This is the very essence of the difference that should exist between a President and a King. From Federalist 69:

The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the king of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable; there is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable; no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution. In this delicate and important circumstance of personal responsibility, the President of Confederated America would stand upon no better ground than a governor of New York, and upon worse ground than the governors of Maryland and Delaware.

The failure of the Republican party to support this kind of check on Presidential power is why we’re having this crisis now.

  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    You know he’s not president anymore, right? And that party lost the election?

    Now we’ve got a guy who’s excited for ethnic cleansing so he can open a casino in Gaza.

    Congratulations.

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      4 hours ago

      Now we’ve got a guy who’s excited for ethnic cleansing

      Damn. You’re right. The real virtue with Joe Biden was his lack of enthusiasm.

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        Unironically, yes. We were forced to choose between:

        A) a historic ally of ours is doing something bad… We will speak out against them. We will not yet cut off supplies because we need the world to see that an American alliance can be relied upon. But we will speak out against these actions.

        B) KILL EM! PUT BULLETS IN THE BABIES! KILL EM ALL! BOMBS BOMBS BOMBS BOMBS BOMBS YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHH BABY!!! FULL STEAM AHEAD! WE LOVE YOU MR NETANYAHU!

        Clearly these two things are the same.

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          a historic ally of ours is doing something bad… We will speak out against them.

          Was that what the police were doing on Columbia and UCLA?

          You’re being boxed in. Elon bought the liberals under Obama/Biden. He’s buying out the conservatives under Trump.

          Clearly these two things are the same.

          Nothing would fundamentally change

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      You know he’s not president anymore, right? And that party lost the election?

      Maybe, just maybe, it is because something is wrong in-of-itself and not because it is a wedge issue used to demotivate voters?