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    10 months ago

    I keep seeing hypotheticals like this as if the Dems wonā€™t pull the same old ā€œwe go highā€ BS theyā€™ve been pulling my entire life. Theyā€™re all about positioning themselves as ā€œthe good guysā€ while letting Rs do just whatever. The realistic way it would play out is Dems pretend nothing is wrong, make a show of ā€œpeaceful transfer of powerā€ after the election, and do the shocked pikachu when itā€™s bad. Do pay attention to modern history.

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      10 months ago

      I keep seeing hypotheticals like this

      Either a president is completely free to do whatever he wants or he is constrained by rules. This is not hypothetical.

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        10 months ago

        I meant the hypothetical in which Trumpā€™s ā€œimmunityā€ defense is upheld, libs love to powerfantasy about what Biden could do with this sort of ā€œimmunityā€ but history tells us that when Dems can choose whether or not to be restrained, they choose restraint, even if it means the GOP gets to hurt everyone.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah, the quote wasnā€™t actually a literal suggestion, it was pointing out the absurdity in a way that a conservative could understand it without having to make it directly about them.

          All politicians are at the same time self serving and for sale to some extent or theyā€™d never successfully get into politics.

          But one side gets off on punishing people from the other side, and the gays, the poor, and the minorities. I generally put those guys down as the bad guys when Iā€™m checking off boxes.

          That orange jack wagon parading around how heā€™s going full dictator for a day to punish everyone. Itā€™s one thing to be a sell out, to back a position for the favor of the people that donate the most to your cause, itā€™s another to try to come to power by proudly claiming all the people you want to hurt.

          The people backing him campaigning that way, they are not good people.