Context: Trump’s lawyers are in front of the Supreme Court arguing that presidents cannot be prosecuted for any crimes they commit while in office.

Who knows how the Calvinball refs will decide this one, but if they go Trump’s way, Biden has literally no excuse not to assassinate his political rivals.

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    I finally heard ONE fucknut on cable tv mention that Obama had American citizens murdered by drone strike and didn’t face legal consequences

    seems like a precedent to me, if the dems were serious they would just shoot down trump’s plane next time he’s in it and claim it was mechanical failure

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    Context: Trump’s lawyers are in front of the Supreme Court arguing that presidents cannot be prosecuted for any crimes they commit while in office.

    just want to point out how inherently fascist that is because like it’s basically saying “yeah hitler did nothing wrong, he was president after all”

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      The reverse is almost certainly true, I guarantee that all of the supreme court justices have some justification ready to go for all the German judges who stayed on the bench from 1933-1945. The law is the law, after all

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    Dems don’t want to win.
    Not as their first priority at least.
    They want money funding.
    Winning too much would hurt their bottom lines, both because being “the resistance” every so often brings in more donations and because listening to the public over monied interests would alienate them from those monied interests, and their donations.

    This is also why they didn’t definitively nullify the Comstock act or codify Roe v Wade when they had the chance. Because actually solving the problem means they can’t campaign, and fundraise, on perennially preventing the problem.

    Edit: forgot to actually get to the point lol, Biden would never, ahem, definitively, stop, Trump, because he doesn’t have any reason to. He would then get a new opponent it would be harder to use the threat of to fundraise.
    Trump is a fantastic heel for them and the Dem establishment would never actually stop stop him because it would then slow down the donations.