• Leon@pawb.social
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    1 month ago

    Why can the president stand above the law? They’re talking a lot about having no kings or whatever but Trump basically is one.

    Sweden is a constitutional monarchy. Our king doesn’t have as much power as Trump. Neither does our prime minister.

    Neither should. That’s not how a democracy should work.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Normally, a president can’t. The president is supposed to be checked by the legislative (Congress) and judicial (Supreme Court) branches of the government (president being executive).

      The problem is, the other two are loyal to him so they don’t check each other.

      Most presidents have not had this power.

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        I think they are talking specifically about the power of pardon, which all other presidents certainly have had.

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          The government has basically been held together by a system of social norms and gentleman’s agreements which Trump doesn’t give two shits about. The one, singular potential good thing that might come out of this presidency is if all of these loopholes get closed as a result.

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      To be clear: Trump’s opponents are saying no kings. Trump & those around him are tweeting pictures and videos of him as a king. Stephen miller said Trump had “pleniary power”. His followers want him to be king.

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      The whole pardon thing, as well as others of the US presidential powers, are a remainder from absolutism. They thought they took the best of all worlds, by combining elements from absolutism with more democratic elements and combined them into a constitution, when in reality it was a pretty shaky construction from the beginning. And of course now it has long since gone completely rotten by deliberate corrupting the system even more than it was before.

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      It actually feels like he wants us to know he rapes kids just so he can show that no one can punish him for it.

      I 100% think he will pardon Maxwell. Why? It’s the most fucked up option he has in that situation.

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      I doubt it’s trump being smart, but… since the 2016 election, his support from young black men has doubled. That might have something to do with him pardoning Lil Wayne, Kodak Black(pedo rapist pos), and NBA YoungBoy. He probably has some advisors picking people to pardon that will boost his abysmal reputation among certain minorities.

      And it gets him the attention and headlines that he so desperately craves.

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      It’s evil and it emboldens sexual criminals. It also is an abuse of power. Did you think more “benefits” were needed for trump?

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      When he pardons Maxwell he hopes it won’t be a big deal because “he pardons everybody”.

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    There is a lot of unpredictability to Trump’s behavior, except just keep this in mind and you’ll never be wrong about him: if it’s fucked up, he prefers to do it immediately. If it’s decent, he’d rather be drawn and quartered than do it. This shit is fucking cartoon villain stuff. What possible non-evil explanation would he have for even considering this? At this point he’s just reveling in his cults’ defense of anything he does, no matter how heinous. The Epstein files not getting released is no problem for Republicans and neither will this pardon be.