• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        He’s not in prison, got re-elected, and has almost fully implemented a fascist dictatorship. If that isn’t victory for a megalomaniac narcissist, I don’t know what is.

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            Meh, the good thing about such a pardon is that it can just be ignored by the next government, just like his government ignored everything that happened before

            • That probably wouldn’t happen. What would happen is that it would go to the courts whether a president can really pardon himself or not. His corrupt SCOTUS might actually say they can, but regardless it would probably take long enough that he’d be dead and not caring.

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          Let’s leave the conspiracy theories to the far-right lunatics, please. The attempt killed an innocent bystander and the shooter was a right-winger. Even if they were cynical enough to stage the first part on purpose (and honestly, I wouldn’t put it past them), the shooter being one of their own completely undermines the entire point of staging something like that to begin with.

          Besides, this administration is way too incompetent to keep a secret. With the way Trump has been blundering his way through the Epstein accusations, do you really think he could keep his mouth shut about staging an assassination attempt?

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            If it was staged I’m absolutely certain Trump didn’t plan or know about it, he’d never sign off on anything that risked his life or required him to be even slightly injured. It’s unlikely but the only conspiracy scenario that makes any kind of sense would be something like a CIA operation carried out under the orders of Vance or a senator that kept Trump in the dark.

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              If Trump doesn’t know about it, how do they do the blood on the ear? Not even elite marksmen can reliably hit someone’s ear at that distance without risking actually hitting their head. If it were fake blood, Trump would have to be in on it.

              And again, the shooter being right-wing almost entirely negated the propaganda advantage the GOP could gain from it, it doesn’t make sense for it to have been staged.

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            3 days ago

            Sure let’s leave the conspiracy theories to the far right as the far right is currently engaged in a literal pedophilic conspiracy theory reaching to the highest levels of government. Lemmoids are so goddamn stupid lol

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      I mean… If you’re a giant piece of shit there’s been a lot to celebrate this year.

      Congress has been dog shit as always, but the courts have significantly expanded the power of the executive and seem as though they are going to continue to do so. Once the justices got away with basically ignoring the concept of precedent with roe vs wade they’ve basically been handing down vibes based rulings since.

      It’s going to be interesting to see how the current court stands by their rulings if we ever get anyone slightly left of George Bush back in the White House.

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      Are you not enjoying your victory gin and victory cigarettes, comrade? And now that chocolate rations have increased from 30g to 20g, we have even more to celebrate.