This was really bad. I can't believe that nobody on his staff vetted those names. Just a massive own goal.

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Anonymous wrote:Been sitting with this news for a little while now, and though I expressed my initial thoughts previously, I continue to find myself increasingly angered by this decision.

Biden really is a scumbag undeserving of the office he occupies. I don’t care to compare his degree of scumbaggery to any other president, but wow … as much as I’ve now accepted what an awful human being he is (after watching the past year + of him actively aiding and abetting a terrorist regime in Tel Aviv, and now all that’s come out since he selfishly refused to step aside until it was too late), I find myself in utter disbelief that his legacy has literally taken such a dramatic nosedive in the past six months.

He’s a joke. He’s possibly the worst president in modern history. Certainly in the running for the worst human being to ever hold the office.

What a descent into darkness …

The kind father and grandfather is only for his family. The rest of America is cannon fodder, collateral damage, disposable peasantry to President Biden.

So disappointing.

Yeah, unfortunately for many, you’re right.

Anonymous wrote:Been sitting with this news for a little while now, and though I expressed my initial thoughts previously, I continue to find myself increasingly angered by this decision.

Biden really is a scumbag undeserving of the office he occupies. I don’t care to compare his degree of scumbaggery to any other president, but wow … as much as I’ve now accepted what an awful human being he is (after watching the past year + of him actively aiding and abetting a terrorist regime in Tel Aviv, and now all that’s come out since he selfishly refused to step aside until it was too late), I find myself in utter disbelief that his legacy has literally taken such a dramatic nosedive in the past six months.

He’s a joke. He’s possibly the worst president in modern history. Certainly in the running for the worst human being to ever hold the office.

What a descent into darkness …

The kind father and grandfather is only for his family. The rest of America is cannon fodder, collateral damage, disposable peasantry to President Biden.

So disappointing.

Been sitting with this news for a little while now, and though I expressed my initial thoughts previously, I continue to find myself increasingly angered by this decision.

Biden really is a scumbag undeserving of the office he occupies. I don’t care to compare his degree of scumbaggery to any other president, but wow … as much as I’ve now accepted what an awful human being he is (after watching the past year + of him actively aiding and abetting a terrorist regime in Tel Aviv, and now all that’s come out since he selfishly refused to step aside until it was too late), I find myself in utter disbelief that his legacy has literally taken such a dramatic nosedive in the past six months.

He’s a joke. He’s possibly the worst president in modern history. Certainly in the running for the worst human being to ever hold the office.

What a descent into darkness …

Anonymous wrote:This one is a gut punch. I can't fathom what he was thinking here (in terms of any non-nefarious, valid reason.) Horribly disappointing.

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Anonymous wrote:Scumbag all along, no different than just about every other person drawn to “serve”.

There’s only the illusion of a two-party system. In real terms, we live in a hellscape orchestrated by corrupt leadership - it doesn’t matter much at all whether they call themselves Republicans or Democrats, conservative or liberal. That’s just the packaging.

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I also agree.

I think one of the reasons that #freeLuigi has such resonance is that people don’t feel any political party actually wants to help them. They just want to tax and take. The Democrats do stuff like this, which is just a slap in the face and an open endorsement of corruption, particularly horrific corruption in this specific case. Meanwhile Republicans are pretty much just openly embracing corruption in their attempts to destroy any limits (Citizens United, etc).

I am absolutely not defending the killing, to be clear. I do not support it. But it is undeniable that it has resonated in a way that is only surprising to political elites.

Anonymous wrote:Scumbag all along, no different than just about every other person drawn to “serve”.

There’s only the illusion of a two-party system. In real terms, we live in a hellscape orchestrated by corrupt leadership - it doesn’t matter much at all whether they call themselves Republicans or Democrats, conservative or liberal. That’s just the packaging.

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Anonymous wrote:Let me get this straight.

Biden pardoned his son because he didn't think he would get a fair trial.

But then he turns around and pardons/commutes (whatever) a corrupt judge that ruined the lives and families of numerous kids. A judge that did not hold fair trials for the sons of other parents.

Biden is a genuinely bad human being. It's one of the reasons all his presidential runs didn't go anywhere. It was Obama that elevated him, despite the popular will demonstrating over and over again that they didn't want Biden. And we've been paying the consequences ever since.

Pardoning kids for cash judges is exactly on brand for Democrats today.

Anonymous wrote:It's fascinating that even something that looksa pretty bad happens (despite nuanced context that people ignore), the faux-outraged concern trolls STILL have onpile exaggeration and lies on to try to create cover for MAGA man.

