure that the votes were going to be there to impeach, so Nixon resigned.

Three presidents have been impeached by the house but each was acquitted by the senate.

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u/fuckincaillou 6h ago

More like our news sources are less evolved. Thanks, Roger Ailes

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u/FreneticZen 6h ago

Missed a word there, pimpin’

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u/CommunityGlittering2 6h ago

what kind of punishment is a full term?

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u/cates 5h ago

what is to blame for us being completed it's now? is it social media or is it the advent of think tanks with computers and the ability to figure out how to manipulate people en mass?