• NABDad@lemmy.world
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    2 days 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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      2 days 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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      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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        He isn’t even supposed to be holding office right now. He is an illegal and illegitimate president for inciting and enabling an insurrection and commiting treason.

        The problem with that constitutional law and so many others is that there is no “automatic enforcement mechanism”. They are all written like “You can’t do X”, but they don’t specify “If you do X the consequences are Y and should be enforced by Z by them doing Q”…

        We should focus on amending laws and our constitution especially to close all those loopholes that he found and exploited. It is still absolutely infuriating and insane that our constitution says he can’t even be president right now, but because no one enforced it we just let him move on in and take control and ruin the country. That is the stupidest reason possible for the stupidest president in the stupidest political movement in history. (So far)

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        Arrest the conservatives on the SC, send them to guantanemo, and appoint 5 new justices. Let the new justices reverse the disastrous rulings of the current SC.

        Conservatives can cry, they made this bed.