January 20, 2025

Monday: Below the Fold

Biden pardons Fauci, Milley, and J6 inquisitors; first round of Israeli hostages returned; more rainbows coming despite opposition to trans agenda; and more.

  • Crooked Joe pardons Fauci, Milley, J6 inquisitors: In a final act of shameless sleaze, Joe Biden this morning granted preemptive pardons to lying Anthony Fauci, treasonous former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, and the entire corrupt January 6 Committee, including witness tampering former Republican Liz Cheney. “I believe in the rule of law,” said Biden in a prepared statement. “But these are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good [sic] conscience do nothing.” Biden lauded these “dedicated, selfless public servants” while lamenting that they’ve faced “ongoing threats and intimidation for faithfully [sic] discharging their duties.” What we have here is a whitewash and a calculated effort to shield wrongdoers and prevent justice from being served. After all, why pardon those who’ve done nothing wrong? Here, we might take a trip down memory lane — back to a moment just over four years ago when CNN’s Jake Tapper asked then-President-elect Joe Biden about a rumor that Donald Trump might issue some preemptive pardons before leaving office: “You’re not going to see, uh, um, in our administration, that kind of approach to pardons.” If only he’d added, I give you my word as a Biden.

  • Biden shreds the Constitution: On Friday, Joe “Defender of Democracy” Biden proclaimed that he had enshrined the long-dead Equal Rights Amendment into the Constitution. “We, as a nation, must affirm and protect women’s full equality once and for all,” Biden stated. It is an ironic announcement given the fact that his administration aggressively eroded the protection of women in pushing the transgenderism agenda. Far more importantly, Biden’s action flies in the face of the Constitution itself, as the date Congress set for the ratification of this wannabe 28th Amendment has long since expired. Back when Congress first passed the ERA, as with all constitutional amendments, it required the approval of two-thirds of states. While 38 states eventually approved the ERA, the last three came between 2017 and 2020, which occurred decades after the ratification deadline. On top of that, six states have since withdrawn their approval. As Senator Chuck Grassley pointedly observed, “The Equal Rights Amendment was rejected by the states during the binding period in which it was considered. The will of the American people can’t be overridden by wishful thinking on a piece of paper.” So, while Biden may claim the ERA is the “law of the land,” it’s not.

  • Humor: Biden confirms that before declaring new amendment, he talked to respected constitutional scholars Beavis and Butt-Head (Babylon Bee)

  • Our non compos mentis Big Guy: It was an alarming moment for House Speaker Mike Johnson, and a revealing one regarding those who for years lied to the American people about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. “He looks at me stunned,” recalled Johnson, “and he said, ‘I didn’t do that.’” Johnson was referring to a meeting he had with Biden last year, during which he asked the president why he’d halted liquid natural gas exports to Europe, thereby strengthening Russia’s hand as the continent’s primary energy supplier. Johnson continued: “And I said, ‘Mr President, yes, you did. It was an executive order like three weeks ago.’ And he goes, ‘No, I didn’t do that.’ … He was not lying to me. He genuinely did not know what he had signed. And I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing, because I thought, ‘We’re in serious trouble. Who is running the country?’” Donald Trump takes office today, and our long national nightmare is thus over. But where’s the accountability for all those Democrats and members of the mainstream media who deeply disserved the American people by propping up a dangerously enfeebled president?

  • NYT reporters now say Biden’s inner circle protected him: Now they tell us. In an act akin to shutting the stable door after all the horses have bolted, four of the New York Times’s leading scribes are now reporting that Joe Biden’s inner circle knew about his emotional and cognitive decline, and they took steps to conceal it from the rest of us. As the Times shamelessly reports: “They rearranged meetings to make sure Mr. Biden was in a better mood. … At times, they delayed sharing information with him, including negative polling data, as they debated the best way to frame it. They surrounded him with aides when he walked from the White House to the waiting presidential helicopter on the South Lawn so that news cameras could not capture his awkward bearing.” This prolonged deception was, of course, a deep and dangerous disservice to the nation, but how plausible is it that the Times’s Katie Rogers, Adam Entous, Maggie Haberman, and Carl Hulse were all a bunch of Sergeant Shultzes? That they knew nothing, NOTHING, about Biden’s cognitive decline, even though we in our humble shop were sounding the alarm about it more than four years ago?

