Joe did nothing wrong

You are absolutely kidding yourself if you expect me to set my hair on fire - what little of it I have left - over President Joe Biden issuing a pardon to his troubled son Hunter, despite numerous public declarations that he would not do so.

First of all, and to his credit, I don’t believe Biden ever intended to do so. Hunter Biden was a drug addict, and a convicted felon, so he was not morally entitled to a pardon of his crimes, though legally he was. Everyone understood that, and realized that Hunter’s sad, sad tale of life was something the president would have to bear, along with the tragic loss of his first wife, young daughter, and his son, Beau, who died of brain cancer after serving his country in uniform.

Hunter Biden is the black sheep of the family. Never met a woman he wouldn’t hit on, or an ounce of cocaine he wasn’t drawn to. Even messed with the widow of his deceased brother.

No, I have no love lost for Hunter Biden, and probably never will.

So when his father announced that he would not be pardoning Hunter after he was convicted in a court of law for his crimes, I for one, said “that’s the way the cookie crumbles when you can’t get your life together.”

But then things changed.

It became evident that the Republicans in Congress wanted to make Hunter Biden more of a convicted criminal than what he was. Holding hearings after hearings, with lots of hot air accusations, but precious little evidence of the financial corruption allegations they were trying desperately to make stick in an effort to prove that there was a “Biden crime family,” and Hunter, along with his daddy, were the key crime figures in charge.

Gee, what I don’t get is how those congressional investigators spent millions in tax dollars, all to find absolutely nothing on Hunter or Pres. Joe, meanwhile the Biden family German Shepherd is attacking and biting people left and right, but never charged with anything.

You’d think the Republicans could have put together a strong case against Fido Biden. Even thrown in some corruption charges involving a foreign energy company or something.

But the other thing that changed …was us. 

No more did our nation, especially right before, and certainly right after the election, covet the rule of law we were all brought up on.

We allowed a convicted criminal-in-chief (I will call him that until the day I die) to just play games with our criminal justice system, and use our court system to feather his own nest.

He berated upstanding judges and prosecutors for just doing their jobs, and proclaimed himself above and beyond the very law that the rest of us are expected to follow to the letter.

So when he won the election (and let me say right here that unlike my conservative and Republican brethren, I hold to the longstanding tradition that when an election is called, I abide by the results, no matter what I may feel about it), I felt myself agreeing with others that there really is no law in this country worth respecting anymore, because look at who the majority of us have elected.

And now, weeks after the fact, look at who he is proposing to serve in his presidential Cabinet and administration - a bunch behind-backwards cartoon characters, some of whom have been accused of child molestation, sexual assault, criminal convictions, alcoholic or Russian associations.

I mean, what does the rule of law even mean any more? Especially when the new commander-in-chief has no intention of upholding any of the fine American principles and values that made this country great.

To me, knowing that the rule of law means absolutely nothing after January 20, 2025, while I have no intention of violating that principle in anyway that I can think of, I can’t blame President Biden for having a change of heart and mind, and deciding to protect his son and family from further political prosecution.

This time, from prosecution that will have the power of the presidency behind it, given who Trump is proposing to make the new U.S. attorney general and FBI director.

There will indeed be a political enemies list, and Joe Biden knows he and his son will be prominent on it.

So let’s stop fooling ourselves.

Joe Biden knows it’s about to get plenty tough in the land that we love. 

But hey, elections have consequences.

The majority of us decided to elect a certified criminal to lead our nation for the next four years, all because we didn’t care enough about his multiple criminal convictions or moral failings. We didn’t believe any of that stuff was true or mattered.

All we cared about was the price of eggs and whether transsexual inmates were getting taxpayer funded operations.

 Makes no sense!

Hell, in the face of all of that, I don’t blame President Biden for using the power he still has to save his son, so he can rest in peace for the balance of his days.

All of those so-called Democratic “moralists” need to get a grip. In the America that was, all of you had a point. But you allowed that America - the one of decency and honesty and strong Christian principles - to slip through your fingers just because democracy isn’t as important as are our own self -interests.

I am ashamed of this country after this election, and don’t blame anyone deciding to do what’s best to protect their own family.

Hell, everybody else is! 

Joe did nothing wrong. And I pray that he will go down in history as one of the most compassionate presidents ever.