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
In all probability yes. Big enough to take out more than just the president.
A great reset, no president, most of congress, most of the supremes, half the establishment.
Deepstaters strongly represented in the no shows at the event.
Not enough of the house and senate for a quorum.
The only ones left can make up the rulz as they go along. Rule 1. In times of internal turmoil start a war....
I salute James Howard for putting “Joe Biden” in quotation marks consistently. I hope it sticks in a big way in public discourse, much like FJB did.
One second after the inauguration free the J6.
Two minutes after, stop WWIII - the rightful sheriff is back in town.
Three minutes after, announce cabinet and other picks.
Four minutes after, fire every D department head.
Five minutes after, close the border and start the deportations.
Six minutes after, stop aid to all foreign countries - we’ll get back to those posing as our friends if and when we have time.
Seven minutes after, cage Fauxi and give him a full gullet of his own medicine and treatment of the beagle puppies.
Eight minutes after, announce the investigations have begun.
Nine minutes after, give Melania ownership of ABC and a box of pink silk panties with “You’re Fired” on them for her to personally and on camera hand out to The View’s hags.
Ten minutes after, do a little dance and relax with a McDonald’s meal deal to get recharged for his well deserved four more years of MAGA.
“ 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.”
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Every single one of them is guilty of tax evasion - because no one, ever, has declared the ill-gotten gains of bribery on their returns. That’s why this crime family is rumored to have something like 300 different entities under their control, many not based in the U.S.
One of the best articles I’ve read in a long time. He is a fanstastic write, got lots of laughs!
United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and other executives were caught with insider trading, sold $117M of their stock during the federal probe (and investors were not notified)! Thompson gets shot at investor conference.
https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14157793/unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-doj-investigation-shot-dead.html
@galinmam415
On February 21 2024 UnitedHealth discovered a cybersecurity breach ....
On the same day Nancy Pelosi made her second purchase of call options in Palo Alto Networks .. a cybersecurity company that was later chosen to investigate the breach....
Connection???
Yeah. He was going to implicate Pelosi.
I agree........A deep state coup.The left and the deep state fascists are desperate now.It will happen and the FBI will blame the Russians and Iranians.
I hope Trump does not do this inauguration on the South Lawn balcony.It needs to be at a place which is unassailably secure, and they can broadcast out to the masses assembled on the mall.
Hmmm. That reminds me of a key question: Does the have the mental capacity, “the sufficient understanding and memory to comprehend in a general way the situation in which one finds oneself and the nature, purpose, and consequence of any act or transaction into which one proposes to enter,” such as issuing pardons?
Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., "8th & I"?
That’ll work.....you know it.
I have told my family and friends since 2021 that Joe Biden is a world class gangster - and the Demo'Rat Party has protected him all along, as well as some Repubbies.
It is not hard to understand why! ! ! ! !
All the pardons in the world would not have helped that insurance CEO last week.
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