• Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    There was a small part of me that wanted Biden to nut up on the all threats foreign and domestic bit of his oath, but say he arrests him for treason, then the right will call him the autocrat and dictator preventing the peaceful transfer of power and the will of the people. There’s no good way to go about it unfortunately. I’m sure they discussed it, and thought that surely Trump will just fuck shit up again, and her voted out in 4 years, but imo we get a kangaroo election in 4 years, and it doesn’t matter. It fucking sucks, and we’re stuck with this shit.

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      3 days ago

      So what if the right gets all bent? If Trump had disappeared forever into some CIA black site we wouldn’t be in this predicament. SCOTUS would have reversed their ruling and the GOP in congress would have worked with the Dems to rein in the executive before they started disappearing too.

      Biden was a merely adequate president. What we needed was an exceptional one who would do what needed doing.

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      They could’ve “poisoned the well” by locking the status quo and forcing legislation timelines to be 2yr+ so that nothing gets canceled until next midterms muzzling GOP and they could’ve stripped POTUS of his powers by POTUS submitting an executive order etc… multiple ways to go about it and they did not touch a single one other than “pardons”…

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        Democrats keep trying to play by the rules long after Republicans have flipped the game board and thrown the pieces around the room.