Yep, they’re throwing anything and everything they can at the wall trying to make something stick. His whole plan is to delay until he can get elected, then try to pardon himself of everything.
Today, that is largely true, and it’s because that’s specifically how the Constitution was written, to decentralize government as much as possible while still forming an operable union.
But the first order of business for any authoritarian government is to suspend and/or alter and/or defang any existing constitution.
Once Trump gets into office, any powers reserved to the states by the constitution will quickly be centralized back into the federal government, and he will indeed pardon himself at every level, with no one and nothing left to stop him.
This is just one of the reasons why it is SO much easier to stop an encroaching authoritarian government at the ballot box: once they get in, everything is dismantled or destroyed – except for that which can be fed into the power machine keeping the tyrant in place. The pardon system is no exception.
Yup. He tried to ban legitimate green card holders (permanent residents) from entering the country. I thought I was safe when I had my green card. But when that shit happened, even if the courts said “lol no” otherwise, I’d applied for U.S. citizenship as soon as I could. God knows what that psycho could try later - like, get the government overturned!
Well, as a proud American dude, I can freely and unrestrictedly say “fuck Trump, lock him up already!”
Yep, they’re throwing anything and everything they can at the wall trying to make something stick. His whole plan is to delay until he can get elected, then try to pardon himself of everything.
He can’t pardon himself of state crimes.
He can’t pardon himself at all unless we accept an obvious absurdity.
The US was built on absurdity
Today, that is largely true, and it’s because that’s specifically how the Constitution was written, to decentralize government as much as possible while still forming an operable union.
But the first order of business for any authoritarian government is to suspend and/or alter and/or defang any existing constitution.
Once Trump gets into office, any powers reserved to the states by the constitution will quickly be centralized back into the federal government, and he will indeed pardon himself at every level, with no one and nothing left to stop him.
This is just one of the reasons why it is SO much easier to stop an encroaching authoritarian government at the ballot box: once they get in, everything is dismantled or destroyed – except for that which can be fed into the power machine keeping the tyrant in place. The pardon system is no exception.
I didn’t say it was a good plan, lol. I wouldn’t put it past him to try.
Yup. He tried to ban legitimate green card holders (permanent residents) from entering the country. I thought I was safe when I had my green card. But when that shit happened, even if the courts said “lol no” otherwise, I’d applied for U.S. citizenship as soon as I could. God knows what that psycho could try later - like, get the government overturned!
Well, as a proud American dude, I can freely and unrestrictedly say “fuck Trump, lock him up already!”