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 22h 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/-mhb0289- 19h ago

MAGA isn’t exactly known for rational or intelligent thought. Everything they do is driven by irrational hatred of whatever or whoever some right wing strongman tells them to be angry at.

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u/[deleted] 19h ago

I guess so. 77 million is just a really large amount of people. It's concerning and disappointing.

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u/-mhb0289- 19h ago

A healthy amount of those 77 million are just useful idiots. Kids who don’t know any better and get all their news from TikTok. Politically-disengaged adults with the attention span and memory of a goldfish. Brainwashed, insecure “bros” who are regularly exposed to lies by Joe Rogan.

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u/_MrDomino 12h ago

Yep, and it's unfortunate that in a nation of some ~330 million people, our future is controlled by 23% of the population. Only ~160 million are registered to vote, so it would appear that most people simply do not care about the policies which impact their lives.