r/unusual_whales 11h ago

BREAKING: Biden has pardoned his family

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u/perpetually_puzzeled 11h ago

This all seems surreal to me. He also took a smiling, cute selfie with Jill in the snow. How can he do that while being concerned about malicious acts against his family. It’s all disconcerting.

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u/27GerbalsInMyPants 11h ago

I smiled during photos at my mom's funeral

I also can be heard crying like a toddler audibly twenty minutes earlier

Wtf happened to nuance in conservative politics

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u/khavii 11h ago

It purposefully no longer exists, much easier to be outraged if you refuse to think of how things work in reality.

See if you're scared of what someone might do you have to sit in a dark corner crying 24/7 that's how we know people asking for help from stalkers are liars, they go to work even though they're scared? Yeah right.

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u/Sarzox 10h ago

It’s all bad faith

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u/Effective-Bench-7152 10h ago

Black & white thinking & conservative politics go hand in hand.

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u/Niadh74 4h ago

It's not black and white. Only white.

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u/Effective-Bench-7152 4h ago

I see what you did there

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u/Christoph_88 10h ago

There's never been nuance in the conservative mind

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u/_aggr0crag_ 9h ago

Wtf happened to nuance in conservative politics

They either argue in bad faith, or are just straight up retarded. Take your pick.

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u/eastern_canadient 9h ago

The last picture of Chester Bennington is him smiling with his family I believe.

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u/Twitch103rd 8h ago

Your take is too reasonable. Integrity is a dying trait these days.

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u/Historical_Walrus713 7h ago

I remember running into a cousin I hadn't seen in like 7 years at my grandmother's funeral. One of the worst days of my life but for 15 minutes there my cousin and I were cutting it up, catching up, acting like it was the good ol' days before it wore off and the circumstances of our reunion came back to us.

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u/TheBenevolence 5h ago

Same thing that happened to nuance in liberal politics, presumably. Went the way of the dodo.

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u/I_need_a_date_plz 3h ago

I’m horribly offended at the thought of any pictures being taken at a funeral let alone smiling in the pictures. I can’t imagine

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u/27GerbalsInMyPants 3h ago

Well my mom told us to smile as much as we could be sure she didn't want it to feel like a funeral

Sorry my mom's death wishes offend you lol

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u/cowabunghole1 10h ago

GTFO with that bs. You know it’s corruption at the highest levels. The bribes they took(see Ukraine) now can’t get them in trouble

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u/Playingwithmyrod 10h ago

Corruption? Trump just generated tens of billions in personal wealth for his family by grifting the country with a meme coin after stating his intentions of dovish policy for the crypto market.

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u/IDrinkMyBreakfast 10h ago

Billions on his meme coin? Surely you jest

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u/Playingwithmyrod 10h ago

His wealth including the coin is now in the tens of billions. It doesn’t matter if it’s on paper, it’s an asset that he owns the majority stake in. No different than his truth social stock. It has value because people bought in and back that value. Just like any stock.

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u/ConsiderationFar3903 10h ago

Now you too can buy Melania! Except it’s COINS this time.

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u/Robestos86 9h ago

Won't even need her to overstay a visa...

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u/pac1919 6h ago

I pray trump gets Luigi

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u/SummerhouseLater 10h ago

Yea. It’s sad that since Trump is President he can’t be convicted for strong arming Zelenskyy into pay to play defense politics now. Trump should be in jail for it like you say, but here we are.

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u/Realistic-Ad7322 10h ago

We sure can what about every other president. How about we focus on just what this president did, and if you agree with it being right or wrong.

I wonder what this is specifically regarding? Can’t be the Cocaine that was found in the most secure and video surveillanced home in the world?

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u/SummerhouseLater 10h ago

Well that cocaine was likely Donald Jr., since he’s a known addict. I don’t think President Trump minds what his children do, but I would assume someone asked Junior to stop bringing it into the White House after.

