O/T:- Betting odds for US Election [The USA Politics Thread]

[BigFatPie]

If my child was a law breaker I for one wouldn't.
The US is going down the tubes.

Biden like most parents doesn?t think he?s guilty, he lost his only other son in tragic circumstances and Hunter has addiction issues. If you wouldn?t have done the same I?d suggest youre in a very small minority.

Rapist Trump pardoned 144 people in his first term, including his new ambassador to France.

[Lullapie]

Yet wouldn't most people do the same to save their sons or daughters
I know I would.

I certainly wouldn't. People who know me would attest to that too.

We bring our children into the world, we do our best for them when they're in our care, then that's it - we can help out where we can when they're older, but breaking the law to protect them, when they have broken the law - NO WAY.

I personally see that is what is wrong with things and human nature in the world. Hunter Biden has done some shocking things and his father protecting him goes much further than just pardoning him.

If you examining the pardon, it goes all the way back to 2014. I don't think the pardon is purely there for Hunter's benefit, but also to protect Joe Biden.

When Biden was Obama's VP, he did some really dodgy stuff with regards to raising funds for his own benefit and abusing his position of power. If he just wanted to fix Hunter's convictions, he could have just pardoned them, but to pardon everything in the last ten years - including everything that he hasn't even been charged with yet, smacks of a cover up. There would still have been a cry of 'foul' from the right, but the 'dad supporting son' argument would have had more substance.

The down side for Hunter, is that if he is called to testify against his father, he can't 'cite the fifth' - as he won't be incriminating himself - as he has been admonished from all responsibility. However, he can just refuse to answer questions or say he can't remember.

[Lullapie]

It will presumably be until Trump pardons himself for all of his myriad crimes in late January. The irony of him accusing anyone else of abuses of power is basically him parodying himself. In recent times, on the back of his cabinet picks, ersatz Nazi rallies etc., I wonder if he's simply trolling the US populace and having a laugh.

Has someone hacked into your account?

[SwalePie]

Has someone hacked into your account?

Not that I'm aware of. Why do you ask?

[Lullapie]

Not that I'm aware of. Why do you ask?

I don't mean the content, but the way the post was written didn't sound like you.

However, if someone has hacked into your account and it's not you I'm talking to, how would I know?

[SwalePie]

I don't mean the content, but the way the post was written didn't sound like you.

However, if someone has hacked into your account and it's not you I'm talking to, how would I know?