This Whole King Trump Thing Is Getting Awfully Literal

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opinion/trump-immunity-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk0.0ccq.Q1o5evb0lDWT

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  3. Our pride is individual, our awareness is global. Come at us Trump/Putin

  6. Trump wants to be a dictator for a day. His words. I believe he wants to be one for life.

  7. Al Franken resigned from office over a picture of his hands over a woman’s tits from 5 feet away. Everyone wanted him crucified for that. This fuckstick has done a thousand things ten times worse and he is still a presidential contender. This whole country until that fucker is dead will make 0 sense to anyone with a brain.

  8. It’s fun to watch the NY Times slowly learn things that have been evident for years.

  9. Stopped clicking on NYT. But did they manage to squeeze in some narrative about why this is bad for Joe Biden? Horse race? Both sides?

  10. *He coulda won an Emmy,*
    *Buried in his diapie,*
    *Born in New York City, moved to Mar-a-Laga,*
    *Born in New York City, got a condo made of gold-a,*
    *King Trump*

  11. And Alito likes to use decisions from the 1600s from judges who put women to death for being witches. So we shouldn’t be surprised if he grants Trump full immunity.

  12. For some reason I thought you were talking about the ongoing feud between author Stephen King and Donald Trump and his cronies. Personally, I find that hilarious.

  13. Republicans have put this dimwit on a pedestal. Defeat it by electing democrats.

  15. A century before US independence, England executed one of their kings for treason – so in some ways declaring that President’s actions are above the law is almost a regression back to 1645, when this precedent that kings were in fact not above the law was set.

    In fact you could argue that it even violates the spirit of magna carta of 1215.

  16. If he wins the election, what is to stop him from canceling the next election for national security reasons? This is how dictators start, we’re watching it happen live and just “hoping for the best”

  17. We tend to frown on Kings in the United States of America. Fought a war about it and everything.

    And this time I don’t think we’ll be quite so forgiving of the attempted Kingmakers.

  18. There appears to be a king – well, 9 of them; called the Supreme Court. Effectively above the law and able to do as they please.

  19. My god can’t wait till this cockroach of a human being finally dies.

  20. SCOTUS: Can a president attempt a coup?

    Trump lawyer: Yeah pretty much

  21. It’s embarrassing that people are fawning over this moron.

  22. 2015 story

    https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1203-dantonio-trump-race-horse-theory-20151203-story.html

    “He’s a king,” said Maples when I interviewed her. “I mean truly. He is. He’s a king. He really is a ruler of the world, as he sees it.”

    Maples suspects that Trump was a royal figure in some past life. More likely he acquired his reverse noblesse oblige by training from his father who, according to Trump biographer Harry Hurt III, raised young Donald to become “a killer” and told him “you are king.”

    Also Don Jr.’s quote.

    “He’s (Trump, his father ) an incredibly accomplished guy, my mother’s incredibly accomplished, she’s an Olympian, so I’d like to believe genetically I’m predisposed to [be] better than average.”

  23. King Biden you mean. If the supreme court really fucks this one up, Biden could just assassinate Trump. Done. No more maga. Lol

  24. Its like everything in American is for sale and this is a rich guy buying what he needs to balance the cost of his deeds

  25. Glad to confirm you never thought it was serious, NYT

  26. I don’t get why we aren’t talking about this applying to Biden, why can’t Biden just kill trump if the president is immune?

  27. He thinks he’s Adolf Jesus. NYT says “getting awfully literal”? WTF?

  29. If we’re going to bring back kings, we also have to bring back their public beheadings.

  30. Every day that goes by it’s more clear that we’re not getting out of this situation without some kind of violent conflict. We’re just not. Jesus Christ, it’s so close right now that you can smell it.

