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Supreme Court gave him immunity and he didn’t save democracy with it crazy work
No. You need to read that SCOTUS decision. The Supreme Court retained the authority to decide which actions are official acts due immunity and which are not. Therefore, had Biden attempted to use that immunity in the way you suggest, this biased SCOTUS would simply have ruled his actions unofficial and therefore not immune from prosecution.
I did in fact read it. I did in fact read the dissenting opinions. I did in fact listen to the case as it was being presented including all the theoreticals posed.
Biden could have him killed or pushed out of a c130 somewhere over the pacific and then scotus would step in after the fact. It was literally one of the dissenting opinion points about just how far this could be abused before it’s reigned in.
T hasn’t even begun to test the limits to the powers he was given, and Biden just like so many other things, fecklessly dismissed.
You really think SCOTUS would have given Biden a fair shot? After blocking Biden's student loan forgiveness EOs but giving Trump near full immunity. It's clear they would have skewered Biden first chance. Hell, House Republicans brought in Hillary for private Epstein testimony, leaked it against the rules they'd agreed to, then proceeded to ask her about UFOs and Pizzagate. There is no symmetry to their rule making and rule breaking.
This is the circumstance you decry Biden for not extrajudicially murdering his fascist opponents when he supposedly had the chance.
The point is that it wouldn't matter because the issues could be solved before the court cases matter. He was the one everyone was told would be able to fix things "because he's been in politics longer than most people have been alive, he knows all the levers to pull to get results".
He should have been able to recognize and ignore the asymmetric shit going on just as trump does, and actually work to reset things. Instead he sat around and did fuck all that will last longer than his lifetime.
Who cares? Trump, and MAGA, would be dead, and that's the objective. What's SCOTUS going to do? Talk about it? Fuck'em.
Like Aldo Rayne in Inglorious Basterds said, when told he'd be shot: "Shot? I don't think so. More like chewed out. I been chewed out before."
Which is why he should've started running the Project 2025 playbook and either forced the Republicans to pass laws against his acts or had SCOTUS invalidate them. Now that Trump is in office he could create a Medicare-for-all solution called Trumpcare and the GOP loyalists would be gobbling his knob like it was the only way to get Raptured.