But Ford was the one who pardoned Nixon, so that matter of self-pardon has not been resolved.
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WHERE THE HELL IS THE FOLDED-HANDS-PRAYING ICON?!?!?!
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HOLY SHIT!!! That’s real!!!
God, I hate this timeline…
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Things Donald J. Trump has in common with Jesus Christ:
- Unshakable faith in his own divinity
- Known to associate with sex workers
- Insists that secular authority figures know not what they do
- Strained relationship with moneylenders
That’s all I got.
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- Have friends willing to sell out for small amounts of silver
- Believed to benefit humankind a lot by dying
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#6
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- likes the idea of “he who is without sin should cast the first stone” (when he’s facing punishment, anyway)
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I have read that Nixon’s people considered the possibility during watergate and decided it wouldn’t hold water. And - it shouldn’t. The framers absolutely did not intend to seat a new above-the-law King, and “grant” is not something one usually does to oneself. If the bet is “win the election and you can pardon yourself” - the person giving you that advice isn’t doing you any favors.
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Your entire comment is dripping with cynicism. Normally, I can be pretty cynical myself, but Jesus. Look, I’m willing to concede that I could be wrong and SCOTUS might decide POTUS has the power to pardon himself, but there is no fucking way it would be 8-1 or 9-0. SCOTUS has many times issued decisions that rely on implied powers rather than on explicit powers. Hell, the current holding on the 2nd Amendment damn sure isn’t based on what’s explicitly written in the 2nd Amendment. Hell, the entire concept of substantive due process is based on what the Constitution implies, not what it explicitly says, and the only Justices who want to gut substantive due process are Thomas and Alito.
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Organised food for a large crowd? Nah - failed at that one, it turns out.
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This assumes that Il Douche and his followers give a damn about any law. They do not. They only know imposing controls and suffering on others while gathering money and power for themselves. Period. See the current situation in Israel for a vision of how the rule of law will fare under fascist leadership. (The fact that Israel is dealing with fascist leadership boggles the mind!)
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I don’t know, it kind of feels like Israel has always been an uneasy mix of never again and our turn now. It’s awful to see the second so ascendant, but then once people accept violence and cruelty toward the othered it rarely stops there. 
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I really need both 
and 
for that one. Damn, I really hate this timeline.
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The other thing is that Israel would still be a deeply divided country even if one – hypothetically – took the Palestinians (and Arab Israeli citizens) out of the picture completely. There are enough ongoing conflicts between, e.g., left-leaning secular Jews of European extraction, ultra-orthodox Jews, and comparatively recent Jewish immigrants from Africa and Arab countries (who are largely responsible for the shift to the right in Israeli politics) to last for a good while yet.
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Huh?
Citation needed.
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See, e.g., Mizrahi Jews in Israel - Wikipedia for an overview. Mizrahim (Jews of Middle-Eastern and Central Asian extraction) are a considerable influence in Netanyahu’s Likud party. In particular, the rise of Likud after 1977 is generally attributed to Mizrahi support. Other parties such as the far-right Shas party led by the controversial Aryeh Deri (who was ejected from his ministerial posts in the 2022 Netanyahu coalition government due to his prior convictions for tax offenses) explicitly cater to Mizrahi interests.
Many Mizrahim have no time for the Israeli left, which historically derives from socialist-leaning Ashkenazim (Middle/Eastern-European Jews), “labour zionism”, and the kibbutz movement and tended to marginalise the Mizrahim based on their different cultural background. Also, many Mizrahim are in favour of settlement in the West Bank – working-class Mizrahim often live there because housing is heavily subsidised – and more skeptical of peace with the Palestinians.
Of course not all Mizrahim are right-wing even though as a group they do lean towards conservatism and “traditional” (though not necessarily ultra-orthodox) religion. Recently, parties across the political spectrum have tried to open themselves more towards Mizrahi perspectives as Israel is gradually becoming more “Middle Eastern” than “European” and especially many young people (whether Mizrahi or not) gravitate towards that identity.
Israel is a complicated place.
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