• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    God, I hate this asshole so very much. The guy is single-handedly trying to ruin every good thing in the United States.

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      Authority only matters when there’s an enforcement mechanism.

      When the courts are stacked with your yes men then authority means nothing. When Congress is stacked with sycophants then authority means nothing.

      To Republicans the rule of law is “I make the rules and are not bound by them. Democrats cannot change the rules and are bound by them.”

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        To Republicans the rule of law is “I make the rules and are not bound by them. Democrats cannot change the rules and are bound by them.”

        AKA Wilhoit’s Law:

        Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition … There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. --Frank Wilhoit

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      That definitely stopped him from trying before, right ? And when he tries, sometimes he gets what he wants because he’s surrounded by yes men and spineless cowards.

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      Exactly!
      States have the authority to run their elections how they see fit.
      And the executive branch has no authority over the states. The president can’t order a state to do anything. Not even a presidential parden has power over state courts.

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        It means that when he’s gone nobody can protect themselves with “I was following orders”, we can send them all to prison

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            Get a majority to reform SCOTUS.

            Enforce 14A3 disqualification from the day he sabotaged the pandemic response against Democratic led states to punish political opponents. Declare everything he did since invalid and illegal.

            Get these two through and he’s done, along with every single collaborator.

            So if you want him gone and want total accountability, join the crowd demanding his disqualification.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Big Ned Stark energy.

      The only authority tyrants care about is what they’re able to do.

      What they’re SUPPOSED to be ALLOWED to do doesn’t interest them in the least.

      The vast majority of the things Trump has done in his second term (and a few in the first) have been outside of the constitutional powers of the presidency, but that didn’t stop him and his enablers.

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    I had a spare official copy of my birth certificate made specifically because of what he and his cronies have been doing. Be ready.

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      Nope. Billionaires bought the in person voting machines and they plan to strategically close polling stations and send out intimidation squads of “auditors”

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      I think it’s supposed to work in tandem with their reduction of polling sites in blue cities that are in red states.

      Makes it so that actually casting a ballot on election day is impossible for as many Democrats as possible.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    Turns out when a corrupt Supreme Court stops caring about the Constitution, the Constitution stops mattering.