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President Joe Biden warned Monday that a Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity from prosecutionwould make an unchecked Republican Donald Trump “more emboldened to do whatever he wants” if he regains the White House in November’s election.

Biden, under intense pressure after his disastrous debate performance against Trump last week, urged Americans to think carefully about their election decision and signaled he had no intention of dropping out of the race.

Criticizing the decision by the court’s conservative majority — which all but guarantees Trump will not face trial in Washington ahead of the November election over his actions during the violent riot on Jan. 6, 2021 — Biden said it now fell to the American people “to do what the courts should have been willing to do but will not. 

“The American people have to render judgment about Donald Trump’s behavior.”

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[-] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 270 points 5 days ago

Fuck that. Biden should make them regret this decision. If his candidacy is as DOA as everyone is pretending it is, then there's no incentive to play by the rules. Move fast and break stuff and get some shit done for a change.

Also,

Biden, under intense pressure after his disastrous debate performance against Trump last week

They just had to get it in there. Not a mention of Trump making shit up the whole time, or the raving lunatic shit he's saying on the campaign trail. 90 minutes of Biden being low energy and it's all over. "The other guy is too old, maybe we can do a little fascism. That will be OK, right?"

[-] Audacious@sh.itjust.works 94 points 5 days ago

Insane that I have yet to see an article about trump lies during the debate. All I saw was Biben be replace bs articles.

[-] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Because Trump lies. It's old news. There was no way that debate was going to play well for Biden. He had nothing to gain. People voting for Trump are voting for Trump, people not voting for Trump are either Voting for Biden or staying home. Biden has to convince people not to stay home, not convince people not to vote for Trump.

The people that vote for Trump are people so sick of the current state of politics they want to burn it all down. Very few actually think he's a great president. He's a troll vote. Biden's performance made more people want to watch the world burn.

[-] JWBananas@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago

Biden shared this today on social media.

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[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 31 points 5 days ago

Almost every article I saw posted following the debate touched on Trump's falsehoods.

But also, Trump lying is not news. He lied all the way to his 2016 win, and lied decades before that, and still lies now. Absolutely no one new is going to be convinced that he's bad because he lies. If absolutely anyone is thinking of voting of Trump at this point, him lying is not going to be the deciding factor.

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[-] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

FUCKING DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT THEN JOE.

Get off your geriatric ass and do something..

[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 99 points 4 days ago

He needs to take the gloves off. The traitors are literally acting out their plan for a civil war and democrats are waiting there bent over to take it.

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 4 days ago

"We keep letting other people make the world worse, and no one seems to love us for it. What gives?"

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 16 points 4 days ago

We tried nothing and we're all out of ideas.

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[-] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 103 points 5 days ago

Biden literally has the power to do something now, but is instead using this to campaign? Infuriating, we got you in office already, to protect against this exact thing from happening. Stop sitting on your ass and do something if you want the American public to forget the debate.

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[-] seathru 151 points 5 days ago

“I know I will respect the limits of presidential power as I have for the three-and-a-half years, but any president, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law,”

"Yes we may be in a steel cage wrestling match. But I'm still going to follow gentlemens rules. Those tables, chairs and ladders are off-limits to me; My moral superiority will win the day."

Tom Howard voiceover: "It didn't"

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 50 points 5 days ago
[-] seathru 68 points 5 days ago

Nah, this is his cousin. I'm on a budget here.

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[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 56 points 4 days ago

Damn it, democrats. Quit being little bitches. For 30 years ive watched you roll over or play nice and its gotten us screwed over. Have the 5 or 6 Supreme Court justices who decided this hung for treason. Show a country that's sick of corruption. Politicians used to be afraid of the stick. America quit carrying one decades ago.

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[-] Hello_there@fedia.io 87 points 5 days ago

This speech was a capitulation by Biden. He basically said 'no, executive isn't going to check the judiciary.' His response is 'people need to vote's? What? Where's the vision or game plan to overturning this?
It's so fucking simple to grasp the shortfalls here.

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[-] retrospectology@lemmy.world 86 points 5 days ago

President Joe Biden warned Monday that a Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity from prosecutionwould make an unchecked Republican Donald Trump “more emboldened to do whatever he wants” if he regains the White House in November’s election.

And the justices kind of looked around quizzically and said "Yeah...no shit, that's the whole idea. Did you just get that?"

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago

He's spelling it out for voters to get them off their asses. People said "yeah right" in 2016 when the ones who were paying attention said that the scotus was on the ballot, and it turns out we were right. It's probably good to hear the calm warnings straight from him rather than just from "alarmist" friends, relatives, and coworkers this time.

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[-] exanime@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago

A gesture that has no meaning and even less significance

"To the violent, non-violence means nothing"

[-] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 4 days ago

America is absolutely cooked. Biden won’t do shit.

[-] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Every move like this gets them closer and closer to full on fascism, and gives them more and more power to destroy us and all we can do is hope the idiot democrats put a stop to it, even though all they're doing is sTrOnGlY cOnDeMnInG their actions...

[-] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It looks like nobody involved in this story understands the concept of consequences. Trump can be now disappeared without repercussions. The judges that voted this could be arrested with their families and everybody they know. And Biden may be facing the same situation in a few months if he doesn't do something drastic immediately. Is somebody putting LSD in the water supplies? I don't understand how anybody on either side can think this is a good idea.

Edit: what i mean is the clock is ticking now, Trump already said what he's going to do if he goes back to office. Unfortunately now it's you or them.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 47 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Could this response be any more weak and flaccid?

Wake the fuck up! It’s not someone else’s problem to solve. It’s yours.

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[-] Audacious@sh.itjust.works 42 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Biden needs to make some harsh executive orders, fixing the court (adding more judges or removing them), disbarring Trump from running and forced jailing, then claim all the bullshit changes made by the bad apples are unconstitutional and be reversed.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 33 points 5 days ago

He should have all the justices arrested and put in Gitmo indefinitely, then jam 6 Dem justices to the court and have them undo all the shitty decisions over the last two decades. Arrest enough senators and house memebers to pass decent legislation and ban Trump from being eligible. Then arrest Teump.and have him put to death for treason. Arrest the rest of the Jan 6th insurrectionists and throw them in Gitmo too.

Then put the structures in place to cover the things that let the Republicans set up a dicatorship so we can have a democracy again.

But no, he will.play fair and shoot himself in the dick so that the slide into fascism continues.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Biden was a sharp contrast to trump regarding the law before the SCOTUS ruling, too.

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