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If the Court decides that the President has unbound authority then why shouldn't Joe Biden shoot Donald Trump with a gun? It's not illegal when the President does it!
Biden could also argue that trump was a threat to America and its democracy.
He wouldn't be wrong.
Or maybe Biden could just have Seal Team 6 take out several Supreme Court Justices?
Came here to say this. I wonder how Trollito would answer that very direct question?
For extra impact, have Seal Team 6 second the president's lawyers/entourage whatever it's called and deliver the question. In full gear.
Even if it's not illegal, and even if Joe Biden was okay with it ethically, politically he'd be turning Trump into a martyr and giving the right a lot of propaganda with which to incite civil war.
My guess, based on messaging to their base, they've already planned for this.
Stop saying this. They'd forget about him in 6 months
If he loses the election, sure. If he ends up in prison, sure. If Biden kills him?
Nah, they'll forget about him when Fox News and the rest of the oligarchs decide using him as a martyr is no longer useful for stirring up civil unrest and solidifying their own power.
I mean, if the Supreme Court ruled in Trump’s favor, Biden could have assassinated (or heavily implied he was considering assassinating) those oligarchs too. Just assign a seal team to follow Rupert Murdoch around. If Trump has already been assassinated, Murdoch will get the message real quick.
Unfortunately Murdoch isn't alone in pushing it, not by far
You don't understand the depth of need to worship something. Neither do I but I'm starting to understand.
What signaling, and who is “they,” and what is “this?”
They is the GOP. This is the context of the comment I was replying too, "What's to stop Biden from shooting Trump?"
The signaling/messaging is the inciting of a civil war, calling Trump's indictments a witch hunt, the doubt the SC is casting on Trump's crimes, the 2020 election being 'stolen' etc. etc. etc.
Trump isn't the end game. He's the pawn of men who have been plotting this for decades. And the SC are just more pieces in the game.
The money behind the strategy isn't attached to Trump. If Biden has him killed, they already have a contingency in place. Or they wouldn't risk letting the SC open the door in the first place.
The last thing we need is people in power having their running mates murdered.
Tell that to conservatives. They insist upon it.
Just wait until the penny finally drops for him. Or was it a Pence?
At that point Biden should sent every Republican to Gitmo. Appoint new SCOTUS judges that go and make that previous ruling null. Then he can't be charged because it wasn't a crime when he did it. Maybe that'll humble Republicans...hah yeah probably not.
The main issue isn't necessarily the ethics of this.
It's that the Republicans and the Democrats have different bases.
Biden doing this would likely alienate moderate democrats, with many in the house/senate voting to support any impeachment inquiry. The same is not true for any Republican today.
Their base has literally been "At least it's not a democrat."
Idk the use of authoritarian power to suppress your enemies seems to get republicans off.
I imagine it would be like when a local sports team is suddenly good and they pretend they were fans all along. They're in this for the spectacle, they just want to bray as loud as the people trying to talk.
Biden's base is "at least he's not Trump" so I'm not sure.