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If inciting an insurrection towards their own government is an action without legal repercussions, I don't see how the law would be less lenient about straight up firing a gun at an opponent.

I by no means want any party to resolve to violent tactics. So even though I play with the thought, I really don't want anything like it to happen. I am just curious if it's actually the case that a sitting president has now effectively a licence to kill.

What am I missing?

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

What is stopping BIDEN??? I'd say empathy and a good set of morals. Regardless of if you think he's fit to be president, I think nobody sane would argue that he's a good man. He's a good person. Even if he could do so consequence free, HE wouldn't.

The question is, what's stopping the next president with no morals? And that's a far more chilling scenario.

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[-] nemith@programming.dev 12 points 5 days ago
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[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Pardon my ignorance but did the court say that inciting an insurection is an official act?

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[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

He should start with the supreme court if he has an ounce of worth.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

That wouldn’t be an official act as president. What would be an official act as president would be nuking mar a lago, calling a special forces strike on trump, or possibly even getting him sent to Guantanamo

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

It would make for a great example of everything that's wrong with it. I want it to happen. It'd halt a lot of the fascist push along with getting them to make their own counterarguments.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Biden has a moral compass, rusty as it may be. Trump has an AMORAL compass, all bright n shiny forever pointing at himself

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