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  This is a beautiful set up!
  House Republicans impeach Biden over the documents.   Biden says "you are right, having classified stuff outside the White House means I shouldn't be president.  I'm resigning."  Harris takes over.
  The VP slot is open so Harris  appoints Hillary (Like Nixon appointed Ford when Agnew resigned).  Then the GOP house members heads spontaneously combust.
context: Why didn’t the Archives catch this themselves? That’s their effing job! >
  
  Exactly! How come they don’t put barcodes on all these documents? A local library has better tracking on what hasn’t been returned. >
  
  Just so fucking funny people still think there’s a massive government wide conspiracy when they can’t even properly keep track of their own tOp sEcReT doCuMents. Buncha ass clowns honestly. >
  
  Tbh the vast majority of these docs shouldn't be classified at all. When millions of docs are classified, it's an obvious case of abuse of classification, and the sole goal behind this is to keep information that should be public out of the public view. Probably less than 5% of these docs have legitimacy to be classified.
  The fact that they are handled so lightly shows two things: 1) politicians don't care about security and think themselves above the laws, and 2) the information in most of these documents isn't that critical that it should be classified. So why are these docs classified ? 
  Probably because they don't want to go through the trouble of actually reading them to check if some piece of information needs to stay secret, so they classify everything by default, which flies in the face of freedom of information. >
  
  It's true. Overclassification of documents in the government is a huge problem. And it really does just come down to laziness and complacency a lot of the time. 
  Source: worked in the IC alongside intel analysts of all flavors. >
  
  It's just lazy and a case of "cover your ass." If you label virtually everything as classified you don't have to think about the implications of the information in them. "That's just too much work.." /s >
  
  My personal opinion is that once they found the 1st batch all staff were sent on a mission to examine every. damn. box. In every space he has ever been in. So far I'm only seeing "classified", not much about top secret. For all we know at this point they are a bunch of schedules or drafts of legislation or who da fuq knows irrelevant stuff. Somebody dropped the ball when he left office previously. Investigate away. >
  
  If I had to guess, so take this with a heavy grain of salt, they’re old daily briefings that he held onto for whatever reason. He did spend 8 years as VP and would’ve been given them alongside Obama and it’s not unlikely that he would end up still having some now. >
  
  Would have gotten limited (weekly/monthly) briefings after leaving office too. >
  
  Do we have any sense how often documents are discovered after other presidencies? I have to imagine this is not unheard of, and possibly not even all that uncommon. For me, the distinguishing feature has always been the lack of cooperation and outright obfuscation on the part of the Trump camp. >
  
  Im thinking its not that abnormal either. Trumps response and the specific documents are the issue. 
  One thing i read said they were documents specifically relating to Biden himself. For all we know they are family phone numbers and addresses. 
  But nuance is not America's strong suit. >
  
  I'm reading he also had security clearance. So maybe not even a big deal in that sense. >
  
  Having classified documents isn't the crux of the legal liability Trump is facing. Rather lying to authorities and refusing to abide by a court order is at the heart of Trump's situation. 
  At one point or another both Biden and Trump were allowed to handle classified materials and know their contents. Having documents they were initially allowed to handle in itself is not a scandal. >
  
  
  Having documents they were initially allowed to handle in itself is not a scandal.
  
  Emphasis mine.
  Yes, it is.  Neither Biden nor Trump were allowed to have the documents in their personal possession at their homes after their replacements were sworn in.  It doesn't matter that they were allowed to handle them previously. >
  
  Somebody should look at the top comments from when the story about trump broke out and compare it to these. I’m almost positive they’d be opposite. >
  
  What really grinds my gears is the hosts of the View saying the documents were planted. People thought Trump was insane when he suggested that. >
  
  I’ve been glued t these threads for days. Saying there’s “hosts of people” saying that is bullshit. Yours is literally the first I’ve seen it suggested. >
  
  Wake up. >
  
  I guess there’s blue flavored koolaid and red flavored koolaid. >
  
  Look at them being proactive. Whoever is responsible for the collection and storage of classified documents really dropped the ball. However this is absolutely nothing like what trump did. >
  
