Biden pardons his buddies: I'm ambivalent

 This morning, President Joe Biden issued another raft of pardons. Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, and General Mark Milley were among his cronies who received "Get Out of Jail Free" cards. He also pardoned everyone on the Congressional January 6 Committee. 

I'm ambivalent. On the one hand, I agree with critics who warn against the precedent of granting wholesale pardons to friends, family members, and political allies for uncharged and unspecified crimes. Such a practice fosters lawlessness and disrespect for the law.

On the other hand, President Trump once said that General Milley deserved to be executed and Liz Cheney should be criminally prosecuted. Those were imprudent things to say and provide some justification for Biden pardoning the two.

Most of the people who harassed Trump over the last eight years are lawyers. Several of them prosecuted Trump in the criminal courts for political reasons. In my view, this conduct constitutes malicious prosecution or abuse of process. Also, pursuing criminal charges against an individual for political reasons violates the ethical standards for attorneys.

Americans are tired of the interminable and dishonorable litigation that raged during Biden's presidency. I would like to see all the lawyers who pursued Trump through the courts for political reasons disbarred.

However, disbarment proceedings are within the purview of the various state judiciaries and bar associations, and these bodies are unlikely to act.

Therefore, I am content to see Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, Jack Smith, and dozens of others fade into obscurity—perhaps to write their memoirs. To paraphrase the lyrics of a famous country song, they only did what they had to do, and now they're growing old.

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Trump and Kamala Are Afflicted by Severe Communication Disorders

Our nation's presidential election is only a few days away, and Americans have concluded that both presidential candidates are afflicted with severe communication disorders. I'm not talking about foot-in-mouth disease. I'm talking about a profound inability to speak clearly.

Kamala Harris can't elucidate a clear, declarative sentence. She can't do it. Thus, she relies on teleprompters to give the deceptive impression that she knows what the hell she's talking about.

Her communication disorder is compounded by her compulsive urge to cackle when a reporter asks her a difficult question.

Trump speaks too long at public gatherings, tells bombastic tall tales, and gratuitously insults his political enemies if he thinks he can get a laugh.

Let's discuss Kamala first. She's actually bilingual.

Her mother tongue is woke-speak, a language that emerged from academia, where thousands of professors spend their lives conversing in an intentionally meaningless dialect. She also speaks standard English at a primitive level. She can make a bartender understand that she wants a glass of chardonnay, but she can't discuss foreign policy without lapsing into woke-speech.

Trump's disorder involves a disturbing tendency to express himself so poorly that the left-wing press can maliciously interpret his speech as racist, fascist, or even Hitlerian.

For instance, Trump intended for his astonishingly inappropriate criticism of Liz Cheney to make the reasonable observation that militaristic public leaders promote war because they themselves are not in harm's way. Unfortunately, he expressed himself in such a way that his adversaries claimed he was calling for Cheney's assassination.

Here's my take on the two candidates' linguistic disorders. Kamala speaks the way she does because she's unintelligent and has bullshitted her way through life, speaking gibberish (word salads). 

Trump's inability to speak succinctly, civilly, and prudently confounds me. I can't understand why he doesn't choose his words in such a way so as not to invite his enemies to take cheap shots at him.

If Kamala loses the election, I predict she will become president of Harvard University, where everybody converses in woke-speech and no one feels obligated to do useful work.

If Trump loses, he'll have to go into exile if the Supreme Court doesn't shut down the lawfare litigation against him. Ivy League attorneys, like Javert, the fanatical police inspector in Les Miserables, will not rest until they put Mr. Trump in prison. 

This malicious prosecution can only end in two ways. Trump will go to jail, or the lawyers who persecute him will be disbarred for abusing the law.

Me no speakee English