I knew that this idea had been floated:
President Joe Biden’s senior aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons to a range of current and former public officials who could be targeted with President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, according to senior Democrats familiar with the discussions.
Biden’s aides are deeply concerned about a range of current and former officials who could find themselves facing inquiries and even indictments, a sense of alarm which has only accelerated since Trump last weekend announced the appointment of Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel has publicly vowed to pursue Trump’s critics.
…but not that it was receiving attention from “senior aides.” As they are the people functioning as the president de facto, the possibility must be taken seriously.
Let’s stipulate, for the sake of argument, that the persons who would be preemptively pardoned have committed no crimes under statute law. For the sake of argument, Gentle Reader! I am a serious commentator, you know. Grim visage, high forehead, and everything! (And I’m struggling to hold in my laughter, too.) Let’s also stipulate that every one of them could prove it in a court of law, such that any indictment against them would appear foolish and petty. What, then, would preemptive pardons of these noble-souled public servants signify?
Got it in one, didn’t you? It would certify that the “lawfare” tactic has been deployed against Donald Trump and his aides these past nine years! For none of those persons had committed any actual offenses, if we omit the lese majeste of defeating the Democrats’ chosen one in 2016. The point was to bankrupt them if possible, or to weary them out of politics if not. And that inference and the stipulation that underpins it are the most generous of all the possibilities.
The Democrat Party in our time has been revealed as a giant crime organization. Men pursue its heights with two aims: power and pelf. It doesn’t earn votes; it buys, fabricates, or steals them. If you’re thinking “RICO Act” as you read this, you’re not alone.
But have a caveat: The Republican Party is headed in the same direction. It’s just not yet entirely corrupted. There are still a few Republican officeholders that are more or less trustworthy. Yet the dynamic of power is at work on the GOP as well.
Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they have been resisted with either words or blows, or with both. – Frederick Douglass
With all due respect to Douglass, words are insufficient. The dynamic of power can only be thwarted by a revolution.
Hold onto your guns, Gentle Readers. The moment looks shiny, but moments pass. The time when courage and the willing embrace of danger will be required of us draws ever nearer.
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Yes,indubitably and without any possibility of gainsaying a single word in your post. And speaking of single words, I have not seen “pelf” in many a year, so congratulations are in order for your alliterative use thereof. And I suppose I am not alone in my surprise at the suggested use of the presidential pardon power in cases where the recipients are actually not “pardoned” (which has, to my belief, implied a prior conviction) but rather as a means to immunize people or classes of people against even the possibility of criminal prosecution. I suppose it must have happened, but I can’t recall such a case. The fact that it is being discussed clearly proves that the democrat cabal esconced in the DOJ and elsewhere in the Biden hive of scum and villainy used the criminal justice apparatus as a political weapon rather than anything remotely related to anything legitimate. It turned the DOJ and parts of the judiciary into a Star Chamber in the fullest sense of the term and, it can be argued, issued bills of attainder against those it considered its enemies. It may have set a precedent from which the country will not be able to recover. We have already seen what damage was done by the advocates of DEI/CRT in connection with the blanket immunization of black/brown criminals as well as assorted co-conspirators in the BLM/Antifa crowd by Soros supported prosecutors. Fortunately, at least in some very prominent cases (Gascon being the most prominent that comes to mind) the citizens decided they had had enough and cashiered the offenders. The election of Trump was, of course, a rebuke to the entire democrat-run tyranny, so perhaps we might–might, I emphasize–see a return to sanity overall. But I fear not. Even if the Trump administration refrains from a tit-for-tat, the democrats, upon any return to power will resume things until they have arrived at their desired goal of political hegemony. The democrats have quite obviously declared war on their political enemies, and like the “real thing,” wars usually continue until one side has killed enough of its enemies so as to render further hostilities impossible.
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Thank you, Steve. Apropos of which, the word pelf was derived from a French word for stolen goods. It’s closely related to the English word pilfer.
Bring down the Deep State by shooting for reducing government AND its expenditures by at least 1/2.