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This is the very essence of the difference that should exist between a President and a King. From Federalist 69:

The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the king of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable; there is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable; no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution. In this delicate and important circumstance of personal responsibility, the President of Confederated America would stand upon no better ground than a governor of New York, and upon worse ground than the governors of Maryland and Delaware.

The failure of the Republican party to support this kind of check on Presidential power is why we're having this crisis now.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 day ago (9 children)

So, those 2A people being real fuckin quiet now that an actual tyrant is in play.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

The objection was always that somebody dark-skinned might be President, or that assets might be expropriated from billionaires, not that tyranny might be an issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Haven't seen or heard anything from Trump supporters in my area since day 3 of the presidency. Wonder why.... It couldn't be that they have no faces left cause of the leopards... Could it? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a leftist who owns firearms, I'm waiting for everything to kick off (in Minecraft obviously)

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

Be the change you want to see. In Minecraft.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Random acts mean nothing but support for the other Minecraft team as the idiot centrists decry the violence.

America's problem is that its resistance is made of a fractured left. Things will have to get bad to get a rebellion going, and quite frankly I think the blue states would seceed first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The time to rise would have been when Alabama banned abortion. Even before the kids in cages shit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

That’s because their team is the tyrant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

They are two buysy fantasizing that a black guy is on their porch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

What's Alex Jones mouthing off about now? This was his thing decades ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

they want a hierarchy and the freedom to enforce it. nothing else.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are they supposed to say? If they say anything they're gonna have the SS knocking on their door.

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

Might need more Secret Service agents if all gun owners spoke out against tyranny. Like, millions of agents 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't SS generally for SchutzStaffel?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Let's hope they don't become one and the same.