Hotspur

Yeah this is kinda insane. 2, 3 done, 25? You’re crazy.

It does sorta feel like a logical conclusion to the west’s long-running obsession with the self.

Him and Keith richards

Yeah would be nice not to have ww3/civil war2

Oh for sure. Besides they can just run it back up to the Supreme Court and most likely get what they want.

Ostensibly yes, but I feel like the way the ruling was built—virtually anything they did, from taking a shit to ordering the hit on their grade school bully would fall under their “official duties” and you also weren’t allowed to use any communications from any of their staffers, etc. I just remember that it was basically a blanket immunity, once you factored in the burden of arguing the case.

That said, of course they will apply a different standard/ignore whatever they want. I’m still thinking it won’t go farther than performative statements and social media, but they’re so whacky that it’s almost impossible to make proper predictions about anything.

Would be crazy funny to send bush and Obama to Guantanamo to hang with the 5 mentally ill dudes left from their GWOT years plus a bunch of Venezuelans and Haitians and such. I think they’d have a great time. Obama could teach them about playlist making and bush could start a new painting series…

Well I mean they can arrest him. But presumably they’ll still have to have a trial and his lawyers will point to the ruling. But who knows, maybe they will denaturalize him as a national security threat and deport him to Guantanamo as an enemy combatant and avoid due process altogether.

True.

Does the Supreme Court ruling last year that presidents cannot commit crime while presidenting just mean this is ultimately a non-starter?

For sure.

Wow they’re burning like an entire pack of the cards they had up their sleeves on this one.