I have no issue with Joe pardoning Hunter.

Me neither. The Trump administration prosecuting their political opponents while whining like hysterical dipshits that they are being politically prosecuted is hysterical to watch.

The "lock her up" crowd is outraged, I tell you, outraged, that anyone would deign to suggest the prosecution and/or jailing of their political opponent... as if the Trump administration didn't already do that to multiple persons in Trump's crosshairs including Hillary Clinton, Michael Cohen (Trump's former lawyer turned rat/author), both Comey and McCabe being subjected to "random computer chosen" deep dive IRS audits [random, my ass], and Trump's own administration being subjected to DOJ investigation in a "locate the leaker" wide investigation of his own people and multiple journalists.

And it’s not something anyone will remember here shortly.

Uh, what? Define "shortly." The false equivalency dipshits will repeat this Hunter Biden pardon poop as if it justifies whatever ginormous bullshit mountain Trump excretes. Count on it.

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So FTP Volume 777!? Kinda cool. :)

I'll save my outrage against Joe Biden for when he petitions multiple federal as well as state courts to drop the felony charges against himself for crimes he has admitted to and for crimes wherein there are piles of evidence coming from Republicans who witnessed and/or participated in it. Until then, everything else is just your standard issue right-wing false equivalency bullshit.

Other than Bluesky’s own account, Ocasio-Cortez’s follower landmark is a first for a user, the platform told The Hill on Monday. Democrats and those on the American left have migrated to Bluesky from the similar social platform X, owned by Trump supporter and tech billionaire Elon Musk, en masse in recent weeks.'
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5018696-ocasio-cortez-hits-one-million-followers-bluesky/

First the Dishonorable news:
'“I don’t think that the answer for progressives is to disengage,” Khanna said. “The idea is that in a marketplace of ideas, over the long term, the truth emerges.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ro-khanna-x-exodus-elon-musk_n_67483edbe4b058b214038415
Still, Khanna recognized that moneyed interests have distorted the public sphere ...'

'Democrat Adam Gray, a former state legislator, previously lost to Duarte in 2022 by a margin of 564 votes.
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Democratic flips of seats held by California GOP Reps. Duarte, Mike Garcia and Michelle Steel have cut into Republicans’ narrow House majority, as will — for the near term — the expected GOP departures of Reps. Michael Waltz of Florida, Elise Stefanik of New York and Matt Gaetz of Florida. For the time being, Republicans hold 220 seats and Democrats 215. (Republicans won 222 in 2022.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/03/adam-gray-wins-central-valley-swing-seat-00187093

I fully agree. This was a slow news week and so the chattering class had to gin up a 'betrayal of his legacy' story to keep the whole "fair and balanced" charade of news coverage and commentary.

I have no issue with Joe pardoning Hunter. And it’s not something anyone will remember here shortly.

Do you think voters will recall it in 2026/28, along with all of the other fiascos Dems caused in the four long years of the Biden Harris administration? I'm guessing there'll be some folks still around to remind them!

Vice president Biden, ah, supported the move and said there was no conflict of interest. Beautiful.

Biden may have disappointed us in one way or another, but pardoning Hunter after saying he wouldn't - almost certainly based on Biden's belief that Trump couldn't possible win a come-back election - is not all that disappointing to me or, I suspect, to most other Democrats and progressives.

Biden's belief that Trump couldn't win this election is another reason to issue him a MDDOTW award ... not to mention that this sort of closed-eyed thinking being yet another clear sign of his cognitive decline.

It's not about Hunter Biden. If Hunter Biden went to jail next year, would that shut up Republican 'what-about-ism' over Trump's upcoming pardons and other misdemeanors? Of course not - no more than any Republicans shaded their eyes and made clear their displeasure with Trump's pardons of (3) Manafort, (4) Flynn, (5) Stone, and (6) Bannon.

Biden may have disappointed us in one way or another, but pardoning Hunter after saying he wouldn't - almost certainly based on Biden's belief that Trump couldn't possible win a come-back election - is not all that disappointing to me or, I suspect, to most other Democrats and progressives.

I am on tenterhooks wondering if the president really will try to issue prophylactic pardons of all of Trump's threatened targets, just to make the rubble dance.