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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

He's not involved in politics. Why is this here?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because the Republicans in Congress are making him a political issue.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So where are the articles about all the Jewish Space Lasers?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LOL, that's before my time as mod. :) We might need a Megapost of "Marjorie Taylor Greene is a Dumbass" but I'm not sure a) that happens often enough or b) that we need posts on things that are just a matter of fact.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

While I would argue that it does happen often enough, I’d take it further and say that a permanent megathread dedicated to the woman would eat the more important things, since the megathread would likely need to remain in effect indefinitely.

[–] SaintWacko@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

On Reddit, since that was before the Exodus

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

To be fair, if you read into it, the ones who aren't just screeching "Hunter Biden!" like a particularly obsessed parrot are claiming that Hunter is relevant to Joe Biden because the core claim that gets repeated and distorted like the world's stupidest game of telephone is Hunter functioning as a middle man for Joe doing things that are akin to, or in some cases directly are bribery and pay-for-access. And also Hunter using his access to Joe as a bargaining chip, which if Joe was aware of is also, umm, not a good look.

Any lesser charges are either a way to expand access to evidence or just the only things they can find evidence to charge over. They're also genuinely hoping that if they charge Hunter with something serious and federal that Joe will bail him out and they can pound the table over that in a cloud of hypocrisy.

Plus, it's all great theater to keep their people from paying too close attention to the Trump indictments.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

OP is butthurt.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Because this could potentially go to the SCOTUS and they'd be forced to choose between relaxing gun laws and allowing meth-heads to open carry and prosecuting a political opponent.