President Biden commutes sentence for former Dixon, Ill. Comptroller Rita Crundwell, who embezzled over $53M

Stealing from pension funds is violence. When we say nonviolent crimes we mean crimes that aren’t morally wrong, but are technically illegal. Like hacking corporate emails or shooting healthcare execs.

I’m guessing none of them were as bad as this woman

Why?

What kind of criminals do you think were serving long prison terms but were approved for home detention instead?

Like, you'd have to be able to support yourself, so it's already people relatively well off without ill-gotten gains. And they're not risking jail to shoplift a Snickers.

If they risk jail its for very large amounts of money, especially because they can afford lawyers to get out of most stuff

The lists been out two days, I doubt this is the worst person who got it.

Also because, guess what, "non-violent" mostly just means white collar criminals.

He could've pardoned any later trials for crimes dated before the pardon but allow the active trials to continue and let the courts decide the appropriate punishment. Instead he basically just exonerated him and now seems to be handing out pardons to make it seem like he's objectively reviewing these cases instead of abusing his authority.

Biden has never given a fuck about marijuana legalization

He’s already put out blanket pardons for marijuana

Did 2 errors get through, or did 1498 people get released as plausible cover to slip in two favors? We'll never know for sure, but judging Biden by the patterns of his other actions, he's flatly unworthy of the benefit of the doubt.

Unfortunately, die-hard and centrist Democrats are in their own bubble of ignorance. I had an argument with a Democrat who maligns everyone who voted for Trump, including black and Latino and white working-class voters, as dumb, racists, misogynists and any put downs relating to bigotry you can think of under the sun. The centrists put fingers into their ears, utter "la la la" and put their heads into the sand refusing to acknowledge that economic insecurity is the root cause of America's democratic backsliding (because centrist Democrats do not want to admit admit they benefit from the current oligarchic status quo even if they say they are feminists, anti-racists, etc). Anyone worth their salt have been ringing the alarm bells, nearly a decade ago, that the world is entering into another gilded age and there will be another mass revolt coming sooner or later.

People want change but since what the status quo all could say is "I am not my opponent" and throwing few bread crumbs to calm the anger. However, this only delays the inevitable. The warnings have not been heeded. Like in stocks, perhaps centrists are trying to cash in on the growing wealth inequality for as long as possible before it crashes.

Although there is a ray of hope. Many centrists and die-hard Democrats are finally slowly admitting, with regret, that perhaps they should have let Bernie run instead. Probably the most remarkable thing I heard against Bernie is that he is not able to gather support from black voters; as if the past election that just came didn't show that black and Latino voters are willing to vote for a talking orange. If a misogynist and racist orange could take votes from a demographic that would normally hate him and his party, then imagine what if a man who has always been on the side of social and economic justice had run instead as the Democratic opponent.

At the very least, progressive Democrats have the laugh and "told you so" moment on centrist and corporate Democrats. As soon as Trump won, progressives immediately pointed out the reason for Harris' loss: that the party did not go further left enough-- especially, especially on economic issues. If the Republicans know people want drastic change and have gone further right and won, then there is no reason for Democrats not to go further left and return to their working class roots.

Edit: autocowreck

It's not necessarily people who will vote blue no matter who, but rather people who vote blue because red is so good damn intolerable that anyone who is blue cannot possibly be as bad.

So the hope you all had was sorely misdirected then.

Don't worry tho, everyone here will find justification to vote them, again.

Yeah repeating mistakes over and over will do that

I already did.