What, precisely, is the “nuanced context” here that makes this perfectly acceptable in your mind? Enlighten us, please. And be specific.

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Anonymous wrote:The cash for kids judge is 72 and has served 13 years of his 17 year sentence.
I don’t love it, but this isn’t the huge miscarriage of justice the “Harris Voters” posting here are making it out to be.

Come on. Do you know how many people in the US are out there that have served 13 out of 16 years for crimes that hurt a lot fewer kids than this and yet were not pardoned? This is indefensible and it’s okay to say that even if you are a Biden/Harris voter.

Nope. I truly don’t think this is the worst. It’s not great, but let’s be real - all
The super concerned posters here didn’t know he has served time. They didn’t know he would be out in a couple of years anyway, and that he’s over 70.
He sucks, but this just isn’t that big of a deal. This is typical Twitter outrage. Lacking details and context. You people are boring.

Why are you making excuses for this? Don't you think we as a society can do better than this? That maybe there are plenty of people deserving of mercy FAR more than this piece of scum? Why in the hell does he get pardoned and get to convalesce at home, while plenty of other poorer far less destructive people rotted in their cells, even with Covid? Why is THIS the guy that gets a break? How many elderly black men have DIED in prison for low level crimes? This is disgusting and you know it.

He wasn’t pardoned and he was already under home confinement.

And that makes this excusable how?

Sorry, where did I say that?

I was addressing the hysterical PP who can’t even regurgitate facts.

Sorry, I misunderstood. What you said is what is being used to justify this by the partisan Democrats who are defending it. I think it is appalling. This is wrong, outright wrong, and it should be pointed out.

I didn’t say that. I said “ He wasn’t pardoned and he was already under home confinement.”

So are you okay with this? Do you think you think this was perfectly fine behavior from Biden?

Forgive me but my outrage is all tapped out with Trump.

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The misconduct of Conahan and another Luzerne County judge led the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to throw out 4,000 juvenile convictions, and the discredited state judges were ordered to pay $200 million to the victims, according to the Associated Press.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/politics/joe-biden-commutations-pennsylvania-illinois/index.html

Does this mean that he no longer needs to pay these kids?

It absolutely does not mean that. All that happened was the sentence was commuted.

How are they going to get the money from him if he goes back to China?

I don't know how make you understand this, but, there is more than one person on this planet Earth.. the guy Biden deported back to China was not the same guy as the guy who was a judge in Pennsylvania.

It's fascinating that even something that looksa pretty bad happens (despite nuanced context that people ignore), the faux-outraged concern trolls STILL have onpile exaggeration and lies on to try to create cover for MAGA man.

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The misconduct of Conahan and another Luzerne County judge led the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to throw out 4,000 juvenile convictions, and the discredited state judges were ordered to pay $200 million to the victims, according to the Associated Press.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/politics/joe-biden-commutations-pennsylvania-illinois/index.html

Does this mean that he no longer needs to pay these kids?

It absolutely does not mean that. All that happened was the sentence was commuted.

How are they going to get the money from him if he goes back to China?

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The misconduct of Conahan and another Luzerne County judge led the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to throw out 4,000 juvenile convictions, and the discredited state judges were ordered to pay $200 million to the victims, according to the Associated Press.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/politics/joe-biden-commutations-pennsylvania-illinois/index.html

Does this mean that he no longer needs to pay these kids?

It absolutely does not mean that. All that happened was the sentence was commuted.

In 2007, a frantic call from an alarmed parent prompted Juvenile Law Center to investigate irregularities in Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County juvenile court. We discovered that hundreds of children routinely appeared before Judge Mark Ciavarella without counsel, were quickly adjudicated delinquent (found guilty) for minor offenses and immediately transferred to out-of-home placements. We petitioned the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2008 to vacate the juveniles’ adjudications of delinquency and expunge their records.

Though the court denied our initial petition, once the United States Attorney alleged that Ciavarella and another Luzerne County judge had accepted nearly $2.6 million in alleged kickbacks from two private for-profit juvenile facilities, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted our request for extraordinary relief. The US Attorney also filed federal criminal charges against both judges.

The scope of the violations of the children’s rights in Luzerne County turned out to be more egregious than anyone could have imagined. From 2003 to 2008, the Luzerne County judicial corruption scandal altered the lives of more than 2500 children and involved more than 6000 cases. Over 50 percent of the children who appeared before Ciavarella lacked legal representation; 60 percent of these children were removed from their homes. Many of them were sent to one or both of the two facilities at the center of the corruption scandal. Believed to be the largest judicial corruption scandal in our history, the story was featured in a 2009 episode of ABC’s “20/20.”