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[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 136 points 3 months ago

So, this means Biden could totally just order Trump killed right now and it'd be 100% legal.

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 103 points 3 months ago

Supreme court Justices also....just sayin.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 86 points 3 months ago

Using "I was going to vote for Joe Biden after the immunity ruling, but he refuses to blow up the SC Justices before they overturn gay marriage so I won't" as a reason now lmao

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 63 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They literally have no excuses anymore. Everything that democratic voters insist that their guy wanted to do but couldn't is 100% doable now. With the power of legal assasination given to the presidency, all that shit would now be possible. That dems won't do it is proof of their lack of interest or conviction in their stated goals

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[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 97 points 3 months ago

The fact that SCOTUS did this knowing the democrats won't actually take advantage of this golden opportunuty to consolidate power really says it all

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 68 points 3 months ago

Oh no that would be bad and wrong, he'd have to put Trump on an international terrorism list first, THEN he could do what Obama did and murder Trump and his children with a drone strike

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[-] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 107 points 3 months ago

giving the biden regime the green light to merc trump legally, but they’d rather give him a second term

[-] communism_liker_69@hexbear.net 72 points 3 months ago

if he's as bad as they say he is, it's their moral imperative to k*ll him. It's like how you have to off hitler if you have a time machine.

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 55 points 3 months ago

a MORAL IMPERATIVE to KILL someone? Um sweaty killing is always IMMORAL.

Unless the target is brown us-foreign-policy

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[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I wouldn't vote for Biden just because he droned Trump, but I would laugh very hard so I think he should do it

[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago

Listen jack...vote...worst, my sodlier son...I beat medicare, Trump too...Fat.

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[-] motherofmonsters@hexbear.net 102 points 3 months ago

It’s very hard for me to square that idea that trump is an existential threat who must be stopped by any means necessary, and the notion that Biden is allowed to do anything legally.

[-] Ishmael@hexbear.net 73 points 3 months ago

Obama murdered a 16-year-old who wasn't even accused of a crime and got away with it, but I guess the rules are different when the victim is Muslim

[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago

once again, us-foreign-policy

Death to America

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 54 points 3 months ago

I tried to explain this to libs back in 2018ish. If Trump is a fascist, why would voting him out do anything? Ya'll are either being hyperbolic, or you're being cowards.

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 51 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Trump is a fascist, but that is because everyone in the U.S. government follows the logic of fascism, because neoliberalism is just fascism without the campy outfits. He just not a systemic-ending fascist.

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[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 51 points 3 months ago

If Biden gets Trump assassinated by the CIA will it be considered official business?

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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago

the obvious rules based liberal solution to trump is fucking divest presidential powers, instead of giving even more expansive executive meow-tableflip

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[-] ksynwa_from_lemmygrad@hexbear.net 87 points 3 months ago

This is why you all need to vote. If we had blue judges in the Supreme Court this would have never happened. As long as you vote we will have democracy back in about 300 years.

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 80 points 3 months ago

My liberal coworkers are coping by "well that's fine because unofficial acts can still be prosecuted"

[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 58 points 3 months ago

I could love to live with this level of delusion

[-] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah I've seen the same take.

Are they really stupid enough to think that Trump (and future Republicans) wouldn't just label everything an official act as a direct consequence?

Edit: I mean he could quite literally go on 5th Avenue now if reelected, declare "I, PRESIDENT TRUMP, AM OFFICIALLY BLOWING IT OUT YOUR ASS" and gun someone down.

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 79 points 3 months ago

I would like to remind everyone that per the scotus the extrajudicial murder of us citizens accused of terrorism is a "political question" not subject to review by the courts.

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[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 77 points 3 months ago

I know they won't do it, but if Dems had any guts they would just explicitly challenge Marbury v. Madison, and just start ignoring Supreme Court decisions. You know the right wingers would do exactly that if they were in a similar predicament with a 6-3 liberal majority court.

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago

the SC completely invented their power from whole cloth and (almost) every subsequent administration has just gone with it

Democracy

[-] Bnova@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago

People think that I'm crazy when I say the supreme Court is basically a toddler that adults are pretending has magical powers to not make them cry. It's maddening, ignore the toddler!

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[-] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 74 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Joker pill is officially outdated, it's time for the Mad Max pill.

What are your wastelander nicknames gonna be?

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[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 73 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Nobody saw this coming

Edit: sleepy Joe should use this precedent to Merc the court

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[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 68 points 3 months ago

Remember when "if the president does it, it's not illegal" was shocking?

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 68 points 3 months ago

this is actually even more sweeping. the decision gives immunity to all exercises of constitutional authority, not just official acts.

elmofire

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[-] SovietyWoomy@hexbear.net 66 points 3 months ago

I feel morally obligated to vote for whichever third party candidate says they'll take advantage of presidential immunity and drone strike wall street.

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[-] Blottergrass@hexbear.net 66 points 3 months ago

"Do you want a revolution or do you want results?"

The results:

[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 64 points 3 months ago

Rip the mask off, we are in a fascist state; The elites want fascism. Let's go baby arm up, run guns, sabotage. Die for the revolution, or live in tyranny in a dying and warming world. THERE'S NOTHING TO LOSE.

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago

we are in a fascist state; The elites want fascism.

astronaut-2 astronaut-1

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 63 points 3 months ago

Literally why should the President pay attention to anything the Supreme Court says, then?

Like, why not just say that everything regulatory agencies do also constitutes an official act by the President, so WHOOPS! There goes your dismantling of Chevron, John Roberts. Regulations aren't reviewable by any court now. Fuck you.

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[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 60 points 3 months ago

So that gives Biden free range to do literally anything, which he won't

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 59 points 3 months ago

I can practically hear the panic of every AP US Government teacher dreading the "Separation of Powers" section and the inevitability of one kid asking a question about this court case.

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[-] wtfrank@feddit.uk 58 points 3 months ago

Is this the only job where no matter what you do it can't be a crime?

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago

nah, scotus gave themselves similar immunity lmao

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[-] Goadstool@hexbear.net 58 points 3 months ago

By far the most depressing part of this is that Biden and the democrats will do jack shit with it

If literally anything happens I will be both astounded and genuinely impressed

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[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 58 points 3 months ago

smuglord I'd like to see old cheeto wriggle his way out of this one

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[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 52 points 3 months ago

American Democracy™ in action

the best money can buy

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 52 points 3 months ago

Also what the actual fuck do they think "project 2025" is if not total control of the scotus by the gop?

[-] motherofmonsters@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago

Saw a new take on this from righties:

we’re not actually going to do Project 2025, it’s too radical

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[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago

"I could shoot a child in Gaza and not lose any votes" - Biden, Trump, and most other people in the federal government

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 44 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Please just blow up the United States already. there’s no coming back from this one

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 42 points 3 months ago

Sorry guys we asked the Parliamentarian and they said "no" so we can't have democracy. Better luck next time.

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