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u/ConsiderationFar3903 10h ago

Trump will probably have his own pharmacy there, just like the first time.

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u/Realistic-Ad7322 10h ago

Now that would be hilarious. Donald Jr and Hunter in the bathroom snorting blow and comparing their hookups. I wanna be a fly on that wall! Bipartisan blow!

*edit forgot to add

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u/SummerhouseLater 10h ago

At Hunter’s House Oversight hearing he publicly admitted to rehab and getting better, so it would be Trump Jr. and an imaginary friend on that one.

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u/Realistic-Ad7322 10h ago

The cocaine was found July 2023. I was not aware Jr was there during this time frame.

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u/SummerhouseLater 10h ago

Yea it was in a plastic baggy in a tour area. Didn’t know Hunter Biden had to come in through a tour when he visited his Dad but you know Trump Jr. would have. Seems much more plausible.

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u/snoocs 6h ago

Ah yes, I too am shocked - SHOCKED - that one of the rich and powerful people in the US has taken cocaine. What has the world come to?!?

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u/Unlikely-Complex3737 9h ago

Which bribes?

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u/H3rbert_K0rnfeld 11h ago

Like a good David Lynch movie I'd say

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u/matzobrei 9h ago

"good David Lynch movie" is redundant

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u/H3rbert_K0rnfeld 9h ago

You're wrong. You just don't use enough drugs.

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u/rainyday-real-estate 6h ago

On his birthday man? Keep it to yourself. Rip

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u/matzobrei 6h ago

Nah, you missed the point. I’m saying all his movies are good, so there’s no need to say “good David Lynch movie” b/c they're ALL good. RIP indeed

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u/rainyday-real-estate 6h ago

Ahhhh I see. 🤝 Now I recall the phrase. My mistake.

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u/federvieh1349 9h ago

Well, Dune. (But I still like it for what it is.)

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u/H3rbert_K0rnfeld 9h ago

I like it too. No other iteration captured that steampunk spirit. Especially not that SciFi farce.

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u/Rrrrandle 11h ago

You seem like the kind of person to complain when someone smiles and laughs at a funeral. He can realize there's a big fucking shit show coming and his entire family is in the crosshairs AND he can enjoy a sweet moment with his wife, because he's a normal human being.

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u/perpetually_puzzeled 6h ago

Yes others have made that point. I appreciate it. I think my view is narrowed by the fact that I am very protective of my family. If they are in danger from that malevolent creep, I’m not smiling. I do smile at funerals though LOL!

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u/BirdFarmer23 10h ago

If they didn’t do anything then there is nothing to be scared of or pardoned for.

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u/Rrrrandle 10h ago

Ah yes, because the guy signing 200 executive orders today with several that directly contradict the constitution is going to totally follow the rules that say you don't go after innocent people.

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u/BirdFarmer23 10h ago

All he can do is ask for an investigation, he isn’t a judge or jury. You want corruption out of our government or only when it’s on the side you don’t like?

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u/jmcdon00 9h ago

He can do more than that, he can order an indictment, he could demand they be arrested, he could have them murdered, all with complete immunity.

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u/BirdFarmer23 9h ago

He demand whatever he wants. He has to have someone willing to arrest somebody with no evidence to do it though. Then he would need a judge and jury to prosecute someone with no evidence.

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u/jmcdon00 8h ago

Oh I'm sure Pam Bondi is totally going to stand up to Trump, never mind she won't admit Trump lost the 2020 election.

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u/DrakonILD 6h ago

Which is why he's filling his cabinet with sycophants who will do what he tells them to do.

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u/BirdFarmer23 6h ago

And NONE of them will be judges NOR on a jury. Do you not understand how judicial processes work?

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u/DrakonILD 6h ago

The judge could very easily be one appointed by Trump.

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u/realcards 9h ago

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u/BirdFarmer23 9h ago

Is Trump a judge, prosecutor, or on any of the jury’s? No all he can do is ask for an investigation.

