#tfg #gop #Biden #hunterbiden #gregabbott
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.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/16/daniel-perry-greg-abbott-pardon/
@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.
@Jorro I agree! I'm with you!
@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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@NiveusLepus @Jorro Also, there's a lot of other people who could use a pardon, that he's ignoring, too.
Like Leonard Peltier, for instance.
He didn't do this for justice. He made promises he figured he wouldn't have to keep (which he's done many times), and protected his own, not the country.
When we can't trust people to do what they say, how can we work with and believe in them?
And if that's how the presidency works, how are people expected to believe in anything?
@AskTheDevil @Jorro @NiveusLepus
why believe in a presidency that has not served the people since AT LEAST Ike?
are you THAT slow to learn?
@MongrelHorror @Jorro @NiveusLepus
People have a powerful bias to believe things that confirm what they already want to believe, and reject anything that is against the belief.
Politicians know people want to believe certain things, so they say what we want to hear, and we tend to ignore warning signs from our "side".
Also: Attention spans seem to be shorter, and people tend to put positive spins on the past.
It's not that people are slow, it's that they are manipulated using known bias.
@AskTheDevil @NiveusLepus @Jorro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oX2xFo7JA4
its about human ego-cancer.
@MongrelHorror @Jorro @AskTheDevil That is powerful...
@MongrelHorror @NiveusLepus @AskTheDevil I love it !!