Really America?

Are We Really Going to go to War Over Oil Again?

“You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”

Widely attributed to Abraham Lincoln

Apparently unless you’re in America where you can, in fact, fool if not all than certainly a great amount of people and a lot of the time! Americans are a funny people in that they think they know everything about everything and they are usually wrong, really. We have a large portion of our population that just believes whatever they want to believe, not only in the absence of evidence, but in the presence of contrary evidence. But let’s not think that this is anything but intentional and not what Donald Trump and the Cons (irony noted) wanted us to think it was about. They’ve changed their stories so often it seems like they actually have no idea why they were invading a sovereign country and kid napping their president. Except with the Fat Felon we know there’s a self-enrichment motive behind this, somewhere.

Venezuela: Where Felons Go to Hide from the Epstein Files

Despite our differences all Americans can agree, we must release the Epstein Files!

The American people have never been more divided, just pick and issue: healthcare, immigration, taxes, democracy, all pretty big topics. Yes, we have very serious disagreements about many things going on – or not going on – in the United States and yes, sometimes they seem insurmountable. We seemed to have reached a point where compromise is no longer one of our options for achieving our governmental objectives. It’s all “my way or the highway” and at a level of intransigence we haven’t seen since the Civil War. It just doesn’t seem as though we can agree on almost anything and the low level of productivity in Congress seems to support this notion. However, there is one topic, one subject, that we all seem to agree on and about which we want immediate action:

REALEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

We all know that the Fat Felon is in the Epstein Files. Even MAGA knows he’s in the files, and in a big way. And they’re doing everything they can to get Epstein off the front pages and landing pages on websites all over the world. But we cannot let them do that! The information must come out, must be investigated and most importantly where appropriate, must be prosecuted.

Don’t not be deceived, do not despair. Nothing frightens the Fat Felon more than the release of the Epstein Files in which he knows he is identified over & over again, and for which his behavior is, more than likely, prosecutable.

Are The Felon’s Most Recent Pardons Constitutional?

Can he pardon those complicit in a crime in which he himself was complicit?

I am not a lawyer and I do, occasionally, get caught up in trying to decipher how legal decisions make sense in the real world but this one got to me immediately. Here’s how an AI search defined SCOTUS’ decision on presidential immunity:

“Trump v. United States decision in July 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that presidents have absolute immunity for official acts related to their “core constitutional powers” and a presumption of immunity for other official acts. A president has no immunity for unofficial acts. This means a former president cannot be prosecuted for actions falling under their core constitutional duties, but they can be prosecuted for acts that are not official. The decision’s framework, which distinguishes between “core constitutional powers,” “outer perimeter” official acts, and “unofficial” acts, requires lower courts to determine the scope of immunity on a case-by-case basis.”

You get that? “Absolute Immunity” for official acts related to “core constitutional powers” (all italics are my emphasis).

“Presumptive Immunity” for “other official acts”. Presumptive immunity applies to actions that are “within the outer perimeter of his official responsibility” and can be overcome by the government if it can prove that a prosecution would pose “no dangers of intrusion on the authority and functions of the Executive Branch”.

The Fat Felon pardoned Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, both of whom were/are implicated in the crime of trying to overturn a legal, fair, federal election, and there are many, many more. We all watched as the Felon initiated the entire event from the very beginning where he called it a fraudulent election from the moment Biden was declared the victor, to his speech in the park where he told an already angry crowd to march on the Capitol. His complicity is impossible to ignore, and it is the overt and public commission of a crime. He was directing the actions of those individuals – a mob, actually – that joined him in overturning a free, fair and legal election. Can he now turn around and pardon those complicit in a criminal undertaking in which he himself was the leader? This seems circular in logic and a completely irrational use of the law.

What do you think?