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Here's a question: Why would any president ever be impeached now? If presidents are absolutely immune from prosecution for "high crimes," then what's the theory of a future impeachment? "The President is allowed to do this, but we don't like it"?
Like, remember when Mitch McConnell argued that they *didn't* have to convict Trump in the Senate because he remains legally accountable for all he did as President?
That, turns out, was a lie.
The senate can still remove an impeached president, in a hypothetical world where sufficient GOP senators valuing country over party may be found.
@GottaLaff Theoretically, the accountability is in the vote.
it's time to start winning fence-riders (and there are enough of them) over.
@erikriffle the general public ihas proven swayable by a solid sales pitch. It's how capitalism operates.
Do you know what rocketed Amazon to the top of the retail heap? Buyer reviews. Trillions of them. We don't have to drive this kind of success unwittingly, we can be deliberate about the outcomes of that invested effort.
Be a doggedly persistent one in a trillion. It'll add up.
@GottaLaff I guess that's before I had any real insights in American goings-on.
Reagan was horrific, though. I never understood any praise for that guy afterwards.
Attached: 1 image @[email protected] Between the ideologues, the kompromat, and the grift, it was a good plan, well-executed since 1968. If you zoom out the lens far enough. Kennedy brothers were the Gracchi of the #American Republic. #history @[email protected]
Right here.....
The Heritage Foundation was founded on February 16, 1973, during the Nixon administration by Paul Weyrich, Edwin Feulner, and Joseph Coors
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Bradley died in 1965. He was a loud & proud Bircher. He founded the Bradley Foundation with the stated mission of overturning the Voting Rights Act.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
For 50 years that trust fund worked to end democracy in America.
In 2010, they bought John Roberts & won.
They funded Jan 6.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/devos-bradley-claremont-trump-election-fraud-insurrection-1274253/
Barre Seid's $1.6 billion ended Roe vs Wade.
Charles Koch has left $5 billion to finish the job.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/trump-rightwing-groups-funds
Absolutely. It is a philosophy that goes back to pre-civil-war Southern supremacy.
I recommend reading "Democracy in Chains" to get a glimpse of the systematic effort to establish property supremacy with a cast system not unlike recent past of society in India. Not just working class and owner class with some social mobility but establishing working slave cast and the ruling cast.
It is a grim political view.
@GottaLaff
Either that, or what the #SCOTUS majority is telling us is a lie.
And that is my current opinion: SCOTUS now lies. It lies about the Constitution and it lies to the American people and the world.
Never in all my years did I think I would ever feel that way about an institution that I, along with so many others, once revered and trusted to keep us on the right and true path of the Constitution.
They do both. Prolifically.
Bush v.Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000)
Serious question:
If at some future date the House & Senate succeed in impeaching and removing both Thomas and Alito, can the SCOTUS decisions they concurred with be declared invalid because of their (or any other Justice's) corrupt and/or criminal involvement?
Seriously.
#SCOTUS majority seems to think that power in and of itself confers absolute immunity from any crimes committed utilizing that power.
Ie, no such thing anymore as abuse of power.
It's the Leona Helmsley rule: laws are only for the little people.
@GottaLaff Well everything in the US is a lie so there is that...
However it amazes me they just voted for their own deaths and they don't even know it/care🤔
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