• linearchaos@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I keep seeing hypotheticals like this

    Either a president is completely free to do whatever he wants or he is constrained by rules. This is not hypothetical.

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      10 months ago

      I meant the hypothetical in which Trumpā€™s ā€œimmunityā€ defense is upheld, libs love to powerfantasy about what Biden could do with this sort of ā€œimmunityā€ but history tells us that when Dems can choose whether or not to be restrained, they choose restraint, even if it means the GOP gets to hurt everyone.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah, the quote wasnā€™t actually a literal suggestion, it was pointing out the absurdity in a way that a conservative could understand it without having to make it directly about them.

        All politicians are at the same time self serving and for sale to some extent or theyā€™d never successfully get into politics.

        But one side gets off on punishing people from the other side, and the gays, the poor, and the minorities. I generally put those guys down as the bad guys when Iā€™m checking off boxes.

        That orange jack wagon parading around how heā€™s going full dictator for a day to punish everyone. Itā€™s one thing to be a sell out, to back a position for the favor of the people that donate the most to your cause, itā€™s another to try to come to power by proudly claiming all the people you want to hurt.

        The people backing him campaigning that way, they are not good people.