I had to smh watching Bill Barr on CNN, looking like a fat wounded tarsier, lamely explain why he's now endorsing Trump. Apparently Barr is claiming that the Biden admin is forcing people to buy electric cars and stoves and that strikes Bill as a blow against democracy.
I don't understand Barr's gameâhe's not going to get back into Trump's good graces, so most Republicans ignore him. Barr's not dumb so he can't really believe Trump would be a better president. Perhaps he thinks Trump will bring back power to people Barr likes.
If so, that tracks with the stupid loyalty to Trump. I get that many Americans feel ignored or exploited by corporate powers, political parties and demographic trends. I don't understand why those Americans think Trump can or will do anything to address those concerns. Trump is good at one thingâscams. The only person who comes out ahead after dealing with Trump is Trump.
But sure. Let's have another disaster like Covid, where millions died or lost their jobs. Let's let Russia take over Ukraine even though Russia will eventually take over the Baltics or Poland. Let's pretend our planet isn't on fire. Let's turn women into child-bearing chattel. At least we'll have a mascara-wearing blowhard whom the world despises and we can just dial the US back to the 50s. F$ck the future. F#ck democracy.
I think he assumed the left would provide him a lifestyle when he started telling the truth, only to find out they know he's a whore and wouldn't forgive him.
So he ran back to FOX... who will use anyone they can to sell Trump.
I had to smh watching Bill Barr on CNN, looking like a fat wounded tarsier, lamely explain why he's now endorsing Trump. Apparently Barr is claiming that the Biden admin is forcing people to buy electric cars and stoves and that strikes Bill as a blow against democracy.
I don't understand Barr's gameâhe's not going to get back into Trump's good graces, so most Republicans ignore him. Barr's not dumb so he can't really believe Trump would be a better president. Perhaps he thinks Trump will bring back power to people Barr likes.
If so, that tracks with the stupid loyalty to Trump. I get that many Americans feel ignored or exploited by corporate powers, political parties and demographic trends. I don't understand why those Americans think Trump can or will do anything to address those concerns. Trump is good at one thingâscams. The only person who comes out ahead after dealing with Trump is Trump.
But sure. Let's have another disaster like Covid, where millions died or lost their jobs. Let's let Russia take over Ukraine even though Russia will eventually take over the Baltics or Poland. Let's pretend our planet isn't on fire. Let's turn women into child-bearing chattel. At least we'll have a mascara-wearing blowhard whom the world despises and we can just dial the US back to the 50s. F$ck the future. F#ck democracy.
âRepublicans courting the idea that presidents have absolute immunity, while making arguments in the SCOTUS that assassinations and coups would fall firmly in that purview while there is a sitting Dem president is a tacit admission they trust Dems to act responsibly. More poignantly that they believe Biden isn't the demagogue they claim. It's also a tacit admission of their corrupt intent. The fact that some of you cheer this on is absolutely shameful. You are no patriot. This is democracy ending and would give a president the very real power to be a dictator. It's a mirror of what happened before the night of the long knives in which Hitler murdered his political opponents and assumed the role of supreme leader. And for what? A husk of a dimwit of a man. An incontinent narcissist who cares nothing for you and only wants to prevent himself from going to jail for his very real crimes. I'm done beating around the bush with some of you. Continued support of Trump, and the broader support of the Republican party IS A CHARACTER FLAW. You can vie for conservative ideas, but supporting an institution that would use you to end democracy is deplorable. Don't tell me you're a patriot while supporting Trump. The two are mutually exclusive. If that hurts your feelings find the unfriend button, you won't be missed.â
Now, now. He's only asking to be supreme dictator for the length of his term and to be able to take actions that insure his chosen pick gets the job next. Right?
âRepublicans courting the idea that presidents have absolute immunity, while making arguments in the SCOTUS that assassinations and coups would fall firmly in that purview while there is a sitting Dem president is a tacit admission they trust Dems to act responsibly. More poignantly that they believe Biden isn't the demagogue they claim. It's also a tacit admission of their corrupt intent. The fact that some of you cheer this on is absolutely shameful. You are no patriot. This is democracy ending and would give a president the very real power to be a dictator. It's a mirror of what happened before the night of the long knives in which Hitler murdered his political opponents and assumed the role of supreme leader. And for what? A husk of a dimwit of a man. An incontinent narcissist who cares nothing for you and only wants to prevent himself from going to jail for his very real crimes. I'm done beating around the bush with some of you. Continued support of Trump, and the broader support of the Republican party IS A CHARACTER FLAW. You can vie for conservative ideas, but supporting an institution that would use you to end democracy is deplorable. Don't tell me you're a patriot while supporting Trump. The two are mutually exclusive. If that hurts your feelings find the unfriend button, you won't be missed.â
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Shared from a friend on Facebook. Pretty spot on.
âRepublicans courting the idea that presidents have absolute immunity, while making arguments in the SCOTUS that assassinations and coups would fall firmly in that purview while there is a sitting Dem president is a tacit admission they trust Dems to act responsibly. More poignantly that they believe Biden isn't the demagogue they claim. It's also a tacit admission of their corrupt intent. The fact that some of you cheer this on is absolutely shameful. You are no patriot. This is democracy ending and would give a president the very real power to be a dictator. It's a mirror of what happened before the night of the long knives in which Hitler murdered his political opponents and assumed the role of supreme leader. And for what? A husk of a dimwit of a man. An incontinent narcissist who cares nothing for you and only wants to prevent himself from going to jail for his very real crimes. I'm done beating around the bush with some of you. Continued support of Trump, and the broader support of the Republican party IS A CHARACTER FLAW. You can vie for conservative ideas, but supporting an institution that would use you to end democracy is deplorable. Don't tell me you're a patriot while supporting Trump. The two are mutually exclusive. If that hurts your feelings find the unfriend button, you won't be missed.â
I want them to worry over their decisions and to give grave consideration to the law over every action no matter how small.
