This is the very essence of the difference that should exist between a President and a King. From Federalist 69:
The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the king of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable; there is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable; no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution. In this delicate and important circumstance of personal responsibility, the President of Confederated America would stand upon no better ground than a governor of New York, and upon worse ground than the governors of Maryland and Delaware.
The failure of the Republican party to support this kind of check on Presidential power is why we’re having this crisis now.
I mean, the constitution never said the supreme court has the power of judivial review, the supreme court at the time just grabbed the power, and congress at the time just went along with it. The supreme court only held on to the power because of “norms and traditions”. Today’s congress could simply just pass a resolution declaring the supreme court has no such power, and all that 200+ years of “norms and traditions” is gone. And all the law enforcement, national guard, and military people would just be like “seems legit” and go along with everything trump decrees.
yeah but this isn’t about judicial review
Once again, to no-one’s surprise. Trump loudly claimed he would do this long ago
Choose a felon as President, expect him to commit crimes… enjoy
The Trump administration is not refusing to share power with an opposing party. It is refusing to follow the constitutional limits of a government that its own party controls completely.
So, fascism.
So much for law and order I guess.
This is the step where the cart goes over the top of the hill, you’re not coming back if this starts.
Hard to hear, but if goes forward, this does signal that it’s breaking windows time. We all have a Luigi line, start really considering where yours is…
Especially if you’re young, and they are doing this before you have been able to establish your own career or a family of your own, the rest of the world needs your strength and energy in these moments. Make no mistake, they are threatening you directly, they want to sell your future for a small profit added to the pile they are hoarding. Decide how hard you want to fight against that
Especially if you’re older and know that everything you’ve worked for is at risk. Especially if you’re middle aged and your hope of a comfortable old age is being destroyed. Especially if you have family, and know your children’s future depends on it.
I know you mean well but fuck ageism, the youth always fight. They don’t need a pep talk, older people do.
And then there are the rest of us. Not quite young anymore, but we were robbed of the chance to even have anything to anchor us down. We’ve been squeezed out of the housing market nearly our entire adult lives. We never could justify having a child, perhaps because of money, perhaps because our consciences wouldn’t let us, perhaps because of both. We job-hop every few years already, as it’s the only way we’ve ever received a sizable pay raise.
There is no house, no child, and no job for us to worry about losing. I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve been doing little more than fighting to get by for far too long.
I’m ready to fight for something else.
You are not alone, my brother.
wanna live forever? do something memorable.
You ain’t alone.
I’m ready to fight for something else.
Then do it. Talk is cheap.
I see what you’re saying, but you’re preaching to the choir.
Heh. I’m middle aged and the only hope of comfort I’ve ever had for my elder years is chemical. I’m what you call an optimist.
We have years of people saying he can’t do X or he can’t do Y and not enough time spent on what happens when he doesn’t comply.
War. The only question is whether the Blue States get ready for what is coming.
Groundwork for a coup by the sounds of it. When the next election is supposed to happen I wonder if he’ll declare martial law due to some invented issue.
Groundwork for a coup by the sounds of it.
GROUNDWORK??!!
Groundwork fora coup by the sounds of it.fixed it
So like, when will other countries start letting us evacuate to them?
We haven’t done a whole lot lately to endear ourselves to allies and partner nations unfortunately
Sadly a lot of the people who will get fucked the hardest, like myself, are also the kinda people who agree with the frustrations of allied and partnered nations, yet will get judged based on the behavior of magats instead of the fact that we don’t want any of the shit the US is doing but can’t change anything.
Unironically why I refer to myself as Californian to known foreigners, rather than American. Have had 3 different people tell me that helped them at least be ready to see me as one of the less idiotic ones to begin with, so it worked as intended
Fucking sad, really
Unfortunately I’m Texan, lmao. That’d only make it worse.
Oregonian first.
As an European I thank you for your service in making pizza delicious
New York, Chicago, and Detroit might disagree with our contribution, but I have an inherent bias. :)
Guess its good I made it to Washington (state) before this. I feel like its known as a pretty blue area.
And where the fuck do you plan to go? As a Canadian, I’m looking at where to send my family to be safe from the YOUR country.
