According to the SCOTUS, being ineligible for the Presidency isn’t a barrier, to running or winning. So I say bring on AOC as the nominee instead of Biden!

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Yes, I had it in a Hawaiian restaurant and was not a fan of the flavour or the texture. I’m glad you enjoy it, but I hope you’ll forgive me if I decline any baked goods you proffer.

It’s not too likely that any one of us will change the world, but every one of us can change someone’s world. Even if that someone is a turtle.

You misapprehend me. Bacon in certain contexts, yes. Spam, no.

You’re welcome to test that assertion at your convenience. Please do not let us know how it goes ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

Yeah, I misremembered the extraction operation where they took out hostages using the pier: https://apnews.com/article/pier-humanitarian-aid-gaza-israel-un-2465291ca9308f9d97e3cc51a8cab6c7

And as a result I may have been uncharitable in my assessment.

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Can’t sue for defamation when it’s the truth, Bretty-boy. Or, you can, but you won’t win.

Probably. It’s pretty clear the Constitution doesn’t matter anymore. Maybe “I’m A Welfare-Frauding Fraudster And Massive Piece Of Shit” Favre can get a big enough bribe in front of Clarence “I’m A Traitorous Piece Of Shit Grifter Selling My Country To The Highest Bidder” Thomas to win the case.

Someone has got to teach that girl a different method of dealing with her problems.

Fun for team kills where your barbarian throws an enemy bodily into the cloud. Bonus points if the enemy just ran out of it earlier that round. Or, void bulb - I always go out of my way to pick those up.

And if America had ranked-choice voting you might be right that there’s another option; unfortunately though things don’t work like that here so there is indeed no other option.

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What laws of our land were broken? Which statute? Has Obama been charged with anything and if so what? Because he didn’t have immunity from criminal prosecution, remember, so if this is your example you’re going to need to show that a former president a) had to break the law, b) couldn’t have accomplished the thing with existing powers, and c) faced criminal prosecution for that “official act” when they shouldn’t have, as a result of not having this immunity.

And this is my point exactly. Obama hasn’t been prosecuted for those drone strikes, nor for the operation that killed Bin Laden; and he won’t be, because those acts did not break United States law. When the President needs to do something most people can’t, they use powers imparted under existing law - the president already has quite a lot of power, you know. In the few cases the President has needed more than that, they’ve had to go justify it and get the other branches on board, at least nominally (looking at you, Bush Jr, and sending the Guard to the middle east to get around needing Congress to send the regular Army ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ). This is the way the system was designed, with checks and balances on each branch.

Long story short I’m sorry to say I find your example lacking and my challenge remains unmet. I very much appreciate you engaging in good faith though, so thanks!

Nah man, this is very concerning. You don’t need to calm down; I think everyone else is too fuckin calm about it.

What I want from anyone supporting this decision is a single example of a situation where the President would need to break the law in an official capacity. I want just one. I’ll not get it, but I’m gonna keep demanding it.

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Indeed this is not correct. Practically speaking, the soldier should keep refusing the order and will be relieved of duty and thrown in the brig. They will then have to hope that by the time the court martial date rolls around their name has been cleared and the officer who gave the order has been or will be court martialed in their place.

Theoretically the officer should go through every underling and find nobody willing to execute illegal orders, but practically they’d only need to go through three or four at most before they had a volunteer.