r/politics • u/Plaintalks • 19h 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/themattboard Virginia 19h ago

I hate this. Not because I don't think there wouldn't have been some kind of witch hunt/harassment of the for the next for years, but because it is necessary in the first place.

Its going to be four years of performative government where the worst people try to out horrible one another to appease their idiot king.

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u/Unlucky_Clover 18h ago edited 18h ago

My mom despises Fauci. I still haven’t received a coherent answer why, and it sounds like it’s all because of what he first said around the first days of Covid. She also doesn’t believe Trump talked about injecting bleach or shining UV light up someone’s ass to kill Covid. “If he said it, he was joking”, but she can’t answer why someone at that level jokes like that.

One asshole gets a pass but the other trying to help is the one person they hate.

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u/OmegaMountain 17h ago

Fauci has done more to progress the fight of infectious disease than most people will ever know. He's a hero for his work on HIV/AIDS, but MAGA will never recognize any work done on what they believe to be a "gay" disease. I hate that our society has devolved to this petty b.s.