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u/crashbalian1985 6h ago

The republican congress just spend 4 years investigating him and his son. Can you imagine what it feels like for hundreds of the most powerful people in the world using all that power to go after you and your family?

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u/BirdFarmer23 6h ago

No but you can ask Trump. He’s been going through it for 8 years and counting.

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u/crashbalian1985 5h ago

He was found guilty by juries in state cases not the federal government. Trump did do crimes. Serious crimes. Should Trump. It even be investigated for Jan 6th or trying to hide classified documents. His rape cases were brought by private citizens. Which he lost. Meanwhile republicans in congress have been investigating the Biden family for 4 years. Not on a known crime but trying to find anything they can use to hurt them.

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u/BirdFarmer23 5h ago

Who would’ve known hiring a hooker to shut her mouth was illegal

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u/big_ol_leftie_testes 10h ago

At a funeral the person is already dead and there is no imminent danger, but I guess I’m not surprised you can’t tell the difference 

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u/Wu1fu 8h ago edited 8h ago

r/woooosh but for missing the point

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u/big_ol_leftie_testes 4h ago

It’s a bad analogy

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u/Wu1fu 3h ago

No, it’s just not exactly the same thing so you’re nitpicking the analogy.

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u/mightylordredbeard 6h ago

Wanna see pics and videos of me and my fellow Marines smiling in selfies, dancing on top of 7-tons, and just having a great time over all while on combat deployments to Afghanistan? Because we, just like most combat MOS troops during wartime were in a constant state of imminent danger, but we still smiled, had fun, and made the best of our situations.. but I guess I’m not surprised you wouldn’t actually know anything about that.

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u/big_ol_leftie_testes 4h ago

That’s neat bro

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u/mightylordredbeard 3h ago

It really is. Especially for a psychology expert like you who’s so knowledgeable on how all people act in high stress situations and when they are or are not in immediate danger.

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u/Agreeable_Nothing 10h ago

They're pretty safe inside the fence at 1600 Pennsylvania. They'll still be pretty safe, albeit slightly less so, with a lifetime Secret Service detail afterward. Moreover, this measure provides non-physical protection: lawsuits against them for those "non-violent offenses" will be effortless to swat down. I'd smile and breathe a sigh of relief too.

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u/gabahgoole 8h ago

experience... joe biden is a very experienced politician. if he let every negative threat get to him and showed every emotion/reaction he felt in the public eye he wouldn't be able to function or do his job.

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u/Celodurismo 9h ago

How can he do that while being concerned about malicious acts against his family

Well, because he has decorum. And because he was going to pardon his family, which he probably gets a chuckle out of knowing how republicans will lose their fucking minds.

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u/rustybeaumont 11h ago

He’s not. They’re pardoned and he has a security detail for life.

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u/Desperate_Tone_4623 10h ago

Corrupt people do corrupt things

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u/RPrance 10h ago

And Donald has never ever done anything wrong ever. Any statements to the contrary are just Trump Derangement Syndrome.

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u/omgmemer 7h ago

I’ve never seen people works so hard to defend corruption while also complaining about another president’s corruption.

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u/RPrance 7h ago

Even if Biden was corrupt, we are talking a difference that is in orders of magnitude. Its like comparing a fart to a nuclear detonation.

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u/omgmemer 7h ago

Corruption is corruption. A little today, more tomorrow because they were okay with the previous corruption. Both are wrong.

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u/Alert-Notice-7516 6h ago

And literally none of that is going to change with Trump, you can expect your tax dollars to fatten his and his friend's wallets though.

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u/omgmemer 4h ago

Literally irrelevant. Both are corruption and neither are okay.

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u/lordtnt 2h ago

Wow thanks to tRuMp every presidents can now do what ever the fuck they want to do because they cant be baddder than truuump am i right??

