I'm done

President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter this past weekend. 

In his proclamation, he noted that Hunter's prosecution was politically motivated and intended to damage his father. And, not said in the notice: as a father, he wasn't going to allow his son to swing in the wind while new Attorney General Pam Bondi begins the Trump Revenge Tour.

The reaction from the commentariat made it seem as if Pres. Biden had pardoned a child-murderer. The Economist inveighed that he "abused a medieval power." Senator John Cornyn rose up on the Senate floor to chastise the action for "setting a bad example" as to the rule of law. Matt Yglesias did a U-turn from his previous position that Pres. Biden should pardon his son. 

Fuck you all. I'm done.

This is the world you brought into being, by spending four years waging a scorched-earth campaign against Joe and his family. This is the world you brought into being, when instead of treating Donald Trump like the verminous traitor and rapist he is, you sane-washed him and presented him as just another candidate for office. You deferred to him, treating him with a gentleness he in no way merited. Republicans supported a man unfit for any position of trust in this Republic. They ignored his treason. They ignored his fraud. They ignored his rape. And now are incensed that, in this brave new world, Joe Biden wasn't going to be constrained by a decorum they long ago eschewed.

And then there are Democrats. The ones who shat on Pres. Biden for all of 2024 and prior to that. The ones who said he was old and a conservative and didn't have the nous to lead the party into the general election. Now suddenly more than a few of them are wringing their hands over an erosion of "norms," and how this just gives Trump a weapon to use.

Look, motherfuckers. The weapon you gave Trump to use was when the party, as a bloc, didn't fully and unequivocally support Pres. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The weapon you gave Trump was when 7 million of you who voted in 2020 didn't bother to turn out this year. The weapon you gave Trump was that while he was promising to overturn everything you held dear, you just couldn't get "enthused." So forgive me if I'm not going to clutch pearls over a father protecting his son from a regime which has clearly stated that the main goal of its "justice" department is to exact vengeance and retribution against political enemies.

"Joe Biden saved his son but didn't save us from Trump!" No, asshole. That was on you. That was your job. All you had to do was vote. All you had to do was drop a ballot in the mail, or go to an early-voting center, or, heaven forfend, get your useless ass up on Election Day and go vote. Too many of you didn't do that. 

Pundits. Columnists. Republicans. Fairweather Democrats. Shut all the fuck up. None of you have done one lick of work to preserve "norms." You're all useless, or actively malicious. We don't care what you have to say. What you've said and done have led us to where we are right now, where a traitor to this country is about to assume office yet again. We're done.