Why Do Presidents Pardon Turkeys?

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  • Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2022
  • Every year before Thanksgiving the White House holds a national turkey presentation, where the president grants clemency to one lucky gobbler.
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Комментарии • 216

  • @bjung8858
    @bjung8858 Год назад +14

    I think the turkeys symbolizes fellow politicians

  • @kingsambition2179
    @kingsambition2179 Год назад +18

    A moment of silence for all the turkey that became a thanksgiving feast 👏
    Alright I'm gonna tear that turkey up😋🤤

  • @christo1212
    @christo1212 Год назад +6

    this is one of those where the comment section is a better read than the article

    • @kathyfrew7282
      @kathyfrew7282 Год назад

      Agreed-- most -of these comments are pretty funny!! But then, so is Biden!!😀😃😄😄😆😅🤣😂🙂😉😉😊

  • @live4life411
    @live4life411 Год назад +12

    Because they don't have anything better to do and they think it makes them look good in front of the 20 people that come to watch it

    • @mysteryuser7062
      @mysteryuser7062 Год назад

      Joe’s playing with animals for Thanksgiving

  • @god_first_self_last1416
    @god_first_self_last1416 Год назад +23

    For publicity. Every single time I get a notification that a president is pardoning a turkey, I roll my eyes and DO NOT TUNE IN.

    • @blue-calla
      @blue-calla Год назад +3

      What do you think each POTUS is publicizing through their annual turkey “pardon?” Btw, ICYMI, you DID TUNE IN. 🤣

    • @realmccoy7632
      @realmccoy7632 Год назад +2

      @@blue-calla that they're personable and charming, they honor tradition, there are a number of things they could be publicizing. Use your brain

    • @blue-calla
      @blue-calla Год назад

      @@realmccoy7632 wrong. Are you tired from that stretch? When every POTUS does it every year, it doesn’t have that effect. Lol. Try harder to help the OP out of the bind they got themself into, simpIeton.

    • @realmccoy7632
      @realmccoy7632 Год назад

      @@blue-calla it's remarkable that you know for certain how media affects the public psychologically. Can you tell me the lotto numbers? I really need to win right now. Will Russia lose the war too? Check your crystal ball.

    • @dingbop963
      @dingbop963 Год назад

      @@blue-calla I found a troll

  • @jdawg3576
    @jdawg3576 Год назад +2

    Never seen a turkey pardoning a turkey.

  • @ydiesel2214
    @ydiesel2214 Год назад +5

    Very informational and fun to learn, thank you!!

  • @SoloPilot6
    @SoloPilot6 Год назад +4

    Professional courtesy, and hoping to keep the precedent going, in case they need it.

  • @Jacen777
    @Jacen777 Год назад +5

    I've heard his son, Hunter called a lot of things but never a Turkey.

    • @jimmcmahon217
      @jimmcmahon217 Год назад

      You've never heard him called "guilty" either.

    • @wolfmannews
      @wolfmannews Год назад

      How about turkey molester, bet he tried.

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      @@jimmcmahon217 Wait till January for that one bruh!

    • @kathyfrew7282
      @kathyfrew7282 Год назад

      This is the best answer yet!!😁😆🤣🤣😂😉😉😉🙈🙉🙊---🙈🙉🙊!!

  • @kathyfrew7282
    @kathyfrew7282 Год назад +1

    My initial thought for this president would suggest the old saying "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!!" 😀😃😄😁🤣😂😉😉😉

  • @Jesus-is-calling
    @Jesus-is-calling Год назад +4

    Because they are related!

  • @brkerch8449
    @brkerch8449 Год назад +2

    It's ironic that they pardon the turkeys, cause the turkeys always end up on the Thanksgiving dinner. They weren't pardoned.

  • @colehowe2816
    @colehowe2816 Год назад +6

    Kind of a cute tradition :) Weird that so many of the comments are negative. Thanks for the vid tho 😎

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад +3

      Cute, yes. But it figures H W Bush would the the one to make it official. To take people's mind's off his ineffectiveness. If I had to pick the ONE president in MY lifetime (and I've lived through 11 of them) that defined what Trump called 'the swamp' it would be Bush. I think that guy held more government positions and offices than any other president.

