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GOP-led Oversight Committee says Biden pardons signed by autopen are ‘void’ in final report
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I’m not saying I like what Trump or the GOP are doing here, and this is obviously motivated by pettiness and partisan contempt, but I spent the last few years insisting to people that Biden was a senile old fuck who shouldn’t be allowed to drive a car, let alone run a country, and I’m not going to back down now. They’re right, he was barely able to put sentences together or recognize where he was. Who’s to say he knew what he was signing?
I don’t think it’s a bad thing to establish the precedent that elected officials with noticeable cognitive decline shouldn’t expect their decisions to be validated by subsequent administrations. If a party doesn’t want to take that risk, then they should stop Weekend at Bernie’s-ing thousand-year-old mummies and just pick candidates who can do basic things, like name the city they’re currently in, or draw a clock.
The problem is that Trump is possibly even more senile. This is not at all in good faith and you can safely just not support this
oh no hexbear user #537 jokingly "supported" the GOP policy
that changes something surely
It's good to correct errors and that user clearly was not joking
I will not be made to respect liberal norms and clutch pearls when Trump acts like a bull in a china shop, I really couldn't care less about American legal precedent and overturning previous presidential decisions, it's entirely pointless to care about
agreed. redshirt made an entirely reasonable point that if someone's brains are leaking out their ears, they shouldn't be signing executive orders.
the actual solution here isn't to take one miniscule measure at a time like disallowing autopen above a certain age, it's to overhaul the entire political machine and culture so that miserable, senile old fucks aren't in decision making positions in the first place. obviously this GOP tactic is bad faith because they've got their own senile fuck on the throne now, but redshirt isn't incorrect.