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The Autopen Presidency Controversy Is
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Posted By: Hazymac, 7/25/2025 7:53:28 AM

Now that investigations into the autopen presidency are underway, left-leaning media and Democratic politicians are finally confronted with the truth that was right in front of our faces for years: Joe Biden was not running the country, and America was being led by an unelected, unaccountable polit-bureau. Every week we learn more that makes the long national nightmare we endured even worse. Now, thanks to the New York Times, of all places, we learn that Joe Biden couldn’t even manage the task of signing his own name on pardons of violent and dangerous criminals, and at best, only knew of categories of those being pardoned. President Biden was forced to bow out

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Reply 1 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 7/25/2025 8:28:09 AM (No. 1982231)
The investigation of Biden's use of the auto pen may be just beginning but it has the feel of something like a dog chasing its tail. Will we ever catch it and if we do, what will we do with it? The rules around the use of the autopen seem very lax so even if we find egregiously suspicious actions, there is probably little legally we can do about it, especially with a senile Biden unable to remember what he was doing 5 minutes ago let alone during his Residency. He says he didn't "do" the LNG slow down. Did he and doesn't remember or did an aide take the action illegally? There will be witnesses and counter witnesses to everything that is fishy. Then, when you talk about rolling back suspicious things like pardons, how do you do that? No one considered a senile president or abuse of the autopen to this level. How can you fix it? The only frustrating but likely outcome is new legislation that tightens the use of the autopen with approval documentation signed by the President and placed in official records in some manner, i.e laws that codify the reasonable behavior that should have been observed in the first place but that the dems, always looking for loopholes, decided to abuse. We will fix it because we found out that dems are slimy characters. But we already knew that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: chance_232 7/25/2025 9:01:21 AM (No. 1982244)
This has the potential of becoming a raging constitutional crisis. However, three things have to be determined. Was Biden unfit and 2, when did he become unfit. Who will make this determination? If you can't answer all three above, nothing happens. I don't think that the above will ever get answered. Then there is another problem. No one saw fit to exercise the 25th. I think the plan was for Biden to step aside at some point elevating Harris. However, it became obvious quickly that Harris is a moron and Jill and Hunter enjoyed the trappings of the presidency.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: privateer 7/25/2025 9:28:19 AM (No. 1982263)
FTA: (final paragraph) 'No one believes Joe Biden was “all there” at the end of his presidency. If he was too senile for Democrats to let him run for president, it seems likely he was too senile for White House staff to let him run the country.' I'd put it this way: it seems certain he was senile enough to let the staff run the country. In the long view of history---if it is truthful, if---Biden's presidency should be considered an 'interregnum'. Kind of like Vichy France, or Quisling's Norway.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: MissNan 7/25/2025 9:34:46 AM (No. 1982266)
I want to know what part Dr. Jilly had in all this.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: felixcat 7/25/2025 10:05:26 AM (No. 1982284)
Maybe Hunter Biden was selling pardons, etc now the his foreign sources of income were about to dry up. Re #1 - yes, maybe some new rules on the use of the autopen need to be created but as usual Democrats will ignore them just like they ignore the US Constitution and Republicans will be ever so attentive to honoring traditions and rules and the Constitution.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: stablemoney 7/25/2025 10:09:39 AM (No. 1982288)
The FBI should be seizing all communications between the Biden WH and Obama, and raiding Obama's DC headquarters. The Democrats were happy to have an oaf for President in Biden, as Obama was blocks from the WH calling the shots.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Ragman73 7/25/2025 10:10:36 AM (No. 1982290)
#4 raises a good point. I'm afraid the analogy is clear: "Dr" Jill Biden is to Joe Biden as Edith Wilson was to Woodrow Wilson. Two men whose medical/psychological conditions should have required them to be "pasteurized" from the most powerful executive position on earth. Sadly, history does repeat itself.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Aspen02 7/25/2025 4:02:00 PM (No. 1982452)
How much payback did the administration get for their pardons?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: anniebc 7/25/2025 5:52:23 PM (No. 1982517)
No worries. Biden is totally immune. Untouchable, just like obama. But everyone around him. . . we'll have to figure out they can get off scott free too.
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