#Former president

[starcrossedandstupid]

How did they fail AGAIN???

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I went to a Ghost concert with a few friends and former US President Theodore Roosevelt. He was arguably a bigger fan than the rest of us too, like he had a band shirt and everything and pushed through all the way to the first row.

[profffessionally-trained-ducky]

THEY WERE INCHES AWAY FROM GETTING HIM!!! DAMN IT!!!

[demented-nightstand]

[makemoney2025]

It sounds like you're frustrated! Can you give me a bit more context about what happened? I'm here to help!

[thoughtfulfoxllama]

What the flip kind of world do we live in!?!?!?

If you didn't know, today there was a second assassination attempt against Former President Trump

(Please, keep the comments respectful. I don't care if you disagree with what I am saying, but just because our politicians resort to mudslinging, doesn't mean we have to. In fact, I'd say we have a responsibility to uphold civility if they refuse to)

Now, don't get me wrong, I stand against everything the Former President stands for. I think the guy is absolute trash, both Personally & Professionally

But this is absolutely appalling. It shows a disgusting lack of respect for the democratic system we live in, and a lack of faith in the American People

Even if you disagree with him, there are 2 reasons you should be horrified by this:

1.) He is still a human being. I don't care how deplorable a person is, it is not the decision of anyone to end another's life

2.) This shows the breakdown of Democratic Values. Not only is it sending the message that violence is the only response to our opponents, but it will radicalize his supporters even further

[virginia-the-opossum]

Breaking Bad was ahead of its time

[upontheshelfreviews]

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[gregathydaman]

It is genuinely fucked that we don't have shit like this here

Link to the post on titter -> https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1841694535685988768

[louisapennyfeather2021]

Welcome to Sam's Dream Journal.

Entry #1(the one and ONLY entry):

Last night I have a dream that had a plot, but I forget all of it because I saw a giant Ao3 banner on a TV screen advertising the release of the third fanfic of a series and told myself I had to tell the Group Chat about it.

The fic was titled "UNDERWORLD TO 53" and was the continuation of Former President Bill Clinton waking up in Area 51 only to find himself impregnated by one of the aliens that had infiltrated the United States. Fic #1 had been about how, during his presidency, Clinton's administration discovered that aliens were real and hid the information away. Fic #2 took place during Hillary's run for president when Bill dove back into politics with the intention of revealing the truth to the People before it was too late, only for the aliens to begin their invasion in Area 51. UNDERWORLD TO 53 followed Bill, Hillary, and the alien spawn as the Clinton's spread word to each state that aliens had compromised various US cities such and Tampa and San Francisco.

Don't ask me where this absolute crack riddled dream came from, I'm just as pained as you are that my subconscious created it.

It was complete with an Ad Banner of a map of the United States with markers for compromised cities, quotes from the fic, and tags(including mpreg).

Some brave soul on the internet will see this and turn it into a cracked masterpiece.

[toyu-frey]

Posted May 30th, 2024, at 4:26 PM. Regardless of what side of the American political spectrum you find yourself on, you gotta admit, it’s historic that a former president has been convicted on any charge and found guilty. I think the closet I personally can recall learning having happened in American history was back when regan was impeached.

Then again, I wasn’t a good listener in American history class.

Has this kind of a thing occurred before to a American president?

[wonk-ass-willy]

Just gonna leave this here for no particular reason

Edit: oh wow those tags sure are funny

[william-r-melich]

If Nefarious Breach, You Must Impeach - 04/26/2024

Presidential immunity is something that I haven't previously given much thought to, probably because it's something that hasn't surfaced much as an issue until recently. Yesterday at Trump's hearing on presidential immunity, US Supreme court justice Samuel Alito questioned whether prosecuting former presidents would harm the country's governance. Trump's lawyers argued that former presidents should have absolute immunity for official acts they made during their tenure as president. They said if they didn't, then prosecuting former presidents would become routine and would undermine future presidents from being able to execute difficult decisions without worrying about future legal repercussions. After all, our country's presidents are commonly put in difficult positions wherein the right thing to do would be considered illegal if performed by any other citizen outside of the executive office.

While speaking to Michael Dreeban, an attorney for special counsel Jack Smith's team who are persecuting Trump in two other cases, the Bush-appointed justice (Samuel Alito) asked him this. “I’m sure you would agree with me that a stable, democratic society requires that a candidate who loses an election, even a close one, even a hotly contested one, leave office peacefully, if that candidate is the incumbent?” “Of course,” replied Dreeban. Alito further posited this, “if an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election, knows that a real possibility after leaving office is not that the president is going to be able to go off into a peaceful retirement, but that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent, will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?” Dreeban replied that he believes there are “lawful mechanisms to contest the results in an election and outside the record” but claimed that President Trump and others “filed dozens of electoral challenges and my understanding is they lost all but one” in the courts following the 2020 election. He continued, “There was an appropriate way to challenge things through the courts with evidence, if you lose, if you accept the results, that has been the nation’s experience. I think the court is well familiar with that.”

Alito rebutted those assertions on whether there are enough legal safeguards to handle prosecutors acting politically. Dreeban and Jack Smith's team have said that prosecutors must go to grand juries for securing indictments as a check against prosecutions that are politically motivated. The justice responded by saying, "prosecutors could convince a jury to indict a ham sandwich."

Trump's lawyers also argued that their client was merely performing his duties as president while looking to uncover voting fraud during the 2020 election.

This week in New York, the former President, in reference to the Supreme Court case, told reporters the following. “If you don’t have immunity, you’re not going to do anything. You’re going to become a ceremonial president, you’re not going to be taking any of the risks, both good and bad.”

Chief Justice John Roberts, along with at least four other justices didn't seem to support the claim that absolute immunity would stop Trump from being prosecuted on charges of supposedly conspiring to overturn his loss in the 2020 election. Roberts was also with several of the other justices who indicated that the case might need to go back to the lower courts previous to the start date of any trial.

Roberts also showed his dismay with the reasoning brought by the Washington appeals court who gave the ruling against President Trump. During the hearing, the chief justice said this. “You know how easy it is in many cases for a prosecutor to get a grand jury to bring an indictment and reliance on the good faith of the prosecutor may not be enough in some cases.”

So, it appears to me that it's likely they will uphold limited presidential immunity, not absolute immunity. As such there's a good chance that it will go back to the lower courts to determine if he was actually performing his official duties while he was questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election results. If it's determined that he was, then immunity would apply, if not then it won't.

Oh, and by the way, there's something I forgot to mention. In the framer's wisdom they installed an important mechanism should the POTUS (President of the United States) engage in severely unlawful, egregious acts; Impeachment, - Duh! (I can't believe I forgot that and it's so important that I had to change the title of this post from, SCOTUS Hearing on Presidential Immunity.) Under impeachment it would require a 2/3rds majority vote in the senate to convict the President or one of his office holders. So, in deference to a famous Johnnie Cochran line, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit;" although with the opposite intention: "If nefarious breach, you must impeach."

[tattoorue]

[yamimichi]

I'm confused as to how the legal system works at times. Let me get this straight:

Trump was indicted. He arrived in NY, was arrested and arraigned.

34 FELONIES!

And now he gets to go back to Mar-a-lago? They're letting him go home after arresting him on 34 felonies?

I'm very confused as to why he gets to go home.