  • What next in Ohio? On Friday, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine named Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to fill the Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance. DeWine’s decision deflects a move by Donald Trump’s DOGE co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy, who had made known his interest in the seat. DeWine is known to be more of an establishment Republican. In announcing his choice, DeWine said, “Serious times demand serious people,” noting that his decision “took a while” since he “interviewed a large number of people.” Meanwhile, Ramaswamy’s camp responded to the news by stating, “Vivek’s base plan remains the same: To get accomplishments at DOGE and then announce a run for governor shortly.” Ramaswamy is eyeing the Ohio governor’s mansion in 2026.

  • Trump to slap Gang of 51 election-interfering stooges: “SPIES WHO LIE,” blares the New York Post’s cover page from March 19, 2022. Festooning the text are the mugshots — if only! — of 20 of the 51 “intelligence” “experts” who tripped over themselves in the days just before the 2020 election to protect Joe Biden from the Post’s bombshell report about the Biden Crime Family and its influence-peddling operation in Ukraine and elsewhere. Among the 51 letter-signing miscreants were former Obama senior stooges John Brennan and James Clapper, and they warned the American people that Hunter Biden’s laptop wasn’t what it seemed; that it was actually an act of Russian disinformation. It was a shameful, election-rigging lie — one that likely changed the outcome of the 2020 election. The good news, though, is that Donald Trump plans to revoke the clearances of these 51 liars as part of the slew of executive orders he’ll be signing later today.

  • First round of Israeli hostages returned: Following the recently negotiated ceasefire with Israel, Hamas released three Israeli women it had taken hostage during its terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. The women — 23, 28, and 31 years of age — had been held captive for 471 days, and it’s hard to fathom the horrors they were subjected to by Hamas. There were celebrations in Tel Aviv and New York’s Central Park in response to the hostages coming home. These first three women are just the start, as Hamas still holds 97 hostages, some of whom died in captivity. The first phase of the deal is for Hamas to release 33 hostages while Israel will hand over roughly 1,000 jailed Palestinian terrorists. The remaining 64 hostages that Hamas holds will be addressed in subsequent negotiations.

  • More rainbows coming despite opposition to trans agenda: Democrats are proving they still have not learned their lesson from Donald Trump’s resounding election victory. Once again, they are bowing to the Rainbow Mafia and doubling down on pushing the deviant LGBTQ agenda. A group of Democrats is resurrecting the Stonewall Democrats with the goal of pushing “transgender” rights. Apparently, they see this as a winning agenda. The problem is a recent New York Times/Ipsos Survey found that, irrespective of political party affiliation, 79% of Americans believe biological males should not be allowed to compete in female sports. This number includes 67% of Democrats. In fact, just 18% of Americans believe transgender-identifying athletes should be permitted to compete in female sports. The survey also found 77% of Americans agreed that the push for transgender accommodations in society had gone far enough or too far. Only 21% said it had not gone far enough. This should be a wake-up call for Democrat politicians to abandon the rainbow, but we’re not holding our breath.

Headlines

  • Thousands hold anti-Trump rally in Washington before inauguration (BBC)

  • Trump to begin large-scale deportations Tuesday (WSJ)

  • Kristi Noem pledges to shut down CBP One app (Washington Free Beacon)

  • Trump expects to visit Los Angeles fire devastation during first week back (Daily Wire)

  • Charles Blow, journalism’s clunkiest DEI hire, out at The New York Times (The Federalist)

  • Humor: Senate committee sticks to softball questions for shotgun-toting Kristi Noem (Babylon Bee)

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