• WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    I really appreciate that this article repeatedly drives home the simple fact that this court is corrupt.

    This isn’t simply an ideological dispute. Roberts, Alito and Thomas, most notably, are corrupt traitors who are actively and repeatedly violating their oaths of office and every ethical standard they’re sworn to uphold. They’ve gone so far in ruling contrary to law, precedent and even the Constitution that at this point they don’t even bother trying to explain, much less justify, their rulings. They just issue them.

    Personally, I think they are the most egregiously destructive criminals in this administration - they, even more than Trump and his handlers and lackeys and sycophants, are responsible for the fact that the United States is accelerating into autocracy, because their job is to ensure that the federal government stays within the bounds of existing law and of the Constitution, and they have willfully refused to do that job.

    Every single brazenly illegal and destructive thing the Trump regime is doing it’s doing because the supreme court has refused to honor its commitment to truth and the rule of law, and that in turn because the conservative justices are entirely corrupt and compromised.

    And exactly as noted, something must be done. If those corrupt traitors are allowed to continue operating as they have, then anything anyone who wants to save this country from autocracy might do will be for naught, because those corrupt traitors will just arbitrarily rule against them and in favor of the autocrats, entirely regardless of law, precedent or the Constitution. That cannot last - it must be stopped.

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      16 hours ago

      As soon as they passed down their ruling on presidential immunity Biden should’ve had them thrown in a black site. But he was either too idealistic, incompetent, or cowardly to take any action to combat the rising fascism. Thx for the economy Joe I guess, but the country needed you to be much more and you failed us all.

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        5 hours ago

        Biden was just doing his part for the DNC and the Dem leadership and their big money donors.

        One of their many dirty little secrets is that they want free rein for autocracy and corruption just as much as the Republicans do, but since there isn’t a good way to frame it in a leftist narrative, they have to wait for the Republicans to pursue it, so that then they can just not quite manage to stop them. Which they do, every time.

        That’s been on full display under Trump, since not managing to stop him is pretty much a full time job. But they have lots of experience with it now and are so good at it that if necessary they can even, like they did in the last budget battle, have a few members cross the aisle and vote with the Republicsns to ensure passage, and still maintain the illusion that they really wanted to stop them, but just couldn’t quite manage it.

        And watch for that in this coming shutdown showdown. They will fold, guaranteed. They always do, because they never really intend to do anything else.

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        16 hours ago

        Republicans and Democrats have had a gentleman’s agreement about corruption for a long time and he was determined to uphold his end of it.

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        Republicans and Democrats have had a gentleman’s agreement about corruption for a long time and he was determined to uphold his end of it.

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        Republicans and Democrats have had a gentleman’s agreement about corruption for a long time and he was determined to uphold his end of it.