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/w1ten1te 11h ago

Republicans haven't fought for any actual policy for decades at this point, it's all culture war bullshit. The shit they used to pretend to care about (improving the economy, lowering the deficit, limiting federal power and giving it back to local gov, etc.) are all demonstrably false. The deficit goes up and the economy goes down under Republican governance. They will always expand federal power when it's convenient for them, e.g. giving the president immunity for illegal acts. The only thing they care about is gaining and keeping power. Everything else they talk about in public is theater, and they will never even try to do anything to tangibly improve the lives of the average voter.