America & World V: Sacré Bleu!

[briareos_kerensky]

If he manages to get back then you absolutely, categorically do not want to be in the States in early 2029

It's not just Trump, it's the whole Republican party that has shifted of an almost fundamentalist Christian stance and if it's not 2025, it will be the next election. Project 2025 (or whatever it's called) is an abominable program, but I'll give this to Republicans: they have covered their bases incredibly well and are feeding Trump exactly what he needs to win.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/30/france-election-live-polls-close-marine-le-pen-national-rally-emmanuel-macron?page=with:block-668199098f081d94ff3d33e0#block-668199098f081d94ff3d33e0

First estimates and results from the French voting puts the far right National Rally in the lead

[Dogg Thang]

"The US supreme court has ruled that former presidents are entitled to some degree of immunity from criminal prosecution, dramatically reducing the likelihood that the federal criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to stop the transfer of power will proceed before the 2024 election.

The court’s conservative majority – which Trump helped create – found 6-3 that presidents were protected from prosecution for official actions that extended to the “outer perimeter” of his office, but could face charges for unofficial conduct."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jul/01/supreme-court-decision-trump-immunity-ruling

Jeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzz. That's dangerous.

[MartyG]

I think the obvious answer is for Biden to officially have the convicted fellon Trump assassinated.

[Lebowski]

America has full on lost its mind, so any official act you can't be prosecuted for

• Justices decided there are two official acts in this case: Directing the Justice Department to discuss investigating purported election fraud with some states and talking to then-Vice President Mike Pence (Trump pressed him to not certify the results of the 2020 election)
• They also said the speech Trump gave on the morning of 6 January 2021 encouraging rally attendees to march on the Capitol and suggesting he might join them was an official act, as were the tweets he sent that day
• They raised questions about whether pressuring state officials to change their states' electoral votes for Trump and creating what is commonly called the "false electors" lists for some states were unofficial, but they leave it to lower courts to decide
  
  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw0y5228v1yt

So all the stuff he did to try and cling onto power illegally he can't be prosecuted for. they have also ruled they can't go after his personal info so the case about him holding onto classified documents is now dead too.

wow

[Protocol Penguin]

Trump on 6th November.

[fishbowlhead]

America has full on lost its mind, so any official act you can't be prosecuted for[/LIST]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw0y5228v1yt

So all the stuff he did to try and cling onto power illegally he can't be prosecuted for. they have also ruled they can't go after his personal info so the case about him holding onto classified documents is now dead too.

wow

Told you all, so f*****g obvious it’s not even funny, corrupt too the very core and pip.

[fishbowlhead]

I think the obvious answer is for Biden to officially have Trump assassinated.

No ones got the backbone for it.

[Nu-Eclipse]

Might as well lump on at the bookies and try to make some money out of what will be a bleak end to the year when Drumpf finally wins.

This could've been averted years ago if Biden had been humble enough to just be a one-term President to allow to younger Democrats to come through - his legacy would've been preserved in a positive way. The next four years are going to be f--k--g grim.

[fishbowlhead]

So does the wording specifically state TRUMPLE is immune from any prosecution? Or any president?

If it’s any acting or past president then Biden can give trumple the death penalty now for treason and be immune, the US has REALLY f*****d the boat with this law.

[QualityChimp]

This is so troubling.
I feel like we're watching mankind take its steps towards armageddon.

[fishbowlhead]

It’s certainly the last throws of democracy, if anyone in the future wondered what and where it all went wrong, that’s a watershed moment right there, a poisoned blunt knife hammered straight into the heart of ordinary people and common sense.

[Dogg Thang]

So does the wording specifically state TRUMPLE is immune from any prosecution? Or any president?

If it’s any acting or past president then Biden can give trumple the death penalty now for treason and be immune, the US has REALLY f*****d the boat with this law.

Not immune from any prosecution. But the two things Trump has been given immunity for would seem to suggest that undermining the already-flimsy democracy is official enough to give him immunity. If Biden was a spiteful man, it would seem this would open the door for some serious stuff before he leaves but then, from what I gather (and honestly I'm only dipping in and out), the Republicans basically seem to have a hold over the supreme court so what Trump gets immunity for and what Biden would could be two very different things.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/01/trump-hush-money-supreme-court-immunity

Trump immediately pushes against his hush money conviction via the ruling. Doubtful it will make much difference as the offence took place before his presidency.

[MartyG]

It would apply to all presidents - there would be no procescutions for "official" acts to ever get to the supreme court for them to rule on - and very poor precedence it it.

But no Biden can't just hand down death penalties for Treason, he's still not a King. He'd need to instruct special forces to assassinate opponents as official enemies of the state. Then it's an official act.