• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    A democracy officially becomes a dictatorship when the executive starts disobeying the legislative branch.

    The US is on the knife’s edge, and starting to fall on the wrong side of history.

    And the price of eggs still hasn’t come down…

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      Haven’t you heard? Presidents are immune to the law. The Supreme Court said so. And since the DOJ is run by Trump sycophants any arrest order for someone in the administration will be ignored. Just like getting this guy from El Salvador will be.

      The Supreme Court had a chance to rein in a possible second Trump term when they took the presidential immunity case and they fucked themselves for a couple dollars instead. Now we all reap the horrors they have sowed.

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    The way i’m reading this - Trump is unable to do so because the US is now weak and feeble.

    Clinton, Obama, Biden, maintained our geopolitical strength and would have exercised it.

    (this ignores the fact that none of the prior presidents were nazis)

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      They were Nazis too, or at least Nazi adjacent. They were just smart and competent and playing the long game which would have landed us here in 20-50 years without any domestic resistance.

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    I don’t understand this at all. This has been days and days and days. Why isn’t there a plane in E.S. with people banging on the prison door to get this guy?

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      Because he is dead. They put him in gen pop 3 weeks ago.

      The courts already knew about him and had previously refused to deport him because he was a target for gang violence.