# Anything good that President Biden can do in the last two months? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 6, 2024, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756 "2024-11-06T04:47:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/1 "2024-11-06T04:47:59Z")
This looks like it’s a foregone conclusion as of 10:45pm Central time. Since the (D) “when they go low, we go high” obviously doesn’t work as well as the (R) “let’s fk stuff up and see what happens”, is there anything that President Biden / VP Harris can do as a “fk you” over the last two months? Kinda like a disgruntled IT-guy deleting all the company’s files on his way out the door, not giving a damn what bridges he burns? Can he pardon Hunter for his imagined “crimes”? Any advantage to him stepping aside and letting President Harris pardon **him** for all the bullshit imagined “crime” accusations that are coming his way? Any distant cousins he can appoint to judgeships for the hell of it? I know it’s an even longer shot, but any bullshit that VP Harris can pull on January 6th, 2025 and refuse to certify the election, just to be a pain in the ass for the hell of it? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/2 "2024-11-06T04:51:45Z")
Biden could test drive some of that “presidential immunity” before Trump gets the keys. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/3 "2024-11-06T04:54:45Z")
Declare Trump an enemy combatant and send him to Gitmo. It’s an official act. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/4 "2024-11-06T04:58:06Z")
He can pardon Hunter of any potential federal crimes without a doubt. There’s not really even a legal question there. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/5 "2024-11-06T05:01:18Z")
Fill every single judicial vacancy. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/6 "2024-11-06T05:09:59Z")
I can think of some meaningful stuff that Biden could do for national security and to preserve the Constitution. I’d expect that he’s, likewise, considering things in that realm. He may, yes, pardon his son but otherwise I don’t see him doing of the silly stuff proposed in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/7 "2024-11-06T05:12:46Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > Declare Trump an enemy combatant and send him to Gitmo. It’s an official act. > > He can pardon Hunter of any potential federal crimes without a doubt. There’s not really even a legal question there. I’m gonna try and combine your two statements into one quote box - I actually let out an “oooooh” about the ‘official act’ thing - I like it. I think I had that in the back of my mind somewhere but couldn’t get it to the tip of my fingers when I was typing my original question. And thanks for the clarification on him being able to pardon Hunter “tomorrow, no questions asked” if he wanted to. I don’t understand a lot of the legal-ese, but I kinda had a feeling that was the case. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/8 "2024-11-06T05:19:02Z")
Bill Clinton pardoned his half-brother Roger for drug possession and trafficking. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/9 "2024-11-06T05:30:17Z")
He can try to send every last bit of military hardware and funding that isn’t nailed down by congressional red tape to Ukraine. Even if it is nailed down, he can go ahead and send it before anyone can stop him. What are they going to do prosecute him for his official act after he leaves office? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/10 "2024-11-06T05:34:30Z")
Push the big red button on Florida tonight. Surgical strike at a particular estate. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/11 "2024-11-06T06:28:28Z")
Have Trump, Vance, all Republican members of Congress, and six of the Supreme Court justices arrested and lost track of. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/12 "2024-11-06T08:01:49Z")
Put on the aviator glasses, wave the magic MiB wand, tell Trump he lost… ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/13 "2024-11-06T08:20:23Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > Declare Trump an enemy combatant and send him to Gitmo. Gitmo my ass. A bullet in the face. Vance, too. He’s 81, what could they do to him? ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/14 "2024-11-06T15:42:42Z")
Biden says he is against the death penalty. There are 40 prisoners on death row in federal prisons. He could commute all their sentences to life imprisonment. > **[List of Federal Death Row Prisoners](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/state-and-federal-info/federal-death-penalty/list-of-federal-death-row-prisoners)** > > The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information about capital punishment.… Likewise he could pardon other deserving federal inmates. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/15 "2024-11-06T15:53:57Z")
He could posthumously award Richard Simmons The Presidential Medal of Freedom ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/16 "2024-11-06T16:08:25Z")
Setting aside revenge fantasies and the immoral, THE most important thing he must do, for the sake of the world, is top send as much military aid to Ukraine as the USA’s transportation capabilities can carry. The single, numbero-uno risk Trump presents is allowing Russia to invade NATO allies, causing a panic and a nuclear exchange. Number one, top of line. NOTHING ELSE IS AS IMPORTANT. Bad abortion laws can be reversed or fought in court. Dumb tariffs can be lowered in 2029. New judges can be appointed. Nuclear war due to mismanaging the Russian threat is Trump’s biggest risk, by far. Wearing down the Russians can still be done for awhile, because come next January, Trump will do whatever Putin tells him. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/17 "2024-11-06T16:13:44Z")
Remove the "T"s from all the keyboards. I got nuthin’. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/18 "2024-11-06T16:15:59Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Biden says he is against the death penalty. Biden, as a Senator, wrote a law to increase the number of Federal crimes that could be tried as death penalty cases, and he voted for the passage of said law. As with anything, with politicians, I’d go more strongly with the things that they did and voted for than the things they claimed on the campaign trail. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/19 "2024-11-06T16:21:08Z")
This, 100%! As Lincoln once wrote: > This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards. except “Ukraine” instead of “the Union” and with no illusion of cooperation from the President-elect on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756/20 "2024-11-06T16:35:40Z")
I’m with **RickJay**. The Biden administration must now spend the next 2 months ferrying as much weaponry to Ukraine as it possibly can. If we wanted to, we could get more firepower sent to Ukraine in that time than the Russian army itself possesses. Unfortunately, it’ll probably just continue to be a few $400 million packages of this or that every few weeks, and Europe will keep condemning Russia verbally while not actually doing much. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anything-good-that-president-biden-can-do-in-the-last-two-months/1009756.md?page=2)