  • @deltabolmont6241
    @deltabolmont6241 Год назад

    Plot twist:pardon Turkey is Rick

  • @hsparanormal
    @hsparanormal Год назад +2

    I’m just here for the comments. Do your thing good people!

    • @johnlewis2247
      @johnlewis2247 Год назад

      Happy Thankgiving I am just like you!

  • @vanderpoolfarmsl.l.c.9983
    @vanderpoolfarmsl.l.c.9983 Год назад +1

    "Why Do Presidents Pardon Turkeys?" A title just begging for the best caption!!

    • @kathyfrew7282
      @kathyfrew7282 Год назад

      There are a whole bunch of them here!!!!!!!!!!!!!😂🤣😉😉😉

  • @charlesfriscia7236
    @charlesfriscia7236 Год назад +2

    Well for this one its somebody on the same intellectual level so its like family!!!!

  • @nobullman5853
    @nobullman5853 Год назад +1

    Lets go turkey

  • @mikeo489
    @mikeo489 Год назад +1

    i cant tell ...which one is the turkey

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      The turkey is the better looking and more alert one.

  • @dwightherrington7793
    @dwightherrington7793 Год назад +2

    What do they do with them then after being pardoned.

    • @george2113
      @george2113 Год назад

      The turkeys are slow roasted at the flame at the unknown soldiers monument.

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      Actually, they are sent to a farm to live out their days.

  • @ozyankee4403
    @ozyankee4403 Год назад +3

    Guessing the recidivism rate for turkey’s is pretty low…
    Although it is doubtful the pardoned turkeys actually survive a 2nd Thanksgiving.
    ** realistically… the race of recidivism varies from state to state… and year to year..
    Unfortunately the numbers don’t reflect progress in prison reform…. Often warehousing and worsen low threat criminals with hardened violent ones.

  • @baydriver7
    @baydriver7 Год назад

    Thanks, for your kind words🥰

  • @shaneallred3884
    @shaneallred3884 Год назад +1

    Because that is what you do for family

  • @kevinjenner9502
    @kevinjenner9502 Год назад +1

    Richard Nixon: “I resemble that remark”.

  • @ladikmk
    @ladikmk Год назад +2

    Just so they don’t pardon the biggest turkey of all time - Biden!

  • @tihzho
    @tihzho Год назад +1

    Trump pardoned a lot of turkeys

  • @charleswebb8580
    @charleswebb8580 Год назад +1

    Cause this one is One

  • @mullhollandmace7271
    @mullhollandmace7271 Год назад +1

    Maybe Biden thinks he can get the turkey vote.

  • @jamesalexander5623
    @jamesalexander5623 Год назад +1

    Look at all the Turkeys Trump pardoned and it wasn't even Thanksgiving!

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      No more than any other president did.

  • @melaniestarkey7868
    @melaniestarkey7868 Год назад +1

    What if I was a turkey? Would that be all I was good for?

    • @jowbloe4700
      @jowbloe4700 Год назад +1

      You'd still be good for a good stuffing 😉 😜 🤣

    • @melaniestarkey7868
      @melaniestarkey7868 Год назад +1

      I can't stop laughing

    • @melaniestarkey7868
      @melaniestarkey7868 Год назад +1

      @@jowbloe4700 every time I try to stop laughing I started again

    • @jowbloe4700
      @jowbloe4700 Год назад

      @@melaniestarkey7868 I'm good for a nice, dry joke every once in a while.

    • @melaniestarkey7868
      @melaniestarkey7868 Год назад

      @@jowbloe4700 I see.

  • @elizabethwalker2424
    @elizabethwalker2424 Год назад

    The President pardoned .....? You go ON.. .

  • @yanksrule311
    @yanksrule311 Год назад +1

    So when the next turkey becomes president it can return the favor?

  • @ithacacomments4811
    @ithacacomments4811 Год назад +2

    So so so so silly! How many $$$$$$ were spent pardoning the turkeys and for the celebration tea after?

  • @cjmerobot1204
    @cjmerobot1204 Год назад +1

    Why do we have a turkey for president?

  • @timothyurban4876
    @timothyurban4876 Год назад +1

    Why do Presidents pardon turkeys?
    Because Americans keep electing them to Congress.

    • @kathyfrew7282
      @kathyfrew7282 Год назад

      VERY GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🤣🤣😉😉😉😉😉

  • @make425
    @make425 Год назад +1

    This year the president's going to slide his son in himself into that pardon.

