July 15, 2025
The Autopen is Mightier than the Sword
Timothy Birdnow
I just caught an interesting idea on a talk radio show yesterday; Biden may have used the autopen to hide his deteriorating mental state.
It is a known fact that dementia leads to changes in handwriting and a handwriting expert can tell it right away. So Biden signed everything with the autopen which had a signature on it from years, decades ago.
Cute trick.
Speaking of the autopen pardons, Mr. Biden's Chief of Staff apparentloy gave the go-ahead to pardon Anthony Fauci. So there is real question about the legality of that pardon - and many others.
This will wind up going to the Supreme Court, methinks. The Trump Administration should move forward with prosecutions of guys like Fauci and force this into Federal court to get SCOTUS to weigh in on it. We need this matter resolved. The PRESIDENT issues pardons, not his Chief of Staff, not some political aid. If he doesn't do it personally it should not be considered valid.
I just caught an interesting idea on a talk radio show yesterday; Biden may have used the autopen to hide his deteriorating mental state.
It is a known fact that dementia leads to changes in handwriting and a handwriting expert can tell it right away. So Biden signed everything with the autopen which had a signature on it from years, decades ago.
Cute trick.
Speaking of the autopen pardons, Mr. Biden's Chief of Staff apparentloy gave the go-ahead to pardon Anthony Fauci. So there is real question about the legality of that pardon - and many others.
This will wind up going to the Supreme Court, methinks. The Trump Administration should move forward with prosecutions of guys like Fauci and force this into Federal court to get SCOTUS to weigh in on it. We need this matter resolved. The PRESIDENT issues pardons, not his Chief of Staff, not some political aid. If he doesn't do it personally it should not be considered valid.
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Nigh onto about twenty years ago, for convenience's sake, my wife and I created signature labels for our checking accounts on transparent label stock; they included our bank account numbers and the text FOR DEPOSIT ONLY. A few years later when we changed banks we removed the account numbers, but kept everything else the same.
As my signature got worse due to tremors, these became more important for me to use, and although I no longer need mine after having had my Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery, it's handy for me when my wife gives me a check made out to her and asks me to deposit it when she's not going to be home, if she hasn't endorsed it yet -- I just use one of her signature labels.
Now, if either of us needs to sign a pardon for the other, we're all set, as long as we aren't signing too many of them...
As my signature got worse due to tremors, these became more important for me to use, and although I no longer need mine after having had my Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery, it's handy for me when my wife gives me a check made out to her and asks me to deposit it when she's not going to be home, if she hasn't endorsed it yet -- I just use one of her signature labels.
Now, if either of us needs to sign a pardon for the other, we're all set, as long as we aren't signing too many of them...
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 15, 2025 11:09 PM (zjwe/)
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Well, you can pardon away then Dana!
I may have to get one of those stamps mysself; my handwriting has degenerated something awful due to my eye conditions.
I may have to get one of those stamps mysself; my handwriting has degenerated something awful due to my eye conditions.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 17, 2025 06:22 AM (vdfC3)
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Sounds like you are way too late for this dodge, Tim. You needed to do it when your writing was pristine, or at least useful for a signature. These days I can make a nice signature but it doesn't look like the one I had back when I made the labels. And it's a sheet of Avery labels, not a stamp, BTW.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 17, 2025 11:45 PM (zjwe/)
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No doubt you are correct Dana. Oh well; I usually have to print everything these days for it to be legible - even my signature.
I had a check returned to me by Bank of America because they couldn't read it. I'm going to have to discuss this with my doctor, I guess.
I had a check returned to me by Bank of America because they couldn't read it. I'm going to have to discuss this with my doctor, I guess.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 28, 2025 06:52 AM (ugoVq)
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