Buy guns, buy bolt cutters, buy an angle grinder.
Gas masks too. Look to the Hong Kong umbrella protestors for inspiration on how to prepare and what to expect from a fascist crack down.
The sad part is that if it gets that far, the cops are just going to start shooting. Expect agent provacateurs out the gate.
No doubt, but watching Americans get gunned down by police at a protest isn’t going to make people less radical, it radicalizes more people. Especially if it’s happening under someone as despised as Trump. It’s not like he has a bunch of good will with the majority of Americans, at most he’s depending on their apathy.
Here’s your bumper sticker…
No Kings, Vote Biden
Well to be fair, it’d be King Biden.
Just a far less scary king who might even work to unking himself.
Or something idk.
This shits scary.
Exactly this. It’s critically important that we prevent trump and his fascist goons from getting control of this power. But that in itself doesn’t address the really big problem here. Living at the whim of a benevolent king is still living under a king. I honestly think this is it. The constitutional republic is over in every meaningful way beyond window dressing. Given the authority of the Supreme Court, I don’t see a legal fix for this. This is dark AF.
This ruling basically covered how ex-Presidents might be prosecuted. The President still has some level of accountability to Congress via impeachment , although we’ve already seen how hard that is.
Of course, when Trump’s second impeachment didn’t stick, one of the main reasons Republicans gave for voting against it was that they felt the proper venue for that was in the courts. Now that it is in court, the Supreme Court just said “Sike! Congress needed to act all along”.
Edited to add: Another legal fix would be simply packing the court. Democrats should pound this during this election. They should make sure voters know that if Democrats are given the White House and both houses of Congress, they will fix the court by adding 4 new seats.
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People are getting this all wrong.
They haven’t crowned the POTUS as king. They were very clear that non-official acts are not covered. They’ve crowned themselves, the ones who get to determine what is and what is not an “official act” the kings.
And they’re going to quickly find out how much that illusion of power is worth when they try to contain or cross whatever right-wing fascist they help empower.
These idiots think their power structure isn’t going to be gutted like some kind of Mortal Combat move as soon as it is convenient for the king of the US to do so. They have no enforcement of their own, the other branches barely have to listen to them as it is, and by the time whatever CIA maga thug clubs them to death in their bed it’s going to be too late for them to render a judgement on whether it’s an official act. They’ll be dead and replaced with someone who values their life more.
I hope Biden will take this opportunity as the new king and show Republicans that this is a two-way street.
Biden hasn’t even parsed the news yet most likely, let alone magically grown a spine.
