Never heard of it until today. Had to lookup that one.
Posted on 12/07/2024 3:53:06 AM PST by MtnClimber
"Stare into the sun and begin to glimpse the size of what you're up against." — Mike Benz.
The Hunter Biden super-sized blanket pardon went over so well around the country that “Joe Biden” — or the shadowy league of not-quite-geniuses who run the twilight White House operation — floated the idea of issuing preemptive pardons for a few of the most spectacularly dishonest characters in US political life: Dr. Fauci, Senator-elect Adam Schiff, and Liz Cheney. Does “JB” plan on legally adopting them so he can claim he was moved to act out of a father’s love?
Like every official act ever associated with the name “Joe Biden,” the preemptive pardon idea has that reality-optional feel. None of the three has been convicted of a crime to be pardoned for, or even been hauled-in for questioning by federal law enforcement agents on a probable cause writ. But a pardon would necessarily paint them as criminals, ipso facto. Would they accept a pardon, with what it implies, or run shrieking from it as from an apple polished with novichok?
The proffer of a pardon itself must amount to a declaration of probable cause, igniting the very legal process it seeks to dispose of. An inquiry would have to be launched to discover what laws these three desperadoes might have broken, followed perhaps by a grand jury to evaluate the evidence, and so on. “Joe Biden” himself might have to answer some basic questions, such as: at what time prior to issuing the pardon did he begin to suspect some laws had been broken? And, since the president’s chief duty is to enforce the law, was “JB” negligent and culpable himself for misprision of felonies?
You know, of course, that the Supreme Court decided last summer in Trump v. United States (Docket No: 23-939) that a president is immune from prosecution for official acts. But the misprision of felonies is neither a presidential duty nor anything describable as an official act. Rather it would be grounds for impeachment, being a “high crime.” Now, luckily for “Joe Biden,” his term-in-office is so close to its conclusion that impeachment must be considered off-the-table as a practical matter. He might be subject to prosecution, though, after the clock strikes noon on one-twenty-twenty-five.
I doubt he will be present at Mr. Trump’s inauguration, so the US marshals will have to root him out of Delaware (or wherever) and haul him into the federal lockup in DC at exactly the moment Mr. Trump pardons the J-6 prisoners. Will they get to see “Joe Biden” coming into the joint on their way out? There would be a certain poetic symmetry in that, and hard to not admire the workings of Providence after all its foot-dragging. You might well ask: how many days, or months, will “Joe Biden” have to endure in solitary detention before the paperwork is in order for a proper arraignment? Considering how the process was applied to those J-6 culprits, a year would seem sufficient.
Pardon me for saying: I fear that “Joe Biden” might have started something that isn’t going to end well for “Joe Biden” and many others. The little goldfish bowl of the White House is surrounded by the vast, pulsating DC blob and its million-footed ranks of officials deserving of pardons. You know the floated names Fauci, Schiff, and Cheney were only representative samples, denoting a certain managerial class of blobists that runs to the thousands of federal employees at least. What about Garland, Monaco, and Gupta at DOJ, and their paladin prosecutor Jack Smith, and his many deputies? Or Comey, Wray, Abbate, Sallet, McCabe, Rosenstein, Strzok, Page, Pientka, Priestap, McCord, Horowitz out of the FBI? Or Mueller, Weissmann, Dreeben, Van Grack, Rhee, and Quarles from that spin-off Special Counsel venture? Or Boasberg, Chutkan, and Sullivan in the DC judiciary? Or, Collins, Walensky, Cohen and their many deputies in Covid-land? Surely, they all deserve pardons now, and their crimes can be sorted out later.
There would appear to be no precedent for a chief executive pardoning the entire federal government, or we would have heard of it by now. At the conclusion of the Civil War, Abe Lincoln issued a conditional pardon to Southerners — they had to take an oath of allegiance to the Union — but it did not include military officers and high-ranking Confederate officials. The blob of our time is a different breed of porpoise.
Actually, it’s more like a systemic fungal infection of the body politic, requiring deep fumigation and exposure to sunlight. The proposed D.O.G.E. advisory under Messrs Musk and Ramaswamy might answer as a “good enough” therapeutic approach, wholesale dismissal of entire agencies and departments, actually flushing away the malign parasites en masse, pardons not required.
What I await in the sunsetting “Joe Biden” presidency is whether he will go ahead and pardon the other members of the Biden family beyond just “first son” Hunter: brothers Jim and Frank and the wives and various offspring who received cash “gifts” from officials in foreign lands laundered into their personal bank accounts amounting to millions of dollars.....SNIP
The proper way to get rid of a blob is to freeze it and drop it off at the South Pole.
You’d have to be classy, and green-eyed, to do a thing like that.
Never heard of it until today. Had to lookup that one.
Novichok is a family of nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union and Russia between the 1970s and 1990s12. The name “Novichok” means “newcomer” in Russian2. These agents are part of a broader class of compounds called cholinesterase inhibitors, which disrupt the nervous system by blocking the action of neurotransmitters2.
Novichok agents are known for their extreme toxicity, with some variants being five to eight times more potent than VX, another well-known nerve agent1. They
HOORAY Kunstler & Benz. BUMP
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I doubt he will be present at Mr. Trump’s inauguration>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I understand completely.
The Deep state is planning to bomb it?
The inauguration ceremony should be held in a secure location, not out in the open.Put up a video screen for the crowds to see.
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Only Jesus can forgive future sins, not Biden.
Nope. Their “pardon” will have no more validity than Trump’s “147 felony convictions”. They have theirs coming, and coming soon!
Challenging that pardon can be the job of the NEW DOJ.
Biden pardons everybody, resigns, Harris becomes President and pardons Biden.
Maybe Trump can pardon those who believe in vigilante justice against those who were illegally pardoned..
Trump’s got plenty of friends in low places that owe him favors.
The biden crime family will go down in infamy. What a bunch of sociopaths and sexual deviants. That their damaged DNA exists is an insult to all humanity.
"CHY-NA!"
And Pelosi notable by her absence from Biden's proffer.
Biden’s entire reason for remaining in office was to protect his crime family. The country suffered for four long years.
His party is almost over. It was a nightmare that scared the entire world.
Yep!
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