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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
From the "Tick Tock Until Joe Biden is Done" thread...

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=66119

Now that's how you make a Tick Tock thread, Theodore.

2 1/2 days later, Joe Biden* drops out of the race.

I guess Nate Silver's model was bullshit all along, huh Second? I'm right again.

Imagine that.



If anybody is wondering why he doesn't just call it quits this very second since it's clear to everyone in the world that Joe Biden* can't even wipe his own ass at this point, let alone continue his job being the "leader of the free world", well here you go...



Don't worry about paying me for mocking all that up for you Joe*. I don't want any of you or Hunter's blood money.

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President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he has pardoned his son Hunter Biden, who faced sentencing this month for federal tax and gun convictions, marking a reversal as he prepares to leave office.

“Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” the president said in a statement. It is a “full and unconditional pardon,” according to a copy of the executive grant of clemency.

This official grant of clemency cannot be rescinded by President-elect Donald Trump.

By pardoning his son, Joe Biden has reneged on a public promise that he made repeatedly before and after dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. The president and his top White House spokesperson said unequivocally, including after Trump won the 2024 election, that he would not pardon Hunter Biden or commute his sentence.

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"I just want Democrats to stop acting like they’re on this moral high ground
politically when they have shown us they’re not," Charlamagne tha God said. "You know,
whether it’s skipping the primary process when Biden stepped down, to things like Biden
pardoning his son. Stop acting like you all are the pure party, and Republicans
aren’t!"

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"Daily Show" host Jon Stewart comments on how President Biden's pardon of his son Hunter looks, with several classic flashback clips.

Later, in the full segment below, Stewart added: "The Democrats made this case an example of why Americans should believe in our system. It's hard, Democrats have the tougher road of defending our institutions and systems as being flawed but valuable. Republicans just run on blowing it up. But at every turn, Democrats keep getting caught setting up a purity test for a system that they can't seem to pass themselves."


JON STEWART: You know what, hypocrisy isn't illegal, nor is it particularly unusual in politics. It ain't like he's ever going to run again. So why not take care of your kid? Even if you said you weren't going to? I respect it. I don't have a problem with it.

The problem is, the rest of the Democrats made Biden's pledge to not pardon Hunter the foundation of their defense of America, this grand experiment.

REP. JIM MCGOVERN: "One political party remains committed to the rule of law, and the other doesn't. It's that simple."

REP. JARED MOSKOWITZ: "Hunter Biden is not above the law... No one is above the law. Democrats stand for the rule of law."

REP. ERIC SWALWELL: "We accept the outcome because that's how the rule of law works."

JEN PSAKI: "Because the justice system that convicted his only surviving son is the same justice system he has vowed to protect. If that does not tell you who Joe Biden is, I don't really know what does."

JON STEWART: I think I know what does! And now look at the dance Democrats have to do.

REP. JOSH GOTTHEIMER: "Be honest, the only reason why they went after Hunter the way they did—and I've talked to many federal prosecutors about this—is because he's the president's son."

MEGHAN HAYS, BIDEN ADMIN: "People have to remember, the president has lost two children already, and he does not need to lose another one to more political witch hunts."

KAREN FINNEY, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: "The crowing from Republicans, but we are talking Donald Trump is a convicted felon who literally pardoned his daughter's father-in-law and just made him ambassador to France."

REP. JASMINE CROCKETT: "So for anyone that wants to clutch their pearls now because he decided that he was going to pardon his son, I would say, take a look in the mirror."

JON STEWART: Ma'am, we will take a look in that mirror, but we are taking off. So if you could just put this shit on airplane mode and let us get home for the holidays!

Yes, yes to everything that you guys were saying... if you hadn't made Hunter Biden not receiving a pardon the Mason-Dixon line of morality between Democrats and Republicans. There's a big gap between "the law is the only thing that separates us from the animals" and "the monkey threw sh*t at me first! I had no choice!"

This is what Biden's decision has done. Look how confident and eloquent our Democratic representatives were back when they thought they had the moral high ground on this issue.

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President Joe Biden has pardoned Hunter Biden for all crimes — known and unknown — that his son committed over the past 11 years.

This is not a great look for a man who’s decried President-elect Donald Trump’s attacks on impartial law enforcement, declared that “No one is above the law,” and repeatedly vowed he would not pardon his son.

The president justified immunizing Hunter from criminal accountability by arguing that his son had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.” Hunter Biden was convicted of lying on a federal gun application and failing to pay his taxes, offenses that virtually never inspire felony charges, in the president’s telling. That he was not only prosecuted for such indiscretions — but charged so aggressively he was likely to face three years in prison — reflected a politically biased process, Biden argues: Were he not the child of the GOP’s top political adversary, Hunter would never have faced hard time for such minor crimes.

This is a plausible argument. But then, one can just as reasonably argue that New York would never have investigated anyone but Trump for falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment to a porn actor paramour. And in that case, Biden was emphatic that the law was the law.

All this said, it is not hard to understand Biden’s hypocrisy. His sole surviving son was staring down years in prison, plausibly because of Biden’s own decision to seek the presidency (thereby throwing a spotlight on his son with a history of drug addiction). The incoming president, meanwhile, has vowed to investigate the Biden family for further crimes. Joe Biden had the power to protect his child from imprisonment and further selective prosecutions. I suspect most fathers in his shoes would do as he has done.

But Biden is not just a father. He is, for a few more weeks anyway, the de facto leader of the Democratic Party. And this pardon does his co-partisans no favors.
To the contrary, it reinforces the narrative that Democrats’ ostensible horror at Trump’s use of public power for private benefit is sanctimonious posturing. If all sides are corrupt, why not back the unabashed crook who promises to ruthlessly put America first? These sorts of (deluded) sentiments have badly undermined Democrats in recent years. And the pardoning of Hunter Biden lends credence to such reasoning.

More concretely, Biden has made it more difficult for Democrats to claim the moral high ground in impending fights over Trump’s abuses of the pardon power. Already, the president-elect has hinted that he intends to pardon the January 6 rioters en masse, an act that could embolden other MAGA die-hards eager to commit lawless acts in service of their leader.

Fortunately, Democrats now have the opportunity to demonstrate the sincerity of their ideals, while also mitigating one of their party’s greatest political liabilities — all by simply loudly and uniformly condemning Biden’s pardon as an abuse of power.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
July 21st, 2024:

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
From the "Tick Tock Until Joe Biden is Done" thread...

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=66119

Now that's how you make a Tick Tock thread, Theodore.




Don't worry about paying me for mocking all that up for you Joe*. I don't want any of you or Hunter's blood money.

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December 1st, 2024:

President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/01/politics/hunter-biden-joe-biden-pardon/
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President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he has pardoned his son Hunter Biden, who faced sentencing this month for federal tax and gun convictions, marking a reversal as he prepares to leave office.

“Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” the president said in a statement. It is a “full and unconditional pardon,” according to a copy of the executive grant of clemency.

This official grant of clemency cannot be rescinded by President-elect Donald Trump.

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Yup.

The only thing I wouldn't have predicted back then is that CNN would ever have included that last paragraph.


Once again, I'm the only one that got something right.

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