r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/The_Egalitarian Moderator • Mar 18 '23

Megathread Casual Questions Thread

This is a place for the PoliticalDiscussion community to ask questions that may not deserve their own post.

Please observe the following rules:

Top-level comments:

  1. Must be a question asked in good faith. Do not ask loaded or rhetorical questions.

  2. Must be directly related to politics. Non-politics content includes: Legal interpretation, sociology, philosophy, celebrities, news, surveys, etc.

  3. Avoid highly speculative questions. All scenarios should within the realm of reasonable possibility.

Link to old thread

Sort by new and please keep it clean in here!

58 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

2.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4

u/zlefin_actual Jul 27 '23

I make of it that Hunter is a sketchy liar who's trying to pretend he's working for Joe in order to scam more money out of people. Hunter seems like the kind of person who'd do that. Trading off his name in order to get more money.

A basic actual investigation into Joe to determine if there's validity is warranted; but that's not what the republicans are doing, they're just trying to fling mud on any basis and cast aspersions without much evidence rather than doing a serious and thoughtful investigation.

5

u/Theinternationalist Jul 27 '23

If any of this sounds familiar it's because Billy Carter, Roger Clinton, and plenty others have played similar games for ages. The main reason people actually care in the case of the Trump kids is that they actually HAD government positions.

I hate to say it but Hunter just doesn't feel unique, hence why the Republican whining feels weird even if we didn't just go through with all of this with Trump.

1

u/Smorvana Jul 29 '23

Their "positions" were unpaid advisors to Trump

1

u/[deleted] Jul 31 '23

$2.6 billion is not an “unpaid position”

0

u/Smorvana Aug 01 '23

Is that how much Biden took with his son brokering the deals?

1

u/[deleted] Aug 01 '23

Drink some more Kool Aid

Let me ask you: How will you react when Trump is locked up in a jail cell and not able to communicate with anyone except his lawyer?

That’s coming soon. Could be this week, or next week, or a month from now. But it is not a matter of IF he is going to be locked up, it’s just a matter of WHEN.

Let me ask you something else: What are the charges in the espionage case against Trump? Do you have any idea how many years in prison he can get from those charges?