Bro, I want to keep my family safe from MY country. It’s all bad.
lol nobody is coming to save us.
your police have been militarizing themselves for 20 years to make sure you dont save yourselves, either.
Hi, just about any EU country here, please apply for asylum at the nearest convenient embassy in the US, and we will get to you once we processed all these people from Syria, and Africa at large. This may take several decades as the Nazis your government is funding are lobbying to defund the whole thing.
If you want to try to expedite this process you might want to hop over to Albania and try to make your case at the wonderful township of Röszke where you can be a backdrop to the next election campaign in Hungary.
Helpful phrases include:
- Fehér vagyok, nem migráns! - I’m white, not a migrant!
- Van pénzem! - I have money!
Less helpful phrases that will only elicit laughter are:
- Vannak jogaim! - I have rights!
- Emberi lény vagyok! - I am a human being!
Don’t worry, our best people who we could get to supplement the border guard as “border hunters” for 130 EUR a month full time are there to help you. They are highly qualified, as attending school for at least 8 years is mandatory (any actual grade attainment is not guaranteed and frankly unlikely).
You thought the ICE was bad.
So, those 2A people being real fuckin quiet now that an actual tyrant is in play.
They are two buysy fantasizing that a black guy is on their porch.
What’s Alex Jones mouthing off about now? This was his thing decades ago.
The time to rise would have been when Alabama banned abortion. Even before the kids in cages shit.
they want a hierarchy and the freedom to enforce it. nothing else.
The objection was always that somebody dark-skinned might be President, or that assets might be expropriated from billionaires, not that tyranny might be an issue.
Haven’t seen or heard anything from Trump supporters in my area since day 3 of the presidency. Wonder why… It couldn’t be that they have no faces left cause of the leopards… Could it? 🤔
As a leftist who owns firearms, I’m waiting for everything to kick off (in Minecraft obviously)
Be the change you want to see. In Minecraft.
Random acts mean nothing but support for the other Minecraft team as the idiot centrists decry the violence.
America’s problem is that its resistance is made of a fractured left. Things will have to get bad to get a rebellion going, and quite frankly I think the blue states would seceed first.
That’s because their team is the tyrant.
What are they supposed to say? If they say anything they’re gonna have the SS knocking on their door.
Might need more Secret Service agents if all gun owners spoke out against tyranny. Like, millions of agents 😅
Isn’t SS generally for SchutzStaffel?
Let’s hope they don’t become one and the same.
“Might”
Yeah there is no might anymore…
Charles I said something similar. I’m sincerely hoping that it goes as well for Dump as it did for him.
“Oh, shit, so you mean Biden could have just cancelled all that student debt anyway?”
“Well of course not, don’t be stupid!”
That’s the problem with being on the side of the rule of law: you’re constrainted by it, but the side of lawlessness is not.
being on the side of the rule of law
Except when you override prohibitions on arming a county in defiance of the ICC because it’s Israel.
in defiance of the ICC because it’s Israel.
Without commenting on the US’s attitude towards Israel, the US is not party to the ICC so no act is defiance because the ICC doesn’t have jurisdiction.
If I challenged you to write an email to a prominent politician, celebrity or business leader asking them to use their access to the media to advocate for Palestine every time you talked about Joe Biden, would you do it?
Congrats! You are the toad in the (now) boiling water. Pat yourself on the back for a job well done.
Even if they are not American, they are fucked as well.
They helped hand over the strongest military in the history of the world to fascists. Fascists do not stop at their borders. They are like locusts, hell bent on murder and conquering. I’m glad I got passports so I can get my wife and kids out when shit hits the fan.
I’m glad I got passports so I can get my wife and kids out when shit hits the fan.
So, um, I have some good news and some bad news…
You know he’s not president anymore, right? And that party lost the election?
Now we’ve got a guy who’s excited for ethnic cleansing so he can open a casino in Gaza.
Congratulations.
Now we’ve got a guy who’s excited for ethnic cleansing
Damn. You’re right. The real virtue with Joe Biden was his lack of enthusiasm.
