Biden to address Immunity ruling by SCOTUS

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/us/politics/biden-address-trump-supreme-court.html

29 comments

  1. I don’t just want a tirade (or will we even get *that*?)

    I want a plan.

  2. Biden has a great opportunity to grab if he is willing to

  3. I fully expect them to be given the same treatment as Israel: “This is awful and inexcusable, but we’re not going to do anything other than say how we’re unhappy about it.”

  4. If Biden was a true patriot, he’d do what Trump proposed with seal team 6. He would then go on trial, be found guilty (setting future precedence), and spend his remaining 2 years of life behind bars knowing he did the right thing to save our democracy. The end.

  5. Biden will make a speech about how he won’t abuse this new immunity power. We’re fucked.

  8. EO that in order to run for president you cannot be a convicted felon.

    Qualifies as official and is quite possibly actually defensible if he were charged criminally later on.

    But he won’t. Cause good guys don’t play bad. So zombie-walk towards authoritarianism we go.

  9. The First American King’s first address to his subjects. An historic moment.

  10. Biden should just ignore the Supreme Court ruling on the student loan forgiveness and forgive them anyway. It’s not like anybody can hold him responsible for doing so.

  12. This would be the time to announce an expansion of the court.

  13. If there was ever a time to go full Dark Brandon and make everyone forget about the trainwreck last week, this is it.

  14. “I’d like to address the immunity ruling by having Donald Trump and his Supreme Court lackeys assassinated for being a threat to national security.”

  15. We’re losing democracy and the POS NY Times is like, “I hope Biden appears more chipper as he announces the empire falling.”

  16. Welp, he just said it’s up to the people and basically shrugged, effectively kicking the can down the road. Hell, he just kicked it into the gutter.

    Nice knowin’ ya, America.

  17. God damnit Biden. The time to look strong, to even give some veiled or wise worded threats of using the decision himself and..
    He says.. what? Hardly shit?

    GOD FUCKING DAMNIT. I WANT TO BELIEVE THAT THE COUNTRY I GREW UP WITH WILL BE HERE FOR MY CHILDREN. NOT SOME OLIGARCHY CONSERVATIVE SHITHOLE. I WANT MY CHILDREN TO BE SAFE, THAT MEDICINE WON’T BANKRUPT OUR FAMILY, THAT THEY WILL HAVE FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS TO DECIDE THEIR OWN FUTURE.

    But no. After 30 years, a short time compared to many, studied law, voted in elections, worked my ass off in hopes for a brighter future. Hoping that if I do my part, this country will do its part for a brighter future…. and it is all potentially for naught.

    I say that as an Alabamian, I know it can get worse. God fucking damnit.

  18. summation of Biden’s comments: Up to y’all, now.

    I don’t know what else can be done…unless Biden wants to go full dictatorial and lock up trump, his entire family, and every Republican in the House and Senate for treason against himself because the supreme court basically gave carte blanche to the executive office.

    edit: I’m with y’all…I’m just floored by this decision.

    Like JOE_Blow wrote, “what hell is going on.” I really wish I knew because, this is nuts!

  19. Make this a FAFO moment for SCOTUS. They overstepped their bounds.

  20. As expected, Biden says he doesn’t want such power. Trump on the other hand is drooling over the things he can pursue.

  21. “My fellow Americans… the bombing of Mar-a-Largo will begin within the hour.”

  23. Democrats play the rules, Republicans don’t, and that is why republicans will win.

    When America is a hollow shell of what it once was, a mockery of all it was built to be, at least we can say we took the high road and gave it over peacefully to King Don the First.

  24. “May god help us save democracy”
    famous last words.
    We are so fucked.

  25. I mean at this point what is stopping Biden from saving our republic from an autocrat as an official act? Lock Trump up.

  26. America is imploding in real time.

    I’m looking in from Australia and all of this is horrifying. I can’t imagine how it’s actual citizens feel right now.

    I hope you all vote blue up and down the ticket in November. This has consequences for all of us.

  28. Here’s what I think we should focus on:

    Now that Supreme Court made it easier for Presidents to commit crimes, maybe the convicted criminal shouldn’t be President? This seems like an argument the Democratic Party should be making.

    Personally I’ll vote for Joe Biden’s desiccated corpse before giving the Presidency to a Criminal in Chief.

  29. He needs to sign an executive order stating that nobody with a felony conviction can run for any federal office, to include POTUS. You know, security clearances and such.

    Democrats need to start the impeachment hearings on some of these out-of-control SCOTUS justices.

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