Look, Folks, we shouldn't be in court arguing for our elected leaders to be given unlimited power...
...instead we must demand they be held to highest standards of public accountability at all times.
You want a better nation, be a better citizen.
~Jim Wright
Great excerpt. You wonder whether it's ever occurred to the right-wing six on SCOTUS that in hundreds of years of American history, we've never had a prosecution of a president or presidential acts after the president left office. And yet somehow we must be wery, wery careful to protect against that hypothetical.
Trump's lawyers are before the Supreme Court today arguing Trump should be given 'absolute immunity' from the law.
Even for crimes he committed when he wasn't president.
And the Supreme Court is entertaining this idea.
We're actually entertaining this bullshit.
There isn't any immunity for Presidents.
There isn't any immunity from the law for any elected office — including that of Supreme Court Justice, so long as we're on the subject.
There's no immunity from the law for any citizen, not in the Constitution, not in law, not in tradition, not in any legal precedent.
There's no immunity. None. There never was.
Presidential Immunity is not a thing that has ever existed outside of Trump's fevered brain.
Unless...
Unless the Supreme Court creates it specifically for Donald Trump today.
And when I say Supreme Court, I'm using the term in the same many that I would "fucking clown show" because Alito is literally wondering out loud on the record if presidents can PARDON THEMSELVES FOR CRIMES THEY COMMIT WHILE IN OFFICE.
And it's entirely possible this Supreme Court made up in the majority of unqualified grifters might actually create immunity just for Donald Trump.
Clown show might be overly generous.
Here's the question I want asked: What illegal acts would a president need to routinely commit in order to execute the duties of the office?
What does the president need immunity FROM?
What? Be specific. Give examples. Show your work.
But no one can beyond "The president should be able to order the SEALs to murder his political opponents, theoretically, you know, for national security or something, probably."
That's not hyperbole. That's LITERALLY the argument that keeps coming up and we keep entertaining it like that's actually a thing we would want a president to be able to do. Right? And in fact, that's exactly what Trump's lawyer DID argue, that the president should be immune from the law if he orders the assassination of his political rivals.
That is LITERALLY the argument.
And the Court is entertaining it.
But you never hear these people giving an example of anything else. Just murder your opponents. That's it.
Without immunity, argues Trump, presidents must worry over every decision, wondering if they'll be hauled before the nation to justify their actions under the law.
Well, GOOD!
GREAT idea, let's do THAT.
If you're going to murder your political opponents, I'd like you to maybe have to think about that for a bit, yeah?
What? No? Okay, guess not.
When Lyndon Johnson lied us into Vietnam over the Gulf of Tonkin, when George W. Bush did the same with WMDs in Iraq, THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
They never were and never will be. I guess that's immunity.
And it shouldn't be that way.
I want my elected leaders sweating it every day.
I want them cautious, deliberate, and accountable. I want them to demand the intelligence and the assumptions and the plan to be checked and rechecked and checked again to the most rigorous of standards.
I want them to worry over their decisions and to give grave consideration to the law over every action no matter how small.
Look, Folks, we shouldn't be in court arguing for our elected leaders to be given unlimited power...
...instead we must demand they be held to highest standards of public accountability at all times.
You want a better nation, be a better citizen.
Trump claims "thousands of [his supporters] were turned away from the courthouse" He claims the courthouse is an "armed camp." Witnesses on scene say otherwise. So do the pictures and the livestream. Far from an armed camp, the place appears to be just another day in Lower Manhattan. But let's say it was. Let's say it WAS an armed camp with militarized cops armed with heavy weapons, SWAT teams, the National Guard, attack dogs, barbed wire, riot control vehicles, tanks, armed drones, military helicopters, reinforced fighting positions, walls, fences, barricades... Let's say it was an armed camp. Isn't THAT exactly what Trump promised America? Isn't that exactly what MAGAs wanted, what they demanded, how they want to live? Surrounded by walls. Guns. Guards. Dogs. Minefields. Drones. Barbed wired The army. You know, to keep them safe, to keep the criminals away from decent Americans? That's what they wanted, wasn't it? Yes, it was. Funny, though, how it turned out TRUMP was the criminal all along, how HE was the rapist, the thief, the thug, the liar, the enemy come to destroy America. Funny indeed. LOL. It seems the Evangelicals' god is an iron.
Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes sent a letter to allies on Capitol Hill to press them to investigate potential manipulation of his companyâs stock.
Nunes asked Republican lawmakers to probe âanomalous tradingâ of the stock, which trades under the ticker DJT on the Nasdaq.
The stock price has lost more than half of its value since its trading debut, but the volatile stock shot up more than 9% on Wednesday.
The company, which created the Truth Social app, is majority-owned by former President Donald Trump.
I can't wait for the day when The GOP complains that Democrats are looking at who is pumping up the stock in the days leading to Trump getting more shares, and for them to start crying that the government is weaponized, overstepping, and involving themselves in issues they don't belong in.