Did not see this coming:
"Nikki Haley Voters PAC Announces Support for Kamala Harris”
https://www.newsweek.com/nikki-haley-voters-pac-announces-support-kamala-harris-1928198
Did not see this coming:
"Nikki Haley Voters PAC Announces Support for Kamala Harris”
https://www.newsweek.com/nikki-haley-voters-pac-announces-support-kamala-harris-1928198
1/ Just about every villian arc starts with the villain becoming completely corrupted because they knew they were doing bad things but for “good” and “necessary” reasons.
The Supreme Court is giving Trump unlimited power and I have a few thoughts on this.
1. How is their power to give?
To be able to give unlimited power, one must have it. And that poses questions about judicial power in a way that is incompatible with our (US) system of government
2/ The US revolution was basically predicated on two things:
1. No taxation without representation (something about Tea exports being taxed, but importing Tea from East India Company wasn’t)
2. Not being lorded over by a King ( see 1)
This ruling by the the Supreme Court flies in the face of this.
Even though the Magna Carter of 1215 was a document establishing rights of Barons (thus making the King somewhat accountable), it got the ball rolling against the “divine right of kings”
3/ With the Supreme Court saying in one hand, the president has “presumptive" immunity for “official" acts and in the other providing no test or definition of what an official act is, coupled with one cannot use an act of the president as evidence of a crime, this circular logic effectively creates a position that has no legal accountability.
And if congress thinks they can impeach and convict, then they are mistaken. First of all, to impeach you will need to gather evidence
4/ It becomes quite hard to gather evidence of the crime when the President can just issue blanket pardons to those with knowledge in his or her administration.
If congress goes ahead with impeachment, then the President can just go to SCOTUS and say: “Congress can't impeach a president without evidence” thereby nullifying the only check the legislative branch has on the executive.
5/ The president can essentially have his own goon squad with the military and can deploy them domestically. And to resolve the issue of them being held accountable for any crimes they might commit, here comes another blanket pardon to ease their minds.
In short, this is so fucked in some may ways, that I'm having a hard time grasping the scope
6/ Back to Biden and villain arcs, as we get closer to election day, you might start to hear more questions of Biden about what he is prepared to do if Trump is really the threat to the republic that he and the democrats says he is. This reminds me of the scene where Nick Fury asked Thor that very question.
As soon as you go down that path, Biden would be functionally no different than Trump aspires to be. But it would be for the greater good, he could argue
7/7 Basically this ruling from the Supreme Court is a trap. If Biden doesn’t do **all** he can to protect the nation from threats foreign and domestic, then one can say he isn't fit for office.
On the other hand, if he imprisons Trump or” Seal Team 6s” him, then what's to stop him from doing it again and again and seeing threats everywhere. All in the name of National Security?
Biden's villain arc would be complete. It is just a matter of time.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
@StillIRise1963 If presidential immunity were a thing, then why did Nixon need a pardon?
This is not a serious country. This whole thing fails the common sense test
Instead of addressing why the students are protesting, the government does what it always does. The beatings will stop when morale improves.
You can “live long enough to become the villain”. The people sending in the police are probably the same hippies that were protesting war in the 60s and 70s
@w7voa AG James is like:
The United States Dept of War produced a film called “Don’t be a sucker” in 1947 specifically addressing the tenets of Nazisim and fascism in a bid to prevent this from happening again.
It’s amazing that almost 80 years later, that we are having the same conversation (about Nazis)
The line that really stands out to me is:
“We human beings are not born with prejudices, they are always made for us, made by someone who wants something.
Remember that when you hear this kind of talk, someone's going to get something out of it and it isnt going to be you”
@KimCrayton1 They certainly got some “actright” that day
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