Summary
Trump declared Biden’s pardons “VOID” in a late-night Truth Social post, claiming they were signed by autopen without Biden’s knowledge—despite Trump having used autopen during his first term.
Trump warned pardoned individuals, including January 6th committee members (who weren’t charged with crimes), that they’re “subject to investigation at the highest level.”
Critics characterized his statements as “dictator shit” and questioned their legality, with one commenting this represents “the 17th constitutional crisis of just this weekend alone.”
But like. Are you stopping him? He’s been doing shady and illegal shit for ages, and yall can point out its illegal and shady, but like. Are any of those critics actually stopping him or nah
Like please, I want some good news, and Moral High Ground does not count
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He should be wary. Lest such fuckery become a prescident.
Some days you see this shit and wonder why you participate in a meaningless system that lets convicts be President.
Like as naked apes on a floating rock in eternal space I gotta wake up every morning to go to work and “be a good worker” while this motherfucker breaks laws and wants to make up shit as he goes.
Cool. No wonder I have no more motivation to be a good worker anymore.
Sometimes I hope the asteroid wipes us out in 2032
Bad news, it’s not nearly big enough to end life on Earth, and wouldn’t even hit in North America.
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I’m rooting for the AI ending. Maybe something superior can be born out of humanity so we served some kind of purpose.
i’m rooting for the ‘people finally stood up and did away with the sociopaths, ushering in a new utopia’ ending.
stop being cowards making bad jokes.
I remember when I was young and optimistic and believed this was possible. The humanity at its best ending. I honestly don’t have that kind of faith anymore and doubt I can get it back now.
Give the cephalopods the reigns
Oh, that’s what it takes to finally call him a dictator?
I declare Trump’s presidency void. He isn’t obeying laws; he’s no longer a legitimate president. He is a dictator. And a hypocrite any time he enforces laws of any kind.
To clarify, I think someone who has broken laws CAN enforce them without being a hypocrite, but only if they have taken accountability for the laws they have broken.
This is the oath presidents must make before exercising any official powers or duties:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
He has been very obviously doing the complete opposite of that. The GOP has some pretty flexible mental gymnasts in their circus, but I don’t think even they will be able to dodge this one.
My understanding of the supreme court ruling was that he has immunity only for “official acts”. So… If he violates this oath, he isn’t authorized to exercise any official powers of the presidency, and thus anything he’s doing isn’t official! Right? I hope so. It’d give me something to look forward to as we suffer through the next 4 years.
Maybe Trump thought execute meant kill the office of the president
they don’t care if they’re hypocrites and listening to you children say that over and over is tiring. do something.
What are you doing about it?
trying to explain to the painfully naive what we ALL have to do. you should be thanking me and joining the chorus. i’m trying to fucking help you.
I had this in my office Fantasy Dictator Pool: before end of March, POTUS will attempt to undo Biden’s pre-emptive pardons.
But I sincerely hope my other predictions DON’T come true. They’re much darker.
I wish I could have a pool like that. Everyone I work with is very pro Trump. Its pretty sad.
Do one with his campaign promises, and revel in the awkwardness as no one ever wins. Plus, it will give everyone personal reasons to fact check him every time someone does claim it.
That’s a good idea
quit your job with a bang
Wait, is that Donald “I can declassify documents by thinking it” Trump who is tweeting?
*xcreting
Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll go through with his denuclearization plan and that will finally be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and the military will take him out.
How depressing that our best case scenario is a military coup.
He already purged the generals and JAG, so I don’t know how likely that is or even if it would improve things.
There is pretty much no scenario on earth that has our military take him out. It just won’t happen and we should stop believing in this pipe dream.
why not? serious question, i don’t really know a lot about military leadership.
German w/eyepatch Tom Cruise tried to assassinate Hitler, but it was unsuccessful.
Slam it all you want, it means nothing until someone actually does something.
“SLAMMED!”, I pronounce into the face of the arresting ICE agent.
“S-S-S-SLAMMED!”, I cry out as the DHS official drags me down a hallway towards my El Salvadorian prison cell.
“Seee-Lamb-da!”, I exclaim as the door to my cell clangs shut.
Alright boys, slam 'em
There’s not much holding him back. He’s been defying cour rulings left and right. The Dems are spineless and we’re fucked.
you’re just as spineless as they are. you could do something too.
