A Senate committee voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress and refer him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing last week focused on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is the entire problem with pre-emptive pardons and why it’s fucked up whether it’s Joe Biden or trump handing them out:
The pardon from Biden covered acts from 2014 through the January 2025 day it was issued. It does not shield Fauci from state-level prosecutions or from investigations into any testimony that he did give that lawmakers thought was false.
It’s been fucked since Nixon got the first one over 50 years, and clearly if we don’t do anything about, it’s going to keep being a problem.
All this shit does is tell every single American:
The justice system is corrupt at the highest levels, but rather than attempt to fix the system, the powerful will just take care of each other and leave everyone else to fend for themselves.
Even if people don’t realize that, that’s what they hear. And it has a large effect on a populace and is usually the clearest sign a society has already failed.
When everyone believes the system is corrupt, they stop caring about what’s right and only caring about if they can get away with something.
It’s the root cause of why shit is so fucked up and everyone is so selfish.
Because he cares about those close to him personally…
Which sounds like a good thing, until you realize most of the country voted for him to fix the justice system for all of us, and one of the first things he did in office was insult people who thought he’d be able to accomplish anything.
If you were already worried about a corrupt justice system in 2021, that was a huge slap in the face.
And then Biden doing this pardons was an even bigger one.
This is the entire problem with pre-emptive pardons and why it’s fucked up whether it’s Joe Biden or trump handing them out:
It’s been fucked since Nixon got the first one over 50 years, and clearly if we don’t do anything about, it’s going to keep being a problem.
All this shit does is tell every single American:
Even if people don’t realize that, that’s what they hear. And it has a large effect on a populace and is usually the clearest sign a society has already failed.
When everyone believes the system is corrupt, they stop caring about what’s right and only caring about if they can get away with something.
It’s the root cause of why shit is so fucked up and everyone is so selfish.
I see why he did them. I mean, the GOP said they would weaponize the DOJ. But also, yes, those pardons shouldn’t exist.
Because he cares about those close to him personally…
Which sounds like a good thing, until you realize most of the country voted for him to fix the justice system for all of us, and one of the first things he did in office was insult people who thought he’d be able to accomplish anything.
If you were already worried about a corrupt justice system in 2021, that was a huge slap in the face.
And then Biden doing this pardons was an even bigger one.