• MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    Prove to me that he’s not already a king. He suffers zero consequences and solely controls every aspect of the federal government. He is what a 6 year old thinks the president is.

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      8 days ago

      The U.S. Supreme Court somehow handed down a major ruling that stops him from deploying National Guard to American cities… and he’s abiding by it. Is that what a king would do?

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        8 days ago

        The same Supreme Court that gave him license to do whatever he wants without any legal repercussions as long as he calls it presidential affairs?

        That’s a king. He’s a king.

        As an aside by doing this the Supreme Court effectively retroactively exonerated Nixon. The US is a joke.

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          8 days ago

          You’re conveniently glossing over the fact that kings don’t adhere to any court rulings.

          You know what this is? You just want to feel justified in your nihilism. If he already has absolute control as a king, then nothing can be done and we all might as well give up, right?

          Wrong. The regime hasn’t fully concentrated power, they aren’t invulnerable, and anyone who pretends otherwise is fucking complicit.

          • RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca
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            7 days ago

            The floor is yours, you can nitpick semantics and discuss esoteric constitutional law, and in the end we will end up at the fact that it protects the President far far outside anything reasonable. It was a sycophantic ruling that was put in place by a corrupt court.