Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

If the GOP were to literally murder children with their bare hands, Corporate Dems would refuse to stop them and say shit like ““WE’RE BETTER THAN THEM, WE WON’T STOOP TO THEIR LEVEL” or some utterly backwards insane gibberish like that.

@igotnopicks
Something tells me this is also part of the problem. We’ll just come up with witty tweets to dunk on dumb shit and call it a day. No advocating for anything, nothing. As if a couple mean social media posts can just magically slap the decision down.

Yep. To a Liberal, asking why there’s a Baby Mulching Machine is more uncivil than the Baby Mulching Machine existing in the first place.

@Background Pony #D717
It’s a coping mechanism because Biden has been silent about it for hours despite his base being anxious about it. The fact that he hasn’t said anything about it only adds to his base’s fears that he’s not up to the task of beating Trump after last week’s debate.

But there’s also a fear that if he does say something, it will likely be so weak that it demoralizes the base even more.

On an unrelated note, “Canada” is trending yet again; perhaps Dems need to consider that a) Canada will not accept refugees from America out of the fly, and they won’t buy the “human rights” excuse either, b) Canadians will likely not want them in their country, c) Trudeau is in even worse shape than Biden in terms of approval and leadership, and d) all opinion polling points to a right-wing Conservative landslide next year, and the Conservative Party today is even more right-wing than it was under Harper.

plz understand, Biden needs his mid day nap.

@SleepySteve
Or maybe “Canada” is trending becuase today is Canada Day?

@Background Pony #8E51
We’re still some months away from Election Day.

Shouldn’t make such predictions yet.

No.

@Background Pony #8E51
I swear, it’s like you are detached from what might happen, or even just what you simply think might happen, if Trump wins the election. And you have instead opted to focus purely on Trump winning the election.

@Zaknel
I think they’re just poking whichever anxiety button gives them the most dopamine at this point.

@Zaknel
Again, Trump and his team brags about Project 2024, so we have a reason to be concern about what he’ll do if elected back into office.

@Meanlucario
And of course there’s the American Accountability Foundation’s Project Sovereignty (source: AP news) which should be live sometime in the next couple of months. Trump doesn’t even have to be elected.

It’s kind of shocking to me they’re starting with GS-13’s. I was a GS-12 and that’s just a technical/architectural role. Purely non-political. I don’t know how anyone I worked with at the GS-13 level could ever have been perceived as being political in any way. Like … intranet infrastructure doesn’t have a ‘politics’. It’s just hardware. But apparently what people post in their own time outside of work is suddenly a subject that can get you fired from ordering servers or some shit like that.

Kind of really brings home the whole Federal workers take an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States” deal. No one ever asked me to pledge allegiance to the president. Nor would they have.

The GOP is making Trump the focus instead of the Constitution and the Office.

@Ciaran
He’s their Golden Cow. I’m just waiting for Moses to appear with the stone slabs.

Yeah, people like him with that kind of sentence go to white-collar resort prison, not federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
Still, it’s funny he says he’s proud of serving it now after spending the better part of two years trying in vain to dodge it.

Biden has commented on the SCOTUS ruling.

Unsurprisingly it was just mealy-mouth waffling. “This sets a dangerous precedent” this and “This means the only limit is the ones self-imposed” that.

No shit Sherlock.

It was meh. Didn’t alleviate fears about the base but it didn’t make things worse, either.

And he snubbed the press, again. Not surprisingly they asked why he’s still in the race, so he has good reason to ignore them.

And it’s also why I doubt this ruling will be on the minds of voters the same way Dobbs is.

@CaptainXtra
Technically speaking I think you can still prosecute the president for that

The thing that actually screws up the case for US v Trump is that the majority opinion states that not only are official acts immune from prosecution, but that you can’t use his actions in official acts as evidence in a trial

To make it clearer, if someone say bribed the President to grant them a pardon, you can still charge the President with a pardon

But

You can’t bring up the act of the pardon or him discussing the pardon with his official advisors(I’m not kidding about this one)

Now you may wonder “doesn’t this make it next to impossible to persecute a president for anything then?” And the answer is, yeah more or less(this is why Amy Coney Barrett gave a separate opinion even though she’s part of the majority, she disagreed with the notion that official acts can’t be used as evidence in a trial)

Luckily for Jack Smith and his ragged tagged gang of misfits, Trump very much discussed his plans to stay in power illegally with private citizens along with official advisors, so the case isn’t totally destroyed

Albeit I won’t be surprised if some meetings with private citizens can be classified as official acts as iirc Sidney Powell discussed being made special consul to seize voting machines so maybe that falls under official acts, maybe

@Dustcan
He is now the dictator.

Something we all fear that Trump might have power in.

Ironically, minutes before handing down their decision in Trump v United States, the Supreme Court made another, very different 6-3 ruling in Moody v NetChoice, with Justices Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas dissenting.

The Court ruled that the government cannot seize editorial control of private media outlets, in this case social media, thus overturning laws enacted in Texas and Florida that would forbid social media companies from moderating content expressing a political opinion (which Governor Abbott stated as he signed the bill was to stop a “dangerous movement by social media companies to silence conservative viewpoints and ideas”).

@igotnopicks
“He is now the dictator.”

I mean, the presidency has always kinda been a dictatorship since the Great Depression and WWII. And if you’re really savvy you can go back to the Civil War, the biggest example of constitutional failure, to when the powers of the presidency began to be emphasized more.

@SleepySteve
And yet you complained that the president didn’t have that power a week ago.

A lot of our supposed laws or Checks and Balances are turning out to be like, vibes more than anything.

My only hope is that this radicalizes more liberal centrist types as they realize their faith in our system was ill-placed at best.

Centrism is in a state of total collapse.