Unironically, yes. We were forced to choose between:
A) a historic ally of ours is doing something bad… We will speak out against them. We will not yet cut off supplies because we need the world to see that an American alliance can be relied upon. But we will speak out against these actions.
B) KILL EM! PUT BULLETS IN THE BABIES! KILL EM ALL! BOMBS BOMBS BOMBS BOMBS BOMBS YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHH BABY!!! FULL STEAM AHEAD! WE LOVE YOU MR NETANYAHU!
Clearly these two things are the same.
a historic ally of ours is doing something bad… We will speak out against them.
Was that what the police were doing on Columbia and UCLA?
You’re being boxed in. Elon bought the liberals under Obama/Biden. He’s buying out the conservatives under Trump.
Clearly these two things are the same.
Oh, sorry, I wasn’t aware that the Columbia and UCLA police are Joe Biden, or that local police forces take orders directly from the president.
You know he’s not president anymore, right? And that party lost the election?
Maybe, just maybe, it is because something is wrong in-of-itself and not because it is a wedge issue used to demotivate voters?
Something about in groups and out groups
If you outlaw dictatorships, only outlaws will be dictators.
“Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
– Richard Nixon, 1977.
You’ve had 47 years to do something about this, to be able to hold your leaders accountable, and apparently it wasn’t worth the effort.
I guess the upside is you won’t have to worry about all that wasteful election spending any more. 👍
Oh, they’ll still allow that spending to show how many votes he gets next time. Like the other dictators do.
You don’t understand (or maybe you do but aren’t saying it). The Nixon scandal is what started the modern shitshow as we know it. Nixon’s supporters would be royally pissed that there was no specific media apparatus to fully support Nixon and his shit. They would go on to fight to repeal the fairness doctrine and to start Fox News and the modern propaganda media as we know it.
BTW, a few years ago (during Trump’s first administration or a bit after) they even SAID ‘when the president does it , it isn’t not illegal’ or some slight word difference as a way of signalling their ultimate victory in trying to do what they wanted to have happened during Nixon’s scandals.
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Are you sure. We would be getting project 2025 with Vance instead. What’s the difference?
Couches would be cheaper?
Really think they’d have got in without Trump?
Vance would have got in with Trump as a martyr.
No, this could have been even worse, because Vance would have been elected in a wave of sympathy.
I don’t think so. He has the charisma of a flat tire and it was early enough that any sympathy wave would have lost its momentum by November.
Charisma is not relevant. Do you think Lyndon Johnson had charisma? Do you think that’s why he was elected in 1964? Because people liked him?
Well, he had a pretty big dick, so maybe?
I admit I was not alive at the time, but I’m pretty sure, what with it being the 1960s, that was not the sort of thing the general public was aware of, so I doubt it.
Also, like it or not, Vance was already elected to the Senate and had a bestselling book. Even though you (and I) do not understand it, some people think he has a magnetic personality. Just like they think about Trump, which I also do not understand.
I think they were.
https://short-history.com/lyndon-johnson-penis-nicknamed-jumbo-6eba2f1894fa
Choice quote:
When a journalist asked Johnson to justify the continuation of the Vietnam War (1955-1975), Johnson asked all the women to leave the room, then pulled out his penis, and yelled: “That’s why!”
He also called it Jumbo.
Fun fact: 60s probably had better sex ed than the USA does today too.
Journalists were not the general public. 99% of the country had never personally interacted with him and those things were not reported in the news. They’re after-the-fact anecdotes in books.
I’m also old enough to remember when the press had the collective attitude of “let America think that the president is a good person” regardless of who was in office.
Elon still would have had his lackey hack voting machines
Crooks happened July 13. Vance was announced running mate July 15. No candidate = no running mate announced.
Also, when the presidential candidate is removed from a race, it does not automatically fall to the their running mate. there is no 25th amendment for election campaigns 🤦
He should have aimed for the chest. It would have been just as deadly. He could have gotten two hits in even before getting shot.
I don’t blame the kid, it wasn’t bad for iron sights under pressure.
The panic firing was a bit of a rookie mistake but he tried.
Dictator
But he said he’d only be a dictator for one day! Are you saying that’s not how dictatorships work?!
“For one day” or “from day one”?
He said the first, but meant the second.