  • @Jesus-is-calling
    @Jesus-is-calling Год назад +5

    Did Joe see his shadow today?

  • @dangroat4438
    @dangroat4438 Год назад +1

    They pardon the turkeys to try to save us from a Turkish invasion.

  • @Jodoe243
    @Jodoe243 Год назад +1

    Cause they have nothing better to do.

  • @unfnbelievable3609
    @unfnbelievable3609 Год назад +1

    Because they can get away with it.

  • @timtaylor9633
    @timtaylor9633 Год назад +12

    Turkey said Let's go Brandon 🤣

    • @wolfmannews
      @wolfmannews Год назад +1

      I think Biden was sniffing the turkey, the turkey better be careful around him.

    • @kathyfrew7282
      @kathyfrew7282 Год назад

      Brandon who?? DUH!!

  • @jessiebrows2987
    @jessiebrows2987 Год назад

    Can they pardon chickens too?

  • @thomasriley4963
    @thomasriley4963 Год назад +1

    They pardon turkeys hoping that you feel bad for them in pardon them they're all turkeys

  • @michelmoreno7340
    @michelmoreno7340 Год назад +4

    Why are we such idiots?

    • @blackbass4315
      @blackbass4315 Год назад

      Exactly! We sit back and take the abuse like a bunch of beeeaaaches!

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      Its the apathy dude. The current generations running the country are VERY apathetic. As long as they have theirs, they could care less about anyone or anything else.

    • @kathyfrew7282
      @kathyfrew7282 Год назад

      🦃🦃🦃😂😂😉😉😉

  • @peekeboos
    @peekeboos Год назад +1

    big turkey biden pardens small turkey ahh

  • @lastnamefirstname7950
    @lastnamefirstname7950 Год назад +1

    Self respect…….

  • @Ketyimp0rta
    @Ketyimp0rta Год назад +2

    for the lols of

  • @sircampbell1249
    @sircampbell1249 Год назад +2

    Going to pardon his Son and his brother?

    • @wolfmannews
      @wolfmannews Год назад +1

      Biden has to, everybody in his family is dumber and more crooked than creepy old Joe, keeping the corruption free as a bird, in this case, Turkey.

    • @kathyfrew7282
      @kathyfrew7282 Год назад

      YUP!!!!!! DUH!!!!!!!!!🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃😂😂🤣🤣😉😉😉😉😉

  • @Blue-Hawk-Legend
    @Blue-Hawk-Legend Год назад +1

    This is your major news story newsy? There's more pressing issues to report about. PUN intended.

  • @eddaniels5006
    @eddaniels5006 Год назад +4

    Nepotism.

  • @kylefleming7369
    @kylefleming7369 Год назад +1

    Obiden is the biggest turkey.

  • @Dom-fi2ys
    @Dom-fi2ys Год назад

    Why are political parties allowed to operate in government?

  • @christo1212
    @christo1212 Год назад +2

    because they cant pardon themselves?

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      Your comment makes me think about that one. I wonder, if the GOP comes up with any credible evidence against Hunter and Brandon come January, if he WILL try to pardon himself? And Hunter! I don't think the Constitution says anything about president's pardoning themselves.

  • @gwenwheeler1248
    @gwenwheeler1248 Год назад

    So 5hier son doesn't sit in prison!

  • @bigfoot-id8bv
    @bigfoot-id8bv Год назад +2

    Was feeble joe talking to the wrong end of the turkey, send in the Arizona VIU to verify, oh it’s ok, nothing to see here move along.

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      On no....he was talking to the RIGHT end! 😂🤣

  • @charity2275
    @charity2275 Год назад +1

    Creepy Old Joe IS the turkey.

    • @kathyfrew7282
      @kathyfrew7282 Год назад

      🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃You are what you eat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣

  • @mikerotch4597
    @mikerotch4597 Год назад +1

    Waste of taxpayers money

  • @niki9638
    @niki9638 Год назад

    Well, I know of one this year that was pardoned by a poser, but not a president

  • @hadtocheathimtobeathim6549
    @hadtocheathimtobeathim6549 Год назад +1

    Joe pardoned himself? Hmm.

