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Joe Biden Declares That He Is Now Emperor of the Moon…
…in other news…Biden says that states have ratified the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. The nitwit Vice President, Kamala Harris is also celebrating the news.
It’s not April 1st. The Equal Rights Amendment has not been ratified and isn’t likely to be. President Biden doesn’t possess magical, extra-constitutional powers. Recommendations have been made that Joe Biden be given a broom to sweep back the ocean when not napping on the beach in his post-presidential years.
Is it Monday yet?
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Love the tag!
The Federalist’s take:
From The Daily Caller:
Yes, the man who claimed Donald Trump was a “threat to our democracy”, by dictatorial fiat, declares “the 28th amendment is the law of the land”. He is an absolute disgrace.
“grumpy old man yells at the moon”
Lots of damage can happen in the next 2 days. I assume that Monday morning, being a government holiday, little bad will be unleashed.
That guy is only qualified to opine on the 25th Amendment.
Still expecting blanket pardons for illegal entry into the country or remaining illegally. If those things aren’t crimes, then mass deportation is more difficult.
I do not like your comment but fear it might become reality.
I can hear the arguments now:
~ “The 28th is Constitutional.”
~”But, it wasn’t ratified legally…”
~”What, you’re against equal rights?!?”
Like saying:
~ “Hey! I just became a millionaire!”
~”But….you robbed a bank to do so…”
~”So, what, you’re against me being rich?”
(meme by the author)
An old favorite:
I’m crossing my fingers that he’ll come through with that cure for cancer he promised in the next two days…
When the government ceases to protect the citizens, the citizens will protect themselves.
Not surprising that the moonbats would accept an emperor rather than insist on democracy.
To see what non-conservative media was saying, I checked CNN. The attitude of the CNN article is that it is a serious position.
The CNN headline says President Biden’s statement kicks off an expected legal battle. I don’t see why it should.
The article quotes a “senior administration official” that President Biden is not taking “executive action” but is expressing an opinion, and that the opinion is consistent with opinions from “leading constitutional scholars and the American Bar Association.” I have not looked for those opinions from “leading constitutional scholars and the American Bar Association,” though I note that the ABA is a clearly political organization. But CNN’s article proceeds to treat the opinion as serious, but subject to countering opinions.
But what Biden said is just Joe Biden’s opinion, entitled to the same weight as my opinion. That he is nominally President of the United States adds nothing to the power of his opinion on what the law is.
As President he could take executive actions based on his opinion, but he would be acting contrary to multiple government legal opinions. Biden’s opinion is that a vote in 2020 sealed the ratification. Well, if he really believed that, why has he waited the full length of his term as president to say anything or do anything?
CNN does not explain its headline comment that Biden’s statement will kick off legal battles. Nothing changes because an old senile man expresses an opinion.
The CNN article does mention a couple of times that this is part of the push to codify abortion.
The article does also suggest this opinion of Biden’s is among many of the things the Biden administration is doing to make life as difficult as possible for incoming President Trump.
Doesn’t matter if he gives a blanket pardon for illegal entry. They remain guilty of being in this country every day they are here. Therefore on Jan 22 they can be deported because they broke the law again. Just like pardoning someone for murdering someone in 2024 doesn’t make that person immune to prosecution if they murder someone later.
Or if they murdered another person at the same time, but hadn’t yet been prosecuted/convicted for it. If they’re pardoned for A murder, they’re pardoned for THAT murder, only.
Who lost the 2020 presidential election?
The citizens of the USA.
Well, maybe if that person is a Biden, then special rules come into effect.
Sounds to me like he’s starting a new career as an insurrectionist.
Barack Obama is a leading constitutional scholar. Maybe ask him.
remember when Bill Kristol, David French and Jen Rubin were pushing FJB in 2000 to “save democracy” – good times
A very Leftist thing Biden is doing here — believing that saying the thing makes the thing so, makes it come into being. And Lefties go right along with it because they believe the same.
I’m really curious – I haven’t seen any leftie senators or congressmen running around saying that it’s true. Are any of them saying it?
Opposition to the amendment 40-50 years ago was based on the realization that the courts would use it to do all kinds of things that weren’t even related to its meaning. But back then no one could have dreamed that one of those things would be to use the phrase “on account of sex” to apply to transexuals. And that even some conservative judges (Gorsuch) would agree with that. That’s why they want it so bad now. I would like to see a new amendment which says the same thing but which uses clarifying language to make it mean what it meant when it was written.
BTW, that guy has stopped complaining about millionaires since he joined that club.
Great. I am declaring that term limits for Congress has been ratified and might make a declaration on a balanced budget amendment later today. This is easy!