As one of his last official acts, President Joe Biden pardoned some people.
These people were not convicted of a crime. Yet.
These people were the target of President Donald Trump. Trump famously said he was gonna use the Justice Department to go after his political enemies. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/21/nx-s1-5134924/trump-election-2024-kamala-harris-elizabeth-cheney-threat-civil-liberties
I do not expect Trumpers to believe this, despite plenty of evidence, even though it appeared on Fox News as well. https://www.foxnews.com/video/6355810503112
Anyone really doubt that? Do you honestly think he would not try to use the federal government to go after those people?
Sadly, someone out there is exactly that delusional.
Y'all keep them rose colored glasses on. Better yet, get you some Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses.
Daffodils
We, or I at least, shall apply daffodils.
The Cantservatives are having mental breakdowns over this pardoning. As I write this, I am stuck at home as my driveway is ice. The Cantservative breakdown has flooded my yard, town, county, state and the Southeast in a literal storm of Cantservatie snowflake tears.
Yes, I blame them for the snow flake storm that shut everything down.
How am I then applying daffodils?
Because Trump did the exact same thing, with the same exact result (just less of the frozen stuff in my yard because I live in a very Cantservative community). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executive_clemency_by_Donald_Trump
Trump pardoned political allies, some of them anyway, to let them escape the long arm of the law. Liarberals freaked out and went on the same rampage the Right is doing now.
What is the different between Trump and Biden? The spelling. What is the difference between their actions? The names of the people pardoned and when it took place.
Lest ye forget, pre-emptive pardons are not new. Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. They were a Cantservative administration.
Furthermore
Furthermore, this is not new. Cantservatives are crying this has never happened before. When Trump did it Liarberals cried it had never happened before.
Y'all are the textbook example of "those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
Pre-emptive presidential pardons date back to George Washington. https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-history-of-the-pardon-power
It has happened repeatedly throughout this nation's history. It has also engendered the same ballistic response from the opposition.
It's gonna happen again. It will get the same response.
