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Joe Biden: What about this?

Casper 11/9/24, 7:45:59 AM
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There is a suggestion that Joe Biden should resign on his birthday , Nov 20, making Harris the first female president - for two months. But can Joe Biden, still smarting from the "coup", and now being criticized in some quarters for Harris's defeat, specifically by Nancy Pelosi, who may or may not have thought Kamala Harris was the best choice - let the Dems knives twist and turn - bring himself to perform such a truly selfless act?

Might not be a bad idea, even if it might appear at first glance to be a condescending slop to women who were looking forward to a Harris presidency.

I say Joe should consider it. He has nothing to lose and much to gain. President Harris can then in return award Joe with a second Presidential Medal of freedom, and better still, pardon Hunter Biden and a slew of “Three Strikes and You're Out" convicts, mostly black, and languishing in prison for the simple reason of being disadvantaged in a white supremacist and racist system.

Joe would not have to go back on his word of not pardoning Hunter and the stain would not be on him, and certainly not on a President Harris. She would be doing nothing more than what Trump did in his first term in office, having pardoned his friends and fellow felons, and which he will do in future with impunity after his second term, after he has committed the crime he will surely rack up with full immunity from his White Supremacist Supreme Court Court, adorned with it's Oreo on the top.
KTom 11/9/24, 9:34:48 AM
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The Democratic Party is secretly fighting over whether to try and force out Justice Sonia Sotomayor to avoid the specter of Donald Trump sending the U.S. Supreme Court further to the right.

Senators are reportedly at odds over whether to put pressure on Sotomayor—the first Latina justice—to step down while Democrats still have the power to usher in her replacement.


Might not be a bad idea

The two oldest justices are also the bench’s most conservative. Clarence Thomas, 76, joined 33 years ago and is on track to become the longest-serving justice in the court’s history early in 2028. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., confirmed in 2006, is 74.

If Democrat Kamala Harris had won this presidential election, there was little chance the elder conservatives would have chosen to retire and have their seats filled by liberals.

But conservative analysts think it’s likely Alito or Thomas or both will retire in Trump’s second term.

Ed Whelan, who writes regularly in the National Review, said he expects Alito will leave first. “I certainly have no inside knowledge. But I’d bet big on it,” he said.


Might not be a bad idea.
Casper 11/9/24, 2:33:32 PM
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In reply to KTom

The Sotomayor situation is very real but I don’t see it happening in two months, but who knows.

McConnell and his MAGA Republicans have already made a mockery of the usual nomination process, so why should Dems be high and mighty about it when it’s already debased and Republicans would make even more so in their efforts to take the country back to the glorious Jim Crow days.
VIX 11/9/24, 3:48:09 PM
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In reply to Prowi

Yeah, Biden's party is famous for being a bunch of appeasing, bleeding heart wimps.

So yeah, its a possibility.