“This is B.S.—you were doing this as a dilatory tactic to help your political friend,” says Rachel Maddow on the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the Trump immunity argument, delaying his coup trial. “And for you to say that this is something that the Court needs to decide because it’s something that’s unclear in the law is just flagrant, flagrant bullpucky.”

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    Why are we waiting for the supreme court on any of this when Biden controls all the guys with guns??

    If he’s actually committed to any of this he should just send them in and throw the robes out, and fill it up with people who aren’t demons.

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      So you’re saying that Biden should stop SCOTUS shielding Trump from the consequences of trying to make the US a dictatorship by checks notes turning the US into a dictatorship.🤦

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        good luck in November lol

        edit: Democracy is when corporations own all candidates and the electoral college designed by slaveowners almost 300 years ago decides all presidential elections.

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          I’m not saying that the US system from the 1700s works in 2024. I’m saying that your suggestion would make it even worse than it already is.

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            The current situation is that the Democrats are completely unreachable on the issue of “stop arming a genocide”, but then somehow this is a bridge too far

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              Yeah, turning the US into a military dictatorship wouldn’t do anything to stop them from continuing to supply the genocide and I really don’t see how you’d ever think so…

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                I’ve been told by numerous Democrats that I should be voting for them despite their complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people, because of all the things they’re getting done. They could literally get anything they want done to protect abortion and LGBT people and they choose not to, while the genocide continues anyways.

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                  You’ve been told that the GOP will accelerate and increase the suffering of the Palestinian people. This remains to be true. If you’re voting only on that issue the Democratic Party is the best choice for preventing more death and destruction in Gaza. If you have an argument for how the GOP will improve the situation in Gaza I’m all ears, but I’m pretty certain you don’t.

                  Biden and a good chunk of the Democrats are wrong on how we are handling the crisis in Gaza. They are also our best shot at helping the Palestinian people (electorally). Both things can be true simultaneously.

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                    This is literally just good cop/bad cop where the assertion that the good cop is ‘better’ is just some guys telling me ‘trust me bro the other guys worse’ despite his far lower body count

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        Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

        Yeah, yeah, sorry, I’ve just seen this comment copy\pasted so much its hard to take out seriously… Are you real? Say potato! Say potato, viking_hippie

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      No, your right in this case. I think it would be unwise to just let the fascists win. You beat fascists by kicking their teeth in.

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      Not guns. Biden can appoint 10 new judges and then have them rule that their appointment was lawful. Why should a country of hundreds of millions have only 9 people at the head of a whole branch of government, anyway?

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      That would probably collapse the US

      I fully support it, but Democrats want to keep this shithole from falling apart.

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        By their own inaction on internal social issues coupled with unlimited support for proxy wars it’s going to happen anyways, might as well get in some W’s for the rest of us before it all goes down in flames.

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          I think they’re old enough that they want to delay the inevitable until they’re dead and gone. They don’t really care about the rest of us, just themselves.

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            Welcome to politics!

            Politics = kick the can as far as possible down the road until it becomes the next persons problem. They then follow the tradition.

            Why go against tradition?! You’re ruining our can kicking heritage!

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            Hard agree, it’s vexing getting shamed for voting of all things when these people have actual power.