• artyom@piefed.social
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    1 day 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.

    No one cares about these items themselves, they’re just emblematic of this administration’s narcissism and ignorance.

    the first thing we should do is pass an amendment establishing that no one is above the law.

    We don’t need a law that says people can’t break the law… That already exists. It’s called the law. We do clearly need to severely limit the powers of the executive branch. Get rid of pardons, get rid of executive orders, etc. It’s proven that these powers can and will be abused. The glacial pace that govt moves at takes years to catch up with illegal executive orders.

    I used to think we were on a path to some day live up to our hype. However, I don’t see it anymore.

    We’re definitely doing the opposite but the pendulum swings hard sometimes. I mean just 11 years ago we had a black Democratic President.

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      19 hours ago

      The Supreme Court ruled that the president is above the law. The only way to permanently reverse that without destroying everything is with a Constitutional Amendment.

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        19 hours ago

        Only in so far as his official acts as President. He can still be charged for stuff he does outside of his presidential duties.

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          13 hours ago

          Something tells me that every illegal thing President Pedophile does is an official act as President.

          Of course, we don’t have to worry, because the Supreme Court will stop him. /s

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              9 hours ago

              You know that, and I know that, but I have the feeling neither of us is on the Supreme Court.

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                  7 hours ago

                  Who says its illegal? The Supreme court determines what is illegal.

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                    7 hours ago

                    The law decides what is legal. The Supreme Court just interprets it. If the law says diddling kids is illegal, and The Supreme Court says kiddy diddling is ok, it’s still illegal .

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      24 hours ago

      I mean he literally could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it. His whole second election was only due to the fact that if he wasn’t elected he would have been placed into jail in any fair country… But hey America, land of the corrupt pedofiles.

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        19 hours ago

        I mean he literally could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it.

        That’s not because it’s not illegal…?

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        16 hours ago

        You say that as if the France doesn’t fucking exist. I feel like everyone just fucking forgets that all of our fucking countries are shitty. It’s only a fucking America meanwhile France has harboring fucking pedos and the UK let one just go fuck dead bodies.

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          7 hours ago

          Well guessing they are all rich. Rich people seem to like fucking weird shit.