Pardon Me, Boy, Is That The Political Hypocrisy Choo-Choo?

I’m going to be honest. I don’t care that President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter. Considering that Donald Trump pardoned that evil son of a bitch Crazy Joe Arpaio, who at 92 is still fucking alive, the Republican Party doesn’t have any leg of common decency to stand on any more..

Do they forget that President George H.W. Bush had ties to Kenneth Lay who was convicted and the fraud and conspiracy in the Enron scandal? He was even at Lay’s funeral. At least he could’ve sent his regards with a sympathy card and some floral arrangement. His son, George W. Bush, was involved in business deals with Osama bin Laden’s family?

Trump has been associated with a lot of bad people – Jeffrey Epstein, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Rush Limbaugh, Roy Cohn. He even pardoned Charles Kushner, father of his son-in-law, Jared, on illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering. Now, Trump wants Charles to be a fucking ambassador.

So, why is Hunter any different? Oh, I see. It’s because Biden said he wouldn’t pardon him. But that was before we were facing the possibilities of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General. I mean, if the shoe was on the other foot, Republicans would be pardoning people left and right 24/7 if the threat that someone like Kamala Harris might be in the Oval Office. I mean, the U.S. Supreme Court basically gave the President immunity.

This was basically pardoning Hunter because he would be used as a political ploy during the upcoming Trump Administration. Trump may be batshit crazy but he’s not stupid to actually go after Biden, Harris or Merrick Garland after Jan. 20 especially when you consider more than half of the people who voted didn’t cast a ballot for him. It’s all smoke and mirrors. However, he will go after those peripheral to his enemies.

I’m not saying Hunter is an angel. But it just shows how we still want to punish drug addicts rather than help them. If you look at America’s history when it comes to law enforcement, police departments practically didn’t exist until after the Civil War ended. I wonder why. They might have existed in the bigger cities on a certain level. But most towns just had a few marshals or constables to keep the peace.

Even county sheriff departments seemed almost to function on a skeleton crew. It was mainly because the people who were the movers and shakers in their communities didn’t really believe they should give too much power to public servant. And that’s kind of why they’d assemble a posse or runaway slave patrols. Our law enforcement is still based on a goon squad mentality where we just target one section or demographic of the community.

We shouldn’t be worrying about Trump and Project 2025 weaponizing the Justice Department and other law enforcement agencies because we’ve already done it. Do you really think J. Edgar Hoover believed in civil liberties? The reason cannabis is still illegal at the national level is because John Ehrlichman who was in Richard M. Nixon’s administration admitted it was a way to go after the hippies in the counterculture movement as well as black people who were known to smoke it.

And even in states where cannabis legal, people still criticize the cops for making a big deal about pot busts. That’s because they’re so easy to fake. With a slip of the hand, an officer reaches into someone’s pocket and – voila! a dime bag. Some law enforcement just care about getting their arrests.

Like I’ve always said, law enforcement is really just a sales job. People want to live under the impression we need more law enforcement for crime but at the same time we should all live in a safe environment. Well, if you move to the suburbs or rural America, why do you want to even have a sheriff’s department or local police? Isn’t it supposed to be safe? It’s like the saying, “Have your cake and eat it too.”

People want a high police presence in the bad sides of town but they always want to sell their community on the notion that you don’t have to lock your doors at night. But the real kicker is guess who is the ones who are usually doing the more crime? I was sitting in the city park in Wagoner, Okla. years ago on my lunch break and I noticed about five or six officers from multiple agencies ascending on a nice house near the elementary school like locust.

I’ve also followed law enforcement around really early one morning as they were checking up on sex offenders and most of the houses were nice homes. It’s not always the people who live in smaller and/or older houses. I can tell you there’s a lot more going on behind closed doors in affluent neighborhoods. I was listening to the radio a couple of weeks ago when they were discussing the hypocrisy of how people expecting lower-income people of committing crimes. One of the deejays said that’s the message some people missed from Breaking Bad.

Also, if you look at Gaetz and now Pete Hegesth, who is Trump’s pick for the Secretary of Defense, it makes you wonder why do so many of these guys have allegations of sexual misconduct and assault? I mean, we joke about frat boys being sexual predators. But I assure you a lot of them are from nice homes and backgrounds. Not all sexual predators are scruffy old men lurking in the shadows. We’re still conditioned to accept the notion that clean-cut looks equal clean-cut personality. Yet, BACA (Bikers Against Child Abuse) might look like the Hell’s Angels, but they are very supportive of children especially those who are sexually abused and exploited.

Every President has made a pardon that at least one person out there hasn’t agreed with. This is nothing new. What really grinds my gears is we didn’t really have any peace and quiet the last four years. From the minute Biden was sworn in, the Republican Party along with conservative media went after the Biden family.

And while people are pointing a finger at Garland, a lot of the blame should be the Republicans now screaming foul who had the opportunity to keep Trump from being re-elected but didn’t. We should first look at people like Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) who said back in February of 2020 that Trump has “learned his lesson.”

Garland played a game where he tried to wait things out. But it shouldn’t have gotten this far to begin with. If anything else, we are a group of people who think the rules don’t apply to some of us. We’ve always been that type of people from day one when wealthy land owners who owned enslaved people wanted to be free from “tyranny.” But actually, they just didn’t want to still kiss the ring of the England monarchy.

We can point the finger at Garland. But maybe we need to point the finger in the mirror sometimes. And fix the problems, not the blame.

What do you think? Please comment.