Biden needs to use the insane powers bestowed upon the Presidency to limit the incoming one. Full fucking stop.
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This is a terrifying precedent, though. If it becomes demonstratable that a sitting president can ignore the vote and veto the election, then every president from then until the end of time can argue against the "damage" the next president will cause. This was Hitler claiming "emergency powers," and you will immediately have a dictatorship, not a democracy.
I'm not saying another Trump presidency is "fine" by any regard, but I don't believe in being a fascist to prevent fascism.
It's already happened. It can't be undone.
The Supreme Court could be undone.
Not in this political climate. Dafuq you talking about?
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A straightforward way to protect people from fascists would be to get them out of prisons where they will otherwise be easy targets.
I also would like one order of a "full unconditional pardon of any crime that I may or may not have committed, from [date of my birth] to [date of my death], and also pardon all my debts and taxes also effective from the same time period please."
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This would have been productive with a blue-ribbon commission and 2 years. But Biden should totally be able to hammer it out one rainy morning.
But Biden should totally be able to hammer it out one rainy morning.
Why not? Democrats should use the power of the government to improve people's lives.
edit: looks like lemmy downtime caused a double post
Democrats should use the power of the government to improve people’s lives.
That would be out of character for them.
He could at least pardon as many as he can get to.
That picture tho
XD They need to give him his aviators, it's way too bright out there for him. I would probably be squinting too lol. edit: typo
Pardon everyone, make everyone a billionaire, and banish climate change with the last wish.
Why is doing a useful thing to help people always framed as being unreasonable but nepotism is celebrated?
I feel like that if one pardon commits a crime, it will be spun like illegal immigrants where one person's actions defines the group.
How about instead of letting Republicans control the narrative we point out how immigrants have been treated unfairly by the system and tell everyone we think the pardon is a great idea. People are doing it for Hunter Biden why not immigrants?