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Welp. The Supreme Clergy that now rules what used to be the US has established King Trump as the leader of the Christian Caliphate that's coming. Conservatives are gonma love living in the white version of Iran.
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Biden can now legally shoot Trump on stage during the next debate. Gotcha.
I don't think having a raspy voice will be the biggest talking point in the aftermath this time.
And if anyone raises a stink and somehow manages to prove that this was illegal anyway, I'm sure it's the same people who have claimed that he's senile, ergo not fit to stand trial.
Biden could, but he won't. We're just going to get more finger wagging and muttering at him about being a scoundrel and shit.
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Last person out, please turn out the lights.
Surely if something he does is unconstitutional, it is not within his official capacity or power!?
But somehow I have a feeling I'm being extremely naive just thinking that.
The SCOTUS majority just decided that nothing the president does is illegal, at least in a way that can ever be prosecuted.
The SCOTUS can lick my fucking SCROTUS.
If anyone ever doubted that the DNC and the GOP weren't on the same team, just watch as the DNC let this opportunity slip right through their fingers. Access to the greatest political, strategical, minds and they will let this opening wash away into a river of fascism.
It's a play, we are watching theatre. Meant to keep you distracted. Meant to keep you oppressed.
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As an official act, dissolve the current supreme court and reverse every terrible decision they made.
The big thing everyone is missing here is the ruling says the president cannot be prosecuted for actions that are constitutional. So this does not mean the end of democracy or whatever people are saying. The president can't stay in office after his term expires. The president cannot order his political opponents killed- in fact, the Supreme Court issued a statement on that just this year.
Amici curae aren't Supreme Court decisions. "Amici curae" means "friend of the court". It's an argument from third parties submitted for a pending case. The dissents by the actual Supreme Court justices explicitly reference the assassination potential.
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You say that like it's a defined thing that will keep a president in check. SCOTUS rules on constitutionality. Are you really that confident that they'll keep Trump in line if he gets another term and starts really getting to work? The road to fascism isn't paved with goods intentions, it's paved with mealy mouthed, two faced decisions like this that give more and more leeway until it's too late to take back.
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This is just depressing.
Democracy in the USA ended today. It will be in the history books about the end of democracy.
for reference this same move of getting immunity from a fixed court was also huge for cementing the Chavez and Putin regimes in Venezuela and Russia.
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