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Trump Goes Full Dictator With Announcement on Biden Pardons (newrepublic.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by conditional_soup@lemm.ee to c/usnews@beehaw.org
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Oh no, who could have predicted this besides anyone who was paying attention?

FTA:

The Trump administration is working tirelessly to undo the accomplishments of President Joe Biden—including the ex-president’s pardons.

“The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen,” Donald Trump posted on Truth Social within the first hour of Monday.

(Hope I'm doing this right, I don't post much news and I forget the conventions.)

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[–] megopie@beehaw.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

He can say what ever he wants, apparently, but he has to run it by a court to actually prosecute people, and we’ve already seen that the courts are not just giving him the outcomes he wants.

Hell, even the Supreme Court, as stacked as it is, isn’t just rolling over for him.

The question is what happens when he continues to just ignore court orders and rulings. Will he be held in contempt? Will there be actions to enforce the decisions of the courts?

That’s the actual question at stake at this point

[–] araneae@beehaw.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe Joe Biden can act his grief out on stage after Hunter disappears.

Maybe future democracies will actually learn what fascism means and what it does. That you can't defeat it with performative gestures.

[–] remington@beehaw.org 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

'Goes Full Dictator', that New Republic chose for the title, is clickbait fearmongering bullshit.

That whiny orange child couldn't dictate shit even if his hand was being held.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Agree, the headline is dogshit. I figured Trump would do this the day Biden signed those dumb fucking EOs. The guy is wiping his ass with our constitution and SCOTUS functionally made the president a king, idk what made the Biden team think those EOs were going to do anything.

[–] TanyaJLaird@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hitler was a drug-addicted fool who failed at everything he tried to accomplish in life.

You don't have to be competent to be a dictator. In fact, incompetence is usually a prerequisite for being a dictator. Actually intelligent people realize they don't personally have all the answers.

[–] remington@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump is an infant that requires everything done for him.

[–] TanyaJLaird@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the attitude that lost Democrats 2016, 2020, and 2024. (They only managed to win in 2020 because of covid.)

People consistently underestimated Trump. It's the same thing that caused people to underestimate Bush. Both sound like morons when they talk, so people thought they were harmless morons. And then look what happened.

Just because someone is evil, does not mean they are stupid. Trump managed to read the electorate and determine how to appeal to voters better than hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Democratic consultants. He has far better political instincts than anyone currently leading the Democratic party.

Do not underestimate your opponent. That is what got us into this mess in the first place. People kept telling themselves, "there's no way this blubbering idiot could possibly win." And then he did.

[–] remington@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

You are giving Trump too much personal credit. It’s not him that is making headway. It’s being done for him by others in the background. Now you have context for my previous comments.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Given that Melania Sandiego won't touch him, he's going to have to offer to pay someone to hold his hand ahead of not paying and years of litigation far more expensive than just paying the fucking bill.

[–] BlatNews@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

Me using autopay on my bills and autoinvest on my 401k

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

I thought he was only going to be a dictator for a day!