President Trump On Day One: Pardons for his Paramilitary Auxiliary

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(I’ll update this post with the necessary Incriminating Photos support once I figure out how to adapt to the latest unsolicited Windows Almighty update, which has broken an image link program which previously worked fine. Insufficiently hegemonic, presumably.)

I’ve waited for Donald Trump to actually begin serving his term rather than make predictions. Now that he’s in office and he’s made decisions, I have something more substantial than his rhetoric to criticize.

The most ominous decision Trump made in his first day in office was his blanket pardon of the 1500 J6 defendants. Not content with that action, he singled 14 of them out as “heroes.” Leave the numerology nonsense to others and understand the actual importance of that: by valorizing the violent actions of the most radical faction of those who participated in the violent gate-crash/bum-rush/break-in at the Capitol, Trump is implicitly stating that their actions were intended to save the country, by attempting to create a disruption sufficient to provide latitude to overturn the election in Trump’s favor.*

The bottom line is that Trump is insisting on formalizing his preferred version of a major event in history: he’s continuing to insist that he was the rightful winner of the 2020 election, and that the election was intentionally stolen** by a corrupt Democratic Party.

I would anticipate that the next move by Trump will be to ransack every file that he can possibly obtain for any material that might look like evidence of such conspiracy. And also a lot of other Democratic Party intel, of course. Trump’s excuse is that he didn’t start the Lawfare. That statement is entirely true. Whether or not the excuse may or may not be valid is not the easy call assumed by partisan bots. The point is that Trump was stating facts. Given the precedent set by the Democrats, that’s a persuasive excuse. For now.

The important thing is for the Democrats to not be put on their back foot by the 2020 voter fraud investigation, and not act like they’re guilty. They need to anticipate inquiries, contain off-topic probes, get their evidence discovery in order in all the precincts both without and within the Beltway, go through the whole harassing bullshit routine with minimal complaint (while keeping a detailed record of it), deliver as many nothingburgers to Trump as are requested, and then laugh at him. Really. I would hope that the one thing that the Democrats should have no fear of is a detailed review of the 2020 election for voter fraud. I would hope so, anyway. So don’t run from it, that just draws more publicity. But if/when Trump’s investigation efforts yield nothing after nothing, turn up the ridicule. And keep in touch with the Georgia election officials on duty in 2020, because, benighted Republicans though they be, their efforts and conclusions cleared the Democrats of voter fraud allegations (of the most ludicrous sort) in the State. They’re people of integrity in that respect, and their testimony is crucial.

[*this also contradicts Trump’s earlier line, that all he was endorsing onstage at the J6 Certification Day rally—as the incumbent—was a peaceful march and demonstration in the spirit of a civil petition for redress of grievances outside the Capitol building. Now he’s implicitly using the power of pardon that’s expressly directed at advancing his own political fortunes. That’s the second most ominous thing about Trump’s J6 pardons. ]

[ **stolen from both Trump and, implicitly, the American people! ]