Rightwing politicians repeat unfounded theories that gun trial verdict is a ‘distraction’ from worse Biden crimes
Republicans responded to Hunter Biden’s conviction on Tuesday of lying about his drug use to buy a gun by doubling down on conspiracy theories that many senior party figures have been using to try and damage his president father.
Despite the fact that Joe Biden’s son could now face a hefty jail sentence, Donald Trump’s election campaign and its surrogates repeated unfounded attack lines that the conviction was part of a conspiracy to deflect attention from more serious crimes and represented the use of the Department of Justice (DoJ) as a political weapon.
Republicans have long sought to use Hunter Biden’s woes and business dealings as a political weapon against Biden, ignoring the fact that Trump himself is also now a convicted felon whose own business empire has been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for fraudulent practises.
That tactic continued in the wake of Hunter’s guilty verdict.
Gotta say, for a guy they keep presenting as a senile, barely-functional bumbling idiot, orchestrating a trial to throw your own son in jail just to generate a distraction is kinda badass.
Some real “getting captured was my plan all along” energy right there.
The enemy is both weak and strong
Now they’re claiming he takes drugs when he wants to be functional. And one idiot (Hannity?) even said it was Red Bull.
Hey I do that too! Stop trying to make Biden relatable you jerks!
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They cannot celebrate his conviction because that would undermine their assertion that the trump trial was rigged.
In a twisted way, their reaction makes sense, and for me, was predictable. The cult must be constantly managed for it to remain intact.
The collective confusion and mental gymnastics to twist it when Republicans heard about the Hunter Biden conviction cost the US billions in lost productivity.
We could have unlimited free energy if only we could figure out how to harness it from republicans doing mental gymnastics
You’ve gotta think they had two folders for “Talking points if Hunter is found Not Guilty” and “Talking points if Hunter is found Guilty”.
And both folders contained the same message: “The system is rigged!”
It is funny the timing of all this. Republicans went after Hunter Biden because they were convinced that they could make Joe Biden look bad if he had a criminal son.
But very little of Hunter’s issues have meaningfully rubbed off on Joe, outside of the more conspiratorial conservatives whose opinions of Joe Biden were bad to begin with.
But now that they got what they wanted, and Hunter is a convicted felon, it has completely taken the wind out of the “Joe Biden controls the justice system to persecute his rivals” narrative that they want to push after Donald Trump’s felony conviction.
And they can’t even lay into Hunter Biden as a distraction because he was convicted of gun crimes.
Conservatives moving goalposts is nothing new.
Why do you think they buy such ridiculously large vehicles? It’s to make moving the goalposts faster.
it has completely taken the wind out of the “Joe Biden controls the justice system to persecute his rivals” narrative
Says who? When in their entire history have they been logically consistent? They’ll still argue it’s rigged even if every single Democrat was arrested because one of their own got caught too.
Look, stupidity is a spectrum, and the less traction the lie has, the fewer stupid people will believe it. I’ll take what I can get.
“republicans cause more problems for no reason because they are fucking jackasses and a threat to America.”
Fixed the headline.
This is why what Republicans might say should never factor into what rational people do.
No matter what happens, they’re gonna make up some bullshit to fearmonger.
They call Biden a communist extremist that will make college free, tax the rich, and give us free healthcare…
So like, why not just run someone that actually wants all that stuff for Americans?
Even if Dems don’t fight for, republicans will say we are.
Because the great mass of politically uninformed people sometimes believe them, so we have to pay attention to what they say.
I’m just waiting for them to accuse Biden of weaponizing the justice system against his own son.
I mean, they kinda just did…
Hunter was dragging down the whole crime family with his incompetence! He had to be dealt with!
Republicans, the party of being a fucking pussy ass bitch
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Yesterday as I was helping someone with their computer a couple of coworkers were talking about how the hunter biden trial was super quick compared to trumps and yadda yadda yadda. Its mind boggling. Like, guys you got what you wanted. You can legally say Hunter is a criminal without it being libel/slander. Hes a felon now. What did this accomplish exactly now that hes a criminal? Hes still not on any ballot. Hes still a fail son, but like he’s not doing anything.
I was wondering how they were going to spin something going exactly their way as being bad for them.
“Everything is a conspiracy” is the go-to method they use to not cope with reality, ever since trump got them hooked on conspiracy theories.
Yes yes everything that doesn’t go your way is unfair and fake.
But it did go their way, they’re just pissed because the timing of when it went their way totally undermines their talking points about Trump and his trial.
Yeah sorry I should have been more clear that’s what I meant, but it didn’t go exactly the way they imagined in their head
Are you saying your initial comment didn’t go your way? That sounds like a false flag operation! The enemy is inside your brain!
The enemy is inside your brain!
I don’t think the guy you’re responding to is RFK Jr.
Except the Hunter Biden trial did go their way and they’re still saying that.
If they weren’t consistently stupid, the MAGAt’s would really have nothing to bind them.
God damn this is just so embarrassing. I hate both of these idiots and hope they drown in a grease trap, but I would feel less bad for them if they cut off their own hand on live TV.
