@flexghost TFG's 2016 campaign boast that he could "stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody" and not "lose any voters" takes on new significance.
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Just reading the CNN's "key takeaways" and it actually looks bad. "Conversations between Trump and the Department of Justice: Official act. Trump is immune from prosecution."
BUT this is a double-edged sword that the Supreme Court is openly handing over to Biden. Biden can (and should before it's too late) use the free ticket he is given and utilize the full might of the American state to not let Trump win this election. It might be the last chance.
@flexghost All six of them need to be removed for the sake of the country. Either by impeachment or Presidential act. hell, they should be removed for acting unconstitutionally. Anyone with a half decent education would tell you that this sort of thing is EXACTLY what the Founders feared.
What we should be doing in addition to organizing massive turnout: contacting our senators and representatives and demanding they support AOC's articles of impeachment to remove corrupt justices.
FURTHER, we should demand senators and representatives draft a bill to enlarge SCOTUS to match the number of appeals court districts.
@flexghost they waited to go on their vacations on their “friends” yachts before lighting the Molotov cocktail and throwing it at the gas station with the fireworks stand in the parking lot is what they did.
You misunderstand. SCOTUS granted Trump unlimited power. Not Biden. You see, whether or not the president is immune depends on whether the act in question was official, and guess who gets to answer that question? Yep, SCOTUS.
@flexghost It’s theater unless there’s votes to back it up.
I know that’s cynical. But filing articles of impeachment that everyone knows won’t go anywhere is what we make fun of Margie Three Names for doing.
Hopefully enough people understand they need to vote straight Democratic this year if they want Court expansion or impeachment articles to have a chance of becoming reality.
@flexghost I'm gonna go out on a load-bearing limb here and forecast that 90% of the people who were saying she was too radical when she got elected will have practically lionized her in less than a few weeks.
@flexghost you probably won’t be successful until after the election and we have 218 house members and 67 senators. Go for it, though there may be some moral characters in the House who will side with you and maybe a few in the Senate.
@flexghost if this action gets support, then yeah, sadly, all Dems do is bluster in fake outrage and fail to take substantive actions on anything. And they wonder why voters aren't enthusiastic about supporting their party.
@flexghost@WashRinseRepeat Not sure if it makes a difference now. The damage has already been done, and the GOP still holds the House, so these are going nowhere. And while it’s possible, it takes a lot to reverse a SCOTUS ruling.
@flexghost We must do both. If we did not vote at all, there would be no AOC in power to file articles of impeachment.
We can't remove a SCOTUS ass because we don't like their politics. They actually must decide something far outside the norm. They finally did it. Now, if people HAD VOTED, we'd have a majority to oust them, but HALF OF US stayed home & played video games or watched Survivor, or griped the other side is mean & we should fight 1000's of machine guns in the streets.
AOC might be one of the few who realizes what life will be like for all opponents of Trump. She's quite likely to get locked up or killed by a Trump mob.
"I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.”
"That's a little better than "vote harder" don't you agree?"
It's really not. There is 0% chance the articles go anywhere, and even if they did, there is a 0% chance the senate would convict and send a SCOTUS judge packing.
@flexghost The right answer is really to cold-blood murder these judges by a navy seals unit, on explicit command by the president “to rescue democracy”. They really called for it.
@flexghost could've tried to pack the court has some who foresaw this suggested!!!!! just furious with fools thiking they could depend on democrats, all reactive, never proactive. always incompetent in the face of the GOP.