1. #91161
    Quote Originally Posted by CastletonSnob View Post
    Can we please stop saying "Just vote!"?

    We're WAY past the point of voting being able to fix things.
    Actual clown shoes comment.

    You realize that voting is how these justices were put into place, yeah?

  2. #91162
    Quote Originally Posted by unfilteredJW View Post
    Actual clown shoes comment.

    You realize that voting is how these justices were put into place, yeah?
    Or, perhaps more accurately, a bunch of people not voting is how these justices were put into place.

  3. #91163
    I just finished reading the whole decision.

    It's the most unhinged legal document I have ever seen. It not just grants the President virtual immunity from prosecution, it grants the President immunity from almost all legal review including that by Congress itself. Absolutely unhinged.

    We are fucked.

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    "King Biden..."
    Lacks a certain lilt.
    "King Joseph Robinette the First of the House of Biden."

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    Quote Originally Posted by CastletonSnob View Post
    Can we please stop saying "Just vote!"?

    We're WAY past the point of voting being able to fix things.
    Maybe people should have voted for Clinton in 2016, and literally none of this would have happened. No trump, no roe v wade being overturned, no “the president (as long as he’s trump) can do whatever he wants,” no pending trials for mishandled secret documents, no convicted president, none of that, would have ever happened. The Supreme Court would be under a liberal majority for the foreseeable future. Trump would have come and gone from politics.

    But I get it, Clinton wasn’t “progressive” enough, or her “vibes were off,” or “Bernie really did get slighted if you think about it.”

    That justifies people’s apathy and this resulting situation, right?


    Maybe the arc of history acts in ways that are important beyond single issues and indeed singular election cycles. So saying “lol voting is pointless” because you’re observing this situation in no small part because people didn’t vote is rather dumb.
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    Kaleredar is right...
    Words to live by.

  5. #91165
    Quote Originally Posted by DarkTZeratul View Post
    Or, perhaps more accurately, a bunch of people not voting is how these justices were put into place.
    Correct, my wording could have been better.

  6. #91166
    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    Is drone striking a SCOTUS Justice an official act? Asking for a friend.
    You people are beyond help. Pathetic and disgusting to the core.
    "Why do all supposed 'centrists' just sound like right wingers?" --some insane person

    TRUMP WON. YOU LOST. FADE INTO OBSCURITY.

  7. #91167
    Quote Originally Posted by Dald View Post
    You people are beyond help. Pathetic and disgusting to the core.
    No one is buying the crocodile tears.

  8. #91168
    Quote Originally Posted by Dald View Post
    You people are beyond help. Pathetic and disgusting to the core.
    I'm just asking questions here. Do you know the answer? Can drone striking a SCOTUS Justice be an official act? If so, SCOTUS just ruled that's A-OK and that POTUS should be immune from prosecution over it.

    So if you want to clutch your pearls in front of anyone please find Chief Justice Roberts and the four other conservative Justices and clutch your pearls there.

  9. #91169
    I'll say this. If it counts as official, time to let Biden get Seal Team 6 on some things.

    Trump and a lot of the GOP could very easily be considered domestic terrorists. Especially many of their voters. Even a certain SCOTUS and his wife.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    I'm just asking questions here. Do you know the answer? Can drone striking a SCOTUS Justice be an official act? If so, SCOTUS just ruled that's A-OK and that POTUS should be immune from prosecution over it.

    So if you want to clutch your pearls in front of anyone please find Chief Justice Roberts and the four other conservative Justices and clutch your pearls there.
    Biden just has to say “I thought they were a terrorist.”

    They can’t question whether he actually thought that and they can’t question anyone he might have spoken to about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dald View Post
    You people are beyond help. Pathetic and disgusting to the core.
    But why couldn’t he do it? What’s stopping him beyond “he shouldn’t?”
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    Kaleredar is right...
    Words to live by.

  11. #91171
    Quote Originally Posted by Elder Millennial View Post
    I just finished reading the whole decision.

    It's the most unhinged legal document I have ever seen. It not just grants the President virtual immunity from prosecution, it grants the President immunity from almost all legal review including that by Congress itself. Absolutely unhinged.

    We are fucked.
    Yup. The mouth breathers that support this are unhinged. Like do they realize that when [insert person you personally do not like] gets into office they can do whatever they want? What about Biden right now? This is what decades of underfunding public education gets you.

    "Official capacity" is a nearly irrelevant nuance unless official duties are codifed in detail.

  12. #91172
    Time for Biden to write an executive order prohibiting felons from running for office.
    Just don't reply to me. Please. If you can help it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ausr View Post
    Time for Biden to write an executive order prohibiting felons from running for office.
    Unfortunately (or fortunately) this is less about a president writing laws and more about a president doing something (like, say, taking classified documents) and then being legally exempt from prosecution for having done something otherwise completely illegal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wells View Post
    Kaleredar is right...
    Words to live by.

  14. #91174
    Quote Originally Posted by unfilteredJW View Post
    Actual clown shoes comment.

    You realize that voting is how these justices were put into place, yeah?
    Hilary ran one of the worst campaigns ever. She ignored the Rust Belt states. That's on her and her campaign management, not voters.

  15. #91175
    Quote Originally Posted by CastletonSnob View Post
    Hilary ran one of the worst campaigns ever. She ignored the Rust Belt states. That's on her and her campaign management, not voters.
    You aren't special enough to tread this ground for the 100th time.

  16. #91176
    Quote Originally Posted by Kaleredar View Post
    Unfortunately (or fortunately) this is less about a president writing laws and more about a president doing something (like, say, taking classified documents) and then being legally exempt from prosecution for having done something otherwise completely illegal.
    I don't see any reason why he can't do what was outlined. "Official duties" is too broad to be meaningful in most contexts.

  17. #91177
    Quote Originally Posted by Dead Moose Fandango View Post
    I'll say this. If it counts as official, time to let Biden get Seal Team 6 on some things.

    Trump and a lot of the GOP could very easily be considered domestic terrorists. Especially many of their voters. Even a certain SCOTUS and his wife.
    I have faith that the House would impeach, the Senate would convict, and this would be treated as the illegitimate action that it is. The process is actually pretty clear. What, are you actually saying that you think House Democrats would be fine with Biden pulling a self-coup?

  18. #91178
    Quote Originally Posted by CastletonSnob View Post
    Hilary ran one of the worst campaigns ever. She ignored the Rust Belt states. That's on her and her campaign management, not voters.
    I remember what happened two days before the general election, it wasn't about her campaign. Or her personality or anything else. It was about her being a woman and us vs them mentality in the US. Repubs would find a reason to hate Jesus if he ran as a Democrat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spectral View Post
    I have faith that the House would impeach, the Senate would convict, and this would be treated as the illegitimate action that it is. The process is actually pretty clear. What, are you actually saying that you think House Democrats would be fine with Biden pulling a self-coup?
    What if they were?

    Biden, under this ruling from scotus, would be completely in the clear if the democrats are unwilling to impeach.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wells View Post
    Kaleredar is right...
    Words to live by.

  20. #91180
    Quote Originally Posted by Spectral View Post
    I have faith that the House would impeach, the Senate would convict, and this would be treated as the illegitimate action that it is. The process is actually pretty clear. What, are you actually saying that you think House Democrats would be fine with Biden pulling a self-coup?
    And if he takes out anyone even thinking of impeaching him?

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