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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Republicans are starting to grow a spine at Trump, which is slightly nice.
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I'll believe it when I see it. McConnell and Ryan still support the Muslim ban, flip-flopping from previous positions.
If we really do start to see the Congressional GOP start to get antsy and test the boundaries of Trump's rule...then it just might be a sign that they're getting ready to jettison him.
edited 29th Jan '17 4:35:10 PM by RBluefish
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."People aren't informed. Many go with gut instincts, do what their families/friends tell them to or just go with who the hype is with.
Has anyone seen this?
https://mobile.twitter.com/AymanM/status/825755230163853313/photo/1
This is even more terrifying:
Basically executive orders supercede court rulings.
Onwards to the dictatorship.
edited 29th Jan '17 4:49:51 PM by MadSkillz
Plus heavy equipment is not limited to the FBI. Local police can have them too. A Briton described US police as sort of like an occupying army and he wasn't that far off...
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"The Courts have made their ruling: Now let them enforce it." - Andrew Jackson, shortly before the Trail of Tears.
I think we're lucky in that the Courts have allies who will enforce it for them this time, but seriously, this is scary.
I say future Presidents should have their Executive Order Privileges revoked.
edited 29th Jan '17 4:41:28 PM by DingoWalley1
Had a conversation with my mom earlier today where she admitted her vote was a mistake. She'd been counting on Donald's advisors to reign him in. I still don't like that she's motivated by fear of refuges and terrorists but I'll still take it as progress. Maybe later I'll drop hints about donating to agencies like Planned Parrenthood and ACLU. (I would be more angry at her if this were, say, PA instead of NY.)
Also, I went and signed these
two
whitehouse.gov petitions. It is probably likely to have a negligible effect if any (the issues the site was having earlier this week were supposedly technical, not malicious) but the main thing is that I was paranoid about giving my name and email to a government site. Then I thought about it and figured if the Founders can sign their names to a document for which they risk getting hanged for treason, the least I can do is risk a little personal information.
Has anyone seen this?
https://mobile.twitter.com/AymanM/status/825755230163853313/photo/1
This is even more terrifying:
Basically executive orders supercede court ruling a.
Steam ahead to the dictatorship.
We have two stops on the line: dictatorship and resistance
And now for something from some people who resisted the original Nazis:
Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes - crimes that infinitely outdistance every human measure - reach the light of day? If the American people are already so corrupted and spiritually crushed that they do not raise a hand, frivolously trusting in a questionable faith in lawful order of history; if they surrender man's highest principle, that which raises him above all other God's creatures, his free will; if they abandon the will to take decisive action and turn the wheel of history and thus subject it to their own rational decision; if they are so devoid of all individuality, have already gone so far along the road toward turning into a spiritless and cowardly mass - then, yes, they deserve their downfall.
- -excerpt from White Rose leaflet #1 (translated, Americanized, and 2017-ized)
edited 29th Jan '17 4:48:57 PM by Balmung
Speaking of which, we might be hearing who the SCOTUS pick is soon. And you know what? I say the Democrats block, block, block whoever it is. The GOP getting control of the Supreme Court would be disastrous—especially if they pick another raging bigot for the seat.
If it's Merrick Garland or Barack Obama, fine. Anybody else gets blocked indefinitely, for as long as the Dems can keep it up.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."Almost certainly not. But the idea's been floated jokingly around Internet circles.
And the Supreme Court has a disturbing tendency to vote along party lines. Scalia's vote was what lost us the Voting Rights Act. We need to keep that sucker split, or the GOP control it.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."The SCOTUS would still lean socially progressive thanks to Kennedy, even with a frothing maniac in Trump's pocket. Also, the conservative judges are precisely that-conservative, who would be right at home in the Reagan/Bush Senior/Clinton political scenes, rather than the reactionary or paleo/primeval views permeating the GOP right now. My real concerns are some of the others dying in office, or Trump abandoning all pretenses and trying to pack the court.
Trump has already revealed his top 3 picks: William Pryor
, Neil Gorsuch
, and Thomas Hardiman
. All are along the lines of Antonin Scalia "Originalist" and "Textualist" style of judging. You ain't getting a Moderate or Liberal to take Scalia's seat.
Also, this doesn't actually make the Courts more Conservative, it simply continues the way the Court was as of Scalia's Death: Divided with a minor Conservative bias. And although Scalia wasn't the best Justice, he certainly wasn't the worst: He defended Freedoms of Speech, Press, Right to Fair Trials, the Separations of Powers, and things we need in these Times of Trump. It's just that he absolutely sucked when it came to Civil Rights.
I am not against making Obama a Supreme Court Justice, though.
edited 29th Jan '17 4:58:56 PM by DingoWalley1
Best case scenario if Trump does get a justice in? Whoever it is has a weak personality and fails to sway the others. Especially since Trump is blatantly ignoring the courts. I doubt anyone on the Supreme Court right now is a fan of that. Especially Kennedy. He was usually the wild card, leaning Republican but not always, but by all accounts has a deep and abiding respect for the court system and wouldn't dream of subverting it.
I caught one of the ACLU lawyers being interviewed on PBS News Hour tonight; he brought up the fact that even the conservative judges on the court tend to land on the side of good when it's a First Amendment case.
Also, WRT Obama, he has law experience but no judicial experience. Even if we'd gotten Clinton, he would not be a likely pick.
edited 29th Jan '17 5:06:44 PM by Elle

Only looked at the twitter feed for about 8 seconds, but these are my favorites: