Biden has commuted the sentence of 37 of the 40 Federal death row inmates to life without parole, to head off another Trump killing spree like he had first time around.
Trump executed 13 Federal inmates during his first term, many in a rush during the 2020 election cycle, the last happening just 5 days before leaving office on Jan 20, 2021. If 13 doesn’t sound like a lot, it was more than the prior 56 years combined, and Trump executed more prisoners than any president in the prior 120 years.
He oversaw the execution of one quarter of Federal death row inmates. Typically, for Trump, he also ignored the customary procedures and intentional speed bumps in order to get the executions done in order to look strong on crime while simultaneously issuing pardons to anyone who crimed on his behalf.
The three whose sentences were not commuted by Biden are the surviving Boston marathon bomber, the fuckwit who killed 9 people at a black church in Charleston (and was then famously taken by the police to Burger King during his arrest because he was hungry) and the Tree of Life mass shooter.
SACRAMENTO, California — California farmers could soon enjoy bumper crops thanks to President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to lift water restrictions. But who will pick them if he follows through on his deportation threats?
The country’s largest agricultural constituency backed Trump in November, bucking California’s deep-blue electorate over his campaign promises to “open the faucet” and deliver more water to the state’s parched, conservative-leaning Central Valley. But now it’s reckoning with an uncomfortable contradiction: Trump also campaigned on mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, who make up at least half of the state’s agricultural workforce.
They’re going to blow through what little is left of the Central Valley aquifer, only for the crops to die unpicked in the fields.
Don’t forget that the main plot driver in the movie Chinatown was how fucked up California’s water administration is. For more on how countries like China and Saudi Arabia literally steal the water from under our feet, here’s a long(ish) but entertaining watch on the subject:
Current House Speaker Mike Johnson is expected to have a rough ride in his re-election bid. He will need basically every single Republican to vote for him to garner the simple majority required to win the position.
Fun Fact: The House has to elect a Speaker before the incoming members can be sworn in. They can’t do that until Jan 3 at the earliest. If they don’t get their shit together before Jan 6, Congress cannot certify the Electoral College results. If they don’t get that done by Jan 20, Trump cannot be sworn in on Inauguration Day.
I’m not saying Trump won’t be sworn in, but the House GOP has a well-earned reputation for being able to stomp on even the smallest of dicks, so it could be a “fun” couple of weeks.
As i understand it, Trump not being sworn in on Jan 20 would make 91 year old Chuck Grassley, one of the stupidest humans on the planet, President until the situation is resolved.
