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“I’m not Russian!” - angry orange
“I’m not Russian!” - angry orange
Prior presidents have done all kinds of shady shit without worrying about prosecution. Even the angry orange didn’t get charged until he tried to overthrow an election.
There was zero reason to even decide this case except to give immunity to someone who blatantly abuses their authority.
The SCOTUS majority just decided that nothing the president does is illegal, at least in a way that can ever be prosecuted.
Yeah, but that law requires intent and all that evidence you mentioned can be thrown out.
Citizens United was the first step to make it blatantly legal by being able to hide donations in a way that makes make it easy to give money directly to candidates from any source, foreign and domestic.
Then that “it was a gratuity, not a bribe” ruling last week means anyone can just buy off politicians in the open.
So as of this morning it is legal for a foreign country to bribe the president to have someone assassinated.
But he won’t, and neither will any Dem presidents, which is what the right wing SCOTUS is counting on.
Biden won’t abuse this power because he isn’t a complete trash person and SCOTUS knows it. They know that the only party that will abuse this power is the Republican party.
So until this trash opinion is undone, every single election is an imminent threat to democracy.
They gave the president powers that only an immoral person would abuse.
You know, a Republican.
“We can go lower.”
-SCOTUS
If Biden does the exact same thing as the orange turd, the packed courts will rule that Biden’s actions were not official but the angry orange’s were.
The decision is entirely a power grab that will be abused by conservatives and not by anyone with morals. That is what these fascists are counting on.
The shitty evolution of both sides by blaming the losing side for participating in the system.
So I should vet the single Democrat on the primary ballot for anything other than US president
This is true for EVERY ELECTION. Unless I personally run for office this will continue to be true, and I am too honest to be in politics.
So I should vet the single Democrat on the primary ballot for anything other than US president in a state that hasn’t given an electoral college vote to a Democrat since the 1964 election?
That seems worth my time since I’m going to vote for them anyway!
Like going to prison is going to shut him up.
At best we might get less of his bullshit for a while.
Nazis have the right to say nazi shit here.
Nobody has the right to call for genocide.
Nope, the state Democratic party sucks and I don’t live in the one district that ever goes Democrat for state representative. All of our national stuff is Republicans and has been for decades.
I only vote because we sometimes get elect a Democrat for a governor.
I am a member if no party because I fundamentally disagree with political parties in first past the post electoral systems for the same reason I oppose communism. When it scales up a party makes it far too easy for the party leadership to abuse that power and institutionalizing that power means that positive change is more difficult to enact.
I am a member if no party because I fundamentally disagree with political parties in first past the post electoral systems for the same reason I oppose communism. When it scales up a party makes it far too easy for the party leadership to abuse that power and institutionalizing that power means that positive change is more difficult to enact.
That assumes I like any of the choices or that I think a party that regularly ignores their voters would positively change based on my vote.
I just use them to oppose fascists.
The ruling explicitly states that those things on the record are not admissible if they were not through some public form of communication. So his phone call to the Georgia governor would be inadmissible even though it is currently public knowledge since it was originally a private call he claims was official business.
His public tweets would be admissible.