Quote Originally Posted by Lullapie View Post
However, compare this to Biden. He has pardoned more than 8,000 people. This is far more than any other President. Thousands of Biden's pardons were for serious criminals (murderers, pedophiles and people convicted of committing serious fraud). He has also given pre-emptive pardons to his family and many of his close supporters. Pre-emptive in the fact that they have been pardoned for acts that they haven't been charged or convicted of, but these acts might be discovered at a later date and the individuals may have had to give evidence against Biden. Many of Biden's pardons benefit him directly. As far as I can see, none of Trumps benefit him directly.

If Trump had done the same, those with TDS would be shouting from their keyboards that all of those he had pardoned in advance had DEFINITELY done something wrong and he was only pardoning them to protect himself.
I don't defend Biden pardoning anyone. Like most non-americans I think the idea of a presidential pardon subverts the role of the courts and democracy itself and should definitely be done away with.

But the notion that Biden's pardons somehow benefit Biden (what evidence do you have which makes you believe this?) while Trumps don't is utterly ridiculous. The Jan 6 crowd Trump has pardoned tried to stop the guy that beat Trump last election getting certified as president. It was an incompetent attempt, sure, but a coup attempt nonetheless. You can't join the dots and see how Trump pardoning these people might embolden like-minded folk to do it again in the future? Seriously? This hasn't crossed your mind at all?

You mention TDS... you have it. You are a huge victim of TDS. You see him acting in his self interests and ascribe these actions somehow to altruism. You see him acting out of ignorance (tariffs) and ascribe this to some master strategy for which there is zero evidence and doesn't make sense. Tariffs will hurt the US more than anyone else. Trump is threatening self-harm. The rest of the world is looking on in wonder at his stupidity, not quaking in their boots.

You mention a mandate... well, he promised tariffs and is already walking it back. Trump doesn't care about mandates. His mandates last time were "lock her up!" (didn't even try) and "build that wall" (no wall was built) "and make Mexico pay for it" (Mexico did not, in fact, pay for it). All he achieved last time was stacking the supreme court and giving the wealthiest people a huge tax cut. Great achievements from a certain point of view, but not what he ran on.