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Oh, by the way: no, I’m not insane. SCOTUS is insane. I’m just discussing the implications of their insane decision.
Oh, by the way: no, I’m not insane. SCOTUS is insane. I’m just discussing the implications of their insane decision.
LOL, you’re just saying that because you can’t actually refute my point and you know it.
Prove me wrong, I dare you.
Well golly gee, mister, if I’m so ignorant can you please explain to me how I’m wrong? Be specific, now!
If not, then by all means, please continue with your point-free ad-hominem attacks. It’s entertaining! 🍿
What a useless non-response.
You can be in denial all you want, but the factual reality is that, since this SCOTUS ruling, the US is an autocracy now. Practically speaking, the only way for it to stop being such in the short term is for the autocrat (i.e., Biden) to forcibly change it back.
You say that as if it wouldn’t be a moot point once SCOTUS has five or six vacancies on it all at once, along with who knows how many in the Senate.
That’s how power actually works, you know. Don’t believe me? Watch Saddam Hussein’s 1979 purge to see how it goes down.
That’s the kind of power that exists here in the US now, thanks to the fascist Supreme Court. If Biden doesn’t use it against itself in order to destroy it, the next Republican President will use it to consolidate his own rule much the same way Saddam did.
You think Biden is gonna murder someone?
LOL, no.
But I do think that the fascist SCOTUS judges just gave him that power, and that Biden demonstrating just how terrible a power it is by using it to get rid of them might be the only way to get the decisions overturned and stop the US from becoming a dictatorship.
…as long as they breathe
True, but they wouldn’t be anymore, in this hypothetical scenario. I’m not sure why we’re belaboring that point.
Obviously it’s ethically horrific, but (from utilitarian and game theory perspectives) it’s the least-bad option I can think of right now.
Yes, giving up both the incumbent advantage and the “having your fucking name on the ballot instead of being a write-in” advantage is definitely a foolproof path to victory! I see no flaws in this plan!
So the only way this works out is Biden 66ing the extremist judges and the remaining vote that it was an official act.
Yep, that’s what I said: the court literally just gave Biden the power to do that.
I think you lost the discussion thread a little bit. We’re talking about what Biden could do about the corrupt Supreme Court justices. They’re definitely in D.C. already.
Murder is generally a state offense, but since D.C. is a Federal district, I’m pretty sure murders that occur there would be pardonable.
Voting is the beginning of acting to defend yourself from tyranny, not the end.
With the exception of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, the administration has been very competent.
Two exceptions: Biden’s refusal today to use the power the SCOTUS decision gave him to rein in the court is also incompetent (not to mention, suicidal).
You know the states make their own rules about who’s allowed to be on the ballot, right?
In 2 years he’ll be in a Federal prison (if not executed). Trump has basically promised it.
Refusing to stop Trump is literally suicidal on Biden’s part.
Lack of spine isn’t the issue. It’s lack of political power.
The court literally just gave Biden the power.
Conservatism has always been authoritarian. The notion of “slow to change” has only ever been a fig leaf to obfuscate that fact.
No, he’s talking about
the other disastrous Supreme Court rulinganother of the several disastrous Supreme Court rulings in the last few days, the one that struck down Chevron deference.Edit: plural, unfortunately.