Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"

KEVIN ROBERTS (HERITAGE FOUNDATION PRESIDENT): In spite of all this nonsense from the left, we are going to win. We’re in the process of taking this country back. No one in the audience should be despairing.

No one should be discouraged. We ought to be really encouraged by what happened yesterday. And in spite of all of the injustice, which, of course, friends and audience of this show, of our friend Steve know, we are going to prevail.

Number two, to the point of the clips and, of course, your preview of the fact that I am an early American historian and love the Constitution. That Supreme Court ruling yesterday on immunity is vital, and it’s vital for a lot of reasons. But I would go to Federalist No. 70.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge,
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

Why tbe fuck isn’t this ringing any alarm bells in this country?

duderium2,

“Damn maybe somebody should do something about this” — biden, current emperor of the USA (according to the SCOTUS)

f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4,

Don’t you dare speak of injustice when your candidate raped children, one four times, with the last rape occurring when she was thirteen years old.

Rivalarrival, (edited )

The president is immune for any act he is authorized to perform: an “official” act. Any act he is not authorized to perform is an “unofficial” act. The immunity ruling doesn’t even slow down the criminal prosecutions against him. It’s not even a speed bump.

Everyone seems to forget Trump’s argument was that he was absolutely immune to all criminal prosecution for anything unless he was impeached for it first. SCOTUS rejected that argument outright, and opened the door for courts to declare his actions “unofficial”.

AutistoMephisto,
@AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world avatar

Look at his words a little deeper, and you’ll pick up the thinly veiled message. He’s not saying anything that a rapist has not said to a victim before, during, and after the act. What he said was “as bloodless as the left will allow”.Said another way, “Don’t resist our brazen coup attempt and you will not be harmed. Everything is going to be okay. Don’t resist, don’t struggle, don’t fight. Just let it happen. You want this, I can tell.”

Boddhisatva,

Subby should have included the whole quote that Media Matters truncated.

“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Translation, let us turn this country into the Republic of Gilead or we will kill you.

todd_bonzalez,

This is the same logic Nazis used. The narrative was that Jews forced their hand by refusing to comply with their demands.

Make no mistake, this is a promise of bloodshed. They just want to sound like they want peace and that they’ll have to kill to get it.

Kill them first.

MaxPow3r11,

There are a ton of fucking fascists in this country.

Fedizen,

I do think the funniest outcome of this is that the president could refuse to pay thomas and alito on the grounds “they’ve already been compensated” and we might even enter a situation where alito and thomas try to rule on their own case, further humiliating them

AFC1886VCC,

If these people aren’t already on a counter-terrorist watch list, they should be.

SeattleRain,

He’s not wrong.

RandomGuy79,

These people are terrorists

frezik,

Non-state actors who use violence or the threat of violence to achieve political aims.

Yup, checks all the boxes.

Contravariant,

I’d say that’s slightly off. Most terrorists have no intention of actually ruling the regions they terrorize.

These people are more fascists.

RandomGuy79,

Fair

Ultraviolet,

So they’re openly admitting to a coup attempt.

Yawweee877h444,

god I hate conservatives. These people are pure evil

Heterocephalus,

How come the people who say they need automatic weapons to defend themselves from their government at the same time cheer for giving their government absolute power?

JDPoZ,
@JDPoZ@lemmy.world avatar

Because they don’t want freedom for all. They want to rule over others.

rottingleaf,

Most people dreaming of conflict do.

Not me, I just have ADHD and seek conflicts to not get bored.

drunkpostdisaster,

They also don’t understand how important drones are going to be.

ReallyActuallyFrankenstein,

There’s no quiet part anymore, it’s all just loud.

frezik,

There’s apparently some people in the back who still can’t hear it. Somewhere around 20-40% of the US population.

Jiggle_Physics,

You are mistaking “want to hear it” for “can’t hear it”

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