Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute..

OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t need to worry about looks if all your opponents are dead. Only revolution could save us from such a regime, and not a sure thing even then.

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  • Kyre@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reminds me of CGP Greys' "The Rules for Rulers". It's just a matter of navigating the keys to power.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

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  • rayyy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I do have hope that most people would refuse to carry out such orders

    Most wouldn’t but most of the cult definitely would - refer to Charles Manson.

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• Dexx1s@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d be thinking more about how they’d plan to do it. Trump does have the Secret Service.

  But good luck impeaching a man who can make his enemies disappear with a waive of his hand.

  Friend, that’s why you just sign something in your office with the doors closed and not make it public.

  Honestly, I didn’t even think enough about the whole thing enough to realize that the President could possibly get away with murder. Wouldn’t that make it an obvious ruling then? Could then appoint new judges to the Supreme Court. There would magically be a few openings all of a sudden after all. How is this ruling really something they’re actually considering?

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  • OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Depends… Nixon was pardoned for water gate… precedent muddys water but I really hope a president isn’t a pseudo king… But this happend to Rome and Julia’s Caesar rose…

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    • lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a good point. President orders hit, pardons the co-conspirators, turns the reigns over to the VP who then pardons the President. The perfect crime.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Didn’t end so well for Julius Caesar.

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• cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He should fake it and make Trump shit his pants. Order a hit on him and his role family and see Trump lose his mind only to then go “SIKE!” and ensure it can never actually happen.

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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He should instead have half of SCOTUS disappeared, and then appoint replacements who were not MAGA tools. (And who would reverse all of these shitty rulings.) the irony would be delicious.

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