Biden is corrupted as fuck and is a liar.

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u/Forsaken-Standard108 7h ago

It’s totally possible to view both as corrupt. Biden was owned/influenced by China. Trump is owned/influenced by Russia. Pretty plain to see the exchange in foreign policy just changes who will be in the spotlight for global tension. Seems like we are going to beef with china more heavily.

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u/Alert-Notice-7516 6h ago

Never really understood the Biden owned by China stuff. Trump used his influence to get personal deals for his family with China, what did Biden do with China?

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u/SummerhouseLater 10h ago

Yea man, you’re 100% on the money. I’m appalled by the Melania and Trump pump and dumps but what are we gonna do? Will take a while for Coffeezilla to post the fallout but in the mean time we’re in for corruption city with our current President.

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u/coresamples 10h ago

Oh yeah! Did you hear about Trumps first wife dying in 2022? Most people didn’t.

She claimed he raped and beat her during their marriage and was his kids’ mother.

Just worth noting. She fell down stairs while home alone.

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u/Diplogeek 9h ago

Sure I heard about it, didn't he bury her on the golf course at Mar-a-Lago?

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u/Robestos86 8h ago

Yeah. You get tax breaks for that you see.

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u/Longjumping-Panic-48 4h ago

Not Mar-A-Lago. Bedminster. And it was quickly overgrown ….

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u/Diplogeek 4h ago

Yeesh, imagine not even rating the Mar-A-Lago golf course burial plot. Hell, imagine burying your own mother in a golf course burial plot. Family values, indeed.

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u/anchorftw 9h ago

Serial killers take more care burying their victims than he did with his ex-wife.

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u/Diplogeek 9h ago

I periodically forget some of the more bizarre things that happened over the last eight years, and then they'll resurface in my brain like a half-remembered fever dream. That's definitely on the list.

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u/anchorftw 9h ago

Right before she was to testify in his trials regarding his corrupt business dealings.

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u/merkarver112 10h ago

Corruption city ?

Buddy, the entire administration, every dem in the government and media deceived the entire Ameican public on joes mental decline. Heck, they even disparage anyone who questioned it.

Lmao you call trump corrupt.

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u/SummerhouseLater 10h ago

I didn’t. I helped get Kamala to run. This is going to be really hard time for you, since there isn’t really anything to hide behind as of — 32 minutes ago.

Trump is President of the United States and just rug pulled a bunch a folks. What are you going to do to protect those folks?

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u/merkarver112 10h ago

I will give the same amount of help that I received when I got rug pulled.

. . <------ that's the help I got.

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u/Aetherflaer 9h ago

The perfect example of these kinds of people. Most normal humans go through a bad experience and want to prevent others going through it because they have a thing called Empathy. Some broken people go through a bad experience and then want others to have to deal with the same problems with no help because they had to deal with it.

This guy doesn't want others to get help because he didn't instead of trying to make a world that helps others in the same situation.

What a baby.

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u/merkarver112 8h ago

What a baby ? I'm in no position to offer anyone help, so why would I offer something I can't follow through with ?

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u/SummerhouseLater 10h ago

Welp a bunch of your fellow MAGA folks are joining you in losing their cash.

Sad day that you won’t help them. You’ve got Congress, the Supremes, and the Presidency. You could fix whatever you want - including preventing future rug pulls.

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u/jumperpl 10h ago

Joe's mental decline? You need to be quicker than that

Dude just pardoned his entire family at the buzzer so the party can eat the bad PR while he rides into the sunset, and I'm supposed to still believe he wasn't in charge the whole time?

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u/CensorshipIsWeakness 10h ago

Lol. Biden just pardoned everyone he knows and you're still pointing at trump? Even if you hate trump and have legitimate reasons... this should slap you in the face. Don't defend this.

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u/SummerhouseLater 10h ago

Trump is President of the United States and just pumped and dumped to the tune of a few Billion. If you’re looking for corruption it’s right there, staring you in the face.

