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Kathleen's avatar

Granted, Biden ought not to have clung so long to the assumption of his nomination. But we had a great candidate. The problem was that she was a woman of color in a nation with too many racist misogynists and too many who declined to vote to, perhaps, avoid looking like racist misogynists.

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When I was around 18 or 19 years old, I remember actually being impressed with George H.W. Bush when he relented to raising taxes despite his "read my lips" promise. Even from that young an age, I have always thought it absurd for grown adults to hold others to promises, particularly when things clearly haven't worked out as expected. My response to people who angrily say, "But you promised!" is normally something along the lines of, "Are you five years old?"

When Joe Biden made that promise, he obviously was banking on a normal American justice system, and a permanent return to sanity in America with Trump gone. He was certainly not expecting Trump to actually return to power. Now, after the announced nomination of an openly vengeful thug for head of the FBI, by an openly vengeful thug of a President-elect, after watching Congressional Republicans go after Hunter to get to Joe, and knowing that Trump has corrupt judges on his side in the Judiciary, it is more than reasonable for Joe to change his mind.

Things obviously didn't turn out as expected. The good and great American people re-elected a crook, who absolutely needed no pretext to pardon the J6 terrorists any more than he needed one for all of the other corrupt pardons he handed out in his first term. If they now have a problem with the outgoing President taking understandable action on the basis of this once unthinkable disaster of an outcome, then the people who made this outcome happen should take a long look in the mirror, so that they may figure out a way to go fuck themselves.

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