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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 241 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Beginning to question the inherent wisdom of "Normal transition of power" when Biden handed the keys of the kingdom to a guy who openly planned to lock all the doors and shoot the next guy elected to walk through them.

But hey, I guess it would have been against the rules not to meekly empower a fascist dictatorship.

[-] Labtec6@lemmy.ca 37 points 4 weeks ago

Probably what will happen is anyone who might challenge them will suddenly be arrested on Trumped-Up charges.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 35 points 4 weeks ago

So what. You wanted a dictatorship to stop a dictatorship. Once the normal transition of power is not followed its game over for our democracy.

[-] Hegar@fedia.io 73 points 4 weeks ago

Once the normal transition of power is not followed its game over for our democracy.

Once people who've sworn to end democracy are given the power to end democracy, then it's game over for democracy.

Preventing a corrupt criminal who's a known agent of a hostile foreign powers from becoming president is a healthy thing to do.

[-] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

If the electorate in a democracy want to end democracy, then it's game over. You can't save that.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 4 weeks ago

As would be preventing officials voted into office in a democracy but sooner. There is still a chance as of now as he has not stopped elections yet.

[-] TotallynotJessica 21 points 4 weeks ago

nah, it's over. It was gg for elections in November, and so many people like you didn't realize this. It's to late to prevent this. All we can do now is rebuild.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 4 weeks ago

We realize and so do you since you talk of rebuilding.

[-] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Congratulations, you just discovered the paradox of tolerance.

And, yeah, essentially, in order to survive, a democratic society cannot allow those who seek to destroy it to participate in the democratic process.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 4 weeks ago

Nope. I have been aware of the paradox of tolerance for awhile and its a little shoehorning to put this situation into it. Your talking about a case of allowing an elected official to take office not tolerating speech.

[-] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 4 weeks ago

An elected official who repeatedly stated and demonstrated his intention of preventing any future elections and destroying democracy.

An elected official, therefore, who should never have been allowed to run for office in the first place (this isn't the only reason he shouldn't have been allowed, of course, in a sane country he'd also been unelectable due to his criminal record, lack of any semblance of mental health, and intellectual insufficiency, but it's the most important).

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 4 weeks ago

Ill agree he should not have been able to run but that was a failure of congress or in other words other people elected under the democracy to office. Not allowing him to run would have been great but not allowing him to take office when elected would be disastrous.

[-] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 weeks ago

not allowing him to take office when elected would be disastrous

It would have been many orders of magnitude less disastrous than the alternative.

Sure, cutting off your cancerous hand would've been traumatic. But survivable.

Now, however, said hand is so far up your arse that it's ripped apart your colon in several places and you're bleeding to death while experiencing horrible agony, and spraying all your neighbours with blood and feces.

You could have recovered from getting rid of Trump, but there's no coming back from what you've allowed him to do to your country, and the world.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

No. No it would not have. Your talking about doing something trump has not done yet. It would accelerate the problems by putting us at worse case in january of 2025 rather than in late 2026.

[-] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 weeks ago

something trump has not done yet

Have you been living under a fucking rock‽

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

no. I have not he has not prevented elected officials from taking office.

[-] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago
[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 34 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

You wanted a dictatorship to stop a dictatorship.

Given the current state of affairs, I'm not clear how a Permanent Biden-o-cracy was supposed to be worse.

Once the normal transition of power is not followed its game over for our democracy.

Well, thank god we don't officially lose our Democracy for another eighteen months.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 10 points 4 weeks ago

its worse because it would be 18 months sooner. Its like climate change. It won't help if we were at 5 degrees now instead of 1.5. That would not fix it.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago

Its like climate change.

Weird you would mention that in the context of a presidency that's effectively set himself to the task of nationally Rolling Coal.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 11 points 4 weeks ago

its hard to mention anything he is not making worse.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 weeks ago

It has always been a dictatorship of the rich.

This is just taking the mask off.

[-] Guidy@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

I wanted the traitor coward Merrick Garland to do his motherfucking job and prosecute that POS and throw him in federal prison while making him completely unable to appear on any ballot.

