Biden has pardoned his son because his conviction was a "miscarriage of justice".

Here's a question, name an american president that was a decent human being?

"End of standards". Fuck me.

Biden, a narcissistic maniac who has repeatedly justified the funding of the genocide of a people who are largely a different colour to him and not western so they count less (as all non whites have done to all the presidents), and the opening poster of this thread mentioned him pardoning an individual as being the marker for an "end of standards".

Utterly depressing.

What this thread shows (and all western media in general), is how little people in the west care about non white peoples in the rest of the world. The pardoning of an individual trumps the 250 plus years of tyranny inflicted by that white settler entity on non white people of the world.

That is a fucking depressing (but excellent) summary. 😞

I hoped we had evolved further but sadly I think we are devolving if that’s a word. It feels like a race to the bottom in so many ways. We are capable of such wonderful things as humans, yet we allow all that you have summarised and far more to go unchallenged.

The trouble is power tends to attract c*s. Few are genuinely in it for the good of humanity. They are usually narcissistic. Obama and Jacinda, I think were exceptions.

No different in the Uk. Politicians will lie and do whatever they can get away with. No integrity. I had hoped better from the Labour government but their manifesto has proven to be a tissue of lies as well.

The standard seems to be that no one can be elected telling the truth

And the same in the UK we voted out an ineffective lying government that supports its mates and takes freebies and replaced it with and ineffective, lying government that supports its mates and takes freebies.

people in glass houses best not throw stones

Aye, any sane person would abuse their position of power for their own needs if others have also done so.

That's a great defence for any man that's ever abused their position of power isn't it.

Really priceless stuff on here today

He’s a very old man who wants to do the last thing he actively can to help his son. In a few weeks he’ll have no chance to. Most of us would do the same. I’m not a fan of Biden but come on, it’s what any sane person would do to help their family - in a system where the actual president is a sex offender and fraudster and the government made of billionaires and fascists. The US is a cautionary tale nothing more.

So true. It’s like living in a satire comedy. Except it’s not funny, it’s scary.

Well I guess on mumnset quite a few people teach their children it's ok to do bad things because others do them too

Great stuff

My previous comment with all the quotes and actions of a host of presidents was in response to this comment.

"End of standards". You couldn't make this nonsense up.

Please, do not be so ignorant

Bidens actions shows they never had any

Trump has pledged to pardon the Jan 6 attackers. The Dems might as well abandon having standards, too.

This narcissistic, self absorbed, power hungry (had to be pushed out), egotistical maniac is currently funding a genocide.

And what do you mean "end of standards"? Since when were there any? Biden is just the latest in a long line of presidents who have either directly committed human rights abuses of people viewed as less than, or been complicit in it.

• george washington advocating the complete evisceration of a Native settlement, and signing into law the fugitive slave act 1793 guaranteeing a slavemaster (such as himself) the return of African slaves to their masters who had escaped a plantation.

• thomas jefferson raping at least one of his 600 African slaves, wrote, "blacks are inferior to whites in the endowments of body and mind", also dehumanised the Natives as "savages" in the white settler document the 'declaration' on an occupied peoples land. The Natives are PEOPLE. He's the savage.

• theodore roosevelt on the Natives: "I don't believe the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are".

Faces of these three tyrants are carved into "mt rushmore" (carving done by a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, Gutzon Borglum), another sacred Native site.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/07/03/mount-rushmore-gutzon-borglum-klan-stone-mountain/

And the fourth white supremacist on the monument, abraham lincoln, or Abe as he is affectionately known by the colonising group of white settlers, stated: "I am not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. I as much as any man am in favor of the superior position assigned to the white race."

There is the theft of Hawaii from its Natives. There is the crimes committed against civilians in Korea (No Gun Ri massacre), Vietnam (My Lai massacre), and over a million killed in Iraq as well as prisoner abuse (Abu Ghraib).

Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan in a recorded phone call, Reagan stated: "Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television, as I did, to see those, those monkeys from those African countries — damn them — they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes!”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ronald-reagan-called-african-u-n-delegates-monkeys-call-richard-n1037171

Richard Nixon: "I have the greatest affection for [blacks], but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. ... The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like."

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-11-07-9911070165-story.html

Palestinians, facing a genocide (per UN agencies) by a group being armed to the teeth by Biden, over 42k dead, over 26k of whom are women and children.

Standards? Really?

That'll be fine, because Biden....

I wonder if, in four years time, Trump will be able to pardon himself!

@Savemydrink - The Biden “crime family”. Hahaha. 🙄

Yeah, who cares that Biden has been gaslighting the US public for the last 5 years by claiming he has morals.

And he just gave away any moral high ground you think you have, permanently

I’m more concerned about the convicted felon, liar, serial fraudster and rapist about to take over in the White House. The revenge-obsessed monster spewing non-stop threats about putting his ‘enemies’ in prison and even executing them.

So it’s bad for a relative of a president to do business with China? Like Kushner and his criminal family and Ivanka who was ‘working’ in the White House at the time? www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/jared-and-ivanka-made-up-to-640-million-in-the-white-house/

Biden legacy is to prove they're all as bad as each other

I’m glad Biden pardoned his son. As far as Democrats being seen as lacking integrity, that’s laughable. The Republicans have sold their souls to the devil.

Why would they, when whoever they vote for doesn't have any?

Based on Trump's recent win, I don't think the majority of American voters care about integrity

I doubt it will be politically inconsequential at any foreseeable election when people are considering whether Democrat politicians have any integrity

Probably quite a few Trump voters feeling vindicated right now

This, lol !

I’ve been thinking that Biden ought to go ahead and pardon his son. I would have. The whole system will be crazy and unpredictable under Trump and his cronies.