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nationalsecuritylaw.org • 8 days ago

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE ARE WE DOING THE AUTOPEN THING AGAIN

Reposted from Aaron Rupar

Dictator shit

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moefranjoe.bsky.social•6 days ago

Sorry Ding-Don they dont fit sharpies, your crayon of choice.

flyingfish765.bsky.social•8 days ago

Woo hoo! Autopen illegal! I don’t have to pay my mortgage!

jessienewburn.bsky.social•7 days ago

His gaslighting is incessant.

Wrote my thoughts this evening on this autopen thing.
https://jessienewburnwriter.com/the-gaslighter-in-chief/

jinx2024.bsky.social•7 days ago

Did the Trump Admin forget about their own "mandate?" P2025 pg 29 reads, "The Staff Secretary also oversees the use of the President’s signature, whether by hand or by AUTOPEN, and manages the Office of the Executive Clerk, Office of Records Management, and Office of Presidential Correspondence."

canuckresistance.bsky.social•7 days ago

This is hardly an open legal issue… Bush’s counsel - amongst others - gave a good opinion on the larger issue, it is not complicated!
https://www.justice.gov/file/494411/dl?inline

waxmonkey.bsky.social•8 days ago

sharpie or die

noletx.bsky.social•7 days ago

🤦‍♂️By that insanely stupid logic, anything signed by a ball point pen is also not valid as the founding fathers had not any anticipated that new technology…..

thepurplesmurf.bsky.social•7 days ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqk1x0n5lo

foglightmj.bsky.social•8 days ago

https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/polygraph/

rismith.bsky.social•8 days ago

Biden should have mentally ordered them pardoned without ever telling anyone. That's apparently the most best way to order things.

katosen27.bsky.social•8 days ago

God we really live in a timeline where an orange idiot thinks he can declassify documents by thinking it but the use of autopen is too much...

bananapantz.bsky.social•8 days ago

Wait.

We did this before?

What year IS THIS!?!?

nationalsecuritylaw.org•8 days ago

peropax.bsky.social•7 days ago

He'll literally obsess over anything except his job.

bpaige.bsky.social•8 days ago

I kinda enjoy that these pardons live in his head. Only proves Joe Biden was right to do it

onekidsdad.bsky.social•8 days ago

Here's my question, "Did Donald Dunce sign all 1075 pardons for the Jan 6th insurrectionists" ?? .... like really?!? He sat there and signed that many pardons?! Give me a f*cking break. He sucks so f*cking bad at being a normal f*cking human !!

r5-to-philly.bsky.social•8 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/r5-to-philly.bsky.social/post/3lkl76ijzg223

gruntmusic.bsky.social•8 days ago

The legal standard is no longer previous case law/precedent/stare decicis. The standard is now, how close is the relationship between the complaintant, and Clarence Thomas & Sam Alito.

Total corruption.

r5-to-philly.bsky.social•8 days ago

...but the memo!

https://bsky.app/profile/r5-to-philly.bsky.social/post/3lklfiiuttk2t

thisuserisdumb.bsky.social•8 days ago

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wwwilliedo.bsky.social•8 days ago

Once MAGA finds a story it never lets it go.

These people still think elementary school kids are shitting in litter boxes in imaginary schools all over America!

onbluskysku.bsky.social•8 days ago

Are they going to try to make Joe Biden come to a court to testify about who he actually pardoned?

billypilgrim65.bsky.social•8 days ago

Of course. Trump's favourite activity after humiliating his lickspittles is signing shit with a great big fucking sharpie.

jobpolak.bsky.social•8 days ago

Is a sharpie a pen though?
Does the constitution allow these felt tip modernisms?
Maybe all of Trumps EO’s and pardons are actually the ones not valid?

victorolosaurus.bsky.social•8 days ago

except for declassifications, most of those he did with his mind... as was the style of the time

fitforpurpose.bsky.social•8 days ago

I mean, how many pardons did Trump do for the J6 crowd? Was that an omnibus pardon or did Trump genuinely sit down with five boxes of sharpies and say bring it on? I doubt the latter.

