• Erasmus@lemmy.world
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    Well I for one am glad this came out.

    This cleared up any doubts I had in my mind when it came for voting for this guy for president. Yessiree, I absolutely am not gonna vote for Hunter Biden in 2024.

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    The NRA is going to leap to his defense, right?

    Just like how they leapt to the defense of Philando Castile and Breonna Taylor.

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    Is going after gun owners who lied about their drug usage while purchasing their guns really the road Republicans want to go down? That is fine by me! Go get all that drug using gun owners Feds!

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    On one hand if he broke the law he broke the law. Charge him.

    On the other hand I’m completely convinced he only got caught because Republicans have been “investigating” unnecessarily for years.

    Which is super ironic considering Republicans are the party of “small govt” yet “big brother” is why Hunter got hit with anything.

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      This is not new behavior from the repubs. They went after Clinton the same way and could only get him for purgery (iirc) because he lied about something that honestly should have stayed between Bill and Hillary.

      It’s insane how much time and money they waste on trying to get the democrats instead of actually legislating and helping the idiots that voted them in. These morons keep voting for them though.

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        It’s because they broadly don’t care about legislation. They care about what was written in some book thousands of years ago and the dream that they could be rich and matter someday (most won’t).

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        To be fair, fucking your intern is an abuse of power even if the intern is into that shit. Yes, Clinton probably wasn’t the first or the last but that doesn’t make it ok.

        I say that as someone with a partner that fucks one of their managers. I still say that’s an ethical fail. But she ain’t my primary partner so her ethical failings aren’t really my concern. Just excellent gossip.

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          To be fair. She was an actual adult, not a kid and she only “regretted” and made it a problem after Linda Tripp convinced her it was a problem.

          Maybe you don’t have the full story but while it was inappropriate, it should never have been made public like that and it wasn’t illegal for them to have a relationship

          While I don’t disagree, comments like yours pointing out the nuance of it only serve to give them ammunition to pull this shit instead of running on policy and accomplishments, instead of fighting fair and winning elections on merit, they attack and tear down the dems when they win.

          I’d also suggest that you and others look up the number of republicans caught having affairs with underage staffers, not just their subordinate but actual teenagers.

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            It was a problem because Clinton should not be having sex with his subordinates. That’s a clear abuse of his power. It doesn’t matter if Lewinsky was perfectly fine with it. It’s no different than why a college student isn’t supposed to have sex with their professors.

            And yes I have the full story. I was alive and an adult at the time.

            It should’ve been made public. We have a right to know our tax dollars are being spent to allow him to get his dick wet. If Clinton had been involved with someone that wasn’t a government employee I wouldn’t care. But that’s not the facts of the situation.

            The best way to not give conservatives ammunition is to not fuck your direct reports. See? That’s really easy!

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              You really have no strategic sense at all.

              No, it should not have been made public like that. Sure, leak that shit via a news article or something but it should never have been used as an impeachment offense. The left has a big problem and until it’s solved we will never be able to take this country back completely from the magats. We throw people under the bus way too easily for offenses that aren’t world ending and have no bearing on doing their job or serving the country. I’ve lost count since I started paying attention in the early 90s, way too many good politicians (if questionable people/partners) have been kicked out of the mainstream and left in the virtual gutter because they did something like cheat on their wife with another adult.

              Plenty of these relationships happen all of the time and no one goes to prison for it or loses their job, etc.

              From what I remember when the real story finally came out, she was okay with it. He didn’t rape her or coerce her, she was using her mouth and pussy to get closer to power. You lot need to stop giving her and other women like her a pass just because he was her superior. She wanted and liked it until Tripp convinced her that she had been wronged.

              Again. Playing this nuance game only hurts the argument from the side of common sense. Not unlike trying to explain that climate change means more than just hotter summers, it also means colder winters in some places as well.

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                Questionable people make great politicians. That’s sorta a problem, though, isn’t it? Maybe we should try letting people who aren’t so questionable have a shot instead of strategizing about how to keep shitty people in positions of power because it serves partisan goals? I know… crazy thinking, right?

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    so… all those people who argued that trump getting indicted because is no big deal because an indictment is not a conviction, and it’s all poltical… they feel the same way about this, right?

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    After all the Republican posturing this is all they got?

    Would have been far better for them to continue the “charges coming” and “laptop incoming” charade to rile their crazy base up. These charges aren’t going to move the needle at all.

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      I’m sure “son of President Biden has his guns taken away by liberals” will cause quite a few exploded Republican heads

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    The Republicans of the House of Representatives announced an Impeachment Inquiry into Hunter Bidens penis today.

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    Hear me out… General election debate… Biden called out on it… he responds:

    "My son has a problem with pills and drugs. I lost my other boy after his time in the service. This guy and his kids are under scrutiny for insert implications of their wealth and status. Who do you all relate to more? You don’t have that one cousin who…? "

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      I lost my other boy to cancer after years of navigating year of the complicated and expensive US healthcare system this was after he served in war zones in Iraq.

      Who do you all relate to more?

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          Are you that worked up about a missing period and a single letter capitalized? Just so you don’t have a stroke I’ll fixed JUST for you. :)

          “I lost my other boy to cancer after years of navigating year of the complicated and expensive US healthcare system .This was after he served in war zones in Iraq.”

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    A person broke the law. Justice as expected then.

    I don’t see how this is a political news point though. Has this person been given government positions or control by their relationship to Biden? Is there corruption happening?

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    Shall. Not. Be. Infringed!

    That’s what MAGA like to say, right? I’m sure they’ll be out to support him.