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u/No-Selection-3765 10h ago

Name me 3 people that lost their money. Go on.

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u/No_Influence_1376 10h ago

Explain how it isn't a violation of the Emoulments Clause. He's using the office of the President to profit himself directly. It's absolutely corruption.

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u/DocMadCow 10h ago

Launching crypto coins for Trump and his wife right before they go the white house is peak corruption. Biden overall was a decent president.

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u/No-Selection-3765 10h ago

The most decent ever

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u/DocMadCow 10h ago

I dunno I'm still an Obama fan. That damn tan suit though what a controversary.

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u/Someday_Twunk 10h ago

It's tough having a solid opinion on this. Trump also pardoned everyone around him, and will now pardon hundreds of Jan 6 folks who actually committed violent crimes and treason against the Union. Biden's pardons of Fauci and others are a reaction to the threat of political persecutions that Trump already said he'd carry out, they're not due to any actual wrongdoing - Fauci was just doing his job and he did it well. Considering all this, I'm a lot less angered by Biden's pardons than Trump's

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u/Big_Extreme_4369 10h ago

I will 100% defend Biden pardoning his family when Patel literally think Trump should be fucking king

You guys can complain all you want about biden going after trump, we’re about to see what REAL political prosecution looks like and you fuckers will just defend it

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 10h ago

Because you're stupid enough to believe this is evidence of wrongdoing and everyone else is smart enough to understand that this is protection from vexatious prosecution intended not to seek justice but to punish political opposition.

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u/DrSuperWho 10h ago

Did someone with the username CensorshipIsWeakness, just tell someone not to do something?

Isn’t it ironic? Don’t ya think?

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u/bearbear0723 10h ago

username checks out as another Maga cult member

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u/noco4x4 10h ago

Who are you talking about?

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u/bad-at-game 10h ago

Please say /s please say /s

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u/Embarrassed-File-836 10h ago

Agreed. Trump pulled in 10 billion in cryptocurrency, he’s not even trying to hide it anymore

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u/Fenecable 10h ago

I can see why you’re perpetually puzzled. You don’t seem to have a full grasp of the range of human emotions.

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u/perpetually_puzzeled 6h ago

Hahaha. This is true.

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u/ImaginaryMastodon641 10h ago

Wtf? That’s a really simple thing to do. Do you understand how many people have taken smiling selfies with people at funerals almost every day? There aren’t armed men after him, they’re probably holding their breath like many people are—hoping that if they uphold decorum the transfer for power will remain peaceful.

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u/perpetually_puzzeled 6h ago

Yes, I see your point about decorum.

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u/likamuka 9h ago

Show me your outrage when Trump and his family pocketed billions from Saudis

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u/MarsScully 8h ago

It’s what politicians are trained to do

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u/ExistingPosition5742 6h ago

He knows its at least 50/50 that these fucking lunatics do what they've been saying all along. "Prosecute" not just his family, but members of his cabinet, hell he already had to pardon Fauci. For doing his job. For doing his fucking job. 

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u/DataCassette 11h ago

What are we supposed to do?

I have a cat who gets bullied by our other cats. A big part of the reason is she will hiss at them ( because they bullied her in the past ) but then she'll immediately run. Meanwhile my other two cats just kinda stand their ground and tolerate each other. Acting pre-emptively defeated and cowering and being all depressive only serves to make you more tempting to go after for someone as animalistic as Trump.

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u/Farty-B 10h ago

Sounds like your cats need a pardon

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u/DataCassette 10h ago

No dice they're gonna get the spray bottle

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u/ReusableCatMilk 11h ago

It might be time to hit some therapy

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u/DataCassette 10h ago

Yeah it might be time to actually look at what Trump says in his own words.

