• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
    391·
    23 days ago

    So Don Jr is rubbing coke publicly on his gums at a SpaceX launch, yet nobody is coming for him? He is a gun owner.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      138·
      23 days ago

      If you banned amphetamines near the launch pad, nothing in aeronautics would ever get done. Ask anyone in Operation Paperclip.

        • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
          46·
          23 days ago

          I mean, coke is basically an amphetamine with a shittier half life. They’re both stimulants with a dopamine re-uptake inhibitors.

          Coke is just the shittier and less ethically sourced option.

          • Laser@feddit.org
            32·
            23 days ago

            They’re both stimulants with a dopamine re-uptake inhibitors.

            That’s not how amphetamine works. It’s correct for cocaine, but amphetamine promotes dopamine release, it doesn’t inhibit reuptake.

            In the end, both increase dopamine availability… but through different mechanisms and they’re chemically different as well.

            • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
              2·
              23 days ago

              amphetamine promotes dopamine release, it doesn’t inhibit reuptake.

              Amphetamines are also DRI…

              “The following are a selection of some particularly notably abused DRIs: cocaine, ketamine, MDPV, naphyrone, and phencyclidine (PCP). Amphetamines, including amphetamine, methamphetamine, MDMA, cathinone, methcathinone, mephedrone, and methylone, are all DRIs as well, but are distinct in that they also behave, potentially more potently, as dopamine releasing agents (DRAs)”

              Amphetamines are dopamine releasing agents, but they also affect dopamine re-uptake.

  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
    322·
    23 days ago

    The gun charge was a sham. Yes, lying on form 4473 (firearm transaction record) is a federal crime. It’s also one that has historically never been prosecuted on it’s own; it’s always used as part of another prosecution, such as bank robbery, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, and so on. You can count the number of times where that’s been prosecuted on it’s own on the fingers of one hand, in part because it really doesn’t come to light unless you’re caught committing another crime while also possessing a firearm that you can’t legally have. The justice dept. was originally going to drop that charge altogether, until pressure was applied from the political right. (Also, maybe don’t write a memoir where you admit to crimes, unless you’re past the statute of limitation on those crimes.)

    The tax charges were pretty legit though. Depending on sentencing guidelines–which are quite complicated–the odds are pretty good that he would have ended up with large fines and penalties, in addition to having to pay the back taxes with interest that he owed.

  • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
    288·
    23 days ago

    I have no problem with that pardon. I applaud Biden for this and hope the Democrats will stoop as low as the Republican and use every trick in the book.

    Pardon all your mates. Elect as many Supreme Court Judges. Encourage riots. Discredit opponents, never admit fault. Cheat everywhere you can.

    If the Democrats don’t start playing that game there will ironically be nothing left to save.

    Really Trump pardon much much worses crimes than this. If Trump could pardon the January 6 coup participants he definitely would have. And all the other Republicans would have followed in supporting it. Instead you get some dems taking the moral high ground and shitting on their own team. The Republicans are perfectly united in their lies. They tow the party line even when it’s a coup attempt.

    Just the “the McConnell rule” on its own is a great display on how dishonest the Republicans are. Rules apply only if they benefit them. Why on earth should the Democrats play fair when their opponents cheat all the way?

    Your political system doesn’t punish cheaters. So cheat.

    • superkret@feddit.org
      92·
      23 days ago

      This would make sense if politics was a boxing match and the only purpose was to see who would win.

      But this is a government. The most important thing is what to win the fight for.

      • DerGottesknecht@feddit.org
        11·
        23 days ago

        But if the Republicans destroy democracy, does it matter if you lost fair? As a German I see a lot of parallels to the weimar Republic and the rise of fachism.

    • Saleh@feddit.org
      137·
      23 days ago

      Oh you think the Democrats going low will benefit the people?

      The Democrats going low will just mean that they’ll fully fuck over the people for their billionaire donors together with the Reps and then they’ll remind you that this is exactly what you asked for. And now back to work for minimum wage. The GDP isnt making itself.

      • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
        51·
        23 days ago

        So what do you suggest? Keeping the moral high ground, losing election and letting Trump and his goons “benefit the people”.

        This is about choosing the lesser evil and picking politics that will stoop as fucking low as possible to be elected and then do very minor social reform to actually help Americans that are struggling.

        Sure it will still fucking suck but I would argue a lot less than applauding the losing democrats congratulating themselves for keeping an entirely worthless moral high-ground. If that moral high ground had any fucking value to the average American they certainly wouldn’t have re-elected Trump. Even with disinformation they all know he paid a pornstar to hide his vices and yet it just didn’t affect the slightest his campaign. Morality has absolutely 0 value in your political system. It’s valueless for your justice systems (you can pardon anybody, supreme court judges elected for life), it’s valueless for politicians since they can do anything and get away with it. Your supreme court explicitly said that Trump can order the assassination of anybody and get away with it. Is this a moral high ground? It’s the posture of a dictator and it helped him get elected.

        So I’d say keep your moral high ground and once this will be the last thing remaining to you, we shall see if you still hold the same opinion. I think you would think you should have fought dirty when you still had something of actual value.

        • Saleh@feddit.org
          52·
          23 days ago

          I suggest using your political powers to move relevant things. Biden and the Dems dont do that. Instead they abuse it for nepotism

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    81·
    23 days ago

    Except the parts he was convicted of were real.

    That the fascists spread ridiculous lies about him doesn’t erase his ACTUAL crimes.

    That’d what dads who said they wouldn’t are for, apparently.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
    93·
    23 days ago

    It’s ridiculous seeing people upset by this. Like, do these people have any idea of the long, corrupt list of people Trump pardoned?

    I know this is whataboitism, but let’s be real for a minute. Biden sucks, but he’s a saint compared to Trump.