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    No no no no, you don’t get it.

    BIDEN is not a king. Because the conservative owned SCOTUS will rule that whatever crimes he commits in office are not done as official business.

    TRUMP is the future first monarch. Only his crimes will be deemed official business.

    This ruling is just setting him up for a SCOTUS pardon, which they just granted themselves the power to do, so he can assume his throne.

    SCOTUS gave themselves the power to absolve the POTUS of crimes. And POTUS already has the power to absolve anyone else of federal crimes.

    Yep. Totally what the founders wanted.

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        Yep, I drew out a plausible plan in another thread on how that could work.

        Arrest them on corruption, Espionage, domestic terrorism, etc charges. Either move them to an offshore blacksite, or “accidentally” kill them during the arrest.

        That would certainly fall under “official acts”, and if it’s overstepping authority, well, who cares because even if they’re deemed crimes, they were done in the context of official duties to keep this country safe.

        And then when the corrupt SCOTUS members are purged, fill the seats with those that will uphold that Bidens orders were official acts. And Biden can pardon those executing his orders.

        This is exactly what the SCOTUS just enabled. It’s absolutely abhorrent. And Biden would never do it because it’s obviously anti democratic and would establish a dictatorship.

        But Trump WILL do it. And the current SCOTUS will allow it.

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        If Biden were a just president, he would destroy the justices until they imprisoned him and fixed the law

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      Only his crimes

      What crimes? All I see is official business. Especially that guy he had killed because he was on 5th Ave. – supreme court

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      Well if he used his power to destroy the republicans on the supreme court, then the Democrat justices threw him in jail, the republic would be saved.

      It’s literally the minimum viable cost to reset democracy and order

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    I mean he does now have the powers of an absolute monarch.

    As far as I know Saudi Arabia is the only other country with an absolute monarch, so it makes some sense we are allies now.

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      Not exactly. He’s only allowed to do illegal things if the SCOTUS is okay with it. He’s a Democrat, so they wouldn’t be.

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        Not until he wipes the supreme court and then installs his puppet court. Once that happens the senate won’t even impeech, if they know what’s good for them.

        It’s all jokes, but this is the GOPs plan more or less.

        They might not violently overthrow the court but only because they have silently already done it.

        Next project 2025 will dismantle our elections. When 2028 rolls around, well what do you know, 99% of Americans WANT Don Jr to be kin-- president.

        It’s over. The only thing left is for the DNC and the voting public to hand him the crown. And they do so willingly, because Biden, ~checks notes~, is old?

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            When I hear the pundants, even the ones I thought I liked, try to pacify what is happening, I know we are done. Even if they do it for their own sanity, there should be no pacification for injustice at this level.

            “Well, that’s just Trump and he has all the GOP by his side so what can you do?” You should do what ever it takes, what ever power you hold, what ever platform you have it should be used to oppose these tyrants. In that light, it’s already over. No one will actually stand up from here until December and it will all be too late.

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              When I hear the pundits, even the ones I thought I liked, try to pacify what is happening, I know we are done.

              You may very well be right, and that’s extremely frustrating for me, too. Manufactured consent being laid bare.

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            The DNC is not a government entity. It’s a private organization that represents the interests of party members and has no legal obligation to serve the public. We can be irritated with the DNC, but we can’t blame them for this.

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              The scorpion stings the frog because it’s in it’s nature. You still blame the scorpion.

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                A person belonging to one or more Order is just as likely to carry a flag of the counter-establishment as the flag of the establishment-- just as long as it is a flag.

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    If the Dems werent so perpetually useless, they would immediately jump on this to get shit done, then when republicans cry and whine, push them to actually pass legislation that explicitly denies this. So they are stuck between letting Biden do whatever he wants to and stopping him, but also dooming Trump and/or whatever republican candidate down the line they want to be able to exploit these powers.

    But they wont. Joe and his handlers will keep doing nothing and expecting everything to just magically work itself out. And then in January we will have a fully unrestricted God-king Trump.

    (Also it would be so fucking funny if Trump just died of natural causes before the election/ inauguration, the MAGATS would actually implode from conspiracy theories)

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      The Democrats are not incapable. They are malicious and complicit.

      It’s time to stop pretending Democrats are just stupid well intentioned people

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      Jump on what? The president wasn’t granted immunity.

      The SCOTUS passed the buck to lower courts, and those courts could draw the line at whether or not Biden’s actions qualify as official or not.

      Or it could end up back at the SCOTUS, where we would have to trust (lol) that they reach the same opinion they did for Biden as they did for Trump.

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    I heard he’s not even at the white house anymore. He’s just going door to door with secret service and raping people’s moms now.

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      Supreme court ruled that presidents are immune from obeying the law.

      Basically, they went against a millennium of legal precedent and overturned the magna carta.

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        I saw that ruling. But there are multiple posts mentioning Biden as king as if there was something broadcasted or viral about it. Is there more?

        I had to look into how magna carta is relevant and only see a vague connection about going back to pre-American laws.

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          In her dissent, Justice Sotomayor likened the ruling to making the president a King above the law. That’s where this is coming from.

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          Our legal system is a continuation of the English common law system of the American colonies.

          The magna carta falls within English legal history and is widely viewed as the first step in regulating the behavior of the king.

          This supreme court ruling seems to allow the President to break the law.

          It’s my own comparison, but I think it’s quite good.

          I could also say that they’ve made the presidency into a dictatorship (in the Roman usage of the word). That’s actually unfair to dictators since their unlimited power was narrow in scope, and they could be prosecuted when they left office. Ceasar was the last Roman dictator.

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    You’re only a king if you use the power and biden’s a bitch. Throw the corrupt justices of the supreme Court in jail along with Trump and Make some changes to the Constitution to limit corporations from unlimited funding candidates. It really should be the ending of infinity war, but we’re going to get the return of the Nazi party instead.