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Tell that to the courts, I guess. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/business/media/hunter-biden-laptop-new-york-post.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/b

Tell that to the courts, I guess. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/business/media/hunter-biden-laptop-new-york-post.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/business/media/hunter-bid... Excerpt: > The laptop and some of its contents played a visible role in federal prosecutors’ case against the president’s son, who was charged with lying on a firearm application in 2018 by not disclosing his drug use. A prosecutor briefly held up the laptop before the jury in Delaware, and an F.B.I. agent later testified that messages and photos on it and in personal data that Mr. Biden had saved in cloud computing servers had made his drug use clear.

selimthegrim 2y ago
iCloud isn’t the laptop, let’s be clear
Sabinus 2y ago
Incredible that in this comment thread there are suggestions the Biden government is fascist, even though Biden allowed his son to be prosecuted but if the reverse happened Trump would obviously interfere.
- haccount 2y ago
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  - sofixa 2y ago
    So Biden is a fascist and dangerous, but extremely week and can't remember his own kids? This is the classic far-right nonsense of the enemy is both super weak and to be crushed, and super dangerous and powerful.
    - cmrdporcupine 2y ago
      Might-makes-right morality... and to prove how right I am, I will show you my might by beating on some victim. The mistake is to analyze this kind of discourse from a position of looking for justice or other classical liberal concepts. Authoritarian right or left start from an entirely different positioning, similar to that of a schoolyard bully: if you cry injustice, you're already weak. Winning is most important above all, not being right. And if the winner is doing something "wrong", then what is wrong is redefined. Epstein is evil because he was weak and got caught, so his accusers&victims are right... but if allegations are made against Trump for the same things, those making the allegations are liars, because Trump is strong. There's literally no way to make an accusation against him without being, yourself, cast as a villain. Even Christianity itself is redefined, its core moral precepts rewritten from "turn the other cheek" and "blessed are the meek", to prosperity gospel and "God's favoured nation"
- philwelch 2y ago
  Federal prosecutors tried to make an extremely favorable plea deal with Hunter Biden that granted immunity to a host of crimes he wasn’t charged with. The judges ended up throwing it out. Don’t rule out a lame duck pardon, either. Both Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton pardoned their ne’er-do-well relatives, and it’s very common for Presidents to issue pardons during their final days in office.
  - Sabinus 2y ago
    >Don’t rule out a lame duck pardon, either. Biden was asked if he would pardon his son, and he said no. But this is entirely beside the point, because Trump would pardon his son without a second thought and Trump supporters wouldn't blink. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-tells-muir-wouldnt-pardon-son-hunter/story?id=110904482 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-tells-muir-wouldnt-par... https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/06/politics/biden-will-not-pardon-hunter-biden/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/06/politics/biden-will-not-p... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c133mdjkl7go https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c133mdjkl7go
    - philwelch 2y ago
      He also said he wouldn’t drop out of the election.
      - Sabinus 2y ago
        Yeah the party spent weeks arguing with him to put the country before his desire to be a two term president. Something Trump is far too egotistical to do. But this is entirely beside the point, because the Democrat politicians are held to a far higher standard than the Republicans politicians are, especially Trump.
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selimthegrim 2y ago

iCloud isn’t the laptop, let’s be clear

Sabinus 2y ago

Incredible that in this comment thread there are suggestions the Biden government is fascist, even though Biden allowed his son to be prosecuted but if the reverse happened Trump would obviously interfere.

haccount 2y ago
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- sofixa 2y ago
  So Biden is a fascist and dangerous, but extremely week and can't remember his own kids? This is the classic far-right nonsense of the enemy is both super weak and to be crushed, and super dangerous and powerful.
  - cmrdporcupine 2y ago
    Might-makes-right morality... and to prove how right I am, I will show you my might by beating on some victim. The mistake is to analyze this kind of discourse from a position of looking for justice or other classical liberal concepts. Authoritarian right or left start from an entirely different positioning, similar to that of a schoolyard bully: if you cry injustice, you're already weak. Winning is most important above all, not being right. And if the winner is doing something "wrong", then what is wrong is redefined. Epstein is evil because he was weak and got caught, so his accusers&victims are right... but if allegations are made against Trump for the same things, those making the allegations are liars, because Trump is strong. There's literally no way to make an accusation against him without being, yourself, cast as a villain. Even Christianity itself is redefined, its core moral precepts rewritten from "turn the other cheek" and "blessed are the meek", to prosperity gospel and "God's favoured nation"
philwelch 2y ago
Federal prosecutors tried to make an extremely favorable plea deal with Hunter Biden that granted immunity to a host of crimes he wasn’t charged with. The judges ended up throwing it out. Don’t rule out a lame duck pardon, either. Both Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton pardoned their ne’er-do-well relatives, and it’s very common for Presidents to issue pardons during their final days in office.
- Sabinus 2y ago
  >Don’t rule out a lame duck pardon, either. Biden was asked if he would pardon his son, and he said no. But this is entirely beside the point, because Trump would pardon his son without a second thought and Trump supporters wouldn't blink. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-tells-muir-wouldnt-pardon-son-hunter/story?id=110904482 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-tells-muir-wouldnt-par... https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/06/politics/biden-will-not-pardon-hunter-biden/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/06/politics/biden-will-not-p... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c133mdjkl7go https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c133mdjkl7go
  - philwelch 2y ago
    He also said he wouldn’t drop out of the election.
    - Sabinus 2y ago
      Yeah the party spent weeks arguing with him to put the country before his desire to be a two term president. Something Trump is far too egotistical to do. But this is entirely beside the point, because the Democrat politicians are held to a far higher standard than the Republicans politicians are, especially Trump.
      - deleted 2y ago
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