“The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded.”
– Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars
Apparently on Sunday when President Biden pardoned his ne’er-do-well son Hunter it was such shattering news that they put it in the middle of football coverage. My question is: Why?
Because this is in contrast to a President-inept Donald Trump whose current pick for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, has been revealed according to his history as president of Concerned Veterans for America as having been “repeatedly intoxicated while acting in his official capacity—to the point of needing to be carried out of the organization’s events.” Another potential appointee, Charles Kushner, is picked by Trump to be Ambassador to France. Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner, was convicted of filing false tax returns and retaliating against a cooperating witness. Trump pardoned him before leaving office in 2021. What is the point of being mad about a Democrat’s use of the pardon power when Trump’s whole approach to staffing his administration is to hire guys who NEED pardons?
Whether anyone acknowledges this or not, half the point of this election was that people didn’t want their favorite reality TV game show host to go to prison. If that’s not a pardon, I don’t know what is.
But there are still Good Christians ™ on the Right and pearl-clutching Democrats who act like Hunter Biden’s pardon actually matters. To those people, let me put this as diplomatically as I can…
Fuck you. Fuck your Mom. And fuck you while you’re having your eyelids pulled up to watch your Mom getting fucked.
What it is is that you do not acknowledge that standards are a thing, and we have them for a reason. You do not acknowledge this because Donald Trump is apparently the only person in the world who could take a jet to Great Britain, barge into Queen Elizabeth’s estate, have her corpse exhumed and fuck it live in front of TV cameras, and have his opinion polls go UP. HE can do that. YOU can’t.
Hell, the reason he had to pardon Roger Stone and Paul Manafort and the other crooks is because they don’t have a magic mind control shield that tells everybody “You Can’t Punish Me, I’m a TV Star!!”
The fact that you can acknowledge there’s something wrong with Biden pardoning his own son means that you still theoretically think that standards apply to SOME people but not to your perfect little boy. At least Joe Biden didn’t hire Hunter for anything. Does anyone know what Jared Kushner’s job at the White House even WAS?
Did you think Trump was the only one who got to break the law and get away with it? That he was the only one who could shield his kids? That he was the only one who could give jobs to his friends and his cronies and the people who bribe him? No? Then why are you upset?
When people like me say, or used to say, that we have a rule of law, this is what we meant. Because laws are supposed to apply to everybody. If they do not, there ARE NO LAWS. When your perfect little boy can commit crimes and do as he pleases while the rest of us are supposed to obey the laws, on what standard do you justify that other than “he’s Donald Trump”? The answer is, there IS no standard, and therefore if the laws don’t apply to him, they don’t apply to US either.
Did you think Trump is immortal? That the gods sent him down from Heaven to establish righteousness among the nations and he will reign over us forever? That therefore the laws of man don’t apply to him? No. He is a mortal who has to live in the same reality of science and causality as the rest of us peasants. That’s why he almost died from coronavirus. Because while a virus may be mindless, it’s not so stupid to believe Donald Trump when he says it doesn’t exist.
When this talking shit stain is finally wiped off the shoe of the Earth, you will find that you’ve traded away reason and ethics and laws for a temporary idol and you will have nothing to protect you when someone even worse comes along. I should know, because I made that same point to Democrats during Monicagate, and they didn’t listen to me any more than you do.
Your standard is fraud. Your standard is grift. Your standard is crime. Your standard is Trump. And Joe Biden, recognizing the will of the people, has finally acknowledged this.
So any of you Fox News macho men, if you still want to get your panties in a bunch because Biden is finally acting on the standard that you rewarded, just consider: This is what you wanted. This is what you wanted the world to be like. Sit down, shut up, smile and be happy.
You got what you wanted. I hope you enjoy it just as much as I do.