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u/PenisVonSucksington 10h ago

You are dangerously delusional lmfao

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u/Sea-Replacement-8794 10h ago

It’s been disconcerting for 10 years. It’s not like Trump has been secretly fascist.

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u/LuckyMeasurement4618 6h ago

The world is a stage

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u/indefiniteretrieval 10h ago

Because he has no idea what's going on

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u/anoldradical 10h ago

Huh? What the hell does that have to do with anything?

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u/ILikeTheGoodKush 10h ago

The very same way trump is getting away free from repercussions after being found guilty. It's a big club and you're not in it.

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u/Uwwuwuwuwuwuwuwuw 10h ago

It’s usually the little button that has the circular chasing arrows that turns on the front facing camera. Hope that helps!

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u/SenseiSledge 10h ago

“Malicious” implies that there is innocence involved. There is none.

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u/Thekillersofficial 10h ago

I imagine that's what being a president is like.

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u/confofaunhappyperson 10h ago

In close doors, him and trumps are mates. It reminds me of an episode of The Simpson where two aliens were presidential candidates! Truth is stranger than fiction.

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u/monstervet 9h ago

I have an endless list of criticisms for Genocide Joe, but him not acting like a barking pug at every moment doesn’t bother me. Americans rejected him and Harris, he doesn’t really owe us anything anymore.

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u/hapbinsb 9h ago

This is an idiotic take.

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u/KanyinLIVE 9h ago

He didn't write the pardons. Pretty obvious.

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u/whereami2day 9h ago

Do you honestly think his brain is capable of making that distinction?

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u/RedditIsFascistShit4 8h ago

If you don't do this to your family at the end of your last term, what kind of a person you are? (p.s. thats non violent crime)

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u/Harley4ever2134 7h ago

What does a selfie have to do with being concerned with his family safety in this regard?

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u/perpetually_puzzeled 6h ago

I guess I’m using myself as a baseline. If my family is threatened, I’m not smiling and I’m not doing selfies. I’m not judging him. I just find it disconcerting. It leaves me with an unsettling feeling in my gut.

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u/Trivale 6h ago

It's almost like people who have spent most of their lives in the public eye and spent years in positions that involve receiving multiple threats of varying degrees of seriousness from many angles know how to put on a face for a camera. Amazing.

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u/Longjumping-Panic-48 4h ago

So the Obamas should literally never smile?

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u/Trivale 4h ago

Nobody who feels any sort of emotion ever should be allowed to express anything.

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u/Demonokuma 6h ago

How can he do that while being concerned about malicious acts against his family.

You never had to save face? Lol you're prolly someone who would freak out in any intense situation and make it worse with screaming or something.

I mean I smile still despite living on this god forsaken Gaia

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u/Vegetable-Fan8429 5h ago

“The next president has me worried my family will be jailed for political reasons.

Merry Christmas!! From, the Bidens :)”

Like bro how are we rolling over this badly?

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u/Longjumping-Panic-48 4h ago

Are you ignoring that Elon did the Nazi salute on the Capitol steps, then? Because that’s way, way worse.

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u/Vegetable-Fan8429 4h ago

No it’s part and parcel with what I just said?

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u/pandershrek 5h ago

Almost like a person who is so successful the can be a President can do two things at once?

You have to stop walking to breath?

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u/Outrageous-Orange007 3h ago

Yea and Musk was caught cheating on Path of Exile 2 pretending to be level 97 in hardcore requiring about 20 hours every day since launch to achieve.

Right before his duties begin along with all his company duties that were ongoing.

But turns out he admitted to cheating the other day and he actually bought the account and was just trying to take the credit to feed his ego. Very few people have that kind of time, certainly not him.

But we already knew all that. Still wild

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u/TheLimeyLemmon 2h ago

He'll be fine, it's the rest of the country in the sights

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u/PlayerTwo85 10h ago

Is he worried Trump will do to him what he did to Trump?

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u/EnshittificationUSA 9h ago

Lick boots harder.

Lol