  31. What is it that you think conservatives are conserving? They’re constantly trying to drag everyone back to an authoritarian hierarchy – to matter what country or time period you look at

  32. History has shown people who claim loyalty to a king don’t have a great track record in America. Just saying

  34. The weirdest part about all of this is that Trump is old and there is no public interest in anyone else. Despite any wanted correlation to kingship, dictatorship, etc., the reality is Trump is singular, and he’s VERY likely not going to be alive in a few years. I don’t expect Trump nor Biden to even survive the next presidential term. There is no power in the Trump name outside of Trump himself. There is no power in the Republican party that willfully backs him. The moment he dies is the moment all this ends. Every single person, organization, or even country backing him ends in a dead end, with ALL the financial expense that came with that backing. And that’s kind of the weirdest part. Trump is losing a LOT of people a LOT of money, and there is no payout on the back end. Even when you look back onto his presidency, he did absolutely nothing. Literally the most credit he can be given is that he didn’t veto the tax reform bill. But all this and every other action was originated, detailed, and executed by the Republican party. He lead nothing. All he did was not veto bad legislation. Also because of his incompetency and ignorance he also followed any recommendations by the Republican party for appointments of positions and judges. He didn’t know jack about any of it, never had, still doesn’t. He just does what he’s told and is corrupt enough not to care. He was the party’s golden goose for this reason. But he, specifically he, did nothing of value for anyone. He has been a money sink for most people, and that’s about it.

    So king, dictator, whatever? Laughable. If he was a much younger man and this kind of bs happened back then, he’d, and others with vested interest, would have time to bank on the idea and try something IF there could ever actually be public buy in which is also looney. But now, he’s on the edge of death, and they’re trying it. Nothing can work. There is no time for any of this.

    Plus ALL of this is ignoring one glaring problem with the plan. Trump no longer even has the public interest. Most of the public backing him last time isn’t. Most have already cast him aside. So this is mostly just journalistic sensationalism at best, and at worst a few vested parties trying to attempt some concept of centralized control. Neither are truly valid or valuable.

  36. > Rather than grapple with the situation at hand — a defeated president worked with his allies to try to overturn the results of an election he lost, eventually summoning a mob to try to subvert the peaceful transfer of power — the Republican-appointed majority worried about hypothetical prosecutions against hypothetical presidents who might try to stay in office against the will of the people if they aren’t placed above the law.

    > It was a farce befitting the absurdity of the situation. Trump has asked the Supreme Court if he is, in effect, a king. And at least four members of the court, among them the so-called originalists, have said, in essence, that they’ll have to think about it.

  37. They know they can’t win with democracy so they want an authoritarian state to impose their Christian Nationalism on all of us. Its pretty simple.

  38. Biden is not a right-of-center politician. His administration has been *incredibly* progressive. He’s just old and has “small c” conservative instincts around bi-parrisanship.

    He ain’t perfect, but he is worlds better than your average right-of-center pol.

  39. Trump doesn’t scare me as much as the guy that would come after him, someone not bound by former democratic norms.

  40. I am more concerned about the mindless zealots than I am the people in power. There is moral crossover that is intertwining nationalism and religious ideology… any one group that firmly buys into the idea that “the almighty god” is on their side while being compounded into American idealism will not be good for anyone who doesn’t show support. When enough foot soldiers feel empowered to act on behalf of their ideology, we are in trouble at the local level – resulting in a spider web of national, violent problems.

    To quote the movie ‘Civil War’:

    “yea, but which kind of American are you?”

  41. If POTUS can do anything, then Biden can appoint a Double Secret Supreme Court packed with Bernie Sanders, AOC, Eliz. Warren, Tim Walz, Cory Booker and these folks can trash any and every Supreme Court ruling in history.

  42. Can we all start realizing that he most likely has some kind of dementia or something that is making him crazy?.. ffs if he was a regular person he’d be put in a home and medicated at this point. This is extremely dangerous.

    I’ve been on Twitter and socials since before he was elected in 2016 trying to tell people this isn’t normal and bad things are gonna happen. I was told I was overreacting however everything I said has happened. If anyone has watched Handmaids Tale there’s a point where the main character kept getting told by her husband not to overreact and it wasn’t time to flee yet. They didn’t leave. Women it’s time to leave.

  43. I cannot believe I live in a country where this is even possible

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