Alexander Hamilton must be screaming as he turns over in his grave! Alito, Thomas, and the other fascist SCOTUS judges have given any US president powers like King George’s, that British king loathed by the Founding Fathers in general and Hamilton in particular. The US president can now be an absolute ruler above the law because he can’t be charged with any crimes associated with his “official acts.” Obviously all acts by a king are official!
Notice that I haven’t yet mentioned that “f&^%ing moron” Trump. While that SCOTUS decision was obviously for Narcissus le Grand’s benefit, any president is now king! But if Il Duce wins the 2024 election—all his many previous crimes are already being questioned—I guess we’ll have to learn to call Trump King Donald I. But right now, Old Joe becomes the absolute monarch, and we’ve plunged so deep into the cesspool of fascism that we can only elect monarchs. Sorry Alex!
While I lament this SCOTUS decision, to say the least, I do agree with Justice Sotomayor’s dissent and observations: A president now could send a SEAL team to assassinate a political rival and get away with it! That would be an “official act.” (Ironically, the SEALs could be prosecuted!) In fact, if that “f%$#ing moron” becomes president, he could send SEALs to assassinate the three remaining liberal SCOTUS judges. (All women, by the way, so said act would be conistent with Trump’s misogynist proclivities that would be exacerbated in this case because two of these judges are black and one is hispanic—remember that walk down the stairs at Trump Tower in 2015 and the hate-filled speech that followed?).
But hold on a moment! Old Joe’s now our absolute monarch! Maybe he should get on the ball and do a major clean-out! He could send SEALs or CIA hitmen to assassinate that evil “f^%$ing moron” and all his cronies, a group that includes all six of those fascist SCOTUS judges. He can’t be prosecuted for that “official act” that would eliminate all those fascist dogs!
Absurd? That word’s more the perfect description of the SCOTUS decision! Those six fascist judges don’t deserve to be called jurists. They should be labeled as traitors to the US and should have to face a firing squad considering all the damage they’ve done to the country and will probably keep on doing. Among all the MAGA maniacs, they’re the most dangerous: They’ll be there for life, maximizing their damage, when Biden and Trump are long gone. (They both have one foot in the grave now.)
Of course, so will Trump, i.e., there for life. If he escapes jail time for all his many crimes (a likely occurrence now!) and wins in 2024 (also more likely now with Dems abandoning Biden like rats leaving the sinking ship), he’ll become president-for-life just like Putin and Xi…and you’ll then be living in the Fascist States of America, his lasting creation and legacy for America!
Alex and our other Founding Fathers worked so hard to rid the colonies of a tyrant British king who had absolute power and to make sure no future US president in their fledgling democracy could become a despot monarch and wield similar power. That long tradition was destroyed by the fascist judges on SCOTUS. They ignored all precedent, as they’ve done in several other cases; but this recent decision is worse than all those previous ones.
When the once and future King Donald I assumes his throne, how long will it take him to disband SCOTUS and use DoJ and the military to go after his enemies? Or put rival politicians in jail or even murder them? That’s what “absolute immunity” means, and this SCOTUS has nearly bestowed that on Donald Jackass Trump. No, Biden won’t use that immunity; he believes in democracy. But Biden won’t win now, even if he survives the rejection from some of his party’s heavy-weights—no Dem can because Trump can do anything he wants to do to prevent it. In other words, you can bet that King Donald I will use his absolute powers.
We are so screwed!