Trump Declares Himself Emperor While Biden Demands Limits To His Own Power
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After days of anticipation, President Joe Biden slapped Chief Justice John Roberts and his fellow Christian Nationalist Justices across the face this morning:
President Joe Biden on Monday unveiled a three-pronged proposal to reform the Supreme Court, a policy area that he said will be a focus of his remaining months in office.
Biden is calling for term limits on Supreme Court justices, a binding ethics code and a constitutional amendment declaring that presidents do not have immunity from criminal prosecution for any crimes committed while in office.
That proposed amendment, titled the “No One Is Above the Law Amendment,” responds to the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling earlier in July that declared former President Donald Trump immune from criminal prosecution for “official acts” he committed as president.
Watching Republicans howl bloody murder over this is going to be hilarious.
Republican: How DARE Biden call for *checks notes* a binding ethics code!?
Reporter: Why are ethics a problem?
Republican: Shut the fuck up, libtard!
Republican: Term limits?! This is a power grab by Democrats!!!
Reporter: Sir, 18 years is almost two full decades and doesn’t line up with presidential elections.
Republican: Didn’t I tell you to shut the fuck up, libtard?!
Republican: Presidents need total immunity from the law for criminal acts uhhhhhh…”offical acts” they commit!!! This is outrageous! Another cynical power grab by the Dumbocrat fascists!
Reporter: Sir, wouldn’t Biden be reducing his own power by eliminating presidential immunity?
Republican: Security! Get this son of a bitch out of here!!!!
Of course, all of the above conversation is ridiculous. No reporter would ever question a Republican like that. But Republicans are most certainly going to be screaming about Biden’s “attack” on the Supreme Court. I’ll bet you a shiny nickel they do, in fact, start calling it a power grab at some point.
And they’re not entirely wrong. The Republican extremists on the Court have declared themselves the unquestioned rulers of America. At least until a Republican dictator is installed and they become a rubber stamp for his agenda. Placing the Court under a binding ethics code and placing term limits on them is just the bare minimum needed to make them accountable because their corruption is so open and out of control, it’s become intolerable.
The Supreme Court either has to be reined in or democracy ends. The two are currently incompatible. Biden, a staunch institutionalist, understands this which is why he’s pushing for reforms that go against every instinct he has. But when cancer is killing the body, extreme measures (from Biden’s view, at least) have to be taken.
Meanwhile, In MAGAland…
Trump was busy this weekend reminding everyone, yet again, that he is an unstable old man with dementia. But while the press was overlooking Trump’s advanced age, a problem they assured us was a critical factor for a presidential candidate just one week but now no longer seem to want to talk about, they also somehow managed to not notice Trump literally announcing that 2024 would be the last election America would ever have:
“We’ll have fixed it so good you’re not gonna have to vote.” Did he mean we’ll have fixed the country so we won’t have to vote because everyone will be so happy? That’s what lying MAGAts will tell you. But they know what he meant. We ALL know what he meant.
I honestly do not know if Trump is so desperate he’s dropping the pretense or if the dementia and syphilis eating his brain are making him say the quiet part out loud. Either way, we all know exactly what Trump is talking about.
Donald Trump and his Republican Party of fascists have no intention of allowing democracy to survive.
We knew that long before Trump lost in 2020. We knew it long before Trump and dozens of elected Republicans orchestrated the attack on the Capitol. We knew it long before they spent the last four years preparing to steal the 2024 election. We know this because they keep telling us exactly what they’re going to do, knowing full well the press will pretend nothing is happening.
But we are not the press1 and we are not part of the lie that “both sides are the same” or that Republicans are not the party of treasonous gutter trash. It’s our proud obligation to point the finger at fascists and call them what they are. It used to be the proud obligation of the press but they’re too busy chasing ratings. We’re too busy fighting for the very existence of freedom and liberty in this country. Perhaps the New York Times has heard of these things before? No? Well, too bad. We’re going to keep democracy alive and thriving here anyway by stomping Trump into the dirt.
Republicans will have to vote again in 2028. And 2032 and every election after that because democracy is here to stay. Fascism can fuck off. Don’t like it? Move to Russia. They’ll welcome you with open arms and open windows. Good luck, buddy. Watch out for the first step. It’s a doozy.
There are 98 days until the 2024 election. Vote blue like your life depends on it because Trump is literally telling you it does.
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OK, I am. Sort of.
The GOP crybabies are having a public meltdown because Biden is still presidenting to his fullest extent and people are getting behind Kamala. I refuse to call the waaambulance unless they also hold their breath and turn Blue.
SCROTUS is out of control. It needs more than what JRB proposes but it’s a good start. Can you imagine the uproar from MAGATS if he came close to what he could do with “presidential immunity” when in essence MAGATS have no problem with shitzinpants trying to get away with FELONIES with that same “immunity “ claim. No hypocrisy there.