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
Putin’s Sock Puppet is following orders from Moscow to bust up the USA and turn it into another fucking Russia.
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
i hope everyone is preparing for all of this to end in violence
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Hate to break it to you but kinda tip of the iceberg. And murdering trump would absolutely serve to make him a co-opted martyr and throw us into the absolute fucking deep end.
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lol k bud
Trump’s cult can’t coalesce around anyone but him. He’ll be a martyr, but sanity will be restored long enough to get some adults back in the room and rebuild the guardrails of democracy once more.
Musk is well poised to inherit the mantle. The bootlickers will get in line, it’s what makes them the way they are.
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It shouldn’t stop at just him. This whole situation was a team effort - Musk, Yarvin, Thiel, and many others worked towards destroying America. The whole lot must go, else they will simply try again when the winds are right.
“Might”
Yeah there is no might anymore…
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
“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.
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…
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?
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.
I’m pretty sure The Judge gets to be the judge of that, not the Executive.
Ah but the executive gets to be the judge of who gets to be a judge and it is judged by those judges it judged to be judges that it will be judged positively.
I think I see where you are judging this.
it’s all smoke and mirrors for “i have a gun. do what i say”. the question inevitably is who has the gun?
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.
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.
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.
wanna live forever? do something memorable.
You are not alone, my brother.
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.
You ain’t alone.
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.
So, those 2A people being real fuckin quiet now that an actual tyrant is in play.
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.
They are two buysy fantasizing that a black guy is on their porch.
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.
The time to rise would have been when Alabama banned abortion. Even before the kids in cages shit.
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? 🤔
What’s Alex Jones mouthing off about now? This was his thing decades ago.
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.
That’s because their team is the tyrant.
Riots hopefully incoming
Riots trigger martial law, suspension of habeas corpus. That’s part of the first 6 monh plan for Project 2025.
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.
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.
Anyone know the full quote?
It just quotes the three words “should be allowed”.
