I don’t know why people are acting like this is on Biden that his adult son broke a law or laws. Everyone’s got people in their family who are assholes.
bc one of their famed boogeymen is finally finding themselves in some sort of legal hot water. They’ve been foaming at the mouth to have HRC and/or George Soros locked up for years. This is the closest they’ve come to a “victory”, according to their dumb propaganda.
Also because so many Republicans are running on a platform of Pres. Biden being complicit in his son’s shady business dealings. As the evidence on that has gotten thinner and thinner, they are clinging to the gun charge to retain credibility with their voter base. They are trying to say “See?! He is a criminal just like we said, therefore we were right and the president is trying to protect him. That means he’s should be impeached, just like they impeached Trump!”
The fact that a lot of the laws on the books are almost never enforced unless cops want to punish someone is a conversation we are not ready to have yet as a nation.
The law that snagged hunter biden was one of thousands that create a kind of web of infractions, to the point that almost everyone is violating at least one law every day.
I’m fine with locking up Hunter if he did something wrong, which is different than if he broke the law.
Maybe it’s just the combination of high profile and very rich that makes them seem way way worse than any embarrassing siblings of anyone I know.
Yeah, so my friend’s sister has an alcoholism problem, but she’s never, say, posed for nude photos and then campaigned on a family values platform, and you have to admit the incidence of serious substance abuse issues in the families of US presidents is… well, embarrassing. I don’t know what the statistics are compared to the average, but goddamn there seem to be a lot of drug problems among and around people with so much influence.
I take your point that it’s likely nothing new, but it’s disingenuous to imply that it’s normal compared to the average person.
It kinda seems like it is politically motivated in the other direction. They are taking this much more seriously and a wealthy white man usually would have to deal with.
I wish our system was unbiased and treated everyone equally
The specific charge might be even more political. Lying about drug use in the questionnaire. It gives me some conflicting thoughts.
On the one hand, I don’t gaf about Hunter Biden and if he’s guilty of crimes, he shouldn’t be shielded from that because he’s the son of the guy who was elected because he wasn’t Trump.
But on the other hand, the charge is such a beaurocratic safety theatre bullshit charge and I don’t think any kind of justice is served by charging anyone with this.
I think they are going for a “they not only wanted to change the law to protect the person they supported, but even reduced gun control to do so”.
Though a way around this might be to charge Hunter for the Ukrainian corruption stuff (if there’s merit to it) and fight all of the bullshit laws still on the books. Not to save Hunter, but so that no one ever has to deal with that bullshit.
Yeah same. I don’t care about the Biden’s. If they are corrupt then charge them and go through a trial.
Corruption is largely not illegal though from what I understand. Hell Trumps kids very transparently used their office to get wealth and afaik they have no pending charges at all.
If he was any other US citizen you’d have every single republican screamer coming out to denounce his “politically motivated” and “unconstitutional” charges.
I’m going to be honest, when the craziest, most armed people in the craziest, most armed nation, want you dead, you should be able to have whatever weapons you want to protect yourself. 🤷
After all the Republican posturing this is all they got?
Would have been far better for them to continue the “charges coming” and “laptop incoming” charade to rile their crazy base up. These charges aren’t going to move the needle at all.
my understanding is it is not just the "Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance? Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside. "… but also the school issue…Biden’s girlfriend discarded the gun in a trashcan across from a high school.[14] This was also an alleged violation of the Federal Gun Free School Zone Act as the firearm was within 1,000 feet of a public high school.
Who gives a shit. If he broke the law, convict him, as long as it’s consistent with anyone not the son of a famous politician. By the same token, these same rich and powerful people have to be accountable to all of same laws…
as long as it’s consistent with anyone not the son of a famous politician
As the article notes, it is not consistent, and the charges were likely brought due to political pressure.
Your average addict would have these charges dropped and a diversionary program offered, as was in the initial plea deal (prior to political pressure being leveraged).
I thought the people bringing the charges are the ones against all the regulations and background checks on firearms to begin with. So all of a sudden they’re just changing their minds, as a party, on an issue that’s one of the foundations of their entire platform. Yeah, no one is going to see right through that giant pile of hypocritical bullshit.
so… all those people who argued that trump getting indicted because is no big deal because an indictment is not a conviction, and it’s all poltical… they feel the same way about this, right?
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