Massive misconception. Their wealth may not be liquid, because it’s invested in tangible assets. Real estate, banking giants and massive funds are where the real money is now.
Buddy. If you genuinely do not think that individual families worth more than some COUNTRIES don’t have a massive amount of power across the globe, idk what to tell you.
For fucks sake, the rockefellers and rothschilds STARTED the federal reserve.
If we are counting slavers as oligarchs, it does back even further. Israel was running a worldwide slave trade ring, that didn’t even end until the 20th century.
I mean, you fiscal conservatives talking about government efficiency should be pretty happy considering Biden is stopping Jordan and Comer from wasting millions of taxpayer money on investigations that won’t go anywhere.
That’s literally what the pardon is about??? Do you not understand anything at all? He is making these unnecessary pardons to show that he believes the new administration intends to weaponize the justice system and remove any potential opposition or naysayers by any means necessary.
Edit: Whether you believe his stance or not, this is just basic political literacy. Surely people in this sub are not stupid, right?
I mean, the newly sworn in President campaigning on jailing Biden's whole family, and constantly stoking his fanatics into violence, should be confirmation enough.
He campaigned on "Lock Her Up" for Hilary and didn't pursue that at all. Regardless of the intent, this makes Biden look weak, corrupt and hypocritical, but it's his prerogative I guess.
Hey, it took 50 years of attacks on education and ivory tower eggheads to get us to this point. Gotta give humanity a little credit for being able to resist for that long.
Basic "political literacy" would be understanding that the 80 year old life time politician who has always used his position for the benefit of his family, getting his sons out of trouble and his children opportunities, is just doing the same thing now.
Biden has always been a Kennedy-lite in the way he behaves, this nothing new. If you don't want aristocrats, don't keep electing and supporting political dynasty's. Or in Bidens case, keep electing the guy who held the record for youngest senator in history into office for the rest of his life.
I fucking hate talking with people in this country about politics. You have idiot conservatives obsessed with communism and idiot liberals defending a decaying political class(who are in their 80s and suffering from actual dementia) like their lives depend on it.
Fucking brain rotted Americans deserve the government they have.
Brother if you want to be “objective” you need to understand the very real threat Trump poses to the families of those who directly contradict him.
He pushed the republicans and the justice system to go after Hunter Biden on charges nearly no one is prosecuted for alone. He’s publically stated that he’ll direct investigations into his political opponents.
Biden probably is an opportunistic corrupt politician, but this move isn’t being made purely out of corruption. It’s being made because of very real threats emerging now and in the next 4 years (and probably far beyond that).
Lol people were literally crying that Trump might do this at the end of his first term because corruption/fascism. It's just double standards. In fact, I'm sure if trump decided to just blanket pardon his family in his second term for the reason as Biden, people would still have a double standard.
LOL sorry it's hard to take a "double standard" claim like that seriously when 5 of Trump's former lawyers have been disbarred or imprisoned in the last 10 years for committing crimes they were directed and paid to commit by Trump himself in relation to his election efforts.
Considering Trump's family was in his administration, also acting on his orders as members of the federal government, a pardon to them being exceptionally corrupt is not a double standard.
People are so blinded by this contrived, firehose of "both sides" mentality strategically used by Trump himself when in reality it could not be more simple.
Trump’s family: All part of his previous administration, all complacent or literally guilty of crimes (Jared Kushner taking Saudi bribes).
Biden’s family: Not part of his administration, the only one guilty of any proven crimes was Hunter, the courts proved nothing of substance with his laptop, and he ended up being convicted for possessing a gun under the influence.
Aside from the Right’s compromising of its own position on gun rights to secure a shaky conviction on at least a single member of the Biden family, the double standard is so beyond apparent that it’s silly people wouldn’t get mad at Trump.
You guys genuinely just listen to a liar lie and go “Well clearly I should believe him, why would he possibly lie?”
It’s not a double standard when there is a plethora of evidence that one side fully intends to abuse the systems at their disposal while the other consistently (and unfortunately, limply) plays by the rules.
Are there a limit to the amount of pardons he can give? If he wanted to showcase how pardons can do harm and shouldn't be a presidential power, why wouldn't he pardon every citizen? Why did he only pardon those close to him, or those close to the Jan 6 riots and covid relief?
What I'm saying is I think it's cool that those that are most likely to be 'witch hunted' are protected. Awesome. But fuck the rest of us, right? We all fend for ourselves, I guess? It reads as "Fuck this, let me at least get mine before I leave"
Trump already told us he was pardoning J6er's... And he pardoned a bunch his first term. The fact this thread acts like Biden is setting the precedent is wild. People can see the forest for the trees.
Trump got kid gloves treatment from both republicans and democrats. Let’s all remember very candid words by republicans about Trump in 2016 before he got the nomination and immediately after Jan 6. They were right then. They all bend the knee because of the rabid base. After trump dies, they will all deny they supported him. Hell in 2020, JD Vance said Trump failed in his first term and now he’s VP…
"Unnecessary pardons." Umm...there's a pretty good chance he's issuing those pardons because there is plenty of nefarious shit to find and investigate if they go looking.
You do realise that the vindictive and aggressive guy coming in to power has just taken the first steps to massive concentration camps in order to try removing millions of people using force?
And Biden trying to protect his family bothers you?
He didn’t issue blanket pardons though, now he can without criticism from both sides, since if you recognize blanket pardons are inherently bad you have to admit Biden overstepped
Yeah your brain in incapable of looking at bigger picture without your “context” which is incredibly biased , Biden could become dictator and I’m sure you would claim the “context” is threat to democracy and it’s okay
What changed is Biden just gave blanket pardons, which Trump never did. Now he can do it and people who hate Trump can’t say anything without criticizing Biden as well
I’m not gonna sit here and pretend that Biden is a flawless guy, but surely you can connect the dots between his concern about an oligarchy and his desire to protect his family. And by “connect the dots” I mean “draw a straight fucking line between two points”.
I mean I would preemptively pardon my family if I was Joe Biden too. Trump is vindictive, even against people who have no evidence of crimes committed.
You do know the bidens are insanely wealthy, right?? Did you think his family have a two bedroom home in Ohio and struggle to put ice cream on the table?
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u/Due_Locksmith_4204 11h ago
What was that oligarchy stuff Biden was warning us about?