jagsaysstupid.bsky.social•8 days ago

Obviously, this means he didn’t sign the January 6 pardons.

mraik.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ran out of sharpies.

zakyfromtwit.bsky.social•8 days ago

AGAIN? WDYM again?

nationalsecuritylaw.org•8 days ago

ask @pwnallthethings.bsky.social

pwnallthethings.bsky.social•8 days ago

oh god

pwnallthethings.bsky.social•8 days ago

this periodically comes up with stupid "congress passed the bill at 11pm before a midnight deadline and the president signed the law at 11:30pm, but that is unpossible because he is in France! Autopen! What if the law is invalid!!"

pwnallthethings.bsky.social•8 days ago

And it's stupid every iteration we have of it. Tho this is an unusually and most particularly stupid iteration of it. The president may not delegate authority for signing, but may direct a subordinate to affix his signature to a law or pardon. It is a thing many presidents have done.

nationalsecuritylaw.org•8 days ago

witwarrior.bsky.social•8 days ago

I don’t believe for a moment that Trump personally signed 1500 pardons for J6 with his own pen.

jonboltonsmustache.bsky.social•8 days ago

This person has uncontested nuclear launch authority. Sleep tight....

metaldad.bsky.social•8 days ago

Like Trump read or understood any of those "executive orders" that Project 2025 set in front of him! Brain dead pos.

fkenford.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yeah, but at least he signed them with his manly -- but very tiny -- hand.

nationalsecuritylaw.org•8 days ago

Just the right size to handle a mushroom without breaking the fragile stem.

nationalsecuritylaw.org•8 days ago

I am truly sorry for this image but not enough to retract it.

lyzzleg.bsky.social•8 days ago

Can we get an autopen to erase him from this narrative?!!

leem075.bsky.social•8 days ago

The attorneys better get this sorted out as even WeThePeople use it for almost every legal matter - including buying and selling our homes!!!

fstuart.bsky.social•8 days ago

Waiting for someone with standing to claim Trump 47 isn’t the legitimate President because he actually won in 2020 and thus wasn’t eligible to run in 2024. Bonkers but it will make Trump’s DOJ have to argue that he lost in 2020.

gaildee.bsky.social•8 days ago

Lol...it is bonkers but it's Just the kind of thing this regime is doing.

nationalsecuritylaw.org•8 days ago

I tried to halfheartedly astroturf that idea in 2024 but nobody wanted it.

davewithturbos.bsky.social•8 days ago

Bummer. I like it because it matches the crazy but from an unexpected side.

reverendjesus.com•8 days ago

Kind of like "sure, jet fuel might not burn that hot, but what about all the stuff they use to spray chemtrails?"

amwclark.bsky.social•8 days ago

😆😭

gefjxn.bsky.social•8 days ago

I would pay money to see that!!! 🤣

fairecomments.bsky.social•4 days ago

Haven't seen anyone comment on this as an example of projection - which has been a Trump thing. When you consider what Elon & others have been doing supposedly with Trump's knowledge & approval, it sure looks like Trump doesn't actually know what he is authorizing.

nationalsecuritylaw.org•4 days ago

I think it's a little more nuanced than that. He knows that he's authorizing whatever tf anyone under him wants to do and he's fine with that.

fairecomments.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes. But gaps of logic (like signing CR that funds all programs Musk gutted) make him seem not fully lucid. And more wearied of governing than in past. That suggests aging is catching up with him.

kareemowheat.bsky.social•8 days ago

So he physically signed all 1,500 pardons for J6 on Jan 20th? He is not a smart man.

disinfofighter.bsky.social•8 days ago

So… let’s take away all the houses for MAGA that used docusign for the contracts

charlottemontagu.bsky.social•8 days ago

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nationalsecuritylaw.org•8 days ago

