• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    I’ll never understand how Biden just let that go. He should have made it impossible for Trump or any of the other criminals from the previous administration to participate in politics again.

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      24 hours ago

      If I were Biden, locking all those traitors up would have been priority number one. Had they done that, the world would be a much better place.

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        If not then, the very instant the supreme court ruled that anything the president does is legal as long as it’s an official act.

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      I agree with you, though I don’t know what measures he could have taken, specifically, to ensure that.

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          23 hours ago

          Issue being that Americans collectively no longer agree on what those words mean.

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            We don’t have to agree. He was in power, he can decide. Just like Trump is deciding what counts as “hate speech” now.

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              We do agree. It’s just like I said, I am not sure what mechanism he could use exactly to do this. Presidents don’t just declare people traitors and criminals and jail them. If they could, Trump would have the entire Democratic Party in the slammer. There might have been more Biden could do, I just don’t know exactly what. And you don’t seem to either.

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                He waited almost two years to take any action on this because he didn’t want to look like it was a political attack but trump was going to play that card either way. If he had told them to start working from day one this wouldn’t be happening. There was plenty he could have done but he was too wrapped up in the old system of traditions to understand that things have changed.