by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The American Constitution now has a pretty profound logic-trap built into it. If a president has immunity for “official acts,” what’s to stop him or her from engaging in a lot of defenestration towards anyone who gets in his / her way — including SCOTUS?
Now, obviously, a lot — A LOT — of people a lot smarter than I am are probably writing 10,000 word New Yorker pieces about this very thing as we speak. But the fact remains — we’re fucked.
And I stand by my prediction that given how stupid Trump is that we what might happen is he is deposed in early 2025 — if he wins — then there is a civil war. I only say this because Trump just doesn’t have the nuance of a Putin who turned Russia into a very legalistic autocracy. Trump is a very dumb, very lazy thug with a poor sense of the consequences of his actions and statements. What’s to stop Seal Team Six from murdering some person Trump doesn’t like when he tweets something along the lines of, “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”
Wouldn’t that be an “official act?”
And couldn’t Trump just pardon Seal Team Six for murdering Tom Nichols or Tim Miller or Rich Wilson whomever the fuck Trump doesn’t like? This is no longer a theoretical — this is a very real future the US faces if and when Trump becomes POTUS again.
I say there would be a civil war in such a situation because Trump could be such a dumb thug that he’s deposed in some way — maybe through a General Strike? — then Red States leave the Union….and there’s a civil war and WW3 happens with about 2 billion dead.
I don’t know what I’m going to do. I think it’s inevitable that some sort of MAGA secret police will throw ME out a window. I’m just too much of a loudmouth crank. Oh well. So long and thanks for all the fish.
