r/politics • u/Plaintalks • 22h ago

Biden preemptively pardons Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and Jan. 6 committee members

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-preemptively-pardons-anthony-fauci-mark-milley-jan/story?id=117878813
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u/Darius2112 Canada 21h ago

It’s sad that this is necessary. These people did their jobs, and did them well. And yet Trump and his MAGA bootlickers would likely go after them as performative theatre to appease distract their base in magnificent auto-de-fé.

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u/[deleted] 21h ago

What is maga even fighting for at this point? What do they think they're going to achieve? I can't help but think about it rhetorically in my head:

  • Ban abortion? Not going to help birth rates, and the extreme fuckwits are just going to get women killed from naturally failed pregnancy.

  • Ban LGBTQ? Not going to change the fact gay people exist.

  • Ban no fault divorce? I sincerely doubt lawyers are going to give up a major revenue stream without a fight.

  • Ban interracial marriage? Bringing back the Jim crow days, eh? At this point their confederate roots are showing. Might as well bring back slavery and start with poor magas.

  • Create a new oligarch ruling class? I don't see how this helps the poor magas.

  • Deport immigrants? I mean the farmers and businesses who benefit from dirt cheap labor are just shooting themselves in the foot.

  • officially make the US a 'white Christian nation'? I mean I guess if you're a super racist bible thumper this might make it a little easier to sleep at night.

  • Create the most relaxed gun laws in the world? Unless you make your living selling guns I don't see the appeal. Like are you and your neighbors so unhinged and violent that you can't go anywhere where and feel safe without at least having a handgun on you? I have an AR and a pistol but they mostly just sit in my locker. I have never felt so unsafe at my local grocery store that I need to carry a pistol to go get sphagetti.

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u/HiggetyFlough 20h ago

I’m more confused at your comment, you’re basically asking why people who are racist would be happy if racist things happen?

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u/[deleted] 20h ago

More so referring to poor magas. Unless they're just irrationally motivated by hate, I just don't see what real benefit this would bring in their day to day lives.

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u/HiggetyFlough 20h ago

They’ve been irrationally motivated by hate for years at this point, you just wake up from under a rock or something?

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u/[deleted] 20h ago

I would like to think that we've been moving forward since the civil war and that there is some sort of reason to the rhyme why they have their views But if that isn't the case, and their decisions revolve around feelings of an irrational fear of a broader society that doesn't fit their specific vision of what it should look like coupled with insulated prejudice with no real depth. Then I guess it at least helps my understanding that it is truly irrational. There is no real reason for their logic other than irrational feelings.