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.
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.
Last edited by Dead Moose Fandango; 2024-07-01 at 10:07 PM.
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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But why couldn’t he do it? What’s stopping him beyond “he shouldn’t?”
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Words to live by.
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.
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.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
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?
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
So killing someone who stole the highest levels of national secrets and is actively selling them is considered "official duties" of President, yes?
Marfrilau made the exact point which makes what you said a joke, and why all this is so incredibly concerning. Trump could just order the execution of anyone he thinks would vote to impeach him. Hell, he already has a list of his own team, since it's already happened twice. He'd just call them, "A threat to national security," or something to that effect. Official duties, defending from enemies from within.
1: No, none of us think Democrats would let Biden get away with that. Democrats actually care about the law and the rules. They know it's the only thing that holds our society together.
2: Trump and his blindly-following, spineless Republicans WOULD do this, and would let Trump get away with it. They WANT this. They see law and rules as a way to gain ultimate power. This isn't speculation, as you can simply read Project 2025 and know that's what's happening.
The entire point is Democrats are pointing out, "We don't need this kind of absolute power in one party/person, and the preceding 44 Presidents before Trump PROVES it."
The fact that Republicans are arguing otherwise, and celebrating this gross overreach of power, tells you everything you need to know.
The idea that they call themselves the party of, "Small government," is so laughable at this point I don't know how anyone takes it seriously. I do actually know some Republicans, before this, that felt the President already had TOO much power. One example I can think of got himself perma-banned from these forums, and he was well-ahead of thinking of all of the problems we're having right now. He saw the exact writing on the walls ages ago. I really wonder what he thinks of all this right now.
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I can't wait to see what Trump does with this once he's reelected.