New Trump Truth:
UNPARDONABLE SIN
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This term is from Nathaniel Hawthorne, who returned to it as a theme in many of his short stories and novels.
At university I was taught that for Hawthorne, the unpardonable sin was the wilful violation of the sanctity of the human heart, and that Hawthorne believed some human beings were completely and utterly evil.
The unpardonable sin is a sin of the "cold intellect" according to Dr. Nina Baym:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/363850
Hawthorne wrote: “The Unpardonable Sin might consist in a want of love and reverence for the Human Soul; in consequence of which, the investigator pried into its dark depths, not with a hope or purpose of making it better, but from a cold philosophical curiosity,—content that it should be wicked in whatever kind or degree, and only desiring to study it out. Would not this, in other words, be a separation of the intellect from the heart?” (Stewart, The American Notebooks, p. 106). The intellectual curiosity overbalances the warm sympathy of the heart.
I take it a different direction.
Although Sleepy Joe will attempt to pardon his friends and co-conspirators, when Trump is back in the White House, he will challenge those pardons as unlawful, since Sleepy Joe was a criminal co-conspirator, and no lawful action can be taken via commission of a crime.
IOW: Any pardon by Sleepy Joe can be reversed by the US Supreme Court, due to higher law than the President/Resident. Even the Constitution, which grants the power to pardon, cannot be construed to allow criminals to do the pardoning.
That opens it up for a mass arrest and prosecution of those who thought they were safe.
Also, if he's too incompetent to face charges then he's too incompetent to sign any legal documents.
Multiple layers of meaning fren. I love yours.
One step further. Pedo's pardons don't count because he was never really president; he stole the election through fraud and therefore deserves execution for treason.
Great take!
Thought provoking, and updooted, fren. Thanks.