Protecting Trump’s enemies from prosecution just reinforces the idea of politics as retribution. Instead, Democrats should be defending his most vulnerable targets.
Protecting Trump’s enemies from prosecution just reinforces the idea of politics as retribution. Instead, Democrats should be defending his most vulnerable targets.
“Fuck you, official act”
Do you remember those “That was Easy!” buttons that proliferated about … 20 years ago. (Yikes.)
In this flight of fancy, Biden has one of those placed on the Resolute desk and custom records audio for it, then goes on a wild spree of political edicts fulfilling everyone’s wildest dreams.
Forgiving all student loan debt. Done. Pardoning illegal immigrants. Done. Amnesty for everyone currently seeking asylum. Done. Full citizenship for DREAMers. Done. Removing the post office retirement Fund requirement. Done. Legalize Weed? Done. Nuke the whales? Believe it or not, done.
And after the scrawling of pen across paper has completed, the caps clicked safely back into place, another sound: cheap plastic clacking together, and Nixon’s disembodied voice emanating from the Easy Button’s tinny speaker “when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal!”
This has never been how “official act” immunity has worked and people need to stop acting like it was
People like you need to stop pretending this isn’t exactly how it works at the end of the day, once you include the power of presidential pardon.
No, it’s still not.
Immunity doesn’t grant you new powers that the office never had before. It just lets you abuse the ones it already had. Please learn how things work before making haughty dumbass statements like you just did.