“Just wait till my evil demon gets to amorally act with impunity!
What? He already is?”
There is no way the sc will rule that chief executives can be prosecuted for crimes committed while in office. Every former president would be drowned in lawsuits immediately. Discovery alone would subject so much information to FoIA that it would require additional staff.
Don’t you worry, they would change their opinion on a dime of someone tried to prosecute Biden. We already know they don’t give a fuck about precedent.
As if they wouldn’t do that anyway if they didn’t have the court locked down already. Please quit acting like we can appease Republicans into acting reasonable.
If only. Democrats are historically milquetoast in response to Republicans.
This charade has been going on for 40-some years or more. At least since the likes of Reagan and Gingrich.
The court could go out of their way to rule on the case and make sure it only applied to Trump and only in this instance.
Just because the Democrats are suddenly given power doesn’t mean they will use it to stop fascism. Sadly, too many in the Democratic party are invested in the US Empire to just let go of how things currently work. Their long inability to act is literally why we are at the precipice of fascism fully taking over. The Democrats fell in line with Bush’s illegal war in Iraq, and they declined to do anything about the fact that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & Co. signed off on torture. We’re about to have Trump as a Dictator because we refused to do anything about leaders who were and are war criminals. People expecting Biden to do something, even if it is ruled in his favor, are waiting in false hope, imho.
EDIT: To be clear, I’d be ecstatic to be proven wrong, honestly. It would be nice to see Democrats really stand on the right side of history, not just partially or out of convenience.
This meme is explicitly about the President committing crimes and getting away with it. I don’t think this is something you want, whether the President’s a Democrat or a Republican.
Sometimes the law is on the opposite side of justice. When the law is unjust and oppressive, the just break the law. That’s how you get civil rights that the current laws don’t allow.
I’m not kidding myself that the authoritarian pro-cop Senator from MBNA would break any of the unjust and oppressive laws, though. Those are some of his favorites, and he’s the main culprit behind many of them.
While true in general, I can’t think of any unjust laws that bind the President. In fact, Trump has shown that there’s not enough laws that rein in the President. Stuff like the Presidential Records Act not actually having any penalties or enforcement mechanisms (besides impeachment) are really giant oversights.
Just because the Democrats are suddenly given power doesn’t mean they will use it to stop fascism.
Democrats had the opportunity to enshrine Roe after the 2020 election. They had a trifecta. They could have passed whatever they wanted and the Republicans would have had to suck it. And they deserved to go unheard, too, because it’s what Republicans did to Democrats for four years. Abortion is overwhelmingly favored among the voter base. We’ve been seeing abortion rights being protected on state ballot measures, even in states Trump won by wide margins. What we needed for half a century was a law on the books explicitly granting the right to an abortion rather than a SCOTUS decision based on an interpretation of an Amendment that doesn’t explicitly guarantee that right. So why did the Democrats do basically nothing to enshrine Roe between 2021 and 2023?
I’m still going to vote blue because the options are either fascists or business as usual. Do I really have a choice? So while we’re at it, fuck the two-party system.
And it’s not just that particular Congress’s fault Roe wasn’t enshrined. There were other Democrat trifectas after Roe. The last Congress just happened to be the one to oversee the overturn of Roe.
The Republicans had the house in 2020. The last time Democrats had the trifecta was under Obama for about 6 weeks, they still didn’t do anything because enough senators were having health problems, so they still didn’t actually have enough votes.
We need to burn down the state election offices till they stop gerrymandering the fuck out of tons of states so that the Dems can actually have a supermajority.
6 weeks? They held the trifecta for 2 years! From 01/09 to 01/11.
If you give the Dems a supermajority even more Senators will have “health problems” for way longer
Look, I know my instance gives it away, but from Marxist to self proclaimed angry commie: You are dead wrong comrade.
Dems under Obama didn’t not do anything bc of “enough Senators with health problems” but because they are beholden to their bourgeoise donors. In essence they are a party representing the bourgeoisie who only occasionally throw you a bone when they are pressured to do so
And you pressure them not by voting harder for them but by doing political work outside of both parties.
The harder you vote blue, the less they’ll do for you!
A bit oversimplified but I like the ring of it so I’ll run with it.
Not true, they passed Obamacare in that window. I remember it was a rush to get… i think the last Kennedy brother to vote on it before he died and they lost the advantage.
Democrats had the opportunity to enshrine Roe after the 2020 election.
God I am so sick of hearing that. Anything less than a Constitutional amendment would do fuck-all to protect abortion because Republicans would just repeal any law the Democrats passed. How do you not get that? Or are you just a Republican troll trying to demotivate Democrats?
Sure bud. I’m a Republican troll. Don’t worry about going through my comment history to learn a shred about who I am or what I stand for.
You think I’m not aware they’d try to repeal it? Trifectas are rare so it’d be some work to pass a law repealing it. It’ll die in a chamber or get vetoed. It took a Republican trifecta just to end the Individual Mandate of the ACA, but the ACA is otherwise still in effect. But even if it only took a few years for Republicans to repeal an act granting the right to an abortion, at least they tried directly addressing the issue instead of shrugging and going “well that’s that.”
Yes, it’d be a lot of back and forth at the federal level for a while until people got sick of it and an Amendment actually made it to ratification. Until then, Amendments are practically impossible. Over 10,000 Amendments have been proposed since founding, but only 27 have been ratified. We can’t even get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified, despite its popularity. So what makes you think 37 states would vote to ratify an Abortion Amendment? Would you also have been a naysayer in '64 when Johnson signed the umpteenth Civil Rights Act into law?
Don’t get me wrong. I want an Amendment too. An Amendment is the strongest form of protection. But it’s also got a very slim chance of happening within our lifetimes. I’ll celebrate the moment I hear of its proposal, but I’m also not holding my breath for ratification.
“Republicans will overturn everything anyway so fuck it why try”
GTFO here with that. Abortion was a losing platform in multiple states this last cycle - If we had locked it into law on the federal level, yes Republicans would overturn it day one but they’d have had to do it in front of the whole world on the national level removing any wishy washy state by state bullshit argument that they love using to compartmentalize themselves from every evil thing the right does.
The fact that he’s an uninspiring and largely disappointing president is what makes dark Brandon funny. If we wanted to laugh about a president who really does act like a demonic entity, we’d just vote for the other guy.
To me it just feels forced, which totally ruins it. I’ve seen similar memes about turbo boring politicians and that’s funny, but I guess with Trump being a legit case of this sorta nonsense makes it feel different.
Unironically yes, increasingly. I know Lemmy is very leftist, and thus doesn’t reflect America in general, but the more time goes on the more left each generation becomes, and Gen Z is by far the most leftist generation in America currently. Gen Alpha will have to wait and see, but for now America is more likely than ever before to vote for Bernie.
I didn’t say she did. Biden got more votes in 2020 than Hillary did in 2016, because voter turnout was far larger in 2020. Increasingly, Gen Z is more okay with Socialism and actually prefers it over Capitalism, something unthinkable for Boomers and Gen X.
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