Former President Joe Biden experienced such “cognitive decline” while in office that it remains a serious question as to whether he was aware of the substance of the various pardons and commutations signed in his name via autopen, the GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee asserted in a letter it sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi, urging her to consider whether that clemency might be invalid and to take action for potential prosecution against some of Biden’s aides.
The committee “deems void President Biden’s executive actions that were signed using the Autopen, and the committee determines that action by the Department of Justice is warranted to address the legal consequences of that determination,” it wrote to Bondi released Tuesday morning.
Pretending everything goes back to “normal” in 3 years doesn’t add much either. Hope is fine, but without action is just delusion. Just voting isn’t gonna cut it. People need to be aware and to prepare. Republicans will not relinquish power peacefully. They’ve done too much that will require accountability. They will not allow that, and they literally have a violent private army filled with violent offenders with a larger budget than the Marines, and they have seized the public coffers to ensure loyalty. This is all out in the open. Everything they are doing, they would not do if there was the possibility of the transfer of power and eventually accountability.
There’s a powerful normalcy bias at work here. People can acknowledge a long list of ways the “American way of life” is circling the drain, but day to day it feels like things will basically be the same. People keep going to work, paying into retirement, and planning holiday vacations.