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He won't do shit.
He made a big deal about not pardoning his son, but did nothing to stop the next president from abusing the system.
Biden just ain't built to fight fascism, he never was.
No "moderate" is, if they acknowledged reality they wouldn't be trying to fight fascism with moderation anyways.
Exactly this. The "left" has consistently shifted right to pander to voters who don't like them. They've positioned themselves to be lame ducks across the board. Their "moderate" stance is basically taking it up the ass when someone tells them to assume the position. Kamala was/is and will always be weak. Biden was a do-nothing geriatric patient who was too afraid to even defend an ally, Ukraine.
The "left" have shifted right so hard Nixon would run as a fucking democrat.
I feel like we did this to ourselves over generations, probably even hundreds of years, and it’s purely a fear response based in the fact we can’t help but allow the worst kinds of people to “lead” us.
Moderates are what you get when you essentially selectively breed for those “neurotypical” people who can quietly work 9-5 jobs without complaining(read: standing up for themselves) and who are totally ok with “not rocking the boat” by demanding respect at their workplaces. They’re the people who take twice as long to do anything but they’ll show up at 8:30am like good little zombies and act like their deep burnout is just a fact of life because if it wasn’t then that makes them have to consider doing literally anything about it.
I know too many people in my field who are afraid of their bosses and they are the ones the bosses like even if they do worse work. So us “neurodivergent” people are pushed out of jobs because we even politely ask for a little of what corporate propoganda says it cares about on its “about us” page. You cannot be careful enough with their feelings because they do not care and no amount of being moderate will appease them.
Just give him some red backlighting and let him say, "battle for the soul of our nation" a couple more times. I'm sure that will help.
He can’t stop the next President from abusing the system. SCOTUS determines the President’s powers based on the Constitution.
SCOTUS gave the President immunity for official acts.
The next Congress with be fully Republican controlled. I completely expect Congress to expand and pack SCOTUS this term.
He could’ve expanded the court, but no. The DNC says “fuck the working people”
The only thing that will make a bit of difference is filling all the judicial vacancies, because those decisions canot be undone. I am flabbergasted that that hasn't been done already.
Everything else done by executive order won't have any point, because Trump can just un-executive-order it all. The time to do all that shit was 2-3 years ago, not now.
That's not true. He could do something cool like declassify a bunch of trump era shit but he won't because it would make America look like the clown orgy it is.
Won't they just say it's too close to some random point in the election process... again?
Senate votes to confirm...
There's no excuse for leaving court vacancies.
But a potential reason maybe the wealthy who gave Biden/Kamala all that money want trump to fill them
because those decisions canot be undone.
Oh honey...
Please educate yourself about authoritarianism.
Every single Executive Order suggested by the author can be immediately repealed by Trump on day one.
The irreversible acts Biden could take are very limited. He could pardon without reversal, as well as provide funding to allies that will surely be cut off by Trump. He could also seat the remaining vacant judge positions before Trump takes office.
There may be more, but those are the only ones I can think of at the moment.
He should be issuing broad federal pardons for any of the political targets Trump is threatening. Hell, he should issue broad pardons for all journalists. Anyone who has past found themselves on Trump's enemies list should get a full pardon now.
Will pardons prevent the executions?
Nothing will matter under law when he becomes a dictator and terminates the constitution on day one.
There is only one way to stop this.
How exactly does he terminate the constitution on day 1? I acknowledge that our constitutional protections are under threat, but he really doesn't have the power to discard it, just to seek judges that don't care about it.
Insurrection act.
Marshall law.
Etc.
He's already said this.
Plus with all the control in congress and R states I'm pretty sure that can call for that constitutional convention they've been dreaming about.
Option 1, SCOTUS deems that the constitution "isn't actionable" like they did with the 14th amendment already.
SCOTUS already defied the constitution by allowing Trump to run. People think a third term isn't feasible for some reason. They've also made decisions based on completely theoretical cases. Stopping SCOTUS requires 2/3 of congress which isn't happening.
Option 2, the president does whatever he wants and SCOTUS simply allows it all to happen as they have consistently done.
Oh you sweet summer child
Biden should pardon the entire prison population, except for J6 convicts and other Republican extremists, and then wish Trump "good luck".
Let's leave actual violent criminals in there 😅
If you look through that list, some of those things are easy to undo, and some are not. For example, revoking people’s citizenship would be pretty involved and would be a giant shit show.
Nah. The newly Republican controlled Congress can legislate denaturalization bills.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C4-1-5-1/ALDE_00013170/
Agreed, but they would have to pass legislation and imagine the protests and media shit storm Trump would face if he started revoking citizenship. It would be a massive time and energy suck for the GOP.
I’m all for anything Biden can do that will distract this Congress and administration from being able to do other shit.
The current Congress is far less effective with split control than the fully Republican controlled Congress we have coming. The President can veto congressional legislation, but does not have the authority to redefine their power.
Trump wouldn’t be the one revoking citizenship. It would be Congress. He’ll just point the finger.
Why are people still discussing parliamentary bullshit like this? The man promised to be a dictator. He will have absolute power.
Yup, I understand that. But he would have to get alignment from the few moderate republicans and senators in border states to start revoking citizenship. The GOP will have a slim majority and it will have its Joe Manchin to contend with. Old school republicans like Collins, Murkowski, Curtis are going to have a LOT of power.
Moreover, if you start kicking Americans out of America, that shit is going to be a media cluster fuck. New immigrants and kids of immigrants that voted for Trump will be forced ask “who’s next?”
What does he care? He’s not getting elected again. If he has a third term, it’ll be through systemic manipulation, not election.
Congress doesn’t need gubernatorial support to denaturalize. They can use the Naturalization Act of 1906 to change the requirements for qualifying for or maintaining naturalization, allowing for immediate revocation of citizenship and subsequent deportation.
”there must be strict compliance with all the congressionally imposed prerequisites to the acquisition of citizenship. Failure to comply with any of these conditions renders the certificate of citizenship ‘illegally procured,’ and naturalization that is unlawfully procured can be set aside.”
What the fuck does the law matter when they'll literally just be deporting people by the millions and not letting them back in?
I’m referring to denaturalizing existing citizens to be deported, which has been an unused congressional power since 1906.
Why do you think they have to pass legislation? We just overwhelmingly elected a man who promised to be a dictator.
Do you not know how dictatorships work?
Biden won't do anything useful.
He's had 4 years to be useful and he decided early he'd rather drool than, oh, codify roe v wade or set up protections against fascist rule
How does Biden codify Roe V Wade? He can't sign a bill into law because there is no bill to sign. That starts in the Republican controlled house.
It wasn't republican-controlled for the first two years Democrats squandered.
To be fair he’s done a lot of great things. Definitely dropped the ball on a bunch of stuff, but it’s not fair to say he’s just been drooling all this time.
Honey, no...
We don't have to do this "respect the man, he worked hard" routine. That doesn't help anyone. The dude failed to protect the most vulnerable or safeguard the country from Nazi elements within while also propping up genocidal regimes and he never did close those "kids in cages" camps that the media stopped talking about Jan 20, 2021.
We agree that he failed to achieve much that he (ideally) should have. It’s easy to sit at our computers and type out a bunch of ambitions for Biden, but never having been president myself, I’m not really in a position to dish out hard-nosed criticisms of the man. Everyone is forced to work within certain frameworks that are usually invisible or poorly communicated to the world at large. Every democrat is forced to pick up and duct tape the pieces of rubble blown up by the previous republican president. All I said was that he did do many good things, and I stand by that.
... But Won't.
That's the headline.
But he won’t, because that’s Not Who We Are, and When They Go Low, We Go High.