I think they’re waiting to see if trump declares martial law just cuz on easter, like he said
Could someone please take one for the team and end all this.
I suspect with the current state of technology, mario wouldn’t necessarily need to go down with the ship. Hopefully it’s a matter of time.
it’s that easy. there’s plenty of people offing themself all the time. i honestly don’t understand what the problem here is. i guess there’s not an app for that so the kids don’t know how to do it.
Assassination is not going to work. The line of succession is pretty shitty.
we just keep the hits coming until shit makes sense again.
Ain’t no line of succession for Elon.
Too true!
Why not you?
I got kids. :( also I am not very “accurate” or even knowledgable of the required implements.
There were very few attempts on Hitler’s life and he directly killed millions of people. Trump will indirectly kill millions and I wouldn’t be surprised if there are no more attempts on his life.
There were very few attempts on Hitler’s life
If ≥42 is ‘very few’, what do you consider to be a normal number of assassination attempts?
Considering what he was doing? Yes, that’s very little.
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They are mostly foreigners. Until the next pandemic hits, trumps cuts probably hit the world’s most impoverished, most oppressed people the hardest. It shouldn’t make a difference that they’re not Americans since people are people, but it does.
I imagine it’s the same as with hitler. It’s not just the inherent racism, but it’s harder to care as much about people the farther they are geographically or culturally or nationality.
I’m not trying to encourage this but I think it’s realistic
Thomas Crooks tried.
End? Hah, if you killed him he’d be a martyr and his successor Great Leader Vance would run a more competent fascist operation.
Vance has an old school polotician side. If left to himself, he wouldn’t go against the courts for example. He is just willing to say what trump wants him to say.
Vance is incompetent and slimey. Trump is only getting away with this shit because 45%ish of Americans find him sophmorically funny.
He and Elon are simply too dangerous and if America wants to continue being a country both of them need very public lessons to discourage copycats.
What if we get a 2 for 1 special?
Can we make it 3 for 1maybe? Too greedy?
Europe watching the USA lately:
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control, and we’ll be lucky to live through it.
If we get through this presidency, and that’s a big if, then we’ve got a fascist infestation and their enablers in congress that we’re going to need to take care of.
Time to truly drain the swamp by fucking force.
Don’t disrespect swamps like that, they’re a vital ecosystem. This is more like excising the cancer.
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We’ve had a fascist infestation for 100 years
Try living beside them.
Try being a sane person living here
Yeah… shit’s getting wild, and not in a good way
Oh, I thought he was naming DJT “Dictator Shit”.
🍆💦🥔💩
No that’s Dictator Tot
McDictaor
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Check his diaper, apparently that’s the scent within 20 ft of him.
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I’m so tired of the news instigating outrage.
Nobody is instigating anything here; the whole thing is just that outrageous.
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Uh… You do realize America is becoming fascist right now right? I wonder if German media also hyperfocused on Hitler in the 1930s.
I’m so tired of the news instigating outrage.
Trump’s tyranny itself is what instigates outrage, not the news’ coverage of it.
This is what “they” want. I get it. I’m right there with you. Find something that you can lean on to help you keep your sanity; a hobby, a new tv show, volunteer to take care of puppies at your local shelter… you need to balance this firestorm before you get burnt out. But no matter what, we need you to keep fighting! We need you!
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This is the truth and you should be outraged, but calling truthful reporting “instigating outrage” is insane
That’s by design.
Not even two months in, yet. I fear you won’t make it.
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Not until it comes knocking on the door in the middle of the night.
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That’s not how politics works. That’s just sticking your head in the sand.
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You do understand people are posting articles from those same news sources, right?
If you don’t want to be on lemmy then just stop going on Lemmy. No one cares.
Such a child. “My Pardons are better than yours”
He just can’t stand that we are not just laying down and receiving his limp penis.
Bright lining preemptive pardons would also effect the ones he’s issued including his own.
He’s saying its because of the auto pen. If he signed with hand then he won’t think it’s invalid.
Doesn’t matter pardons have specifically and by my estimate intentionally not been brought lined in basically any way. There are traditions by the rest is sorta wishy washy.
Dude is not following any sorta norms. He’s making shit up as he goes. If the Supreme Cunts say he’s right then it’s the rule.
