But in their infinite wisdom, they decided former presidents and presidential candidates were a sacred cow and we cannot hold someone accountable for their crimes of they might become president, we must put them in a position to ruin everything
There’s no justice system that can withstand loyalists in every position of power.
Trump is doing illegal things. Congress, and SCOTUS need to put him in a cell, they won’t do that because too many memebers of those groups are also owned by the same people.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 1 day ago
we were 2 inches away from not having to deal with any of this nonsense.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
He was almost assassinated the day before the national convention. I wonder who the candidate would have been
goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
God, we were truly robbed of one of history’s greatest power vacuums. That shit would’ve made the Death of Stalin look like a church picnic. It starts with Vance saying he should be the obvious front-runner because he was totally the pick for VP, you just gotta trust him guys, he doesn’t have anything in writing because it was a secret handshake deal but he was totally gonna be the VP, ask anyone, and it ends with Ron DeSantis burying Mike Pence in cement while Nikki Haley drowns the convention center in gasoline.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I doubt that. That was all too convenient. Not to be a conspiracy theorist but it was literally perfect in every way. Down to the photo op. I might be 90% wrong but that 10% helps me believe the universe knows what it’s doing.
excursion22@piefed.ca 1 day ago
It would’ve been someone else if not Donny. Power has been consolidated in the executive branch for decades, while that of congress and the senate has eroded. A system designed to be trilateral is no longer so when one of the three can just nope out of whatever the other two say. The US has only been fortunate that it’s taken this long to have someone in that office with no morals.
It was already evident in 2010 that something like this was increasingly possible, as noted in Executive Unbound by Eric Posner.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
We would still be dealing with genocide, environmental destruction, extreme inequality, etc.
If you believe otherwise, then you must’ve been asleep during genocide joe.
TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s gotta be nefarious time travelers. I mean, there’s no other logical explanation that we could be in such a shitty timeline.