Summary
Trump declared Biden’s pardons “VOID” in a late-night Truth Social post, claiming they were signed by autopen without Biden’s knowledge—despite Trump having used autopen during his first term.
Trump warned pardoned individuals, including January 6th committee members (who weren’t charged with crimes), that they’re “subject to investigation at the highest level.”
Critics characterized his statements as “dictator shit” and questioned their legality, with one commenting this represents “the 17th constitutional crisis of just this weekend alone.”
Slam it all you want, it means nothing until someone actually does something.
“SLAMMED!”, I pronounce into the face of the arresting ICE agent.
“S-S-S-SLAMMED!”, I cry out as the DHS official drags me down a hallway towards my El Salvadorian prison cell.
“Seee-Lamb-da!”, I exclaim as the door to my cell clangs shut.
Alright boys, slam 'em
I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. There are very good articles in it: and very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them.What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.
Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted.
-Thomas Jefferson
It’s powerfully written and just a shame it had to come from a child rapist.
There’s not much holding him back. He’s been defying cour rulings left and right. The Dems are spineless and we’re fucked.
you’re just as spineless as they are. you could do something too.
I think they’re waiting to see if trump declares martial law just cuz on easter, like he said
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I declare Trump’s presidency void. He isn’t obeying laws; he’s no longer a legitimate president. He is a dictator. And a hypocrite any time he enforces laws of any kind.
To clarify, I think someone who has broken laws CAN enforce them without being a hypocrite, but only if they have taken accountability for the laws they have broken.
This is the oath presidents must make before exercising any official powers or duties:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
He has been very obviously doing the complete opposite of that. The GOP has some pretty flexible mental gymnasts in their circus, but I don’t think even they will be able to dodge this one.
My understanding of the supreme court ruling was that he has immunity only for “official acts”. So… If he violates this oath, he isn’t authorized to exercise any official powers of the presidency, and thus anything he’s doing isn’t official! Right? I hope so. It’d give me something to look forward to as we suffer through the next 4 years.
Maybe Trump thought execute meant kill the office of the president
As far as I remember it was a two part protection. Any official act, no matter the intent, is protected. So as one dissenting justice pointed out, ordering seal team six to assassinate a political rival could be protected as it falls within the powers of the president to direct the military. Besides that, any criminal action outside of that overly broad protection still cannot be prosecuted using any evidence that comes from the actions of the president in their capacity as such. So if the president has a phone call logged in official records in which they outline or perform an illegal act, those logs will be inadmissible in court, only evidence reltaed to the president as a private individual is admissible. The stormy daniels case had to throw out evidence because of this, despite being related to crimes committed before the election even.
Obligatory disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer and working off of memory. I might misunderstand or misremember some of this.
they don’t care if they’re hypocrites and listening to you children say that over and over is tiring. do something.
What are you doing about it?
trying to explain to the painfully naive what we ALL have to do. you should be thanking me and joining the chorus. i’m trying to fucking help you.
But like. Are you stopping him? He’s been doing shady and illegal shit for ages, and yall can point out its illegal and shady, but like. Are any of those critics actually stopping him or nah
Like please, I want some good news, and Moral High Ground does not count
This is maybe the 8th headline over seen today saying Trump was “slammed” for doing something illegal and/or stupid.
That’s kind of like doing something, right? /s
Things haven’t gotten bad enough yet. Let’s hope they don’t but I’m not feeling optimistic
Could someone please take one for the team and end all this.
Thomas Crooks tried.
Why not you?
I got kids. :( also I am not very “accurate” or even knowledgable of the required implements.
There were very few attempts on Hitler’s life and he directly killed millions of people. Trump will indirectly kill millions and I wouldn’t be surprised if there are no more attempts on his life.
There were very few attempts on Hitler’s life
If ≥42 is ‘very few’, what do you consider to be a normal number of assassination attempts?
Considering what he was doing? Yes, that’s very little.
69
420
634 is the current record, I believe.
They are mostly foreigners. Until the next pandemic hits, trumps cuts probably hit the world’s most impoverished, most oppressed people the hardest. It shouldn’t make a difference that they’re not Americans since people are people, but it does.
I imagine it’s the same as with hitler. It’s not just the inherent racism, but it’s harder to care as much about people the farther they are geographically or culturally or nationality.
I’m not trying to encourage this but I think it’s realistic
Assassination is not going to work. The line of succession is pretty shitty.
Ain’t no line of succession for Elon.
Too true!
we just keep the hits coming until shit makes sense again.
I suspect with the current state of technology, mario wouldn’t necessarily need to go down with the ship. Hopefully it’s a matter of time.
it’s that easy. there’s plenty of people offing themself all the time. i honestly don’t understand what the problem here is. i guess there’s not an app for that so the kids don’t know how to do it.
Interesting idea. Someone in Ukraine could make an app to help make it all come true.
I had this in my office Fantasy Dictator Pool: before end of March, POTUS will attempt to undo Biden’s pre-emptive pardons.
But I sincerely hope my other predictions DON’T come true. They’re much darker.
I’ve got civil war by July 4th. Only time will tell.
I am so fucking sick and tired of hearing " Trumps XXX Slammed" headlines.
I don’t want there to be some mildly upset articles about trumps fascist actions
I want there to be hard fucking reactions and consequences for his fascist actions.
Oh, I thought he was naming DJT “Dictator Shit”.
McDictaor
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Check his diaper, apparently that’s the scent within 20 ft of him.
🍆💦🥔💩
Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll go through with his denuclearization plan and that will finally be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and the military will take him out.
How depressing that our best case scenario is a military coup.
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German w/eyepatch Tom Cruise tried to assassinate Hitler, but it was unsuccessful.
why not? serious question, i don’t really know a lot about military leadership.
Wait, is that Donald “I can declassify documents by thinking it” Trump who is tweeting?
SLAMMED
wasted
I should really just keyword filter all headlines with the word “slammed” in it.
I had “slams”, but not “slammed”. Fixed.
Oh, that’s what it takes to finally call him a dictator?
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This is what “they” want. I get it. I’m right there with you. Find something that you can lean on to help you keep your sanity; a hobby, a new tv show, volunteer to take care of puppies at your local shelter… you need to balance this firestorm before you get burnt out. But no matter what, we need you to keep fighting! We need you!
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I’m so tired of the news instigating outrage.
Trump’s tyranny itself is what instigates outrage, not the news’ coverage of it.
That’s by design.
Not even two months in, yet. I fear you won’t make it.
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Not until it comes knocking on the door in the middle of the night.
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That’s not how politics works. That’s just sticking your head in the sand.
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You do understand people are posting articles from those same news sources, right?
If you don’t want to be on lemmy then just stop going on Lemmy. No one cares.
This is the truth and you should be outraged, but calling truthful reporting “instigating outrage” is insane
Druggie ass midnight rant. Trump scratched his ass and accidentally had a finger go up his hole and his druggie brain got triggered with some ridiculous nonsense. It’s the only real explanation for this shit. It’s non-stop and we’re less than 100 days in.
Oh god, it has been less than 100 days
The Russian vacuum between his ears had a short circuit.
