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There's a vast backlog of "Biden should" that will never happen.
President Biden should pardon student loan debt
Supreme Court already killed that option, unfortunately.
“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.
He should send SEAL team 6 to the houses of the justices that struck it down and make it clear that they will reverse their decisions or they and their entire families will be shot dead. Israel, Trump's darling, routinely murders every single relative of people they don't like. When they killed Hamas's political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, they also killed 60 (you heard that right, 60!) of his relatives.
They made their bed, now they need to sleep in it.
People still don’t understand Democrat Establishment is also on Team Corporations. They serve as the foil to Republicans, but only as entertainment to the masses. If they were a real party, they would have fielded a better candidate against Trump in 2016 and 2024. Bernie, for instance, could have easily mopped the floor with Trump, and greatly undermined his populist support, but that’s not what Capitalism and corporations want.
Class warfare is happening and everyday Joe has been losing for decades. It’s no wonder The Adjuster did what he did.
Like what?
The only actions that I can think of that Trump couldn’t immediately undo are related to pardons, seating judges, or funding allies. Any other actions that Biden could take through Executive Order would be reversible, no?
Then make trump do it. Make a bunch of popular executive orders. Let trump be the bad guy.
Oh wait. That's not pardoning a cokehead or supplying a genocide, which are the only things he's willing to do, and you'll forgive the former because he's doing the latter.
I forgive the former because he’s already outlived two children and I wouldn’t trust them not to just go full kangaroo court.
Edit: I absolutely do not excuse the latter
I'd be a lot more likely to forgive the former if he hadn't been so fucking dedicated to norms when it could have mattered for people not named Hunter or Bibi.
Bidens son was definitely used for political reasons. He had a plea deal and the GOP didn't want that so for it thrown out.
I don't care if he was. If Biden can ignore norms and his own word to pardon Hunter, he could have ignored norms at any point during his presidency on behalf of people who aren't as connected as his junkie progeny. He chose not to.