Collins followed up with another tweet calling for the local county prosecutor to “immediately file charges against Joseph R. Biden for inciting an assassination.”

Someone didn’t get the memo from SCOTUS.

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The Republican District Attorney in Butler County, PA, should immediately file charges against Joseph R. Biden for inciting an assassination.

Why? Supreme court very explicitly said that it would be legal.

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Ok let them bring the charges against him and let’s have the supreme clown court explicitly say it’s not an official act. Let’s get that on record now.

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Like the six stooges on the court wouldn’t find it unofficial for Biden and then two months later say the exact same thing is legal when a Republican does it.

The record means nothing to these fascists.

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SCOTUS says that charges can’t even be brought unless there is a legal procedure where it’s proved to be not “an official act,” and DoJ has the burden of proof on that.

Let’s say we’re living in Crazytown (a stretch, I know), and Biden did order this assassination attempt. The legal process for actually charging Biden with anything would be so long as to deny justice, and that doesn’t even count the additional time it would take to try the case and come to a verdict.

Let’s say we’re living in an alternate universe Crazytown, where Trump actually died, too. That years-long legal process would still be in effect, and “Biden with a Goatee” would enjoy the political benefits of the assassination the entire time, even if he was ultimately charged and found guilty and sentenced to prison several years later.

This is why the SCOTUS ruling on criminal immunity for Presidents is America’s Enabling Act.

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On the other hand, I can totally see a future Republican president digging up Biden’s corpse and putting it on trial like he was the Pope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod

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The exact type of scenario was posed to the Court and SCOTUS bought it.

We tried warning you all.

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Exactly.

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Clearly he wasn’t acting officially as president when he used the EPA to poison this young man’s mind with freedom (pfas) free water. He was acting as the authoritarian head of ANTIFA

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  • only legal if we say it is/if done by republican - - SC
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Biden would not have sent a 20 year old Republican to do it, lol…

These people lack the most fundamental critical thinking skills…

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There’s a reason conspiracy theories run rampant on the right. These people are so gullible, and a big part of it has to do with the fact that they are far less educated on average. As a result they tend to just follow news they want to believe in as opposed to challenging their own biases.

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Dude , this is not for you. It’s by them for them.

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lack the most fundamental critical thinking skills

that’s how cults work

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It’s a defining feature of conservatism

Does Lower Cognitive Ability Predict Greater Prejudice?

[T]here exists a solid empirical paper trail demonstrating that lower cognitive abilities (e.g., abstract-reasoning skills and verbal, nonverbal, and general intelligence) predict greater prejudice. We discuss how the effects of lower cognitive ability on prejudice are explained (i.e., mediated) by greater endorsement of right-wing socially conservative attitude. […]

Right-wing ideologies offer well-structured and ordered views about society that preserve traditional societal conventions and norms (e.g., Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, & Sulloway, 2003). Such ideological belief systems are particularly attractive to individuals who are strongly motivated to avoid uncertainty and ambiguity in preference for simplicity and predictability (Jost et al., 2003; Roets & Van Hiel, 2011). Theoretically, individuals with lower mental abilities should be attracted by right-wing social-cultural ideologies because they minimize complexity and increase perceived control (Heaven, Ciarrochi, & Leeson, 2011; Stankov, 2009). Conversely, individuals with greater cognitive skills are better positioned to understand changing and dynamic societal contexts, which should facilitate open-minded, relatively left-leaning attitudes (Deary et al., 2008a; Heaven et al., 2011; McCourt, Bouchard, Lykken, Tellegen, & Keyes, 1999). Lower cognitive abilities therefore draw people to strategies and ideologies that emphasize what is presently known and considered acceptable to make sense and impose order over their environment. Resistance to social change and the preservation of the status quo regarding societal traditions—key principles underpinning right-wing social-cultural ideologies—should be particularly appealing to those wishing to avoid uncertainty and threat.

Indeed, the empirical literature reveals negative relations between cognitive abilities and right-wing social-cultural attitudes, including right-wing authoritarian (e.g., Keiller, 2010; McCourt et al., 1999), socially conservative (e.g., Stankov, 2009; Van Hiel et al., 2010), and religious attitudes (e.g., Zuckerman, Silberman, & Hall, 2013).

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These people lack the most fundamental critical thinking skills…

This has been proven time and time again.

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I wish David Attenborough narrated this.

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I mean, the whole thing is ludicrous, but that’s exactly who they’d send.

But anyway, they know exactly what they are doing - don’t be so naive.

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something tells me the people that would be working on bidens behalf would not have missed

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Either way, if Biden ordered it, it’s fine unless congress removes him from office.

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I’d imagine Biden has access to lots of government officials who would have the capacity to get much closer to trump then 100m without having to go through security. Also once again the republicans accuse Biden of something most of us know he doesn’t have the balls for. If Biden was half the things the republicans accuse him of being he’d probably be my favorite politician ever.

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Biden also has access to drones.

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Either way, if Biden ordered it, it’s fine unless congress removes him from office as long as the SCOTUS decides it’s an official act.

FTFY, they left the door open to future interpretations in their ruling.

Still a crazy, dangerous ruling.

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It also wouldn’t be during a rally.

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Create some real chaos, make it look like Putin did it using one of his preferred methods.

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So… do not go near windows, do not drink tea, distance from windows, do not touch door handles, keep the fuck away from windows, never fly with a plane, why are you in sight line of a window?..

That’s gonna be exhausting

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That’d be great except putin would never kill his prized lapdog

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An actual trained sharpshooter/sniper/assassin wouldn’t go for a head shot, they would shoot for center of mass.

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homeboy is telling you what trump would do, fucking listen.

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Colonel Eran Morad knows best, he spend didn’t spend 10 years in the Mossad. Yalla, let’s go!

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Democrats need a crazy congressman to come out and say this was a fake assassination attempt.

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“Donald was allowed to have his center mass and head exposed by trained secret service agents in the most staged looking photo I’ve seen. He has a history in pro wrestling, hell Linda McMahon worked with him in his cabinet for years, so blood packs are no mystery, and are you going to tell me that a rooftop a mere 400 feet away from him was unmonitored? This is all faker than his tan.”

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Or… And hear me out… Let’s not encourage more crazy. There is already enough out there.

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Can’t beat em, join em

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Ya, dig the crazy hole deeper and everyone falls in.

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There’s no way out but through, let’s get it over with.

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Gotta fight fire with firecrackers.

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At this point, the high road has reached a dead end my friend.

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While there are stupid people on the left, they don’t usually get into office the way they do on the right.

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Bolsonaro did it in Brazil and won.

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Staged a fake assassination? I didn’t know that.

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He was stabbed by a knife (no serious damage) while being carried by his supporters. It was claimed to be political, but afterwards there were accusations that it was staged.

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“Sir, when you hear the first shot, reach up and pop the blood pack on your ear, then drop.”

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