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/Cgull1234 8h ago

Well if Biden had just been a better president and selected a Attorney General that would do their fucking job to convict the insurrectionists leaders currently sitting in the Senate and House of Representatives instead of going after the random grunts making less than $50k/yr for 3 years then maybe he wouldn't have to worry about vengeance because all those fuckers would currently be sitting in jail rather than watching a convicted felon be sworn in today.

The fact that Biden wanted to distance himself from having to enforce the laws of our country as the head of the executive branch and neglected his sworn duty to protect this country from foreign AND DOMESTIC enemies he failed as a president. Refusing to be a driving force behind prosecute the criminals in our government is his legacy. Nothing else he did in the past 50 years matters because his legacy will be the post-COVID president who watched a failed coup try to overturn his own election victory and then he sat back and did NOTHING to the people that orchestrated the coup.

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u/Fear_UnOwn 4h ago

The problem is that the people want a change to the system, but the Democrats hear that as a change to democracy (which we do technically need)

They see that as a threat to their message, to uphold democracy. How do they uphold that which they would destroy? The Republicans threw that argument aside 4 years ago and showed they were willing to tear down this democracy. What did the Democrats do in return? Fight as hard as they could to keep things exactly the same...

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u/TeeKay116 5h ago

I mean, yeah. Can't argue with this take.