By Douglas V. Gibbs
Darkness does not exist. It cannot be measured or contained. It is simply the absence of light.
When light appears, darkness has no choice but to flee and retreat into the darkest recesses of the shadows.
In politics, when darkness faces a defeat, it is vengeful, angrily striking out against its opposition.
Sometimes the lashing out backfires.
Former President Joe Biden lashed out during the final moments of his presidency. He, or his handlers, didn’t seem to care how Biden’s words and actions may impact his own party on his way out. Biden seemed to take Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump personally, claiming that he was wrong to drop out and that he could have beaten Trump had he remained in the race.
The criminality of his family and closest Democratic allies seemed to be confirmed when Biden issued a flurry of preemptive and sweeping pardons — perhaps also a sign that he may not have been the only one that was calling the shots during his failed presidency.
His disdain for Kamala Harris seemed to work its way to the surface when he not only told USA Today that he would have defeated Trump, but that the tactics used by party personnel that also were involved in showing him the exit failed the party.
Nonetheless, his primary plan had nothing to do with America and became all about protecting his own hide, and those around him. His pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, revealed that there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to the Biden family’s criminal enterprises. He issued a blanket pardon not only for crimes Hunter Biden had been found guilty of, but also for “offenses against the United States which he … may have committed or taken part in” during a nearly 11-year period.
The pardon allowed Hunter to avoid prison time, and prevented the incoming Trump Justice Department from bringing any other case against Hunter Biden during the time in question. The starting date of the pardon in 2014 coincides with Hunter Biden’s genesis of his infamous and lucrative stint on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, while his father served as President Obama’s point man on Ukraine.
Then, Biden honored Hillary Clinton and George Soros, awarding them the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian honor. Soros, the Hungarian born billionaire who worked with the NAZIs, became rich destroying the economies of various countries, and then notoriously funded the “rogue prosecutor” movement, supporting soft-on-crime district attorneys who have emboldened criminals by refusing to charge certain crimes is not only a traitor to the United States, but a worldwide threat. George Soros is also known as being the main funding source for the activist cultural Marxist left through his Open Society Foundations, which his son Alex now runs. Fittingly, Alex Soros received the medal on behalf of his father.
By awarding Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Biden was making clear what many Americans already suspected—that Soros ranks among the leftist global elites who are really calling the shots in the Democratic Party.
Biden’s ban of offshore drilling across more than 600 million acres of water, and moves to protect the jobs of the deep state bureaucrats embedded in Washington were also designed to not only be vengeful, but was an attempt to hold on to what little power the left still had. With Biden taking such drastic moves, and continuing to pay homage to the Soros family, he has also made it more difficult for the Democrats to abandon the hard left nature that cost them the election, and more difficult to reconsider their trajectory as a political party. Biden, after all, has emboldened the darkest characters and influences of the Democratic Party.
Biden added to the damage with his farewell speech, ranting and raving about disinformation, how our democracy is in danger with the dictatorship of Trump gaining footing, how recent natural disasters have proven his claim of the reality of man-made climate change, and how only Biden and his allies can protect America from those who threaten democracy. Never mind that the Democrats have cozied up to socialist big money, encouraged dismantling freedom of speech and of the press, and have increased surveillance and collusion with certain industries like Big Tech.
His pardons freed or commuted the sentences of violent and nonviolent felons alike, and offered freedom to the worst of the worst, including two Chinese spies. The pardons also included a Pennsylvania judge who took bribes to send kids to a for-profit “detention” center; an Illinois clerk who embezzled over $53 million from a town of just 15,000 people; and a Massachusetts woman convicted for a fentanyl-trafficking conspiracy. His commutations included ex-Miami booster and Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro.
The deep state during Biden’s final days and hours also rammed through a laundry list of progressive demands, all spitting in the face of average Americans. With one more round of his unconstitutional and court-defying student-debt giveaways he stuck it to the taxpayers with more than $175 billion. Regarding federal employees, Biden struck a work-from-home deal with the union for some 42,000 workers. Billions of tax dollars were also sent to various boondoggles like fed grants for rural high-speed internet, CHIPS Act handouts and other nonsense progressive favorites. However, this kind of stuff is exactly why voters turned against the Democrats. It’s like a losing football team deciding that the best way to win during the second half of the game is to fumble the ball more.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
