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jriddle73 — 1 year ago(July 03, 2024 10:41 PM)
"This editorial comes to you from a place devoid of hope;. It will offer you none. What’s needed now isn’t false hope but a clear-eyed assessment of where some things stand.
"In ending one long tradition, the U.S. Supreme Court just ended another.
"When, a few years after being driven from office by the Watergate scandal, disgraced former president Richard Nixon sat down with David Frost for a series of interviews, he made an extraordinary remark about his own view of presidential power: 'When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.' It became a very famous quote, an 'I Am The Law' assertion of royal prerogative by the former president of a system of government explicitly created to repudiate such prerogatives. One could trot it out as exemplary of a particular out-of-touch criminal who’d let the height of his office go to his head, repeat it with a chill at how far gone someone can get under the corrupting influence of power or rattle it off with a mordant chuckle at a fool who, sworn to uphold a system in which no one is above the law, came to believe himself above the law. Everyone who repeated it over the years and canonized it as a classic reference-point was of one mind that what Nixon had expressed was a place we never, under any circumstances, wanted to go.
"Thanks to the Supreme Court, those people don’t have Nixon to kick around anymore. It can’t be said that in Trump v. United States, the court just enshrined Nixon’s words into U.S. law because the ruling is, by definition, a lawless one. What the court did, rather, was impose Nixon’s stated principle as the status quo. In a repudiation of the entire American experiment, the court took the occasion of the nation’s upcoming 248th birthday to rule that the President of the United States is now, in effect, above the law. That tradition that
no one
is above the law — a lot longer one than jabbing at Nixon for his failure to understand it–is now over…
Full article here:
https://jriddle.medium.com/king-president-the-supreme-court-trump-nixons-last-laugh-09f23decfa92
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Yermom_Is_God — 1 year ago(July 03, 2024 10:54 PM)
So all of the bullshit indictments brought upon Trump are just being thrown out?!?! Oh, no, they aren't, this narrative is bullshit.
Would you support charges being brought up against Obama for drone striking an American citizen and killing him without due process? How about his illegal spying on the Trump campaign and then assisting in manufacturing the fake Russia collusion narrative?
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Yermom_Is_God — 1 year ago(July 03, 2024 11:10 PM)
That's up to the lower courts to decide, per the SC ruling. This idea that the SC just granted the Executive full immunity to do whatever they want is an absolute lie, though, this garbage that you've been pushing. This is nothing but fear mongering by Democrats who are desperate to shift the news cycle from Biden's mental deterioration.
Side note, though, it was fascinating seeing Democrats fall for this lie after the ruling and their first instinct is for them to all start insisting Biden kill all his political opponents. Ya know, to stop fascism, lol!
"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit." -A fucking idiot -
Yermom_Is_God — 1 year ago(July 04, 2024 06:17 PM)
Why are you asking me these irrelevant questions. If you'd like to discuss the topic at hand or try and counter then fine, but what you're doing is ignoring the topic completely and trying to trap me with stupid questions.
"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit." -A fucking idiot -
Yermom_Is_God — 1 year ago(July 04, 2024 06:42 PM)
That's how you argue on here, you can't make any rational argument so you just continue asking tedious, irrelevant questions.
"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit." -A fucking idiot -
Yermom_Is_God — 1 year ago(July 04, 2024 07:58 PM)
I didn't say it was, I was responding to your stupid comment above. This is also why it's a chore arguing with you, you say dumb **** because occasionally you turn in Biden and can't keep up with conversations. You're stupid.
"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit." -A fucking idiot -
Yermom_Is_God — 1 year ago(July 05, 2024 06:03 PM)
Or most likely because you get in over your head, bite off more than you can chew.
With you? Lol! Nah, you're just really bad at this, mix that with being incredibly stupid yet confident in your stupidity, it makes for a very tedious debate.
"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit." -A fucking idiot -
/. — 1 year ago(July 05, 2024 06:07 PM)
With everybody, really, save Warren. You refusal to elaborate on the SCOTUS ruling proves that you don't know what you are talking about and are merely regurgitating rightwing talking points. AM radio, much?
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Yermom_Is_God — 1 year ago(July 05, 2024 08:37 PM)
Your refusal to even bother to read and understand the decision made this a pointless debate from the get go.
are merely regurgitating rightwing talking points. AM radio, much?
Meanwhile you're literally pushing the fear mongering lie that media told you to push, lol!
"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit." -A fucking idiot -
Yermom_Is_God — 1 year ago(July 04, 2024 08:02 PM)
You also lie and make a bunch of **** up, too, as you can with your last comment. You suck.
"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit." -A fucking idiot -
/. — 1 year ago(July 05, 2024 09:49 AM)
it was fascinating seeing Democrats fall for this lie after the ruling and their first instinct is for them to all start insisting Biden kill all his political opponents.
People saying that were trying to illustrate the point about how dangerous this precedent is. The president can now kill whoever he wants.
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