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So they are opening the door for voiding presidential pardons based on competency? That's going to be interesting in 3 years. I think conflict of interest could be considered just as compromising as cognitive decline. Could also have implications for Oliver North.
But also, the way Trump always claims he doesn't know anything about <that>, I would suggest he also is unaware of what is being done in his name, regardless of who holds the pen.
interesting in the way that the democrats will do nothing about it and then when the GOP gets back in they'll make it worse.
Old dems are ded dude. They didn’t do anything before and that was their MO … true.
But the reason they will do nothing about it in the future is that they’re ghosts, electoral echoes of cynical centrist complacency.
The new dems will be different simply because they clearly must be different to even win votes.
God I hope you're right.
It's interesting you think everything is just gonna continue on like normal. Republicans are never relinquishing power again. There will be no more Democratic party in three years.
"Never again" is a long time horizon to make predictions about something as volatile as politics.
It's a fascist coup, not just "politics."
People like you on Lemmy really annoy me, always negative about anything said about politics. Are you trying to kill hope? I honestly don't see what your comment adds to the discussion.
Pretending everything goes back to "normal" in 3 years doesn't add much either. Hope is fine, but without action is just delusion. Just voting isn't gonna cut it. People need to be aware and to prepare. Republicans will not relinquish power peacefully. They've done too much that will require accountability. They will not allow that, and they literally have a violent private army filled with violent offenders with a larger budget than the Marines, and they have seized the public coffers to ensure loyalty. This is all out in the open. Everything they are doing, they would not do if there was the possibility of the transfer of power and eventually accountability.
There's a powerful normalcy bias at work here. People can acknowledge a long list of ways the "American way of life" is circling the drain, but day to day it feels like things will basically be the same. People keep going to work, paying into retirement, and planning holiday vacations.
We're stuck with the choice of voting for someone who will accelerate the decent into authoritarianism or voting for someone who won't stop it.
Where should we find the hope?
That’s not the option, but the authoritarians would have it that way if allowed.
What is the option then?
Ideally the best option is running for office. But you need money, and you need to actually want to do it
Hope is for people who want to sit around doing nothing while they wait for things to spontaneously get better all on their own.
But there will be something, correct? Some fight, some resistance. Assuming you’re not planning on giving up that is.
And you can call the stubborn cunts of that resistance whatever you like, but good money’s on something with a lot of high-value name recognition like, I dunno, “democrats” or something.
Federal government representatives are calling the Democratic party terrorists on national television. There will be something, but it won't be an organized political party. The Republicans will not cede power peacefully ever again. I honestly can't tell you what that will look like because I didn't know how much Americans will put up with, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that Republicans will not give up federal power without violence. They are already actively violent.
They certainly are, I agree! But they’re cowards.
Republicans only want to fight the weakest opponents, in rigged matches, and they still gotta cheat. Even a little resistance, when we stand together, dissolves their cotton candy confidence.
I was lucky enough to see a small piece of what that kind of resistance looks like on Sunday after canvassing. The organizers did us a solid and got us into a rally in queens that was packed. The energy was really encouraging, especially seeing all the other volunteers and various groups that are actually showing up, to help and to fight. It mirrors a lot of the grassroots movements and community building popping up in many cities and towns across the country.
It’s encouraging because it illustrates victory directly. Standing up for each other in spite of those threats of violence is courage, and historically that’s the strongest “antifa weapon” we know, because fascism can only lose wherever courage remains.
Ya know, most countries don't give one person infinite get out of jail free cards.
We just value freedom here. ~revs big truck, slurps from 32oz diet soda~
32oz? Why did you get a small? It's diet!
This won't go anywhere. There's plenty of public examples of Biden discussing the pardons. He's still lucid enough to testify if needed.
If they're opening this box what makes you think they'd do it if they wouldn't still have power in 3 years? Everything they're doing they're doing like they're never gonna not be in power. We should all be paying attention to that.
Bold of you to assume that there will be a change of government in 3 yrs time....
I mean where is it Cynical at this point... right now there's the massive redistricting that's going to give the republicans more house seats even if they get less votes. Trumps been "joking" about a 3rd term from the start. Millitary is literally marching on the streets.
The point isn't that we need to give up... but we need to realize they are re-writing the rules.. Big thing is... just let them have their fun and when it kills them in the next election stance that the democrats took last time, is going to destroy us. We need to look at every possible way to fight back NOW, and have contingencies for when all of our existing failsafes... fail.