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Congress would impeach Biden SO FAST so he could then be prosecuted.
... Unless Biden also made it impossible for Congress to meet to impeach him. Which is obviously against the Constitution, but there's nothing to be done about it as long as Congress can't impeach him.
Checkmate, fascists.
... wait
No, see if Biden wants to be impeachment proof, he just needs to arrange for a "group trip" for all Congressional Republicans to "a nice farm upstate." He can be generous and include tickets for the conservative Supreme Court justices.
Biden would never do this and I wouldn't want him to, but Trump is arguing that this would be 100% legal.
Or, hear me out, get rid of qualified immunity. You guys aren't a kingdom FFS. And sorry, Biden is at a minimum fascist adjacent.
care to back up that assertion?
Sure. Leaving most of Trumps policies in place as well as supporting a genocide in Palestine. He also hasn't done anything to reverse the genocide on the Indigenous people in the USA, if you want to be spicy. He hasn't done anything about the clearly disproportionate violence against non-white people, and he allows the hate speech and othering to continue unabated, providing a nice scapegoat for the country's problems without him having to lift a finger.
There's also the ongoing imperialism of the USA, and their hundreds of military bases across the planet, asserting control over numerous populations. While this isn't necessarily fascist, the common argument used for invasion into other countries is that "we need to bring them freedom and Democracy, and our Western values". And again, there is still an occupation in Iraq by the USA military, under Biden, where these were clear "reasons" for the occupation.
So, is it fascist to allow the continuation of things that may be considered fascist when viewed together? Probably. Especially when you lead the largest military in the world, and the second largest economy, no one else has the power to sign a paper and end the atrocities. Well, at least some of them.
Colonialism isn't domestic Fascism. Fuck off. We have an election to keep our country in existence. Shut the fuck up. You're a distraction. Shut up.
Wow, that's the line of argument you chose? "We export our fascism, it's not here at home!"
Who said mutually exclusive? Order of operations. You don't get to be idealistic tomorrow, if we die today. But stay home in December. Prove your point. And whine about how we go high (which I agree is the worst thing we do) but then stand by and elect Trump. Sick logic big dog.
I don't have a vote in your elections anyways, plus aren't they in November?
And it's sad to see the one party that seemed to have promise devolve into "vote for us because we aren't the evil other guys!" (while doing similar evil shit foreignly).
More reason to please not encourage people to stay home and elect the dictator that will inevitably fuck your country harder than our current iron fist regime.
Thanks. I agree. It sucks. I think the latest Marc Maron special summed it up well about going from our progressive trajectory to this.. "I don't get it.. we had Obama.. I did my part. I went to yoga. I brought my own bag to whole foods.. but here we are! How'd we get here??"
What do you mean you have an election to keep your country in existence?
Israel and Gaza are not on the US' presidential ballot. Fending off a fascist autocrat that will make this our last semi free election, is on the ballot. Any argument about anything else is moot, and staying home is a vote for Trump. Intellectualizing doesn't change that which is why purported leftists on Lemmy are either pathetically stupid, russian/GOP trolls, or edge lords.
You're right, but the work doesn't end at this election. There's a long road of reforms or revolution required to move away from the conditions that made these two the only "options". And your representatives aren't going to do it for you.
Agreed. That's why I voted to primary Pelosi out. Why I vote far left up and down the ballot. Why I've participated in and at times led activism for almost 30 years. But we aren't having that kind of presidential election this year. We're fighting a backslide unfortunately. And sadly we're all finding the country is further right than we thought. We had Obama. They didn't have a north star yet.
Someone saved the picture of hunters cock to their phone 🫣
Are you okay?
Yes, are you able to stop riding Biden cock?
So, you think I am in support of genocide Joe?
And besides, he's so old I would be surprised if there were enough drugs on the planet to get him hard enough to ride.
I can't hear youu with that Biden schmeat smacking your tonsils.
I'm very good at talking with my mouth full, thank you.
So do you support the agenda of Biden? Or maybe Trump? Maybe you are disappointed with the political landscape of your country and would like changes? Maybe I am giving you too much credit?
Back to the thread at hand: it is kind of insane that it may actually be possible to legally assassinate your political rivals without any legal reprecussions while leading any country isn't it? And now that the cats out of the bag, doesn't that worry you in the least?
Well, this is the internet so it's pretty much impossible to make me upset. You're just some Dingus on a keyboard, and I'm some other Dingus on a keyboard.
Removed for homophobia.
Also if assassination of a political rival is legal unless the congress votes to impeach, what prevents the president from also assassinating a few congressmen in order to not get impeached ?
That's the plan. Assassinate ALL rivals and all threats. It's just a step up from suing people for him.