Trump's First 24 hours, Especially the Pardons - 1/21/2025

I have a lot to say about a lot that transpired yesterday. Off the top of my head, and without internet assist, some first thoughts. It was a lot, where to begin?

There are only two genders. That's it. Trans people may not like where they fall into the boy or girl spectrum, but it is what it is. I don't like that I'm 5'7" tall. I wanted to be 6'7" and play professional sports. But I am what I am. Saying there are two genders isn't anti gay or lesbian, by the way. And maybe it's just me, but if someone is gay or lesbian, logically they seem to know what gender they are. Popeye used to say "I am what I am" (actually, I think it was more like 'I yam what'sk I yam). Well, you are what you are. I get some people don't like it and others don't want to be it anymore. But, hey. Science.

Perhaps my favorite thing yesterday, was learning that President Trump removed the security clearances of the 51 former intelligence people who knowingly and intentionally lied, using their stature from previous office to mislead the American people about the Hunter Biden laptop, and in doing so, meddled with the 2020 election. If the 2020 election was stolen, it was these 51 and the scum in mainstream media who allied with them to perpetrate this lie, who stole it. The abused their privilege and lost it. It is right and just that they did. Candidly, they got off easy. They belong in jail, but this will have to do.

Trump moved to get the DEI out of government. Good riddance.

Trump also moved to bring Federal employees back into the office from their work at home cherry jobs. Don't like it? Get a real job.

He took steps to reverse Biden's INSANE immigration policies. This includes the "TSA Pre" of immigration, an app to whisk in and not be counted as an illegal immigrant. There's a proper number and manner of immigrants immigrating to the U.S. The Biden Administration handled this issue worse than any other, by a mile, bar none. If for no other reason than immigration policies and practices, Democrats had to be defeated in 2024. Thankfully they were.

My second favorite thing Trump did yesterday was that he designated the cartels as terrorists. These cartels have all kinds of U.S. and Mexican officials on their corrupt payrolls: judges, cops, Border Patrol people, bankers, mayors and other politicians, maybe even U.S. Congresspersons in the House or Senate. Now that the money trail smells like terrorism, it gives law enforcement lots of new tools. Since this terror is crossing our borders, it also brings about the possibility that our military get actively involved: "all enemies, foreign and domestic" and all that.

Gulf of America? Seems silly, but why not? Land on Mars? OK. Water for California? I would hope so. Pull out of WHO and Paris Climate? I think so. Lots of stuff, but the big one...

Since so many of my friends on the left are fired up over pardons yesterday, Biden did some, too.

He pardoned everyone involved in the kangaroo court that went by the name, "J-6 Committee". Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, CAPITAL POLICE OFFICERS who testified (capitalized for emphasis), all of them, Congressional Reps, Lawyers, Staffers. Nothing says, everything was on the up and up with the J-6 Committee worse than the whole bunch of them receiving Presidential Pardons. Biden told us it was a farce yesterday with these pardons.

Biden pardoned his family. The Biden Crime Family part at least. Nothing shows Biden corruption better than this. I'll leave it at that.

The Biden family are corrupt.

Speaking of Pardons, Joe pardoned General Milley. You know, the guy who said he'd let the Chinese know beforehand if Trump decided to act against them militarily. He's also the guy who was in charge and disobeyed Trump's order to withdraw our troops from Syria. And let's not leave out the dead military members due to the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Milley's pardon goes back to 2014. This was a blanket pardon, meaning it doesn't matter what crime he may have committed, he's got a get out of jail free card.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, too, a blanket pardon dating back to 2014. "Nothing to see here, folks! Move along."

Yesterday Biden also pardoned an activist who murdered two FBI agents.

Trump pardoned the J-6 convicts and those alleged but not yet convicted. As I always do when I talk about this topic, I will start with this: people did wrong on January 6th. Before Jan 6th, when I heard there would be a protest that day, my immediate thought was, "Nothing good can come from it." I was right. The defendant's motives and the legitimacy or illegitimacy of those motives are irrelevant. Some of the people acted criminally and their actions were indefensible and wrong. I'm sorry if reading that offends you. It's how I feel. This does not apply to all of the persons convicted and or accused. I would guess it is 10%, maybe as high as 20%. So, if there are 1500 of these folks, I am referring to 150-300 of them. But there is the first rub. We aren't talking about 150-300 people. We're talking about 1500.

Trump pardoned them all. Some were legit criminals. Most people who get pardons are.

Washington D.C., it's residents, it's police department, it's prosecutors, it's jailers, and it's jurors are nearly mono-political in their leftward leanings. Because of the political climate and division in our country, the political leaning as uniformly toward the left. When I learned that the protesters would be tried in D.C., I thought, "Nothing good can come from it. The people who are being over-charged will have no fair chance." I was right again. Shit, some of these people have been held for years awaiting trial. Years.

For those persons who were overcharged and treated unfairly, made an example of is what they were, I supported a Presidential Pardon if Trump won. My position was that this issue should be adjudicated on a case by case basis, and non-violent persons NOT guilty of actual conspiratorial acts ought to be pardoned. Yesterday my opinion changed. I wholeheartedly support the blanket pardon President Trump issued yesterday. Before I move on, I should comment that I have seen reports today that the DC Mayor and DC Prison system have been dragging their feet with the releases of these now pardoned people. This goes directly to the bias in DC which is why I distrusted their process in the first place.

I changed my mind when I learned that Biden pardoned not only the J-6 Committee members, but also ther lawyers, their staff, AND CAPITAL POLICE OFFICERS who arrested J-6ers and also testified about J-6. Why in the fuck are the police getting pardons? Once I heard that, my initial response was, "Hell no!" Nothing could possibly have deepened my distrust of the process that ensnared grandma's who were in the Capital, took a selfie, and left to years in prison. Or so I thought. The pardon of these Capital Police Officers did just that. So, my opinion changed. If those police were pardoned, then ALL the J-6ers ought to be pardoned, and I'm glad they were.