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re: If you are found with a piece of cocaine no larger than a quarter, you get 5 years in jail
Posted on 7/6/23 at 7:03 pm to Indefatigable
Posted on 7/6/23 at 7:03 pm to Indefatigable
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I’m struggling to figure out why people care so much about this, to be honest.
Politics. Like literally everything else is these days. I agree it’s a big nothing burger but since Hunter is a drug user it must be his obviously and not one of the hundreds of other people there each day. Zing
Edit: not to mention who frickin cares anyways. Most of the people up in arms have powdered their nose at some point
This post was edited on 7/6/23 at 7:06 pm
Posted on 7/6/23 at 7:57 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Most of the people up in arms have powdered their nose at some point
If you think the use of illicit drugs is a victimless crime, well and fine.
Yet that is not the primary issue at play here.
It is the clear double standard afforded the politically connected: Punitive Drug Laws For Thee, Not For We….
FLASHBACK 1988 | Revealed: Hunter Biden 'possession of controlled substance' charge kept under wraps while father led drug war from Senate….
Joe Biden’s son Hunter was arrested on Jersey Shore drug charges in 1988 and had his record expunged at a time when his father was pushing for the incarceration of drug offenders drawn disproportionately from minority groups.
Congressional records reveal that Hunter Biden, now 49, was arrested in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, where the Biden family has often holidayed over the years, in June 1988. Hunter Biden, then 18, had just graduated from the prestigious Archmere Academy prep school, which his father had also attended. The former vice president and his wife Jill have often been spotted on trips to Stone Harbor.
The arrest has not previously been reported. Republicans have recently highlighted Hunter Biden's drug abuse, questioning why it was not taken into account when the lobbyist was appointed to a $50,000-a-month post on the board of the Ukraine oil company Burisma in 2014, when his father, as vice president, was the Obama administration's lead official on Ukraine.
A year after the arrest, Joe Biden gave a speech in which he said the federal government needed to “hold every drug user accountable" because, "If there were no drug users, there would be no appetite for drugs, there would be no market for them." He neglected to mention the drug use in his own family….
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