Thanks for asking.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Garland did what he was hired to do. He slow walked the investigations so biden could run against trump again because biden knew he couldn't beat anyone better.

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

That's right, if it's allowed to happen, it's pretty hard to come back from that

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I hope you are being cheeky by saying 'beginning to', it was immensely obvious this was the plan going back to, at bare minimum, about a year before the election, when Trump just kept saying he was gonna serve 3 terms, his supporters wouldn't have to vote again, etc.

[-] Star 20 points 4 weeks ago

I disagree with Biden's handling of the transition, but it's definitely internally consistent with his beliefs. He really, really wanted the global rule of law to work.

I would not be surprised if part of the intention here was to maintain legitimacy during the initial transfer, so that when the monsters refuse to do the same, it will lend legitimacy to a global response to assist the people in reclaiming their democracy.

Now, you could also call that 'passing the buck' and... Well, yes. He did seem to do too much of that, imo. Or not enough, depending on how you look at it.

[-] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago

He really, really wanted the global rule of law to work.

No, Biden did not. He actively broke it by financing Israel's genocide against international and domestic law.

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 weeks ago

Sorry US law, that's where the US can do whatever it wants in the rest of the world but at home there is a rule book (allegedly)

[-] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I do find it strange that the people down voting are more upset about someone pointing out how Biden broke International and Domestic (Leahy) Law to finance a genocide than the actual genocide itself

[-] Star 2 points 4 weeks ago

You're right, that was awful and idealogically-rooted behavior justified in the name of liberal statecraft.

US support of Israel is a huge problem, and needs to stop. I am with you, and he should be held accountable for the part he played in that.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

He really, really wanted the global rule of law to work.

Hence backing Al Qaeda in Syria, fleecing Afghanistan of it's currency reserves to kick off a famine, propping up a military dictatorship in The Philippines, all while continuing a 70 year old illegal blockade of Cuba? Never even mind the Holocaust in Gaza.

Come on, dude. The US has always been playing Calvinball with Rule of Law. If Biden made noises about it, that's just him delivering the company line one last time to the liberal rubes.

when the monsters refuse to do the same, it will lend legitimacy to a global response to assist the people in reclaiming their democracy.

That's pure cope.

Biden bent over backwards for the Silicon Valley mega-donors practically from day one, and they took full advantage until he was used up and disposed of.

He wasn't secretly plotting a resistance movement, he was carving up the country in advance so that Trump could sell it off easier.

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[-] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

I love these comments that always place the blame on Biden, instead of you know, the actual fucking fascists. JFC.

[-] 7toed@midwest.social 8 points 4 weeks ago

For the record, the "actual fucking fascists" didn't materialize during this last election, or the one before it, or the one before it.. etc. I remember when the dems campaigned on "no human is illegal" in 2016 but by time of this last cycle, they were capitulating on immigration and the border to attract the elusive moderate republican to vote democrat.. a strategy that failed our democracy in the end.

[-] Honytawk@feddit.nl 4 points 3 weeks ago

I think it is because you can't reason with these idiot fascists, but we could have reasoned with Biden.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

biden was happy as long as netanyahu was happy.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 weeks ago

"How dare you break the laws - we should have broken the laws to stop you from breaking the laws."

[-] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)
[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

What a stupid argument. Like Biden refusing to cede power to an elected opponent wouldn't be one of the largest abuses of power in US history.

[-] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 weeks ago

It would.

It would also be several orders of magnitude less harmful than everything Trump's done.

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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

All Biden needed to do was have Trump assassinated - as an official presidential action, it would have been perfectly legal according to Trump's precedent.

Follow that up with a "Y'all see why this is maybe not the greatest idea to give the ol' prez this much power? Repeal it, then I'ma fuck off to some beach somewhere."

Boom. Democracy saved, all without breaking the law.

[-] EldritchFeminity 2 points 4 weeks ago

How would it have been breaking the law? According to the Supreme Court long before the election, any act a President does while in office is legal.

Just because something is legal doesn't make it right, and just because it's illegal doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do. It's illegal to donate or hand out food from your garden to the homeless - as pertains to the law stating that it's illegal to provide a better service than the government.

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