• Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This is enraging. Makes my blood boil.

    I’m not seeing anyone reporting on an actual reason biden would do this. If anyone has any source on that I’d like to see it. What the fuck could his justification be? If anything, the judges deserved much harsher sentences, not a fucking pardon.

    Insanity. If not, please enlighten me.

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      He has been on house arrest since 2020 after 9 years in prison and only had 2 years of house arrest left. His sentence was commuted but he wasn’t part of the pardons, so there’s no change to his status as a felon. All this means is they are removing his ankle monitor less than 2 years earlier than scheduled.

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      You see, when you are rich you are living the good life. So as a judge would say: Apart from abusing a trusted position, and being wealthy and having privileges far above the norm, so he didn’t need corruption top live a more than decent life. But apart from that, and being corrupt despite that. He lived an otherwise good life!!

      Yes people have freaking gotten off on such nonsense!!! Except the parts that expose the double standard of course.
      These assholes believe that being privileged means they actually deserve MORE privileges. When they should be punished HARDER!. A homeless person struggling to survive, can get years in prison for stealing a snack bar! No mercy for the poor! He can’t even afford a decent lawyer, so we can discard him as we please, and not get in trouble for it.

      The system is so badly tilted to favor the privileged with more privileges in all aspects of life.

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      This has to have been some kind of clerical error, there’s no political motivation whatsoever for Biden to have done this.

      That being the case, keep publicizing the story, and maybe it will get to the administrations radar. Have the clemencies already been actuated, or is there still time to correct the mistake?

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    That guy was a Pennsylvania state judge and must have broken a zillion Pennsylvania laws with that scheme. Why was he only taken in on Federal charges? Biden can’t pardon state charges, apparently. So if he had been locked up under state law, he’d still be locked up.

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    Do these people really not see what is going on with the recent CEO killing? Is it really that hard to understand how much people like them are hated by the poors?

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      This makes me wonder, if we somehow got President Harris for a month, do you think she’d do anything different?

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    What a kick in the victims’ teeth. Commuting this guy’s sentence is Trump-level corrupt, one of the more despicable things Biden has done.

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    7 months ago

    When asked to free the prisoners, Biden thought they asked him to free the imprisoners.

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    the american people voted for donald trump again, dark bandon couldn’t give a single fuck what any of us ungrateful self destructive democracy destroying cunts have to say about anything any more, he gonna do what he wanna do, and then wait for trump to throw him and his one remaining son in prison