Very powerful presidential immunity is quite possibly the dumbest thing I’ve heard.
Yes, let’s give the most powerful person on the planet complete immunity for whatever tickles their fancy.
Wanna wipe out a small nation because you don’t like someone who is from there? Sure. Consequences? What consequences?
Let’s strip all voting rights from anyone who isn’t someone who supports me.
Let’s bomb LA, for fun and profit.
Stupid.
Wanna wipe out a small nation because you don’t like someone who is from there? Sure. Consequences? What consequences?
I mean, while a nation wasn’t wiped out, a whole war was started against Iraq over false pretenses, and no consequences were ever seen.
We also spent 20 years in Afghanistan blowing shit up as a result of some Saudis hijacking planes, then just left all the terps and their families to be killed by the Taliban.
The argument about invading Afghanistan was that the Taliban was in cahoots with Al Qaeda and were harbouring Osama bin Laden.
At least they justified it. I mean, the justification was bullshit; but the justifications existed and, at least at the time, the majority of the public believed it.
If we give blanket immunity to the president, then, IDK, goodbye Madagascar, for no logical reason.
At least right now they have to try to justify taking some kind of action against someone or something. They can’t just do whatever.
Executive action, president can serve as long as they want. Executive action, the president is now the God-King dictator of the USA. States are dissolved, and everyone is under the rulership of his supreme Highness.
