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.”

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    If he opens that box, then come the next president Trump might finally end up in jail. But nah! Go ahead fucker! Let’s see this get interesting. Like the new ROTC students required to wear KKK hoodies. That wouldn’t be at all sus. We know the guy is out of his mind full dementia empty skull. The world just needs that one last straw.

    And may I remind us all how happy Duterte was just a few years ago. Jailing people, murdering, etc. The guy even silenced TFC so Filipinos abroad didn’t need to bother with the stuff he was doing at home. Now he’s in jail. Not easy, pay your way out jail. This is Saddam Hussein hanging jail. The consequences for crimes against humanity need to be real. So just let us enjoy our daily rat race until we too end up in Guantanamo accidentally. Worrying about things that are coming on to others is fruitless. But we should hope that the international court at least gets putin.

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      4 days ago

      Biden had the chance to do that in 2020. He should have arrested Agent Krasnov and his henchmen on the first day of his presidency, and detained them in isolation without bail or access to the media, until their trials were resolved.

      Instead he appointed a weak Reoublican as his AG who gave hime a 2 year head start to run out the clock.

      The Dems had the perfect chance to rid ourselves of the MAGA scourge, and defend our country, and they totally abdicated their responsibility. It will be 100 times harder to take it back now, and I don’t see it happening without violence.

      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        I remain optimistic. All this has laws to prevent it. Perhaps optimists like me should continue the slow work of politics and truth in speech and writings. Meanwhile as a peaceful person I believe it is your American freedom that is constitutionally legal to free speech and all that that entails.

        • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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          A law is only a law insofar as it is enforceable. Thus far for this asshole, they haven’t been. There’s no reason to assume that if we just sit back and wait for someone else to deal with it, his luck is suddenly going to change. It might, and I hope it does, but twiddling our thumbs while the world burns doesn’t seem like the best course of action.

        • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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          3 days ago

          The problem is that the MAGA Nazis are literally traitors, and don’t respect the laws or the courts, and they are starting to defy them in increasingly confrontational ways. They were just ordered to hold the deportations of Venezuelan prisoners to a far-right nation who is known for the brutal treatment and torture of prisoners, and they simply ignored it, and tweeted “Oopsie.”

          Following that, Kapo Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller spoke to the press and whined about a judge who represents one geographical region ruling on the administration. Thats how the courts work, whether they like it or not.

          The laws you respect, and are optimistic that they will protect you and this country, no longer exist. Like Hitler, one of the first policies he enacted was The Enabling Act, which makes the president the final say on what is law and what isn’t, and that can change from day to day.

      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Oh, wait! Saddam went to the iraki court. That’s where he was given his upside down tie to ride one last swing. I propose Duterte checks that out! A tie would look good on him.

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    4 days ago

    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.

  • Manticore@lemmy.nz
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    4 days ago

    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

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      3 days ago

      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

  • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Some days you see this shit and wonder why you participate in a meaningless system that lets convicts be President.

    Like as naked apes on a floating rock in eternal space I gotta wake up every morning to go to work and “be a good worker” while this motherfucker breaks laws and wants to make up shit as he goes.

    Cool. No wonder I have no more motivation to be a good worker anymore.

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      I wouldn’t mind a system that allowed ex felons to be elected. I very much mind one that allows a current felon to be elected. I don’t know what amount of time we should let pass but a felony shouldn’t be the end of your civil rights.

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        Bad news, it’s not nearly big enough to end life on Earth, and wouldn’t even hit in North America.

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        I’m rooting for the AI ending. Maybe something superior can be born out of humanity so we served some kind of purpose.

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          Given who’s funding the AI, a perverse instantiation or infrastructure profusion failure mode is far more likely

          Imagine if the butter robot from rick and morty really takes its purpose “to pass butter” to heart, and concludes that, in order to maximize the degree to which it succeeds in passing butter, it must hack and reorient the world economy to make as much butter as possible, and further apportioning resources to improve its ability to pass butter en-masse, then it just goes full “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”, but it imprisons a few people and just passes the ever-growing amount of butter between them

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          i’m rooting for the ‘people finally stood up and did away with the sociopaths, ushering in a new utopia’ ending.

          stop being cowards making bad jokes.

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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.

    • Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
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      they don’t care if they’re hypocrites and listening to you children say that over and over is tiring. do something.

        • Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
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          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.

          • donnywholovedbowling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            So your solution to people sitting on their asses and talking online is to… Sit on your ass and talk down to them online? Sounds like you need to do something, you sound painfully naive

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              LISTEN UP YOU FUCKING IDIOT AND I’LL EXPLAIN HOW IT WORKS.

              we keep saying “the only solution is [redacted]” until it reaches a fever pitch and then we show THEM who the fucking strong man is.

              you got nothing but fucking jokes and one person comes along and tells you how to win a fucking war and you talk shit instead of join the battle cry. what a pathetic little pansy. FUCK YOU.

    • gamer@lemm.ee
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      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.

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        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.