• NABDad@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I don’t care about the Whitehouse. I don’t care about The Kennedy Center. I don’t care about the arch or the reflecting pool.

    Assuming there’s anything left at the end of his term, the first thing we should do is pass an amendment establishing that no one is above the law. If a president breaks the law, he should have justice.

    Maybe that will make some kind of difference. Nothing less than Trump and his co-conspirators rotting in prison will save the U.S.

    Maybe it isn’t worth saving. I used to think we were on a path to some day live up to our hype. However, I don’t see it anymore.

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      4 hours ago

      I agree that should be priority number one. The number two priority should be confiscating wealth gained from abuses of power. Any money the Trump family gained during these last many years belongs to the people.

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      6 hours ago

      He’s not (supposed to be) above the law now. The problem is the system and those who should hold him to it are equally corrupt so stuff like impeachment goes nowhere

      You’d need a way to charge, prosecute, and penalize a sitting president even even the deck is stacked with his cronies, and one that couldn’t be used to drown a future non-shitty president in bogus charges

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      9 hours ago

      I don’t care about the Whitehouse. I don’t care about The Kennedy Center. I don’t care about the arch or the reflecting pool.

      No one cares about these items themselves, they’re just emblematic of this administration’s narcissism and ignorance.

      the first thing we should do is pass an amendment establishing that no one is above the law.

      We don’t need a law that says people can’t break the law… That already exists. It’s called the law. We do clearly need to severely limit the powers of the executive branch. Get rid of pardons, get rid of executive orders, etc. It’s proven that these powers can and will be abused. The glacial pace that govt moves at takes years to catch up with illegal executive orders.

      I used to think we were on a path to some day live up to our hype. However, I don’t see it anymore.

      We’re definitely doing the opposite but the pendulum swings hard sometimes. I mean just 11 years ago we had a black Democratic President.

      • NABDad@lemmy.world
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        1 hour ago

        The Supreme Court ruled that the president is above the law. The only way to permanently reverse that without destroying everything is with a Constitutional Amendment.

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          32 minutes ago

          Only in so far as his official acts as President. He can still be charged for stuff he does outside of his presidential duties.

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        6 hours ago

        I mean he literally could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it. His whole second election was only due to the fact that if he wasn’t elected he would have been placed into jail in any fair country… But hey America, land of the corrupt pedofiles.

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          33 minutes ago

          I mean he literally could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it.

          That’s not because it’s not illegal…?