• JimSamtanko@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    It’s provenly NOT absolute immunity. Stop with the extremism. It’s dangerous. Yes, but he cannot make goon squads to go murderizing people at will.

    Stop with the sensationalism. It only dilutes the water.

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      5 months ago

      Okay, Berkley won’t do it for you, how about Harvard Law?

      This term was the most significant in memory because, in Trump v. United States, [the Court] hard-wired the imperial presidency by granting what in practice is close to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution to presidents who wield their power corruptly and self-servingly;

      Or how about I quote the decision itself?

      Held: Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts. Pp. 5–43.

      It’s not impossible for him to be prosecuted, but the legal barrier is sky high and in most cases not practical. Acknowledge it.

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        5 months ago

        He cannot murder people or have them murdered and not face consequences.

        I’m not discussing this with you any further. Your feelings are entirely irrelevant.

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          5 months ago

          Your interlocutor brought sources. You brought gaslighting and personal attacks and frankly lies.

          The pro-genocide wing of the Democratic Party is intellectually bankrupt in addition to being morally bankrupt.

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              4 months ago

              Centrism distilled. The only things you have to back up the excuses you call arguments are ridicule, baseless accusations, gaslighting and abuse. Like I said, intellectually bankrupt.

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                4 months ago

                Your hypocrisy is impressive. What’s more impressive is your inability to even notice it. It reminds me a lot of MAGA. You seem to share a lot of similarities.

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                    4 months ago

                    No… just people like you. But I get how you think you are everything. Both you and MAGA forget that there are other people that exist in the world.

                    Because… The world was created for you and you alone.

                    And, go ahead and note how I have never once in my entire comment history accused ALL of anyone of anything. It’s because:

                    I don’t make blanket statements- like you do.

                    I don’t make assumptions of an entire political ideology- like you do.

                    I don’t falsely accuse entire political ideologies of shit they’re not doing- like you do. (Don’t deny this- your comment history serves as proof for anyone to see)

                    I don’t victimize myself by rewording the systems of others- like you do.

                    Your comment history is rife with constant accusations of shit that is easily proven wrong- while what I say about you and those like YOU, and JUST YOU and those like YOU, no one else. No other group- not leftists, not everyone I disagree with, no one but YOU and the few like YOU here to disrupt-

                    … is seemingly shared by many people here. So as the saying goes, if you smell shit, and everyone else in the room isn’t shit….