Imagine a world where a major political party makes a hero out of a fifteen-year-old kid; we’ll call him Kyle Rittenhouse, who obtained a firearm illegally and murdered people in cold blood because “freedumb!” but the same folks want to persecute a man for failing to disclose he had a gun on an application because: “rule of law!”
Wait a minute; I don’t have to imagine that—it happened.
And yes, they are already doing it, trying to use the Hunter Biden guilty verdict and compare it to the gazillion crimes that the Trump Cabal committed, both in and out of office.
FOX News is all like, “See, both sides are crooked, both political parties commit crimes, both sides are awful, all politicians do it—these two guys are one and the same!”
They also vow to continue to pursue the Biden Crime family. Makes me want to rip a phone book in half.
Ser-io-us-ly!
Let’s break it all down, shall we?
President Joe Biden did not commit a demonstrable crime—he was so squeaky clean that they couldn’t even impeach him.
Hunter Biden will pay for the crime he committed, and rightfully so if he did commit a crime. As it stands, I feel this was a nothing burger, but as they say, you do the crime, you do the time, no matter who you are—that is how equal application of the law works.
Not one Democrat is in the streets dressed up as Uncle Sam crying about this because we aren't insane zealots who think Joe Biden is some holy messenger from Gawd, nor do we think the politicians we admire should be immune from the law.
Hunter Biden committing any crime, no matter what it was, is not some Trump gets out of jail for free card. No murderer has ever gotten out of a prison sentence by pointing out that other folks have killed people, too.
By and large, what stinks and infuriates here is that the Sociopathic Party has turned the Hunter Biden guilty verdict into some weird false equivalency spin that doesn’t make a lick of sense on paper to anyone with a shred of common sense.
Tizzy Ent Sums it all up perfectly for me here:
But hey, since turnabout is Fairplay, my friends, whaddup with dis? Shall we investigate?
This entire Hunter Biden drama shows us that Conservatives never cared about the rule of law. It’s not that Democrats think Hunter shouldn’t pay for any crime he may or may not have committed; it’s that Republicans would not bat an eye if Hunter had been a Republican.
They would beat upon their breast about how unfairly he was being treated and proceed to use every dirty trick in the book to let him off the hook.
Rule of Law?
That is the shit Republicans say when they want to ensure cops kill unarmed Black kids in the streets. The histrionics and theater are about them creating a system where Straight White Men get all the perks and protections, and the rest of us can eat dirt.
Why?
Because, that’s why!
Or might makes right. Or Darwinism meets eugenics… or whatever manufactured BS they are spewing to justify the fact they want special rights, the rest of us be damned!
Take, for instance, the freak out about diversity in films and shows like DISNEY PLUS’ STAR WARS show The Acolyte.
Straight White males like InfoSecMike seem to believe including people in any given scenario who aren't Straight White, and Male, somehow erases him.
I am sure Hans Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Death Vader will be surprised to learn they are Lesbians.
But hey, maybe he is right—from now on, all TV shows, movies, and commercials will star only Straight White Men. Pregnant women will be played by Straight White Men. Nurses, school teachers, and receptionists—yah know, the roles they traditionally think of as girly—will all be played by Straight White Men!
Hey, if it was good enough for Shakespeare…
Men dressing up in lady clothes will have a legitimate purpose, ordained by them, so being in drag for state-sanctioned art will be okay, uhmkay.
SIGH!
I am so tired of these bratty, disingenuous, entitled, and pugnacious morons I don’t know what to do. Wait, I do know! Let’s give Laura Windsor’s suggestion a shot:
In any case, you know what to do.
Go Team Blue!
Well said. And I love that Laura Windsor idea.
"I am so tired of these bratty, disingenuous, entitled, and pugnacious morons I don’t know what to do." Alicia, I share your feelings of fed up. Fed up to the top of my head. Drowning in fed up. MAGA truly is a macro example of deSade's inmates running the asylum. In this case the asylum includes the House of Representatives, that thing that used to be called the Republican Party, and the Supreme Court, which by any sane standard is no longer supreme and no longer a Court by any realistic legal definition of that term. So fed up about sums it up.