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Supreme Court agrees to quick review of Trump’s presidential immunity claim
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Immunity while head of state? Sounds like a monarchy to me.
And if SCOTUS says the President is an absolute monarch? What would you want Biden to do next? The GQP just never thinks this through.
Use his powers as monarch to remove the justices that gave him such power, then abdicate back down to president.
It would be in the most Biden way possible too. Dissolve the current court, instate mildly progressive liberals, and order a reruling to remove his power
Could we also have him set term limits on the new court and get rid of lifetime appointments?
Ah, but then it wouldn't be the Biden way. He goes just far enough to be disappointed he didn't go all in
Those sufficiently mild, respectable new justices would have to immediately step down if they were themselves uncorrupted
Cincinnatus reborn
Arrest the bunch of them. "The Republican party is hereby disbanded, arrests begin in 5 minutes."
(throwback for the kids in the room):
https://youtu.be/CFCABnWlN8E
Can't believe that this became an international faux pas. Reagan was absolutely a spawn of Satan, but come on. Unless "We begin bombing in 5 minutes" was broadcasted live (the report says it was an audio test) there's no way it should be read as anything other than gallows humor.
Eh, gallows humor from a random nobody is one thing. Joking about basically ending the world as we know it from someone who literally has the power to end the world as we know it is another.
This faux pas is certainly not at the top of my list of criticisms of Reagan, but he did deserve some shit for it.
You make a great point. But at the same time, there's so much meme potential
Oh, man, it was this whole thing back then...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minutes
The GQP absolutely thought this through...Biden either won't have the balls to do anything about this, or he croaks trying to actually accomplish something.
This is the checkmate they've been working at since Bush Jr.
Not at all.. Trump wasn't born into his position. This is fascism, friend.
Edit: I mean, he was born into money, though...
Pretty sure most of them don't even have that anymore