"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."

“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.”

  • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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.🤦

      • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        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.

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          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.

          • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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            9 months ago

            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

            • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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              9 months ago

              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…

      • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
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        9 months ago

        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

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      That would probably collapse the US

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

      • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        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.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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          9 months ago

          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.

    • Shaggy1050@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Not sure why you’re being downvoted. I feel like her and Bill Maher are the left’s version of Tucker Carlson. Sure they’re not AS egregious as Tucker and the Fox wackos but they come off so pompous and smug.

      My dad and I loved the original Daily Show with Jon Stewart and when Jon left (I’m so happy he’s back now), I tried some other shows and my dad suggested Maddow. I felt like I was watching Fox News at points. I couldn’t make it through an episode.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Not sure why you’re being downvoted.

        Just liberals who think they are leftists. They don’t actually know where they stand. The are Democrats before and always before they have any political principals. I’m not a Democrat or a liberal, so the downvotes just come with the territory. I caucus with Democrats. I’ve put in thousands of hours to get Democrats elected to state and local offices. But I am not a Democrat, and I would never run as one.

        And to be fair, its a fairly low effort comment that might be worthy of downvoting regardless of its sentiment. But Rachel Maddow truly is a clown, and her audience (if they’ve stuck with her) are clowns along with her. She jerked off Democrats for literally years in some kind of perennial Trump ‘gotcha’ moment that never manifested. I’m not going to kink-shame edging like this, but at a certain point, either put up or shut up Rachel.

        My central thesis right now is that white liberalism is the biggest political problem in the US right now. Yes, we have transitioned from burgeoning fascism to running fascism, but this would not be possible with out white liberalism (the political philosophy that underpins Maddow, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the Clintons, the Obama presidency etc…). They are opponents of progress and because of this gave space to the legitimate criticism that Democrats are detached from the material conditions people live with, that they are elitist and don’t care about their voters, and that they just want to shame you into voting they way they want you do. This offered a cavernous void that the modern fascist movement has been able to fill.

        Half-a-loaf policies that have been the hallmark of Democratic leadership, where you either get 1/4 loaf and sometime negative loaf polices, while people quality of life and ability to do well in this society collapse, this approach to politics is why when people hear a fascist critique of the extant state, it lands with them. Because they aren’t doing better. In failing to govern effectively, in failing to go after full throated universal policies, the political philosophy of white liberalism opened the doors and set the table for fascism to have a seat. They aren’t resisting the problem, the are the problem. We wouldn’t be desperately trying to resist a fascist turn in this country if not for the previous 4 decades of white liberalism being the dominant political philosophy of the Democratic party.

  • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Why are people not ready to riot over this? People should be in the streets and setting cars on fire.

    The highest court in the land just made a move so corrupt and blatant that there is no defense of it. They’re helping a criminal insurrectionist ex-president escape charges. Are you kidding me?! This is a complete delegitimization of an entire branch of governments highest office with life appointments.

    Not only did they not need to take the case but they set it up to delay his trials as long as possible. Meaning that now, his trials WILL LIKELY NOT HAPPEN BEFORE THE ELECTION.

    At best we might get a verdict on one or two before the election but sentencing will not take place and that is IF there are no other delays. Those are slim chances.

    So yes America will be heading to the polls this November with Trump facing potentially zero responsibility for his actions, maybe found guilty before January, whereupon he could be sworn in and cancel his own trials or could pardon himself.

    This court has just shown they would allow him to do that. Why else take this case if not a blatant desire to unfairly install Trump as president? There’s no reason. What I’m telling you is that he won’t face justice if he wins the election. And this just increased his chances of winning dramatically.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’m old enough to remember Dianne Feinstein waving Kavanaugh through his Senate confirmation hearing, just four years after McConnell had brick-walled Garland.

    Its crazy how bad Senate Democrats are on judiciary appointments. They bring boxing gloves to a gun fight every damned time.