Biden has seldom possessed the gift of superb timing. The one great exception was his 2020 campaign, when the convergence of a fractious Democratic primary, a self-harming Republican president and a once-in-a-century pandemic vaulted Biden into the White House.
Before that, Biden ran for president repeatedly in years when he was unlikely to succeed and skipped several races he could have won. In 2024, he insisted on waging a doomed campaign for reelection just long enough to discredit the Democrats who closed ranks around him, then left the party with an unprepared presumptive nominee in Kamala Harris.
As president, Biden abandoned his past law-and-order record just in time for a national crime wave that Republicans used against him. He shed his Obama-era hesitations about pursuing titanic social policy to chase Rooseveltian greatness during an inflation crisis. He spent his first year as president agonizing over internal party politics just long enough to hand Republicans the governorship of Virginia, before abruptly moving to pass a popular infrastructure law that was stalled by Democratic infighting.
Now, Biden is exiting a presidency that he insisted was about saving democracy by delivering an ostentatious vote of no confidence in the institutions that his successor most obviously intends to attack.
There is poor timing and then there is this.
This is the best part of the whole article. Biden has been a master at misreading the room for his entire presidency, and he is responsible for so many of the problems facing the Dems right now. This is just the latest, and probably last, incident of that.
Anybody who reacts to Biden's pardoning today in revulsion has conveniently ignored the corrupt and immoral behavior from the Trump side of the aisle. I know I would not want my son to rot in jail, given how prosecutions and charges have all disappeared for Trump. At this point, there is no longer any merit in sticking to your word or holding the torch for integrity. When people reflect back on 2024 and all of the injustices that occurred due to politics, this one act will not stand out.
My hope is that everyone tires of these charades and keeps their noses to grindstone and goes about their civic duties honorably and morally. I still want that, and it's not Joe Biden that I am worrying about.
Anybody who reacts to Biden's pardoning today in revulsion has conveniently ignored the corrupt and immoral behavior from the Trump side of the aisle.
Yeah, you can get off your moral high horse now. The president of your party has pardoned his own son for a blanket amount of time.
The fact is that the voters knew the whole "no one is above the law" schtick from Democrats was fake and this proves it. Thanks for playing, but nobody is buying this anymore.
You can't play the faux outrage when your own president set the precedent for such a corrupt pardon. Reminder that it wasn't Trump who pardoned his son or even pardoned himself. So maybe people on the left ought to be sitting this one out.
You can't play the faux outrage when your own president set the precedent for such a corrupt pardon. Reminder that it wasn't Trump who pardoned his son.
Come on now. Trump set the precedent for corrupt pardons. Were you not paying attention when he pardoned a bunch of Loyalists and his Son-in-Law's father? I mean, the articles are everywhere as we speak because Biden's one Pardon is a clear mirror to Trump's Pardon(s). If you need a reminder, he pardoned:
Charles Kushner, Son-in-Law's father.
Steve Bannon, Loyalist.
Paul Manafort, Loyalist.
Roger Stone, Loyalist.
Michael Flynn, Loyalist.
None of these Pardons were excusable, Biden's included.
So I honestly believe he wouldn’t have pardoned Hunter had Kamala won.
If you see it from Biden’s viewpoint, leaving Hunter’s incarceration to Trump’s DOJ and Bureau of Prisons would be a potential nightmare for Hunter. Trump has said and done everything possible to signal that he would go out of his way to punish any and all political enemies.
Depending on which sycophants get put into those positions of power, Trump would more than certainly mess with Hunter’s parole hearings, work on putting him in solitary confinement, or moving him to a more violent prison.
It’s not a stretch to think Trump wouldn’t try to exact revenge on the ONE person that he has actual control over.
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This is the best part of the whole article. Biden has been a master at misreading the room for his entire presidency, and he is responsible for so many of the problems facing the Dems right now. This is just the latest, and probably last, incident of that.