Immunity for official acts, biatch
If this was an official order the orange man would be past tense.
Ex man
Exoranganary man
Too bad he’s not.
While I have no real taste for dried oranges - I can say fairly certainly that we’re on the tip of a slippery slope on either side. If we step off the current path no good will come of it.
I think most of us are pretty tired of not being on solid ground. Trump is the worst kind of person.
Both are differing degrees or lesser evils. Neither of these candidates is equipped to deal with the impending depression / crash / crisis we are on the doorstep of.
Make no mistake: A grifter will never put our country first and we would undoubtedly suffer if he took office again - but Biden lacks the resolve to make hard choices and frankly someone holding your hand while you drown isn’t really much different. Both suck and shouldn’t be running. Biden is the obvious choice but I refuse to say better.
Both are shit. We should aspire to be better than shit.
I’d rather someone hold my hand while I’m drowning than actively try to drown me.
We should really want better for ourselves.
Yes, but given only two choices, I choose the one that isn’t trying to drown me.
That hit was so unprofessional, i.e. it missed, that I would sooner believe it was faked than official. But much more likely the violent rhetoric caused unrest in the person’s mind.
Even so, the spin machine will figure out how best to “use” it, over the next few days.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist in the least, but the fact that some random guy in the crowd saw the shooter on the roof but not one of the many Secret Service agents there noticed a sniper has me at least open to the idea that it was fake. It’s not like Trump’s team don’t know that plenty of Republicans are just looking for an excuse to violently support their dear leader.
But I agree that it’s more likely that someone just snapped.
Even so, the spin machine will figure out how best to “use” it, over the next few days.
Oh, they didn’t even need to wait a few days. Trump himself managed to turn it into a golden ticket for rallying republican support and encouraging his diehard supporters to start another violent insurrection.
And all he did was stand back up, raise his first, and say “fight” to his crowd. We are so, so fucked.
“Oh, <insert left-leaning politician> was assassinated? See, you shouldn’t have tried it on July 13, liberal!”
I can see it now.
That hit was so unprofessional, i.e. it missed, that I would sooner believe it was faked than official.
Unless when Biden called him later, instead of checking up on him, he said, “That one was a warning shot.”
For real, though, the fact that it was a 20 year old shooter says to me the kid had mental problems or got indoctrinated. You step into that operation assuming you will die, and what 20yo would do that for his government or money for his family?
I feel like if Biden wanted Trump dead, Trump would be dead.
And it would be official
And we’d all be a lot better off.
Yeah they’d amend the law real fucking quick.
Ah, a legal assassination attempt then. Thanks SCOTUS!
Why is this a Problem? The Republican Extreme Court just made this LEGAL!
Well if it was an official act it was fine for him to do so.
“We have to get over it”
—Donald Trump
He didn’t, because if he had, flags would be at half-staff now. But even if he had… so what? Biden is now immune from prosecution for that anyways.
Collins followed up with another tweet calling for the local county prosecutor to “immediately file charges against Joseph R. Biden for inciting an assassination.”
I thought that he was the president, congressman. What did SCOTUS just decide?
Only when he’s a Republican.
Campaign slogan isn’t an official act.
He’d also need to use a government employee to claim it as official.
You mean like deputizing a random person? *please see R playbook and the constitutional sherrifs movement for further details
That took longer than I’d expected.
Republicans: we made it legal for the president to against political opponents.
Also Republicans: no not Biden!
Biden: I like ice cream, Jack!
But he has total immunity tho. You said so yourself.
They meant for them, not anyone else. Same as always for the GOP.
I don’t think an official presidential assassin would miss 12 times
Biden just need a simple response
“Mine don’t miss”
I wish he had the balls to say something like that.
I’d also love “hellfire RX9”.
“The fat electrician” has a great video on this if you don’t know what that is.
Where do you get the 12 number from?
Probably the numbers 1 and 2 on his keyboard.
And that’s how many bullets presidential assassins have, duh
If Biden did, he wouldn’t miss.
And it would be legal!
If he did, it wouldn’t be illegal.
“An in-group that the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group that the law binds but does not protect.”
If Biden did an assassination, the supreme court would find a way to determine it was not an official act.
When Trump does assassinations, the same court will (deliberate future tense now) find these things permissible.
That’s how conservatism has always worked, and this is the same. But worse.
