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The article begins by complaining that Trump, while responding to fake rumors about his media company’s stock, said he hoped the “appropriate authorities” would investigate. The Times nearly passed out from sheer terror. After a timely application of smelling salts, it recovered, but was so shaken it obsessed about the potential horrors if Trump is unleashed against all the ‘brave’ bureaucrats responsible for the “multiple impeachments, investigations, indictments and lawsuits.”

In its terror, the Times forgot all about that time President Cabbage Brain babbled about hoping somebody would investigate Elon Musk. It wasn’t even the first time Biden threatened to investigate people. Don’t make me round up all the headlines. For easy reference, from the New York Post, 2022...

“I think that Elon Musk’s cooperation and/or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at,” Biden told reporters. “Whether or not he is doing anything inappropriate, I’m not suggesting that. I’m suggesting that it’s worth being looked at.”

A reporter followed up asking, “how?” Biden sneered, “There’s a lot of ways.”

Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?

Back when Biden did it, that time, the New York Times thought threatening private citizens without any evidence was super duper. That time, it was the best move ever. That time, Joe Biden was the smartest, crackiest, best-spoken, most on his game president ever. Like, ever ever.

But when Trump —without even naming anybody— opines the appropriate authorities should look into SEC fraud for obvious stock manipulation, well, that is just too much. How unprofessional! How dangerous to democracy! How fascist!

You might be thinking, yes, well, Elon Musk is a billionaire, and he can roll with the punches. If he wants to play with the big boys, he has to handle some unsubtle, purely political threats from the President of the United States from time to time. It doesn’t count.

Fine. What about the time the Biden Administration, at the height of covid hysteria, released a list of names of the twelve heterodox doctors who were questioning the government’s pandemic narrative, called them “dangerous disinformers” and aimed every psychotic, jab-loving liberal right at them? ...