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President Joe Biden warned Monday that a Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity from prosecutionwould make an unchecked Republican Donald Trump “more emboldened to do whatever he wants” if he regains the White House in November’s election.

Biden, under intense pressure after his disastrous debate performance against Trump last week, urged Americans to think carefully about their election decision and signaled he had no intention of dropping out of the race.

Criticizing the decision by the court’s conservative majority — which all but guarantees Trump will not face trial in Washington ahead of the November election over his actions during the violent riot on Jan. 6, 2021 — Biden said it now fell to the American people “to do what the courts should have been willing to do but will not. 

“The American people have to render judgment about Donald Trump’s behavior.”

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[-] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 265 points 2 months ago

Fuck that. Biden should make them regret this decision. If his candidacy is as DOA as everyone is pretending it is, then there's no incentive to play by the rules. Move fast and break stuff and get some shit done for a change.

Also,

Biden, under intense pressure after his disastrous debate performance against Trump last week

They just had to get it in there. Not a mention of Trump making shit up the whole time, or the raving lunatic shit he's saying on the campaign trail. 90 minutes of Biden being low energy and it's all over. "The other guy is too old, maybe we can do a little fascism. That will be OK, right?"

[-] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Every time Biden had that "confused" look on his face during the debate, he was reacting to some absolute bullshit tRump had just said and the media turned it into "Biden confused". Biden WAS low energy, what was trump on? It is also easier to spew bullshit, when there is ABSOLUTELY NO PUSH BACK, then it is to remember ACTUAL facts. Watching the follow up I felt like I was being gaslit on what I actually watched

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

You have high hopes. Remember, you never know how far you can walk until you try to fly.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

Sorry, are you suggesting that the media is against Biden? Cause they’ve been for him for months. Any apprehension about his future prospects have nothing to do with Trump being a lying sack of shit. I won’t apologize for Biden sucking. I do like the idea of him turning the scotus ruling on them.

[-] ImADifferentBird 8 points 2 months ago

What media have you been looking at? The only thing I've seen about Biden for months has been about how he's too old. And occasionally a bit about him supporting Israel, whether that's presented in a positive or negative light.

[-] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 148 points 2 months ago

“I know I will respect the limits of presidential power as I have for the three-and-a-half years, but any president, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law,”

"Yes we may be in a steel cage wrestling match. But I'm still going to follow gentlemens rules. Those tables, chairs and ladders are off-limits to me; My moral superiority will win the day."

Tom Howard voiceover: "It didn't"

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago
[-] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 64 points 2 months ago

Nah, this is his cousin. I'm on a budget here.

[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 97 points 2 months ago

He needs to take the gloves off. The traitors are literally acting out their plan for a civil war and democrats are waiting there bent over to take it.

[-] Samvega 19 points 2 months ago

"We keep letting other people make the world worse, and no one seems to love us for it. What gives?"

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 17 points 2 months ago

We tried nothing and we're all out of ideas.

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[-] Aqarius@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I mean, that's kind of what happened with the last civil war too.

[-] ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

In what way is this like what happened with the civil war? States started leaving the union before Lincoln was even in office, not 3 years into his term

[-] Aqarius@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

IIRC, the secessions were preceeded by a period where it was sort of an open secret of what's gonna happen, with stuff like future confederate generals transferring cannon stock to southern bases, and moving themselves and their families south, and the North by and large stood by and let it happen under the rationale that "we shouldn't anger them, they may still come around". To the point that, again, IIRC, the commander of Fort Sumter saw trouble brewing across the river and requested reinforcements just before the war, and was turned down.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Then after the Civil War, we treated the treasonous States with kid gloves and allowed them to openly idolize their traitorous leaders, leading to where we are now.

[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The democratic party is complicit as far as I am concerned.

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[-] Hello_there@fedia.io 86 points 2 months ago

This speech was a capitulation by Biden. He basically said 'no, executive isn't going to check the judiciary.' His response is 'people need to vote's? What? Where's the vision or game plan to overturning this?
It's so fucking simple to grasp the shortfalls here.

[-] Xanis@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I'm hoping he's just giving us a chance to correct this. That will do good in the long run if we manage it. Should we fail it is also my hope that he uses his remaining time in the chair to abuse those executive powers to all hell.

In reality, yes, he could do more right now.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Why would he do that though?

Biden is the status quo president, why would he be a martyr?

[-] retrospectology@lemmy.world 83 points 2 months ago

President Joe Biden warned Monday that a Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity from prosecutionwould make an unchecked Republican Donald Trump “more emboldened to do whatever he wants” if he regains the White House in November’s election.

And the justices kind of looked around quizzically and said "Yeah...no shit, that's the whole idea. Did you just get that?"

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

He's spelling it out for voters to get them off their asses. People said "yeah right" in 2016 when the ones who were paying attention said that the scotus was on the ballot, and it turns out we were right. It's probably good to hear the calm warnings straight from him rather than just from "alarmist" friends, relatives, and coworkers this time.

[-] retrospectology@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

It makes him look even more out of touch with the moment though and incompetent.

If he's still unwilling to back a campaign to court pack and still unwilling to remove the biggest obstacle to a possible Democratic win in November (himself), his words mean very little. It's just more too little too late by Biden.

[-] exanime@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

A gesture that has no meaning and even less significance

"To the violent, non-violence means nothing"

[-] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

Drop. The. Fuck. Out. You are going to fucking lose you geriatric fuck and SCOTUS just ensured that Trump will use his power to be a dictator when he's elected.

[-] TBi@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

If people will let a fascist win just because Biden is “too old” then they deserve their fate!

[-] ToastedPlanet 13 points 2 months ago

I believe people are going to do the right thing this November. We need to be vocal and vote. But no matter what happens, no one deserves fascism. We're all still people.

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[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I didn't care what the fuck other people deserve. I can't control how other people act, but I'll have to live with the same outcome as them.

Quit trying to justify the unjustifiable.

[-] b161 22 points 2 months ago

America is absolutely cooked. Biden won’t do shit.

[-] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

FUCKING DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT THEN JOE.

Get off your geriatric ass and do something..

[-] magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org 17 points 2 months ago

Spineless fucking pseudo-conservative.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago
[-] magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Relative to what America considers conservative.

[-] twistypencil@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

He needs to pledge to over turn this, and citizens united, put the us on a trail path

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

show, don't tell.

but you're a pussy so you won't. and we're gonna have to see what TFG actually does with it.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

About a month ago I made this comment about Biden jailing trump:

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/11668328

People downvoted at the time but I knew the writing was on the wall. We were always gonna arrive here in 4 years.

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[-] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Every move like this gets them closer and closer to full on fascism, and gives them more and more power to destroy us and all we can do is hope the idiot democrats put a stop to it, even though all they're doing is sTrOnGlY cOnDeMnInG their actions...

[-] Freefall@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

That is what they are counting on!

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Biden was a sharp contrast to trump regarding the law before the SCOTUS ruling, too.

[-] ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ok... sooooo... has anyone ELSE seen the photo of the most blood thirsty terrorist group in history? Had uh, the Clintons, the Bush Family, the Obamas, etc in a nice snug family portrait. Was missing a certain orange baboon & his ilk however :| they're clowns not terrorists though

[-] AuroraZzz@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

This is a totally sane person

[-] bolexforsoup 30 points 2 months ago

This is your brain on breitbart*

[-] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

Uhhh... Are you alright? Do we need to call your mom?

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

what are you talking about?

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

To quote his own guy, "I don't know what he said and I don't think he does either."

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Whose debate coach were you?

[-] Icalasari@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Having a touch of the !aneurysmposting I see

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