  • @pipitoelnegro535
    @pipitoelnegro535 Год назад +6

    In this case, he was afraid ppl will make a turkey with Potatoe Joe.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад +2

      Geez, even the turkey complained in his presence!

  • @GloryToTheHighest
    @GloryToTheHighest Год назад

    Nothing else to talk bt.... 🤦‍♀️

  • @marklloyd4153
    @marklloyd4153 Год назад +3

    Maybe hoping that act of pardoning the turkey will come back on his family in the future 😂

    • @kathyfrew7282
      @kathyfrew7282 Год назад

      Yah, like what goes around, comes around!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @moneyman80
    @moneyman80 Год назад

    Why are all the turkey's white?

    • @kathyfrew7282
      @kathyfrew7282 Год назад

      They aren't---Obama pardoned a few too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🤣🤣😉😉😉

  • @Colossus-Tone
    @Colossus-Tone Год назад +22

    Hard hitting journalism right here. Forget the state of the country, we need to know why a turkey gets pardoned.

    • @blue-calla
      @blue-calla Год назад +1

      @dudecummon ICYMI: 1️⃣ This channel has posted more than one video. Lol. 2️⃣ Just b/c a channel covers one topic, doesn’t mean they don’t cover other topics. 3️⃣ And YT actually allows you to choose which videos you want to see.
      lnform yourseIf.

    • @ezekielkinder3665
      @ezekielkinder3665 Год назад +3

      Calm down

    • @The_Quaalude
      @The_Quaalude Год назад

      We need another civil war

    • @kathyfrew7282
      @kathyfrew7282 Год назад

      Perhaps it's because they are a turkey!!??!! 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😉😉😀😃😄😁😅

  • @sethabel4315
    @sethabel4315 Год назад +1

    Trump pardoned a ton of them.

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      No more than any other president in recent memory.

  • @cvanwinkle9968
    @cvanwinkle9968 Год назад +17

    Is it weird that Brandon has the same look and blank stare as the turkey?

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад +1

      I don't think so. To MY mind, the turkey looks more alert!

    • @EricCartman915
      @EricCartman915 Год назад

      Looks like trump lol

  • @jeffjones9217
    @jeffjones9217 Год назад

    In this case he pardons them because they are the mentally equal.

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      That's an insult to the turkey bruh!

  • @user-ln8hp4vt5z
    @user-ln8hp4vt5z Год назад +1

    Let’s go Brandon.

  • @Believer1427
    @Believer1427 Год назад +1

    Jesus Christ loves you enough to die for your sins. Believe on the name of Jesus Christ and repent of your sins to be saved. May God bless you .

  • @alice2199
    @alice2199 Год назад +2

    They learn to do it from pardoning each other .

  • @PopTart698
    @PopTart698 Год назад +1

    Symbolic of when they do it for their friends

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      Do you think sleepy Joe potato will try and pardon Hunter if the GOP comes up with credible evidence come January?

  • @GARRY3754
    @GARRY3754 Год назад +2

    Takes one to know one.

  • @pauldelande841
    @pauldelande841 Год назад +3

    presidents and turkeys are closely related although Biden appears as an insult to even the worst of turkeys

  • @NewswithJakenator
    @NewswithJakenator Год назад +1

    Wait, biden remembered what a Turkey was... and that it was Thanksgiving? That should be headline news.

    • @kathyfrew7282
      @kathyfrew7282 Год назад

      👑👑👑👑👑🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

  • @matthewroy7718
    @matthewroy7718 Год назад +1

    But no administration pardoned more turkeys than Trump😂

  • @SupaNami
    @SupaNami Год назад +2

    Didn't know Biden was Pardoning himself!

  • @jeffmagers7182
    @jeffmagers7182 Год назад

    should name the turkey "trump",,,there's a pardon for ya!

  • @danielread1942
    @danielread1942 Год назад +4

    Only Biden would try and get an interview with a turkey. I was in disbelief to see him do that. He is so far gone mentally it's elder abuse. This is our president, really. WOW.

    • @MrThetruthhurts
      @MrThetruthhurts Год назад

      Maybe your president but not mine. Didn’t follow the legal process to become one.

    • @matthewroy7718
      @matthewroy7718 Год назад +3

      Really that bad? Maybe you were asleep during trump..

    • @paulturner3553
      @paulturner3553 Год назад

      @@matthewroy7718, Trump 2024

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад +1

      Well, at least he had a DOCTOR by his side. Jill was right there watching!

