The Ballad of JR Biden

"Lying about expenses on a personal tax return, or drug use on a permit for a gun that was never used, isn’t in the same league as Trump inciting a violent mob to attack the U.S. capital. Nor is it anywhere near Trump asking a state official to find 11,000 votes to rig an election, decades of business and financial fraud, a jury finding of sexual abuse and defamation, or staggering emoluments from foreign governments" (Salon, Haake, 12/09/24).

They sat stone silent as Trump besmirched our suckers and losers military, Gold Star families, Captain John McCain, Admiral William McRaven, our nation's foremost federal law enforcement agency, election integrity, duly-appointed electors, the peaceful transfer of power, and the popular vote, all based on a lab-grown conspiracy theory that Trump, FOX News, and his perpetually-aggrieved, knuckle-dragging neandertals parroted into existence (and have since abandoned, whole cloth). They elected a thrice-married, philandering, rape enthusiast, and adjudicated rapist, to the highest office in the land; they ignored his marriage to an immigrant, whose stateside soft-core porn "modeling career" preceded her legal right to work stateside.

Since the pardon was announced, Fox News has churned non-stop false narratives equating the “Biden crime family” with Trump’s long litany of felonies. Fox News ran over 80 features covering the Biden pardon over the past week alone, yet to this day has still never factually discussed J6 or Trump’s role in it (Salon, Haake, 12/09/24).

They turned blind eyes to Trump's turning blind eyes to Jamal Khashoggi's targeted assassination, his complicity bought by the $2,000,000,000 hush-money bribe cash infusion Saudi Arabia's Sovereign Wealth Fund gave Kushner's private equity fund; They played possum to Trump's 20-year friendship with Epstein, as well as to his theft, deceit, concerted concealment, and gross mishandling of some 300 top-shelf national security secrets. They abided the violence Trump's rallies fomented, as well as the escalation in hate crimes his win ushered in. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, literally, defied the Constitution by denying Merrick Garland his POTUS-assigned SCOTUS seat based on a quixotic, 11th-hour contrivance; Dems did squat to settle the score. They showed commensurate command presence when Montgomery Burns McConnell reversed his position, less than half a year later, to fast-track Amy Barrett's nomination. They smirked, and shrugged, when SCOTUS' Conservative majority scuttled 60 years of legal precedent vis-à-vis choice. They did the same when our nation's highest court defied some 250 years of Constitutional orthodoxy by declaring Orange Julius Caesar an actual caesar, free to commit felonies, or to have committed them, at any point in time, with impunity.

Pundits also argue that the pardon weakens Democrats’ commitment to the rule of law, even though Trump issued pardons for far more consequential offenses. Trump pardoned his in-law Charles Kushner, and has offered him an ambassadorship, after Kushner pleaded guilty to 18 federal charges including witness tampering, violating election laws, and tax evasion. After Kushner found out members of his family were cooperating with authorities, he hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and sent a videotape of the affair to his sister (Salon, Haake, 12/09/24).

You gave the nation the CHIPS and Science Act; they championed the guy who politicized COVID to the tune of 30,000 Americans sick, and 700 dead. Helpless against SARS-CoV-2, despite their overt knee-jerk anti-Asian racism, and their ever-accreting cache of small cock compensators firearms, they suckled taxpayer-funded stimulus checks, and PPP loans, from your teat. Rather than genuflect before you, they backed the obese dotard whose tax cut for the wealthiest 1% catapulted the national debt to historical heights. At long last, President Biden, you did more than shake your fist after DC's resident enfant terrible took a bat to your mailbox; no, this time, you took action, PREEMPTIVE ACTION, eschewing both permission, and forgiveness. This time, you kicked the football before Lucy had the chance to pull it, leaving her hands purple, and her face red from having been punked by the same octogenarian she'd spent months calling a mush brain. Now, sit back and enjoy the equivocating, rank hypocrisy, and feigned aggrievement sure to follow the good guys having bested the bad guys, simply by borrowing from their playbook. Well played, President Biden, well played!

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