The hypocrisy of republicans, where was the outrage when Abbott pardoned a guy who killed a peaceful protester in Texas including restoration of firearm rights ?

“ More than a year after a Travis County jury convicted Daniel Perry of murdering a protester in Austin, Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned Perry, 37, on Thursday shortly after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended a full pardon.”

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@Jorro I'm not a fan of Joe Biden, and I don't think he should have repeatedly promised not to do something, then did it anyway.

But seriously, with the pile of pardons Republicans have made of people who broke far worse laws, I feel like they should shut the hell up.

But I already thought they should shut the hell up.

@AskTheDevil all the politicians lie , but not as much as Trump , republicans are in a meltdown and I love it , at the end they can go and f@&$8 themselves, like you said , they have pardoned far worse criminals, what we should do is mock them.

@AskTheDevil @Jorro His political career is over, and I doubt he cares much about the optics anymore.

He can save his son, and enable him to better weather the storms ahead if he should end up targeted by the incoming administration.

He's probably guilty but the president has the power to pardon whomever he wishes so if that's the system, that's the system.

I think one might want to buckle up compared to whats probably coming.

@NiveusLepus @Jorro
I'm trying really hard to resist going on about this topic, but I don't seem to have any "won't power".

My problem is not that he pardoned Hunter. It's that he _repeatedly_ said he was not going to. It seems to me that his plan was to claim he wasn't going to pardon his own kid (over something he should have) for political points, then when it turned out Trump won, suddenly he cared about justice.

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@AskTheDevil @Jorro That's possible, and I wouldn't put it past a career politician to do that kind of math, but I wonder if in this case it was a growing concern of what the incoming administration might do if they had that level of access to his son.

Just playing Devil's advocate... Ironically.

@NiveusLepus @AskTheDevil @Jorro I believe he realized he has to protect his son differently as we will all have to do.

@Pippy @NiveusLepus @Jorro
I wish he'd just done it at the beginning, called bullshit on the Republican behavior, and not said he _wouldn't_.

It's not him pardoning his kid I'm upset about. That I get.

It's that he promised not to - then did it.

And that he _isn't_ pardoning other people who should get one. Just his own.

If he does a bunch of pardons of people unjustly accused or sentenced that aren't his kid, my heart might soften a bit.

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