Summary
President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden, reversing his prior stance against using executive clemency.
The pardon covers Hunter’s federal gun conviction and tax evasion guilty plea, sparking political controversy.
Biden cited political attacks and a “miscarriage of justice” as reasons for his decision, emphasizing his son’s recovery from addiction and the targeting of his family.
Critics argue the move undermines the judicial process, while supporters view it as within Biden’s constitutional powers.
This decision shields Hunter from potential prison time as Biden nears the end of his presidency.
Six days of vacation after a crazy stressful campaign, and she can afford the nicer room because she worked her ass off.
There are important things to worry about. This story is an intentional distraction.
There are important things to worry about, climate change, widening income inequity, homelessness, and our global economy that demands ever more growth/metastasis instead of equilibrium/homeostasis dictates our policy positions that continue to make them increasingly dire under either of our bought and paid for major parties.
So neither of our major parties will allow that core rot, that most important of blights that informs or creates the others, to be seriously discussed, much less addressed as the central existential threat to humanity that it has become.
I want trans people to have all the rights. I want abortion and all non healthcare to be legal and free, I want education based on aptitude and not net worth as that benefits society, I want public education that we can take pride instead of shame in as a societal institution, but we can’t get to any of that, especially in a stable way, without remaking our economy and it’s perverse incentives that drive us to see our neighbors loss as our zero sum gain.