• t00l@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    If anyone proves that being physically present does not guarantee being mentally present it is Donald Trump.

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    8 days ago

    A precedent was set in 2005 that stated the president “need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill” and may direct a subordinate to use an autopen, as long as the president has approved and decided to sign it

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      Horrible people can say the write thing. While this is not a law, making it illegal would be a good idea.

      Unfortunately that will never happen.

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    I’m sure the DOJ lawyers will get right on that after they finish burning the remaining epstein files.

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    Oh? Does he really want to set a legal precedent that a sitting president can undo the pardons of prior presidents?

    Perhaps he’s on to something! 🤣

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      Take a moment to consider why he’s not concerned about a next president.

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          The guy’s been screaming his intent for years now and y’all are still convinced he doesn’t mean it.

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              Depends, will anyone actually do anything if he does?

              So far, the answer has been mostly “nope”.

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                Then you haven’t been paying attention. Almost everything he’s been trying to do that is actually against the law, has been blocked in court.

                And if you’re one of those folks thinking that he could at some point just invoke the Insurrection Act and use the military to take over…then you should know that the majority of the generals in the military would not follow those orders, unless there was a clear and obvious threat to the nation.

                There would be no “Order 66” moment…only the beginning of a “civil war” within the military, that would most likely result in a stalemate due to officers simply refusing to order their troops to fire on their own people.

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                  This trust the process stuff is just copium. The fact george bush wasn’t prosecuted for WMDs and Reagan wasn’t prosecuted for Iran Contra are the original sins here. Unless Bush gets prosecuted we can’t even begin to fix the problems trump created because they are all downstream.

                  You’re trying to dam a river at the delta where it meets the sea. Threaten to prosecute bush though and you pave the path for prosecuting trump and fox news and all these billionaire media owners.

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      He doesn’t intend for there to be any other sitting presidents after him. At least not before he’s dead.

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    Look at this other crazy shit he said, not the plundering of the nation and trampling of civic rights…

    I really wish there was an easy way his daily rants could just be tagged into boxes of actual threats vs his standard blustering bullshit.

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      It’s Schrödinger’s bullshit. It’s all blustering bullshit but the people around him understand that to curry favor, they are supposed to make him look brilliant by making it happen for real.

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    He is only concerned over illegal actions by Democrats, the poors, and brown people. Everyone else gets congratulations.

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      Heck for a good contribution you get a pardon too. Can even not be white for the right amount. Only people he says one nice thing about are people who’ve fluffed him up. If you’ve said no once to him you’re on his shit list.

      Awesome leader there United States, hah he’s a LINO anyways, leader in name only. It’s really president Miller, the guy who got into politics cause he’s too weak to strangle prostitutes.

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    Everything is a distraction from the Epstein files. Tomorrow it will be some other absurd BS. He wants us to be outraged about this, and forget about that. And it’s working. It’s been working and will continue to because we cannot focus on one thing for more than 2 weeks.