  This will guarantee Trump isn't held accountable. >
  
  Why would it do that? >
  
  Except the crimes are 100% different. Trump stole the docs and refused to give them back. 
  Biden turned them over the instant they were discovered. >
  
  It's different, but it's the same.....politically.  Just like a blatant pass interference penalty is as damaging as a subtle one. >
  
  Tell that to the saints >
  
  The reporting on this is basically headlines that absolves Trump. This is bullshit. I’m sick of the “fair and balanced” equivalencies that are shoveled at the neckbeards in service of keeping the status quo. Fuck the republican party and their 1% giveaways while I’m paying $7 for a carton of eggs. Fuck “patriots” and their conspiracy theories which is distractions from the middle class being decimated by oligarchs. 
  Time for a revolution - only it’s not the fascist BS advocated by the under 70-IQ crowd - it’s a progressive backlash that give me universal healthcare, services that my taxes pay for but are diverted to corporations and the military industrial complex. >
  
  I hear you brother but if you think that Joe Biden, Hakeem Jeffries, and Chuck Schumer are the solution I'm afraid you're in for a world of disappointment. The oligarchs are not going to defeat themselves, we need a progressive wave not just a blue one. >
  
  That's not what oligarch means.
  Words have meanings. It's important to use them correctly, especially in politics, or else people start genuinely believing America is an oligarchy. >
  
  Yeah Joe Biden isn’t an oligarch he just reports to them. Just like Trump and every president before him. The U.S. has always placed corporate welfare over social >
  
  Two questions. Off the top of your head...
  What is an oligarch?
  What are their names? >
  
  Musk, Bezos, Cook, Gates, and Pelosi's husband imediately come to mind. Godlike wealth and therefore power, accountable to no one. >
  
  Pelosi's husband is not even in the same order of magnitude as those you list, but nice try.  Who the fuck is Cook? >
  
  Tim Cook? >
  
  Obama, Clinton, Bush, maybe even Carter probably have some floating around too. Again, this ISN'T a good thing, but it doesn't make them criminals. I am still waiting for Biden to refuse to cooperate with the DOJ/NARA in returning the documents or possibly try and sell them. >
  
  Biden says no then shoots someone on the street and uses tear gas for his trip to church. >
  
  Also Biden carting away protesters in black vans for "reasons". >
  
  I live in the area it was wild to live in a time where that was possible. >
  
  Brace yourselves: bad faith comparisons are coming… >
  
  They're already here. They were here before the documents were even found. >
  
  This may not be criminal but this is just irresponsible. I don’t understand how Biden fucked this up so badly. After all the BS with Hillary’s emails. It’s not a minor thing for the AG to assign a special council. Yeah it’s definitely not as bad as Trump but stop pretending like it’s nothing. >
  
  This is exactly how I feel too.. >
  
  Just a reminder:
  Roughly 20 documents vs Nearly 200 documents
  Some classified vs Many top secret
  Full cooperation vs Obstruction
  Treating these as equivalent is like saying forgetting to pay a parking ticket is the same as robbing a bank. >
  
  “…vs over 300 that required subpoenas and an FBI raid to collect.” >
  
  
  Roughly 20 documents
  Some classified
  
  *All classified and some top secret. >
  
  It's going to be interesting when documents known to have been stolen by Trump, turn up in Biden's former high school locker, with the fingerprints of Trump's SS Protection goons. >
  
  The tin hats are going to sell fast at Walmart. I'd recommend you to pick one while they are still in stock. >
  
  I have one of the originals. Actually made from tin, not the cheap aluminum knockoffs Walmart sells. >
  
  Lock him up too. >
  
  Lock him up and throw away the keys! >
  
  Everyone is comparing the two presidents, but at least as it pertains to formal investigations (and possible charges) they should be treated independently based on the unique circumstances in each case. The two cases don’t “cancel each other out,” this is not how the law is supposed to work.