Goddammit @pwnallthethings.bsky.social you beat me to this by less than a minute

pwnallthethings.bsky.social•8 days ago

I truly cannot believe we live in such incredibly stupid times

davewithturbos.bsky.social•8 days ago

Don't say this, you're gonna challenge to be even stupider.

gruntmusic.bsky.social•8 days ago

“Challenge accepted.” - orange shitstain

davewithturbos.bsky.social•8 days ago

Exactly right!

bananapantz.bsky.social•8 days ago

nationalsecuritylaw.org•8 days ago

The entire concept of the autopen is what happens when you take seriously lawyers who slice the Constitution thinner than a garlic clove sliced by a razor blade.

pwnallthethings.bsky.social•8 days ago

watching all of this come round for the second or third time, but somehow even stupider just makes me feel incredibly old

hurricanexyz.bsky.social•8 days ago

'Twas ever thus, see e.g. the sequence of ObamaCare cases, which got strictly stupider each time

(And NFIB v. Sebelius was already exceedingly stupid)

bananapantz.bsky.social•8 days ago

We’re closer to Iran Contra now than Iran Contra is to WW2.

celticdragon1.bsky.social•8 days ago

And that there is a real chance SCOTUS goes for it

pwnallthethings.bsky.social•8 days ago

I doubt it, but cross that bridge when we get there.

sharonk.bsky.social•8 days ago

i genuinely want to know how this went from being a brainfart yesterday to an attack on Article II pardon powers today lmao

sharonk.bsky.social•8 days ago

like was he brooding that he couldn't call up Kash because of the pardons or

bananapantz.bsky.social•8 days ago

Why is Liz Cheney still at liberty?

nationalsecuritylaw.org•8 days ago

You can replace "Article II pardon powers" with a huge number of things and the answer would be the same. He takes in information, has no way to assess its credibility, and spits out official bullshit about it. He's like Tay but somehow more racist and homophobic.

pwnallthethings.bsky.social•8 days ago

President mis-trained LLM

anaphoristand.bsky.social•8 days ago

The only veracity test he puts to any newly absorbed information is: will this, for all of my myopia, help me? When you combine that with his utter lack of empathetic understanding of (the idea of) other persons, it's not hard to understand why this might sometimes work out not that well for him.

alicehuzar.bsky.social•8 days ago

donkeytable.bsky.social•8 days ago

Totally normal and not at all deranged.

haveyouanywool.bsky.social•8 days ago

The extent to which Trump's views on anything are captured by scrolling on right wing social media and Fox News is breathtakingly embarrassing. He truly is crazy extreme grandpa in the attic, yelling crap that nobody takes seriously, except he is in the White House with a staff and everything.

souleater1212.bsky.social•8 days ago

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urgeoverkill.bsky.social•8 days ago

Did he hand sign each pardon for the J6 insurrectionist? Yes definitely not. Round them up!!!! F’n Moron.

nomnomnomdeplumb.bsky.social•8 days ago

Next up, "Nuh uh! Double stamp no backsies!"

ade81.bsky.social•8 days ago

I had to google this. New York Post did a bit on this. Fuck me🙈🙈🙈 The country has been hijacked by a reality tv moron.

soulfire79.bsky.social•8 days ago

You'd think MUSKrat would explain autopen to this fucking moron. I hope these fools never sleep.

blueberrymoon.bsky.social•7 days ago

Trump lies all the time. Biden knew exactly what he was doing and that is why he awarded the second highest civilian medal to Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, leaders of the congressional investigation into the Capitol riot who Donald Trump has said should be jailed for their roles in the inquiry.

cuibonobaby.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'm sure Trump himself personally signed each of the 1500 Jan. 6 pardons.

katosen27.bsky.social•8 days ago

He better fucking have, or by his logic they are null and void.

anitamargarita.bsky.social•8 days ago

So fuckin dumb

unjadedone.bsky.social•8 days ago

But Trump forgets he made the trade agreements between Canada and Mexixo and then he complains about them?.You're no better Dementia Donny...