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“(With) today’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed. For all practical purposes, there are virtually no limits on what the president can do. It’s a fundamentally new principle and it’s a dangerous precedent because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law even including the supreme court of the United States.”

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Payback's gon' be a bitch. The pendulum will swing the opposite direction with much more force, me thinks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm wondering what side you're on yet that doesn't even matter. Your comment shows you're little more adult than a 15 year old kid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

My point is the right and the left keep going to extremes. And the pendulum is actually an axe blade and all the citizens of this country are strapped to the table beneath that pendulum.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Left isn't going to any extremes. They do almost nothing and it is what is allowing the right to swing to their extremes. This "both sides" take is disingenuous at best. A better analogy is the american people are strapped to a guillotine, the right is ready to release the blade and the left is still trying to debate and dicuss the merits of not dropping it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Really? Anti-Fa? BLM? C'mon man. Either way, from my point of view, both sides of the isle are making our lives more and more miserable over time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

BLM: Stop killing unarmed citizens and being racist.

You: Why won't the leftists stop being so extreme???

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You forgot about the part where there was violence and property destruction by BLM protestors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Ah yes, some Targets getting broken into is equally as damaging and extreme as racist christofascists attempting to overthrow the government and subvert democracy multiple times. How could I be so silly as to forget.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Fuck off troll, no one is buying your obvious bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Was really unaware that Antifa and BLM were official wings of the Democratic Party.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeeaaahhh but... When the left goes to extremes youat have to deal with things that are strange or annoying. When the right goes to extremes, entire groups of people are pushed further into poverty, lose their rights, and die.

These two things are NOT the same.

Also: the right has been moving the goal post so many times that extreme left in the US is still considered far right in Europe. You don't know what far left is.