{"id":1512110,"date":"2025-01-06T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1512110"},"modified":"2025-01-06T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T02:20:00","slug":"the-biden-admins-prank-o-rama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-biden-admins-prank-o-rama\/1512110\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biden Admin&#8217;s &#8216;Prank-O-Rama&#8217;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">The Biden Admin&#8217;s &#8216;Prank-O-Rama&#8217;&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kunstler.com\/p\/prank-o-rama\"><em>Authored by James Howard Kunstler,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;They found a cure for gluttony. Now do narcissism.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Peachy Keenan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Poor \u201cJoe Biden\u201d can\u2019t help himself as the suns sets on his ignominious career. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He ordered the American flag to fly at half-staff into January 20, inauguration day, to signal grief and distress at Donald Trump\u2019s swearing-in &#8211; not realizing, apparently, that Mr. Trump\u2019s first act in office will be to order the flags raised back up, signaling symbolically the end to America\u2019s grief and distress under \u201cJoe Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/httpssubstack-post-media.s3.amaz%20%2834%29_3.jpg?itok=1cZJPGRx\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You might wonder: what other sort of vicious mischief the Party of Chaos has in store in the final ramp-up to a momentous change of government?<\/strong><\/em> Well, no sooner had ol\u2019 \u201cJB\u201d draped the Wegovy-slenderized neck of Hillary Clinton with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, than Bill Clinton went on ABC\u2019s\u00a0<em>The View<\/em>\u00a0to declare he was \u201copen to talking with [\u2018President Biden\u2019]\u201d about a preemptive pardon for Hillary.<\/p>\n<p>Say, whu. . . ? What crimes did Bill have in mind that such a pardon might avail? Skolkovo? Uranium One? The Clinton Foundation\u2019s sketchy activities in Haiti after the earthquake there? Bill preemptively mentioned the old emails bidness as a ruse. Nothing to see there, folks, he protested. (Just don\u2019t look anywhere else!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>You must imagine that the incoming Solicitor General, John Sauer\u2019s, first act in office will be to ask SCOTUS for a ruling on the legitimacy of preemptive pardons<\/strong> &#8211; blanket pardons for crimes alive perhaps in guilty consciences but nowhere extant as yet in the legal system. The justices might detect a certain logical incoherence in that proposition. \u201cJoe Biden\u201d should have just draped wreaths of garlic around the necks of Mrs. Clinton, Liz Cheney, and Alex Soros (standing in for ol\u2019 George).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judge Juan Merchan did not get a medal.<\/strong> He\u2019s warming up for his January 10 stunt of sentencing of Mr. Trump for the \u201cfelony\u201d of recording a payment to lawyer Michael Cohen as a \u201clegal expense\u201d (times thirty-four) so Democrats can holler \u201cnyah nyah, felon!\u201d as Mr. Trump re-enters the Oval Office. Judge Merchan himself has racked-up an impressive list of federal offenses around deprivation of Mr. Trump\u2019s civil rights and due process issues as well as judicial misconduct, obstruction of justice, and abuse of power. Justice may await the judge.<\/p>\n<p>Today, January 6, of course, is electoral vote certification day in a joint session of Congress. Rep. Jamie <strong>Raskin (D-MD) has been making noises about contesting certification on the grounds that Mr. Trump is an \u201cinsurrectionist\u201d under the disqualification clause in Section 3 of the 14th\u00a0Amendment.<\/strong> Don\u2019t be surprised if Jamie makes a show of it to justify all his loose talk, but it will only be a performance. He might as well bring a chicken into the chamber and bite its head off.<\/p>\n<p>The shadowy claque behind \u201cJoe Biden\u201d has been super-busy cooking up documents for the demented old bird to sign before leaving office, anything that supposedly might discommode the incoming Mr. Trump. \u201cJB\u201d is like a bandit fleeing the scene of a crime, throwing his stolen booty into the road off the back of his truck to trip up the police closing in. Close down offshore oil drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts for evermore. . . ban gas-powered water heaters. . . any old thing to make life more uncomfortable for the people of this land. The shadowy claque seems oblivious to the fact that the people won\u2019t appreciate these pranks, that they just give more reasons for them to drive a wooden stake through the heart of the Democratic Party \u2014 as if it even had one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prank-of-the-week, though, goes to Tony Blinken\u2019s State Department.<\/strong> No sooner had Congress defunded his agency\u2019s Global Engagement Center (GEC) \u2014 that is, its censorship coordination hub \u2014 than the muppets at State redistributed GEC\u2019s personnel to other corners of the agency and scared up new funding for their censorship activities from some dark hidey-hole of sequestered money. <em><strong>Do they suppose no one will find out where these employees went?<\/strong><\/em> All that\u2019s necessary is to look up who was on the GEC\u2019s payroll in 2024, and earlier in the hub\u2019s heyday, and see if they remain on the State Department\u2019s payroll now \u2014 and then fire the whole lot of them for cause: abrogating Americans\u2019 First Amendment rights. Buh-bye. . . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>You are not out-of-order worrying, of course, that the political Left and the deep state blob behind them might look, in desperation, for other ways to prevent Donald Trump from getting sworn in. <\/strong>There\u2019s the president-elect\u2019s rally in DC the night before the inauguration. Not a few MAGAs are wondering if that\u2019s really a good idea. And the recent garish drone swarms around the USA have put folks ill at ease about a swearing-in on the west front of the US Capitol, out in the open air. I\u2019d even be a little concerned about the mechanicals of Mr. Trump\u2019s airplane as he flies north from Mar-a-Lago to the big event in Washington.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nobody will surprised if \u201cJoe Biden\u201d does not show up on the dais at the Capitol that fateful day. <\/strong>He at least has one final snub left for Mr. Trump as \u201cJB\u201d departs office with the pardon he will preemptively lay on himself in the wee hours of January 19 \u2014 in case anyone might inquire into all those shadow companies that First Son Hunter was running over the years to receive money from China, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, and Gawd knows who else, to be redistributed (i.e., laundered) through the innumerable bank accounts of Biden family members. There is\u00a0<em>that<\/em>\u00a0to consider.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Mon, 01\/06\/2025 &#8211; 16:20<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/biden-admins-prank-o-rama\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/biden-admins-prank-o-rama<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden Admin&#8217;s &#8216;Prank-O-Rama&#8217;&#8230; Authored by James Howard Kunstler, &#8220;They found a cure for gluttony. Now do narcissism.&#8221; &#8211; Peachy Keenan Poor \u201cJoe Biden\u201d can\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1512111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6lmS","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/httpssubstack-post-media.s3.amaz20283429_3-5j7Lx0.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}