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President Trump insisted there are “no limits” to his power when asked in a new interview about his takeaways from the Iran war.
The president was pressed by Axios’s Marc Caputo during an interview about whether he learned there are bounds to his power during the Middle East conflict.
“I haven’t learned that lesson yet,” he replied. “I know there are, but there are no limits. We defeated them totally militarily.”
Term limits are a pretty good limit.
His power ends in 2028, and then he’s OURS.
Here’s hoping that the law stops the guy who has never been stopped by the law
It’ll more probably be the laws of nature that stop him.
Surely this time he will be held accountable!
No one said surely. Who the fuck is saying surely about that? They sure as shit aren’t on Lemmy.
Surely you don’t know for sure
It’s bad taste to make a former president accountable for their actions.
Remember Nixon and Ford?
We won’t make him accountable. We’ll fucking tear him apart, and his kids will be held accountable.
By that I mean we’re going to throw them in a cia black site and use some highly enhanced techniques to get every bit of Intel they have, they stole, and they sold. At which point they would be too much of a security risk to ever release. Keep them in solitary until their execution for treason.
Then do the same for the billionaires that bought his power.
Better yet, strip their citizenship, declare them nation states because of their wealth, then declare war on them, place sanctions on them, etc.
They want to act like countries, treat them like one
I like the way you think.
Lol I’ll believe it when I see it
Not even then tbh
dude just eat them and be done with it. cleaner and easier
I don’t eat trash
Use them as fertilizer
Lobsters are just the bottom-feeding cockroaches of the sea, when you think about it, and they’re super tasty.
I mean, that analogy would make me the delicious one, and I’m not sure that’s a position I want to be in
i mean, we could feed them to people we don’t like. i get it though. my body is a temple and i am the god to which it is dedicated. i am very picky about what enters its doors.
I’m not picky but I won’t eat toxic stuff
Context for the outsiders?
Ford was Nixon’s VP and after it was clear that Nixon would be impeached he resigned and Ford became president and he completely pardoned Nixon.
Ford became VP after Nixon’s original VP Agnew resigned and since he was the speaker of the house Ford got the job.
So Ford was VP and president without being voted in for either role.
TL;DR: Gerald Ford is the only president who was not elected by the voters.
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The most basic check on the pardon power would be it cannot be used for anyone who is part of or formerly part of the executive branch. These pardons would have to come from Congress.
At this point the Presidential pardon power should be removed, it has been used for so many corrupt acts it is not funny.
And maybe make some rule about how the same party cannot count as much. Because Republicans.
Seeing the wealthy people pretend Trump did nothing wrong during Trumps last two impeachments was ridiculous. The Senate is truly an institution that knows no low.
Life expectancy is a pretty good limit. He thought he was going to somehow end wars and spend years and years in retirement. Let’s see what happens. Certainly Jimmy Carter was smarter.