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politics @lemmy.world kingthrillgore @lemmy.ml 3 wk. ago

The Supreme Court majority sounds sold on Trump's Big Lie

www.salon.com SCOTUS sounds sold on Trump's Big Lie

The extremist majority on the Supreme Court is acting as rank partisan operators — and threatening our democracy

SCOTUS sounds sold on Trump's Big Lie

What is the fucking point of living if everything you believed in can be taken from you by some old white fucks

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How does this not end with Biden assassinating Trump because he's an insurrectionist? It's an official act and he'd be immune from prosecution.
- He wouldn’t have to. He just throw Trump in jail, along with the SCOTUS justices he doesn’t like, appoint new ones, openly rig the elections, and see what congress has to say about it.
  
  I bet there’d finally be some meaningful reform very suddenly.
  
  Dark Brandon, or Darkest Brandon?
  
  Hell, this would be almost Lelouch Vi Britannia.
  
  You mean what’s left of congress, his political rivals need to go as well.
  
  He cannot unilaterally remove a justice from the court, or a candidate from the ballot. Even if they are in jail, a judge would need to be impeached, and Trump could still be elected.
  
  But dead is dead. If you're going to go full tyrant...
- Because Biden has morals that he mostly lives by
  
  But what if he did it for the lols? I think that's morally acceptable, and my demographic would be more likely to vote for him. At this point fuck it, let's play by their rules
  
  Morally he should serve the American people within the law. If the justices create a law that threatens democracy, this suggestion is actually one of the few morally correct actions.
  
  LOL
  
  lmao even.
  
  Yes, in the form of dead Palestinians. A politician is a politician, they are all scum and have an agenda. Your wellbeing is not on it.
  
  Have you heard of a little place called Gaza?
- By stalling the case until after the election
  
  What's to stop Biden from assassinating three or four Supreme Court Justices and then nominating a few that will rule sooner and in his favor?
- It would be an official act since trump jeopardizes democracy.
- Because Biden is a coward, and more importantly, a ghoul for capital.
  
  He will do nothing, and hope that civility somehow prevails.
The state of SCOTUS is abhorrent. We truly are on the verge of a second Civil War. The terrorists have successfully infiltrated all levels of government. And they are not the terrorists featured on your local Fixed News affiliate. It’s your neighbors and often times rural areas.

Democrats won the battle (ie, reclaiming presidency) but have lost the war.
- Democrats won the battle (ie, reclaiming presidency) but have lost the war.
  
  I agree, and I think the scarier reality is this, if Donald Trump gets back into office the following things will occur:
  
  He will force Roberts, Thomas, and Alito to step down during his presidency so he can guarantee indefinite control of the court for the next 40-50 years.
  
  Once that is done his cronies will set up whatever legal challenges are necessary before the court to guarantee federal oversight of the elections in swing states.
  
  They will be firing the majority of the Federal Employees, and will begin strategically staffing vacancies from their ranks in positions that allow them to commit economic warfare on states who do not submit to their will.
  
  I don't think people really understand how bad this can get, and how fast it can get there. The level of economic slavery they can impose in 4 years with the kind of shrewd, competent, and abjectly evil sociopaths that are lying in wait this time around is going to blow people's fucking minds.
  
  Trump could nominate his kids for Scotus... :(
Give Biden supreme power or quit the BS. It’s not so much that I want him to have this power, it’s more so that I don’t want Trump to exist…and I’m hoping with ultimate power, Biden makes the ultimately right decision
- I’m hoping with ultimate power, Biden makes the ultimately right decision.
  
  Democrats, unfortunately, have an annoying tendency to cling to honor while the walls are being torn down around them.
  Biden will absolutely "do the right thing" from the honorable point of view and just roll with the election results, and peacefully hand power to Trump if he wins.
- I’m hoping with ultimate power, Biden makes the ultimately right decision
  
  He appointed famously "acceptable to republicans until Obama nominated him" MERRICK GARLAND as AG. That along with his actions and lack of same with regards to the Israeli apartheid regime and their ongoing genocide (as well as his reactions to the violent and unconstitutional suppression of anti-genocide protest) says all you need to know about how he uses and chooses not to use his power.
  
  Disclaimer to ward off whataboutism bullshit and accusations of ulterior motives: yes, he IS by far the lesser evil compared to the Mango Mussolini, but that's besides the point and also doesn't make him not an evil.
- Biden could end billionaires with unlimited power.
  
  The courts could declare Biden king and his apologists would still pretend his hands are tied.
- With Great Power comes Great Responsibility.
  
  Against the "I don't take responsibility at all."
Everyone who is so sure Biden won't do something... For the first time ever, Biden's life is at stake due to politics. Dude has never needed an abortion. Or food stamps. But he and his family will be dead in 12 months if he doesn't have a contingency plan.
- lol right. The secret service, FBI, and every other agency in the country with the express objective of maintaining the status quo are just gonna let a president get killed. This isn't the 60s.
  
  If Biden's not president in 12 months....?
They have a perverse loyalty to the guy that appointed them and the rest are incapable of independent thought or judgement

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