This is the million dollar question that Republican MAGA fascists find so perplexing. 😳👇

Jimmy Carter pardoned his brother Billy Carter who took over $200,000 from Libya as its foreign agent.

George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil Bush for his role in the S&L scandals of the 1980s.

Nobody thinks those pardons defined either presidency.

Joe Biden's pardon of Hunter Biden won't either.

My latest on Kash Patel and the FBI: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

If you’re A-Ok with Trump pardoning war criminals, rapists, traitors, spousal abusers, insurrectionists and business cheats, but outraged by Joe Biden pardoning his formerly drug addicted, now recovering, civilian son, congratulations — you are an idiot, an asshole and you’re in a fucking cult.

I served as a US ambassador and know hundreds of others

Never met one before who hired a prostitute to seduce their brother-in-law or sent a videotape of the encounter to their sister

Or who committed 18 felonies & was pardoned by another in-law

I guess the job qualifications are changing…

If you don’t think this is exactly what we’re up against, then you haven’t been paying attention.

What’s worse?

(1) having your mother call you out as a dirt bag in an email published in the New York Times

(2) having a porn star you paid $130K in hush money pick little plastic mushrooms depicting you off a tray on the Jimmy Kimmel show

“‘I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.’”

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...

John Heilemann is not wrong. Trump's agenda is all about the destruction of America so he can rule in the same way Hitler did after the Enabling Act of 1933 gave him ultimate power. 😳👇

This is incredibly disturbing and goes against every rule of war, international law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the very ethic of the military. A disciplined military goes to every length to prevent civilian deaths and having a SecDef who doesn't care is unacceptable.

Lee: When Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was up for confirmation or when VP Harris was added to the ticket, they called them DEI hires. They want you to believe that Harvard graduate with over 20 years of experience is not qualified but Fox personality is qualified to run the DOD

“There are only three constants in Gabbard’s political biography: self-promotion; an attraction to quasi-revolutionary movements…coupled with a hostility to the boring, detailed work of governing; and an abiding attraction to murderous authoritarians.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/i-served-w...

"It is being framed as a review of how the U.S. first got into the war in Afghanistan and how the U.S. ultimately withdrew."

Do not accept this framing.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

“There are five areas that authoritarians want to control when they attempt to decapitate a democratic state, authoritarian expert Timothy Snyder writes: health, law, administration, defense & intelligence... each of these arenas, the goal is to create chaos — and yes, even death.”

bit.ly/3ABgZEm

"Officials on President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team on Friday weighed the future of Pete Hegseth, Trump’s choice to lead the Defense Department, amid new revelations that police investigated an allegation that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2017."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Marc Short, the chief of staff for Mike Pence, once said Matt Gaetz will likely end up in prison for “child sex trafficking,” and is “surprised” Gaetz is still allowed to speak at “teenager conferences” like TPUSA’.

Gaetz is a literal pedophile and the GOP loves it.

They are the Epstein party

Sen Mullin on Gaetz: “When he was accused of sleeping with an underage girl, there’s a reason why no one in the conference defended him. We all saw videos he was showing us on the House floor of girls he slept with & brag how he would crush ED medicine so he could go all night.”