U.S. President Joe Biden this week became a “lame duck,” entering the period between White House administrations traditionally seen as one of waning influence, increasing irrelevance, and menial administrative preparation for the successor.
But it can also be a period of opportunity — relatively unburdened by responsibility and accountability, many lame-duck presidents take advantage of the time to take actions they may not have gotten away with before an election, controversial pardons being one of the most popular.
And as Jessica Berlin, a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), said in a post on social media after the election result was called, Biden does have an opportunity to be “the least-lame duck in history.”
“Whatever can go to Ukraine needs to go now,” she added.
Vance and Johnson are right there behind him though. I don’t know that they’d just watch that happen, and I don’t trust that the propaganda machine that just gave the other branches of government to the republicans wouldn’t also lead to a massacre of any politicians left of (somehow, literally) dick Cheney
Luckily, a legal “official act of the president” can work on more than one person.
I’m not saying it’s a great choice, but it is there.
Sometimes life gives you shitty choices.
Yeah, I just think there’d be unexpected and violent consequences
If Biden had the spine to do that, trump would already be in jail and convicted of far too many things to even remember.