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So based on how things have gone so far with the fascist in chief, we can expect no consequences at all, or that he will die of old age before any such consequences can be agreed upon. Sound about right?
Literally impossible right now. It'd take a 2/3ds senate majority to remove him.
So pretty much as predicted. 😬
I hate that attitude...
When the English told wealthy American smugglers that they'd have to pay the taxes they should have always been paying, did this wealthy Americans say "there's nothing we can do?"
Nope.
The paid people to dress up as Native Americans, threw some tea into a harbor, and created their own country.
When they said we were a democracy, but only wealthy white males could vote, did women and other races just accept it because that was the rule?
No, they fought for decades to be included.
So when I see another American throw their fucking hands up and say we can't try to fix a problem because the problem is legal....
Where did you learn that shit?
This is motherfucking America where the only rule that can never be changed is "might makes right".
Conservatives 100% operate under that rule and nothing else. If they can get away with something, they can do it.
You think if they needed to they wouldn't throw a SC in jail and sit someone else in that chair?
If we want to fix the country we need to stop being the only ones caring about the rule book and checking it before we do anything.
Arrest Alito's ass for sedetion and acts against the US government.
You seem to have ignored your own key word at the start there. That key word being 'wealthy.'
Yes, when the wealthy revolt, things get done. No one suggests otherwise.
Well, I can't do an arrest. Can you do an arrest? I'm guessing you can neither arrest nor prosecute. If you can, by all means. I look forward to hearing about it. But I don't expect to. I expect that that is not a solution that will be employed. John Oliver tried an extrajudicial offer to Clarence Thomas, and he doesn't seem to have accepted that. So there don't appear to be any remedies within the system, adjacent to the system, or near the system. And somehow, I also doubt I'll hear about you throwing his tea into the harbor.
Who bells the cat?
Citizen's arrests are a thing. Not sure how they work though
I think there has to be an actual crime, directly witnessed.
If my name was Joe Biden and I controlled the federal government, yeah, I could do all that...
Trump's openly talking about doing that for the wrong reasons, just charging anyone who doesn't like him and throwing them in jail.
There are valid reasons here:
Sedetion and acts against the federal government. Hell, I'm sure we can throw some conspiracy charges in there, maybe some racketeering?
Did you know we have this place called Gitmo where we don't even have to give people trials for this shit?
I was actually there before, the iguanas are cool, but it's incredibly depressing. The people stationed there get turnt up when another ship comes in tho, everybody that could had taken the day off and were waiting at the bar just to see some new faces.
But there's a lot of people imprisoned there that have done far less to damage America than Alito.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
So you can't do it, I can't do it, nobody we know can do it. Maybe write Joe a letter or something?
I mean, if nationwide protests don't work, I wouldn't get my hopes up for a letter.
But it won't hurt, so go for it.