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why the whataboutism? why the compulsive need to downplay the severity of this?
yes, trump is a criminal too. and he has pardoned criminals and will likely pardon more criminals.
Why was the severity of Treason Trump's pardon of the much more serious crimes of Blogorovich downplayed?
Why do YOU care more about this pardon than you cared about the much worse pardon of Blogorovich?
Maybe in order to know the answer of your question you need to know the answer to my question. The reason why others are less outraged than you is they see that your outrage is selective.
YOUR lack of outrage about the the way more serious Bogorovich pardon is way worse than my lack of outrage about this.
the topic of this thread is Biden pardoning his son, who was guilty of serious financial crimes.
you're the one being selective in your outrage, not me. i disapprove of all these guys.
the thing with Biden though, is that the DNC frames themselves as the good guys. You know, Trump is a corrupt criminal, bla bla bla.
So when Trump does, it isn't really a surprise. It's what you come to expect from someone like him. I'm not approving of Trump's pardons because I'm mentioning Biden's
The issue is that Biden promised various times that he would not pardon his son. But now that he has nothing left to lose (his career is over, and probably the country is doomed to fascism anyways) so fuck it. Integrity is for schmucks anyway, right? i guess the moral of the story is make sure you have a powerful dad
personally I'm not even outraged about it. I'm glad he did it so that it's more clear to everyday Americans that they're all a bunch of crooks