The court could go out of their way to rule on the case and make sure it only applied to Trump and only in this instance.
Just because the Democrats are suddenly given power doesn't mean they will use it to stop fascism. Sadly, too many in the Democratic party are invested in the US Empire to just let go of how things currently work. Their long inability to act is literally why we are at the precipice of fascism fully taking over. The Democrats fell in line with Bush's illegal war in Iraq, and they declined to do anything about the fact that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & Co. signed off on torture. We're about to have Trump as a Dictator because we refused to do anything about leaders who were and are war criminals. People expecting Biden to do something, even if it is ruled in his favor, are waiting in false hope, imho.

EDIT: To be clear, I'd be ecstatic to be proven wrong, honestly. It would be nice to see Democrats really stand on the right side of history, not just partially or out of convenience.

[–] jonne 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This meme is explicitly about the President committing crimes and getting away with it. I don't think this is something you want, whether the President's a Democrat or a Republican.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sometimes the law is on the opposite side of justice. When the law is unjust and oppressive, the just break the law. That's how you get civil rights that the current laws don't allow.

I'm not kidding myself that the authoritarian pro-cop Senator from MBNA would break any of the unjust and oppressive laws, though. Those are some of his favorites, and he's the main culprit behind many of them.

[–] jonne 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

While true in general, I can't think of any unjust laws that bind the President. In fact, Trump has shown that there's not enough laws that rein in the President. Stuff like the Presidential Records Act not actually having any penalties or enforcement mechanisms (besides impeachment) are really giant oversights.

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago

Depends does he grab them by the pussy?

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Just because the Democrats are suddenly given power doesn't mean they will use it to stop fascism.

Democrats had the opportunity to enshrine Roe after the 2020 election. They had a trifecta. They could have passed whatever they wanted and the Republicans would have had to suck it. And they deserved to go unheard, too, because it's what Republicans did to Democrats for four years. Abortion is overwhelmingly favored among the voter base. We've been seeing abortion rights being protected on state ballot measures, even in states Trump won by wide margins. What we needed for half a century was a law on the books explicitly granting the right to an abortion rather than a SCOTUS decision based on an interpretation of an Amendment that doesn't explicitly guarantee that right. So why did the Democrats do basically nothing to enshrine Roe between 2021 and 2023?

I'm still going to vote blue because the options are either fascists or business as usual. Do I really have a choice? So while we're at it, fuck the two-party system.

And it's not just that particular Congress's fault Roe wasn't enshrined. There were other Democrat trifectas after Roe. The last Congress just happened to be the one to oversee the overturn of Roe.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Republicans had the house in 2020. The last time Democrats had the trifecta was under Obama for about 6 weeks, they still didn't do anything because enough senators were having health problems, so they still didn't actually have enough votes.

We need to burn down the state election offices till they stop gerrymandering the fuck out of tons of states so that the Dems can actually have a supermajority.

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Not true, they passed Obamacare in that window. I remember it was a rush to get… i think the last Kennedy brother to vote on it before he died and they lost the advantage.

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[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 92 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don’t you worry, they would change their opinion on a dime of someone tried to prosecute Biden. We already know they don’t give a fuck about precedent.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yet Democrats won't expand the Supreme Court because "it'll set a precedent".

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Republicans when they get control again: You know what sounds like a great idea? Expanding the supreme court!

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As if they wouldn't do that anyway if they didn't have the court locked down already. Please quit acting like we can appease Republicans into acting reasonable.

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

This. This is when things start burning.

[–] crashoverride@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The president has already been set, we used to have a 13 justice supreme Court

[–] AlfredEinstein@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

At this point, I won't be happy unless Hunter Biden is the next Supreme Court Justice.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago (23 children)

This is right up there with those shitty Trump memes where they shop out his turkey neck and paste his body on Schwarzenegger

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

You're right, they are both pretty hilarious. If only Biden were literally selling his as an NFT like Trump has.

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I got lazer eyes Jack!

[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No more malarkey!

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Corn pop was a bad dude!

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's not so funny when they do it, simply because they aren't joking

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah you need an extra level of irony to make it funny.

They do it to meme.

We do it to mock their meme.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

For them it's a form of fascistic kayfabe.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It feels like these are just so forced just in reply to those Trump memes. Biden is just too bland and bleh for these to be funny.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The fact that he's an uninspiring and largely disappointing president is what makes dark Brandon funny. If we wanted to laugh about a president who really does act like a demonic entity, we'd just vote for the other guy.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

To me it just feels forced, which totally ruins it. I've seen similar memes about turbo boring politicians and that's funny, but I guess with Trump being a legit case of this sorta nonsense makes it feel different.

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[–] arymandias@feddit.de 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Then he is finally free to personally go to Gaza and [redacted]

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ol’ Genocide Joe doesn’t need to worry about presidential immunity in places like Palestine

[–] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Tbf he is kind of immune because any place that kills him will probably get nuked or something

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago

So he could order a hit on Trump without repercussions? Is this really what Trump and his fans want?

[–] gayhitler420@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

“Just wait till my evil demon gets to amorally act with impunity!

What? He already is?”

There is no way the sc will rule that chief executives can be prosecuted for crimes committed while in office. Every former president would be drowned in lawsuits immediately. Discovery alone would subject so much information to FoIA that it would require additional staff.