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Wait, so you are saying "I'll support prosecuting Biden, but only if he's already been successfully prosecuted in court"? That's one brave commitment right here
by smsm42 3y ago
Wait, so you are saying "I'll support prosecuting Biden, but only if he's already been successfully prosecuted in court"? That's one brave commitment right here. Or you envision a situation where Biden's accusations are shown true by the court, but he's still not prosecuted - and in that case, your brave voice would be necessary to support correcting the situation? I hope our legal system, with all its flaws, is not as far gone as to just refuse to prosecute a person that has already been proven guilty, just because. Though to be honest, seeing the details of Hunter's deal, I can see where you may be coming from.
> Do you only care if it's Joe Biden as the accused or do you care about the corruption implied by it?
I care about both, naturally. So should everybody. I care that a person committed crimes of corruption, and I care that the same person has been occupying the post of VP of the United States, and now occupies the post of the President of the United States (of course, for persons that did not occupy such posts, I still care for the former, the latter just makes it so much worse). Of course, the detail that his name begins with "Bi" and ends with "den" is purely coincidental, neither me nor anybody else (including maybe his personal enemies?) cares about this. To the measure that anybody cares, his personality is completely irrelevant, his position and his crimes are both relevant. And the combination of the position and the crimes enhances this relevancy - it's one thing when a night guard on a used tire recycling plant is corrupt, another thing when it's the President.
- pstuart 3y agoThe willful mis-stating/misunderstanding is impressive. My point is that I'm for the laws to be applied evenly. It's clear that Hunter was trading on the appearance of access to his father (which is slimy but not necessarily illegal if the elder Biden did not engage at that level. All those words and no acknowledgement of who else might be worthy of investigation, because that's the whole point of this affair -- whataboutism and misdirection. Continuing this dialog with you is no different than trying to reason with an anti-vaxxer or a religious zealot, so we'll leave it at this and you can walk away "winning" the discussion because I forfeit this game. Congratulations!