It Could Be a Win-Win When SCOTUS Rules on Presidential Immunity.

@helenS

Unfortunately, too many Americans don't realize that the opposite is true as well. That things which happen In Europe (and Asia) matter in America. You think we'd have learned this lesson taught to us before in 1939, with an exclamation point in December 1941.

@beckyromero Isn't non-interventionism (or, to use a more pejorative term, "isolationism") a time-honored tradition in America? And it may have worked well in the 19th century. It's not a good option in the 21st century though. And yes, you are right, 1941 comes to mind.

@helenS

The America First isolationists were bashing President Roosevelt right up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. One of them, Nazi sympathizer Sen. Gerald Nye (R-ND) was giving a speech on the afternoon of December 7, 1941 and even refused pre-speech warnings by reporters that the Japanese were bombing our ships and bases in the Pacific at that very moment!

https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/this-week-in-pittsburgh-history-attack-on-pearl-harbor-hits-home-and-ends-a-movement/

@ArtieKat

Well, keep in mind that I am certainly [i]not[/i] advocating for President Biden do something that Trump would do. Just pointing out the irony.

Trump is whining all the time that Biden is unfairly prosecuting him, while at the same time saying a sitting president can do whatever the hell he wants to.

@beckyromero From previous conversations you and I have had, I understood the irony you were highlighting