I mean, I clearly didn’t mean he had a guilty judgment against him and the word guilty doesn’t necessarily always imply legally guilty. But fine. For semantic’s sake, He’s not “guilty”, but he did in fact violate the presidential records act. It was just decided that he wouldn’t be prosecuted because it was a just a small oversight. Which, to be clear, is a decision I agree with.

Thank you for providing that context. Good to know the situation is even dumber than I thought.

This is my understanding of the situation so please don’t fully take my word for it.

Garland refused to fully cooperate with a subpoena issued to him by rebublicans. (specifically he refused to hand over audio from an interview of Biden in his classified documents investigation) Garland refused to cooperate because Biden told him not to cooperate. Republicans in congress then voted to find him in contempt of congress and wanted the DOJ to prosecute him. The DOJ then came through saying he didn’t do anything wrong because he just did what Biden told him to do. And being part of biden’s administration it’s only normal to do what the president asks.

If we want to go back even further iirc there was a special council investigation into Biden regarding a handful of documents found at biden’s home from the Obama administration. Biden apologized saying he forgot that he had those docs. He handed those docs over to investigators and fully cooperated with them. That whole situation ended with special investigators finding that Biden didn’t do anything malicious and just forgot to relinquish (I think it was literally 3) those docs when he left office in 2016. That should have been the end of it. Republicans then drudged things up and wanted his interview from that investigation. Presumably to make it look like Biden was guilty of the same crimes trump is guilty of.

Technically speaking though Biden is guilty of violating the presidential records act. The same act trump is/was being tried for in his classified documents case. The difference being that Trump willfully took boxes upon boxes of documents pertaining to our national security secrets to Mar-a-Lago when he left office and then refused to cooperate with the FBI when they called him out for it. This then forced the FBI to raid Mar-a-Lago to get the documents back. Biden on the other hand was just old and forgot about some work he took home. When he was called out about it he fully cooperated and gave the documents back.

See, your mistake was driving in Maryland. It’s Mad Max out here.

Steve bannon looks like the result of a teleportation experiment gone awry. now he’s started his metamorphosis into a half man half totalled 1998 Chevy Silverado monstrosity.

Am I supposed to be afraid of another small enclave of idiots making gigantic asses out of themselves on an international stage?

And on the third day, our great cheeto will rise once more.

Everyone is treating this like this guy is actively saying Biden isn’t going to be on the ballot. But he’s just saying dates conflict and it’s a minor problem than needs to be fixed. Seems like no bigger deal than a work email from that annoying coworker pointing out some minor problem like it’s a huge issue. Yes Carl, I know we won’t have enough paper for the copier to last the rest of the quarter. I’ll order more. It’s fine.

You guys are getting headphone jacks?

Isn’t life expectancy in the US lowering though?

In his defense that’s likely why he put left in quotation marks.

I’m so tired of this “woke agenda” bullshit. Being Woke means one thing and only one thing. It simply means you’ve been disillusioned from “the land of the free” rhetoric we’ve all been fed since we were children and you acknowledge that the institutions that have been built up in the US, whether intentionally or otherwise, disproportionately disenfranchise minorities. It has jack shit to do with climate change, politics, abortion, or gun control. (Other than maybe how those things contribute to racist institutions) being for Abortion rights or climate action or gun control does not automatically make you ‘woke’. Not unless you’re approaching those issues specifically from the angle of fixing how this country has historical treated POC. Unfortunately, that’s basically never the case and liberal policies that do end up being put in place either don’t address minority issues at all or they may even exacerbate them.

I’m so sick of it being used as a catch all term for anything republicans disagree with. It takes the word away from its actual meaning and risks us forgetting what it actually stood for in the first place. And that’s a shame. Because it’s messaging is important. And the more watered down it gets the more we’ll ignore the already downtrotten in this country.

Yeah, admittedly my comment was a knee jerk reaction and done with complete ignorance of the state. I’ll leave it as to not hide me being an idiot though

Oh, guaranteed they don’t care about the money it would cost. They care about the money for profit prisons would be losing if their cattle were sent to rehab instead of prison.