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angrychair

(11,639 posts)
8. Absolutely
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 02:37 PM
Dec 11

Without those six assholes a lot of this would be a lot harder but I would still argue at the end of the day it wouldn't matter if all nine of them were Democrats if they cannot enforce their ruling because the various federal police forces are all controlled by him or he could just issue blanket pardons for anyone that needs it on the fly.

I think what is missed here is that, based on our current structure, it was always possible for any president to do what he is doing, the only thing required is to be president and to have totalitarian rule over that executive branch, specifically the DOJ.
As long as that is true, what Congress or the courts do or say becomes irrelevant because they cannot enforce any actions on the president and they can just pardon whoever he wants to stop others from being arrested.
Our entire system of government works on the assumption that the president is an honorable person but if they are not, all bets are off. They could literally do almost anything.

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