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Gorgon Zola
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All started?
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I'm the Bryan.
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Gorgon Zola
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All started?
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Gorgon Zola
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Was he president?
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Gorgon Zola
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Drone strike their servers too... You have go to all in, or nothing
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Gorgon Zola
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It sounds nice... but unless he's also willing to cancel the election and shoot protesters with the military... it won't last. Biden isn't going to rule like a crazed autocratic even to prevent one
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Gorgon Zola
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A new constitution
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Gorgon Zola
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Resign the presidency and give Kamala 6 months of the presidency to set her own candidacy?
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Gorgon Zola
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I mean... with the separation of powers issue, I would think Roberts would still say they can impeach him for whatever they want. I'm just confused as to why he thinks the judicial separation of powers means courts can't even look at this stuff.
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Gorgon Zola
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Biden's not a wartime consigliere. He's who we got, but that strategy is off the table.
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Gorgon Zola
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Now couple this with the pardon power... you can add the pardon to the soldier and even sign a preemptive pardon that can't be questioned because it's a core power!!!!
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Gorgon Zola
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Ordering the military is a core power... even if it wasn't... it's an official act... even if it wasn't it's presumed immunity and you can't actually bring any of the illegal orders into evidence. Even though he broke the law, he's immune because there's no evidence
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Gorgon Zola
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So... I can order a soldier to shoot a senator. If he refuses, I can tell him that I'll replace him and add him to the list. Eventually, he either finds someone that will shoot everyone, or the scheme fails. Either way.... no prosecution.
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Gorgon Zola
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This SCOTUS ruling was giving the president immunity from the courts, and presumed immunity for any claimed actions, and even immunity from evidence Courts can't stop them if they're immune from courts. It's like D&D and acid resistance
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Gorgon Zola
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You mean, become fascists in order to prevent fascism? I hope that's.... further down the next steps list?
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Popehat
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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Gorgon Zola
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Worse than that. They called your bluff before you thought to make it. ;)
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Pwnallthethings
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It's what the founding era leaders* would have wanted King George
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Gorgon Zola
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www.politico.com/news/2024/05....
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Gorgon Zola
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It's the same shock.... Catch up, Doug.
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Gorgon Zola
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You're thinking about the old rules. The new rules are power is everything. Do you think Trump will whine about a filibuster? Mail letters? The game changed and democrats won't see it until the possession changes again
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Gorgon Zola
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In a strange twist of fate... The Chevron defense was actually for Reagan's vehicle for deregulating. For some reason... conservatives loved chevron until 2009ish.
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Gorgon Zola
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The game theory really sucks in an election year.
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Gorgon Zola
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They're rubbing our noses in it, too.
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Gorgon Zola
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I don't even have smarminess. I'm... hollow. This will end badly, and on a very long time scale. At best.
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Popehat
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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration at all to say the decision threatens the Republic. I might not have said so in 2015, before I saw how triumphantly lawless and autocratic the President could be, and how so many people would applaud it or at least shrug.
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Gorgon Zola
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Gorgon Zola
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Except that he won't wield executive power like that.
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Gorgon Zola
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Gorgon Zola
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The thing I hate about this is... SCOTUS effectively called his bluff and we're all joking about, "wouldn't it be funny if we were better at game theory"
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Gorgon Zola
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The problem with that argument is... SCOTUS already called his bluff. There is no more joking about daring Biden to do it... They did it.
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Gorgon Zola
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That's definitely not a current concern! For either candidate, and therefore the nation at large for at least the next 5 years at minimum
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Gorgon Zola
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I just... cannot believe this is a man who advocated minimalism. What the fuck happened in the last 16 months?
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Gorgon Zola
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Brett Kavanaugh's "rule for the ages" with regards to presidential immunity is about to find out that the ages are about 20 years long.
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Gorgon Zola
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But soldiers can be given illegal orders. Presidents can't give illegal orders. That's where we're heading.
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Gorgon Zola
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Presidents don't actually DO the work, themselves. They tell other people to do the work. The work getting done is an extension of their will, however, as the court sees it. While they left the opening there... This court will never allow Bill Barr to be prosecuted for carrying out orders
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Gorgon Zola
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I mean... the ruling very explicitly did not rule on the transfer of the orders... If I tell my Treasury Sec to eliminate all student loan debt in defiance of Supreme Court orders, it's not clear at all that my immunity wouldn't transfer. The court implies it does.
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Gorgon Zola
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Bad use of conservative Judicial conservatism is based on the idea of minimalism. This opinion is ANYTHING but minimalist. This is a radical opinion. It's time to leave conservative off the adjective-list, as now it's ambiguous. This is a radical ruling in favor of politic conservatives
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Gorgon Zola
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It also dulls idiosyncrasies. Gorsuch is uncommonly liberal with Native American treaties. Roberts used to be judicially conservative. When it's 6-3, the idiosyncrasies disappear and only appear as 5-4 dissents instead of 5-4 victories for the status quo. Now, Gorsuch has to bring a friend
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Gorgon Zola
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Ignoring Supreme Court decisions does.
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Gorgon Zola
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I didn't say to forget what they are.
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Gorgon Zola
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I mean... I didn't say Disney was good or an ally or anything other than motivated by profit. But Disney IS motivated by profit.... and Republicans ARE attacking Disney's profit. Being mad that your "really strong" temporary ally isn't your ally for the right reasons is silly. Use them.
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Gorgon Zola
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and?
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Gorgon Zola
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How is ignoring the Supreme Court not an official act?
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Gorgon Zola
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So you couldn't bring the bribe into evidence... you literally couldn't prosecute it
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Gorgon Zola
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The pardon is an official act?
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Gorgon Zola
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So... $1,000,000 bribe per pardon is now completely legal?
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Gorgon Zola
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You've echoed most all of my thoughts. My worry is Biden's handlers were so caught off guard. That tells me that they haven't been interacting with him much at 9-10pm. My worry is that this was a time of day issue. If he's sundowning and that's why his team was caught off guard. Can hedo itnow?
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Gorgon Zola
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I think the "shut up and do what the centrists want" is mostly just lecturing, and the 'we have no power' is the standard viewpoint of everyone left of Dick Cheney.
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Gorgon Zola
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I liked the format? Let's be real... the problem was the candidate, not the format. Kamala would have ate his lunch in that format. Trump only agreed to that format because he was desperate to get on a stage with Biden. The problem was the candidate.
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Gorgon Zola
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In an alternate 1968 where a single action didn't take place, RFK won in a nail-biter.
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Gorgon Zola
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Is your expectation for them to hold the party line, no matter what? Even if they believe something different?
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