Biden helped engineer the growth of our for profit private prison BUSINESS in the 90s. He was a good neoliberal who joined hands with Reagan Republicans and furthered the regressive capitalist "trickle down" agenda we all suffer into today. He's a bad man who has done bad things to vulnerable Americans.
He's leaps and bounds better than the only alternative Americans were presented, which is why I voted for Biden against Trump.
No politician worship here. No "we need a strong man" demagoguery here. Good luck walking right-wingers through that rational breakdown though.
Bernie, Biden, Trump... what really maters is who the president nominates and who he surrounds himself with. Very rarely will things make it to the president's desk where it is up to his judgement whether to sign it or not. Elections are more about evaluating who the candidate surrounds himself, not his policy ideas.
And just to be clear, Trump surrounded himself with nepotism, grifters, and yes-men. I just wonder who Bernie would have surrounded himself with if he got the chance.
Let's be real and fair about it this, Obama changed Biden for the better, something about their partnership drove Biden further Left on many issues, and Bernie Sanders teaming up with him also seemed to force a major shift in Biden's platform. Biden could have stayed that guy who was a fervant drug warrior from a bygone era but he's shifted for the better on "drug war" and "war on crime" and he seems to really be willing to take on the fight against the racists that we're in currently.
Trump on the other hand wasn't willing to do anything but make shit worse, including ending democracy so that he could be dictator.
I have plenty of grudges against Biden, being one of the deciding factors that led to Clarence Thomas being placed on the supreme Court is absolutely one of them, but you gotta give the old man credit where it's due, he's not who he was at all, and not many elderly change that late in life, and we shouldn't shit on people who show a clear ability to grow and become better, because that's one thing Biden has going for him that Trump absolutely does not have.
Hunter is the presidential kid. There hasn't been any talk of pardons from his dad, government, or otherwise.
Trumps team has at large all asked for pardons. From charities fraud to pedophilisim.
You'd think just the two facts here would be enough to strike a chord. The president isn't pardoning his own kid. Trump is rallying to pardon those who willingly and with great effort actively attempt to destroy the idea of government in America.
It's not even that. His crimes were super minor. The literal misdemeanor tax shit would never be criminally prosecuted if he were a regular person.
And the other crime was owning a gun while being a drug user. Who fucking cares? The country is full of people who both own guns and use drugs. First time I've ever heard of actual legal consequences for that. Anyone else and the conservatives would be fighting for his gun rights.
Drugs, hookers, and influence peddling. GOP staples.
To be honest, it's the potential influence peddling that concerns me - it mostly seems like "my daddy is Biden - money please" that didn't go far, but if there's something to that, he should definitely face consequences.
My sister is the only conservative in our family. Her husband's family are all conservative. My mom loves to push their buttons about Trump, I'm less willing to engage because I'm not going to change their minds, so why bother?
I was at my sister's house while her MIL was there, and our mom was not there. I guess my sister and her MIL were feeling cheeky, so they started talking politics at me and asked if I believed in Hunter Biden's laptop.
Yep, I believe he had a laptop.
Did I believe the photos were real?
Yep, that dude's a moron and overall pretty crappy person. If he did something illegal, arrest him, prosecute him, fire him into the sun for all I care.
I have too much sense to follow that up with "... just like Trump and his kids", and thankfully my niece came around to chat and the politics conversation ended.