Comments on: A Dark Day For America http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/07/01/a-dark-day-for-america/ Reality-based political commentary Fri, 08 May 2026 01:45:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/07/01/a-dark-day-for-america/#comment-209944 Elizabeth Miller Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:49:44 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=25220#comment-209944 ... no hope, I mean, in convincing those who need convincing (and I'm not one of them, to be clear) that he continues to be capable of being president. ... no hope, I mean, in convincing those who need convincing (and I'm not one of them, to be clear) that he continues to be capable of being president.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/07/01/a-dark-day-for-america/#comment-209943 Elizabeth Miller Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:28:17 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=25220#comment-209943 Speaking of dark days ... the president doesn't seem to be taking my advice. And, the WH press corps is still acting like the ignorant and rude loudmouths they are. The fact of the matter is that there is no love lost - not even in the very least - between Biden and the press, going back to 1988. But, yesterday, following remarks about the SCOTUS presidential immunity ruling, Biden demonstrated that he is no longer able to take the unruly bunch on and his team doesn't even know how to rein them in. This could have been a mini-presser extraordinaire as Biden, even in his reduced means, has forgotten more about the high court than any of those WH reporters will ever know. If Biden couldn't take advantage in this particular situation, then there may be no hope... Speaking of dark days ... the president doesn't seem to be taking my advice. And, the WH press corps is still acting like the ignorant and rude loudmouths they are.

The fact of the matter is that there is no love lost - not even in the very least - between Biden and the press, going back to 1988.

But, yesterday, following remarks about the SCOTUS presidential immunity ruling, Biden demonstrated that he is no longer able to take the unruly bunch on and his team doesn't even know how to rein them in. This could have been a mini-presser extraordinaire as Biden, even in his reduced means, has forgotten more about the high court than any of those WH reporters will ever know.

If Biden couldn't take advantage in this particular situation, then there may be no hope...

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/07/01/a-dark-day-for-america/#comment-209941 Elizabeth Miller Tue, 02 Jul 2024 02:46:59 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=25220#comment-209941 Bleyd, <i>There's a flaw in that reasoning though.</i> Just one? :) Bleyd,

There's a flaw in that reasoning though.

Just one? :)

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/07/01/a-dark-day-for-america/#comment-209940 Elizabeth Miller Tue, 02 Jul 2024 02:37:49 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=25220#comment-209940 Heh. Heh.

]]> By: BashiBazouk http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/07/01/a-dark-day-for-america/#comment-209939 BashiBazouk Tue, 02 Jul 2024 02:20:40 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=25220#comment-209939 Everyone is so quick to off the other side...a more interesting tactic would be to pick up Trump and a few of the more conservative justices in unmarked vans and bring them to a CIA black site, or high end hotel marked as such, and then basically blackmail congress and the states to pass an emergency constitutional amendment to fix this wrong. Want your candidate back? Those conservative justices? Well, a constitutional amendment would force the hand and Biden would be required to release them... Everyone is so quick to off the other side...a more interesting tactic would be to pick up Trump and a few of the more conservative justices in unmarked vans and bring them to a CIA black site, or high end hotel marked as such, and then basically blackmail congress and the states to pass an emergency constitutional amendment to fix this wrong. Want your candidate back? Those conservative justices? Well, a constitutional amendment would force the hand and Biden would be required to release them...

]]> By: Bleyd http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/07/01/a-dark-day-for-america/#comment-209938 Bleyd Tue, 02 Jul 2024 02:11:40 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=25220#comment-209938 EM [2] There's a flaw in that reasoning though. The president can simply order the assassination of any House member who might vote to impeach him, or any Senator who might vote to convict. Or for that matter, anyone who would even attempt an impeachment inquiry. Who would be willing to even try to hold the President to account if he could simply order you killed for doing so? That's how dictators like Putin remain in power after all. EM [2]
There's a flaw in that reasoning though. The president can simply order the assassination of any House member who might vote to impeach him, or any Senator who might vote to convict. Or for that matter, anyone who would even attempt an impeachment inquiry. Who would be willing to even try to hold the President to account if he could simply order you killed for doing so? That's how dictators like Putin remain in power after all.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/07/01/a-dark-day-for-america/#comment-209937 Elizabeth Miller Tue, 02 Jul 2024 01:39:47 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=25220#comment-209937 <i>The concept of "no man is above the law" is now dead and buried -- at least until some future court revisits this ruling and chucks it onto the garbage pile of other historic wrongs from the high court (right next to the Dred Scott case, perhaps).</i> This is yet another argument for adjusting the Democratic message this election campaign to ask voters to deliver enough Democrats to Congress so that Dems control the WH and both houses of Congress. That may be the only way Biden gets a Supreme Court appointment should a seat there become open at some point during his second term. The concept of "no man is above the law" is now dead and buried -- at least until some future court revisits this ruling and chucks it onto the garbage pile of other historic wrongs from the high court (right next to the Dred Scott case, perhaps).

This is yet another argument for adjusting the Democratic message this election campaign to ask voters to deliver enough Democrats to Congress so that Dems control the WH and both houses of Congress. That may be the only way Biden gets a Supreme Court appointment should a seat there become open at some point during his second term.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/07/01/a-dark-day-for-america/#comment-209936 Elizabeth Miller Tue, 02 Jul 2024 01:01:03 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=25220#comment-209936 Well, there is always the process of impeachment for the most outrageous acts by a president, official or otherwise. Of course, Congress will have to be fixed first. But, Congress is only as good as the people in it and the people who voted them in. America is in bad shape, there are no two ways about it. And, we haven't even touched on US foreign policy ... under the Biden administration, no less! Well, there is always the process of impeachment for the most outrageous acts by a president, official or otherwise.

Of course, Congress will have to be fixed first. But, Congress is only as good as the people in it and the people who voted them in.

America is in bad shape, there are no two ways about it. And, we haven't even touched on US foreign policy ... under the Biden administration, no less!

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/07/01/a-dark-day-for-america/#comment-209935 nypoet22 Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:16:42 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=25220#comment-209935 Yep, mendacity is the order of the day. Yep, mendacity is the order of the day.

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