    • @EricCartman915
      @EricCartman915 Год назад

      @@MrThetruthhurts lol Biden beat trump by 8 million votes. Sad how much trump stutters due to his dementia

  • @vickisotomayorleroy6147
    @vickisotomayorleroy6147 Год назад +4

    In this case the exact opposite is true! FJB Let’s go Brandon !

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад +2

      Let's hope that if the GOP come January DOES find credible evidence against Hunter and him that there will be NO pardons!

  • @michaelkissner2284
    @michaelkissner2284 Год назад +1

    If anyone here is actually a person who voted for this potato, please comment. I expect no comments of course but Biden might go ahead and make 5 billion accounts like he did with the votes and make it so. I think the turkey saying what he said made more sense to me than any of Biden’s speeches

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      Your comment makes me think of what used to happen in my own town over 20 years ago. The mayor and council were a bunch of idiots. You couldn't find ONE person who admitted they voted for them. Good and educated men and women ran against them with very workable and achievable platforms. Yet, the same people kept getting elected.

    • @kathyfrew7282
      @kathyfrew7282 Год назад

      Hallelujah!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😉😉😉😉😉

  • @We_God
    @We_God Год назад +1

    Better question is why are we still celebrating Thanksgiving? We go back in history and cancel everyone for what they did in the past, let's cancel the Europeans for their crimes against humanity.

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      What I cannot understand is that if you listen to the news or any other show, they tell you that Thanksgiving is all about spending time with family (and sometimes friends) and the togetherness it brings. That's not what it was about at ALL. It was about giving thanks for the blessings of a new life in America and the bounty of the land that allowed the pilgrims to survive.
      Its really a slap in the face to people who don't have family anymore or who have no friends but who DO survive in a country where that seems to get harder and harder for some folks.

  • @Clever_Motel
    @Clever_Motel Год назад +3

    All turkeys should be able to live the rest of their days without being farmed for their flesh. The same goes for all animals. Please go vegan this holiday season.

    • @george2113
      @george2113 Год назад +1

      I'm a proud omnivore!!

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад +1

      God himself gave us certain of His creatures to provide for our sustenance. It's in the Bible. What troubles ME is the way the birds and animals are treated while they are being raised. Very cruel conditions. I've advocated for change in that for years.

    • @jowbloe4700
      @jowbloe4700 Год назад +1

      You can keep the Flesh. I want the Meat.

  • @skypatrol716
    @skypatrol716 Год назад +2

    So they don't get sentenced to knife.

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад +1

      No....they live out their days on a farm.

  • @necrophiliacin_lace628
    @necrophiliacin_lace628 Год назад +1

    the presidents hope the turkey might return the favor one day... especially our last president, Osama bin Golfing

  • @Kanezilla66
    @Kanezilla66 Год назад +1

    LETS GO BRANDON!!!!

  • @mikejohnston7198
    @mikejohnston7198 Год назад +6

    Cause they hope they will vote for them later……

  • @cyndybutler7330
    @cyndybutler7330 Год назад +3

    It’s practice for when him and hunter are arrested this should be the best arrest in history

    • @EricCartman915
      @EricCartman915 Год назад

      Lol and what if they're never arrested?

    • @kathyfrew7282
      @kathyfrew7282 Год назад +1

      😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣🤣🤣😂😂🙂🙃😉😉😉

    • @CrazyAlienLady051
      @CrazyAlienLady051 Год назад

      Trump being arrested is best for our country. Hunter isn't even a politician

  • @janicegreene5097
    @janicegreene5097 Год назад

    So people like Trump don’t go to jail 🦃

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      Or Hunter. At least Trump never took millions from the mayor of Moscow's wife.

    • @janicegreene5097
      @janicegreene5097 Год назад

      @@retroguy9494 💩 Trump was too busy ripping off other people open up a newspaper and read. 👎

    • @retroguy9494
      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      @@janicegreene5097 If you are referring to the incidents of not paying contractors the full amounts while they were working on his buildings, there is a BIG difference between the way American business works and a president's son taking money from our enemies.

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      @retroguy9494 Год назад

      @Janice Greene So is Hunter. Possibly even sleepy Joe if they can prove a link between his office as senator, VP or president and those payouts!