• w3dd1e@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    29
    ·
    20 days ago

    I’m not saying it was right, but Hunter did get it rough solely because of who his dad was.

    I’m not saying he didn’t deserve it, only that it wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

    I don’t know that this is worth making a fuss over.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      37
      ·
      edit-2
      20 days ago

      Hunter did get it rough solely because of who his dad was.

      If you lined up all the crack heads in America and ranked them “has it the most rough” to “least rough”, I would challenge you to find 1% who have it better than Hunter.

      • AnneVolin@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        28
        ·
        edit-2
        20 days ago

        If you lined up all the crack heads in America and ranked them “has it the most rough” to “least rough”, I would challenge you to find 1% who have it better than Hunter.

        Exactly. What crackhead is getting off on a gun possession? That’s a slam dunk for a DA to put numbers on the board.

        Libs just have their heads up their asses. Legalities around guns + drugs have been the corner stone of state suppression for decades. Libs love screaming about freeing their favorite rapper or how Regan is a hypocrite that passed gun control in CA, but suddenly pretend it’s not typical when their guy’s son catches a case.

    • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      29
      ·
      20 days ago

      My big issue with it is basically summed up by this meme. By doing this he’s established that he’s willing to break promises and take advantage of systems that republicans are abusing, but only when it benefits him personally. He could executive order a bunch of different things, and go on a pardon spree, but what he does with his power is just to pardon his son. Unlike the rest of us, a Trump presidency will basically not affect him at all, and the little it would/did has to do with his son and he doesn’t even have to deal with that.

      Do I want his son in prison? No, not really. But considering he all but lied about being a 1 term president and refused to step down making a primary impossible, which at least contributed to the dems loss, it’s an extra slap in the face that the only real consequence he had to face is able to be erased by a stroke of his pen, and yet he seems to be doing nothing to protect or help anyone else who has been hurt by his decisions. I don’t think Hunter should suffer because of who his dad is, but his dad is making (and has made) us all suffer and is unwilling to do anything about it.

      I’m not making a fuss about it, but if I was, it’d not be about the pardon, it’d be about how his big move as a lame duck with immunity confirmed by the Supreme Court is to get his son out of prison and watch everyone else suffer.

    • Barabas [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      20
      ·
      edit-2
      20 days ago

      Wasn’t solely because of who his dad was. If his dad was just a regular rich dude with political connections, maybe. If he was one of the thousands of black men currently incarcerated under the law that Biden championed himself, hell no.

      Really, he should have just taught his son to do powdered cocaine instead, since that is a rich person drug and thus has a much lower penalty.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        20 days ago

        Didn’t they look through records to figure out he may have been an addict around the time he bought a gun and that’s what he got charged for?

        A law restricting access to gun purchases based on legislation not in the constitution. Thereby … exactly what judges have been trying to rule unconstitutional. So if the law is legitimate… Then states have full right to restrict gun purchases by any of their wants.

        It’s all hypocritical shit.

    • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      20 days ago

      Whomst among us hasn’t been given cushy jobs we aren’t qualified for in corrupt Ukrainian companies by our dad and then done a bunch of blow with prostitutes and tax fraud and illegally owned guns!? Clearly this is a witch hunt.