Wish people saying shit like this would learn to have some self-respect. “They only learned how to be bad by watching us” is not just untrue, but if you think it’s untrue it’s a dumb and pathetic way to act.

April 11, 2026 - 02:39 UTC

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Oh god of course we choose the path of self-immolation. It’s a disease by now
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Also either we can get in the dirt and stop playing nice OR we can clutch pearls at the idea of doing something mildly unorthodox. Can't do both.
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Man, she is just so fucking wrong on this. What a terrible take.
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Some people just suck from the get-go. Why is that so hard to understand for a certain subset of folks?
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Also, preemptively commuting death penalties to life sentences so that DJT can't literally execute people is .... in no universe the same as collecting cash for pardons or promising staff that they're safe.
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Right, exactly.
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Biden’s preemptive pardons were to protect people from a promised perversion of justice. Trump’s promised preemptive pardons are to shield people from the actual administration of justice. If you compare the two you’re running interference for the latter.
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One of the biggest arguments against the Dems on here is that they don’t or can’t stop the GOP from doing bad things so that means that they are both the same. It’s toddler brain shit.
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Republicans directly showed that they were going to abuse any and all legal powers to go after their political enemies. They started with Hunter and got him for a crime that is never charged on it's own.

It's the most bad faith shit you can think of.
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Funny how easy it is to grasp that distinction if you just give it a moment's thought
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good things done for good reasons are good, bad things done for bad reasons are bad
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The shitty thing is that there doesn’t seem to be much in the constitution to distinguish between these two types of unorthodox pardons since other enforcement mechanisms for bad presidential behavior seem to be a dead letter.
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I always get a little tickled by people who make a bad point in this form and then when called on it go "well, sure, *I* agree it's different but good luck convincing the average voter it's different." And it's double funny when it's a journalist saying it.
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Only one of these guys is operating under a shimmering neon "pardons for sale" sign, and it isn't Joe Biden.

On to the next.
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I just think that, much like there is no version of international law countries would sign on to that would make invading Afghanistan after 9/11 illegal, there is no ethical standard by which people would abide that requires you to allow your child to be subjected to an explicit witch hunt
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the people who say stuff like this “The Biden DoJ should have gone after political enemies harder, like Trump does.”

Also believe shit like this. “Biden should not have preemptively pardoned people because the Trump DoJ clearly would have simply followed Justice, as Republicans always do.”
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Parker sure has a hard ratio of bad takes to good takes doesn’t she
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No kidding. And the bad takes make me...even less inclined to take that person seriously.
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Parker is just full of bad takes lately.
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I feel like this is proof positive that watching Fox News all day for years turn your brain into pudding.
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If you train your brain into seeing everything through the lens of "how are the lying scumbags on Fox News going to spin this?" maybe don't emulate the behavior of those lying scumbags.
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No one better proves that the abyss stares back at you than Parker Molloy and Oliver Willis.
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Shit like this is why I blocked Parker Molloy. Not surprised in the least to see her running with this angle.
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I wish people would not gratuitously make arguments on behalf of Republicans.
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I've noticed a trend on The Left™ where otherwise acceptable things become bad things because we fail to perform discernment.
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You have to be stone dumb to think pardons for people to prevent revenge litigation by a Mad King is the same as pardoning swaths of people for criming on behalf of the same Mad King.
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Man, a lot of things are like that
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Molloy has this weird thing where if she isn't being yelled at wrongly for something she gets bored and has just terrible fucking horrid takes like defending republicans for no reason out of nowhere and I really don't understand why she does it?
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Reminds me a bit of Will Stancil, he’ll have some really decent takes, then post something outrageous just to argue with people.
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Attention hunger. Like hacky shock comedy, but with more hubris
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Do people think Biden was the first president to issue a bunch of pardons at the end of his term? Every president does that. Bush 1 famously pardoned away Iran Contra at the end of his term.

It’s bad that the discourse in here is controlled by people who think politics started in 2016.
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“Joe Biden loves his fuck-up son more than he loves politics” is also very very easy to sell as different from this to anybody who hasn’t had every wrinkle in their brain ironed out to cover politics.
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Not Parker’s best post
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I think the fact of the matter is MAGA put pressure on Biden to exercise pardons as a test. He fucked that up. If he does it, now they can do it - for people who have done much worse.

There is always some trick with Trump's shit. It's like Saw. Maybe that's where he gets half of his ideas.
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Trump would have done all of his rancid pardons *plus* ordered show trials of the people Biden wouldn’t have pardoned. This wasn’t a test. They would have tried to kill Hunter and throw Cheney and Fauci in a hole.
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Would that have been just?
No. But would it allow us to prevent later greater injustices?
Also No.
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