'A king above the law': US Supreme Court's Trump ruling prompts judges to warn of 'nightmare scenarios'

So when Trump becomes president he can just throw all his political opponents in jail, right? It's a presidential action.

The USA just created a second Russia, China, North Korea, ...

Biden should take his balls in his hands and fire the republicans from office as an "official action to save the poor", get rid of the crooked supreme court justices as an "official action to restore balance", write a new constitution as an "official action to save the country from the brink of destruction", and just in general clean up the laws in the country as an "official action". No more gerrymandering, get rid of first past the post and the two party system, make the presidential election a direct vote instead of the bullshit electoral college, and so many other things.

Do it, you fucking coward.

Biden is 81 For the good of America he should just resign himself to eating Trump. The only consequences he would now face are indigestion.

It staggers me that in reality so much of the operation of various countries democracies have relied upon good people acting in good faith.

Was Scomo making himself anything less than a king by secretly appointing himself as the minister in charge for every key portfolio? Roll out martial law, and congratulations, you have a new dictator. Surely, he could have done it with the panic around covid.

I always thought that looking back through history, with the lessons from ancient Egypt, Greece, the Roman Empire and even the rise of Stalin, Hitler etc we would be aware of what to look for and wouldn't fall for the same thing over and over.

But it still seems to be so incredibly easy to achieve. It doesn't seem to matter how 'democratic' you are, or how democratic you think your society is.

I am disappoint....

Centre of democracy my arse

Biden should imprison Trump and everyone who assisted him in Gitmo, for life, with no access to social media.

i think it would be funny if joe went sicko mode on this precedent and did some housecleaning to demonstrate materially why and how the supreme court made a massive mistake.

so biden has now the permit to kill trump? did i read that correctly?

But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

--Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

There will never be a clear and indisputable moment in which they've gone too far, but this moment seems pretty clear to me.

So does anyone know what Trump is going to use instead of a swastika? Like a big "T" with an eagle on it? Something that looks nice on a brown shirt, or the side of the van that will round up his detractors in 2025? This is 1933 all over.