• Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netM
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    1 month ago

    Pretty much yeah. But the question arises, if the current president decides to arrest the former president for whatever bullshit reasons, who’s gonna stop him? Democratic norms? A sternly worded impeachment? MSNDNC talking heads saying "how dare you Sir! libbing-out "

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      1 month ago

      Well I mean they can arrest him. But presumably they’ll still have to have a trial and his lawyers will point to the ruling. But who knows, maybe they will denaturalize him as a national security threat and deport him to Guantanamo as an enemy combatant and avoid due process altogether.

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          Would be crazy funny to send bush and Obama to Guantanamo to hang with the 5 mentally ill dudes left from their GWOT years plus a bunch of Venezuelans and Haitians and such. I think they’d have a great time. Obama could teach them about playlist making and bush could start a new painting series…

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        Certainly a spicy possibility for the future. Personally I’m mostly hoping they just do some shitflinging, legal bickering, and continue the rest of the train wreck presidency not causing ww3.