Garbage People Doing Garbage Things
[guest post by JVW]
Here is the least surprising development in the post-election era:
President Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, after the first son was convicted in two separate federal cases earlier this year.
The announcement was made by the White House on Sunday night. The pardon applies to offenses against the U.S. that Hunter Biden “has committed or may have committed” from Jan. 1, 2014 to Dec. 1, 2024.
“Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” Biden wrote in a statement. “From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.”
The president went on to claim that his son was “treated differently” by prosecutors.
“Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form,” Biden added. “Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.”
Democrats like Biden, of course, are famous for continually preaching that we need more laws which prevent reprobates from owning and using guns. But in the end, it’s never in doubt that Democrats have a predilection for refusing to actually hold miscreants like Hunter Biden accountable for their irresponsibility with firearms, no matter how much they demagogue the allegedly lax gun laws which they insist lead to an epidemic of shootings. But even beyond that problem, we’re still left with the empty promises of President Joe Biden that he would not extend preferential treatment to his crackhead n’er-do-well son, an obnoxious whelp who spent his entire life trading in on his father’s position for his own ill-gotten gains. We all knew from the onset that it was a lie — that no matter what happened on November 5 there would be a pardon for Biden fils, it was just a matter of whether it would come over the Thanksgiving or Christmas holiday break. Today, the demented President announced the decision that others had no doubt made on his behalf, and forever consigned himself to the pantheon of dishonorable frauds who have so cheapened the standards for our nation’s leaders.
Of course the Trump family is awful and crooked, that’s a given. But let’s never overlook the fact that Joe Biden leaves office as one of the singularly most wretchedly dishonest men to have ever profaned the office once held by George Washington. After the debacle of November 5 it was pretty clear that the Biden Administration would likely disgrace themselves on the way out the door, and apart from the usual petty score-settling we now see fully what corrupt and disgusting people have led us for the past 46 months. Good riddance to poor trash, as Johnny Rotten (who is now apparently a Trumper, God help us) would say.
– JVW