In other words, far from the restorer of norms, binder of wounds, and uniter of people Biden ran as in 2020, his last minutes stripped away every one of these disingenuous masks and revealed the true person underneath: a senile, rotting corpse of a gangster whose one remaining brain cell somehow still retained the desire to protect his cronies and his family at all costs. Despite all he had said against Trump, Biden revealed once and for all that he was the one who shattered norms, that he was the one who refused to allow justice to bind wounds, and that he was the one determined to divide the nation for political gain.
Even Democrats couldn’t defend these actions. Most, in fact, didn’t even try. Even the Huffington Post was horrified. Indeed, only Biden himself seemed inclined to offer any defense, and what he said has to be seen to be believed. Per a statement from his office:
“Baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families. Even when individuals have done nothing wrong – and in fact have done the right thing – and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations and finances.” To which we can only reply, “well, he would know, wouldn’t he?”
But really, we barely have to condemn this when you look at what the #NeverTrump movement, for example, said about it. “This is f**king grotesque,” seethed Bulwark podcast host Tim Miller about the pardons. “Glad Biden’s brother gets a clean slate while the rest of us get the Trump s**t sandwich.” For once, we agree…well, at least about the first part. Undoubtedly, Miller and the rest of his grifter friends deserve a s**t sandwich, even if the Bidens, Fauci, Milley, and Liz Cheney deserve a bigger one.
Now, at the risk of stating the obvious, yes, these pardons should make everyone upset. Even taking everything else away, the precedent they set is disastrous. That precedent can be summed up, simply, as follows: any president who conspires to outlaw his political opposition can make himself and his co-conspirators immune from consequences forever. This was the kind of precedent liberals used to assure us, with palpable horror, that President Trump would set; the irony that Biden did it instead would be funny if it weren’t so tragic and grotesque.
That Fauci – a petty tyrant who subjected America to a yearslong traumatic social experiment – gets to walk free without even the threat of accountability is disgusting. That Milley – who arguably committed treason by backchanneling to China, possibly America’s premiere foreign adversary – can return to life as a TV general without having to at least explain himself is repulsive. And that the January 6 “unselect committee’s” members were allowed to throw Steve Bannon in a dungeon on specious charges, destroy evidence, and afflict armies of political rivals with specious lawfare, without anything to fear now that their opponents are in power, simply violates every notion of justice. We can only pray that state-level prosecutors and civil lawsuits will fill the void, not to mention (hopefully) a lot of transparency from the Trump administration about what, exactly, their scummy predecessors were getting up to. The American people deserve that much.
However, having said that, there may be one deliciously ironic silver lining to all of this, and that is that the Democrats have already told all of us what to think about this. Repeatedly. With relish.
But wait, it gets better! According to Biden’s own Department of Justice (DOJ), an acceptance of a pardon must be considered “a confession of guilt.” And that wasn’t just a PR statement. They argued it before a judge.
So, knowing what the Biden DOJ thinks a pardon means, let’s rephrase what, exactly, it was that (thank God) former President Biden did in the final minutes before leaving office: that is, he admitted that his entire family is guilty, as well as Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and countless other people are guilty of unspecified crimes, in some cases specifically in the course of trying to lock other people up for the crime of disagreeing with them politically. In short, while President Trump released hostages yesterday, Biden’s last act was to immunize the people who took them hostage from prosecution.
Indeed, it’s almost eerie how easily you can tie the people affected by this slew of admissions of guilt to literal hostage-taking. Anthony Fauci held us hostage to his megalomaniacal belief that he embodied science, and that a jumped-up version of the common cold justified stripping away our centuries-old freedoms. Mark Milley tried to hold our duly elected president hostage to the Washington consensus by backchanneling to our oldest adversary behind his back. Cheney, Kinzinger, and their ilk tried to hold us hostage – and literally locked up political prisoners -- in the name of the sclerotic failed establishment that President Trump displaced and against whom they conspired. And as for Joe Biden’s family? Well, they were more than comfortable to hold America hostage to Ukraine’s bellicosity, just to make sure the “Big Guy” could go on getting rich, even as his brain melted palpably before our eyes. Not to mention that, for the last four years, the American mind has been held hostage by a sick, Leftist, woke equivalent of political schizophrenia.
Would it be good if we could lock these people up for these crimes and throw away the key? Yes. But short of that, a confession of guilt – which their own master’s DOJ says is required to accept a pardon – will do in a pinch. In short, to save themselves, every one of these people must admit they did something wrong. And equally, to save ourselves from their heirs, we must never ever let them forget it.
