Trump snaps back at reporter over his authority to skip courts, claims "no judge can assume the duties of the President"
'That's what the law says': Trump snaps back at reporter over his authority to skip courts
I've never in my life wanted so bad to wake up to a news story about another person dying.
It's the only reason why I immediately check on here. I truly want Elon dead immediately and then Trump.
Yea but it ain't about the death. It's about the suffering, suffering is terrifying
Only one?
I wanna see a headline stating that a freak hurricane wiped out every Republican in the house, the Senate and the executive branch, miraculously sparing any non party members and the buildings themselves without a scratch.
About 250 could save millions of lives. Considering around 9000 die every day in the U.S. they would make a 2.7% uptick for one day, and maybe everything can get better
The more important take from this article is that Trump has escalated his claims and now claims that nothing he does is subject to judicial review at all.
The scary part is that there is a non-zero chance that the Supreme Court could rule in his favor. And at that point, God help us all.
If the supreme court agrees, we'll get to test how well the second amendment helps maintain a free country.
I'm going to assume it does nothing, and all the gun deaths were for nothing.
The second amendment was created to make it impossible for the president to have a standing army.
That was the whole "militia" thing. Federalist Paper 29 covers the entirety of it in like ... 12 paragraphs.
The states would have to require every man to own a firearm and train to be in a militia as designated by Congress that would muster for national defense because armies make empires. And newly created US Americans wanted to be free of imperial horseshit.
The second amendment wasn't to defeat a president who broke bad. Men elected to POTUS were never supposed to be like Trump. And that was our, as US Americans, biggest blindspot. That an American president would never treat Americans like how American presidents treat smaller nations.
update:
and there it is ...
Exclusive: Donald Trump can break the law because 'the US president has an army' says law expert
Those 2nd amendment people have been real, real quiet lately.
If the supreme court agrees, we'll get to test how well the second amendment helps maintain a free country.
Look at Jan 6. That is exactly what they think is happening. They are making America great again. There is a reason people are getting doxxed.
They keep saying that, yet doing absolutely nothing. As usual.
At that point, he'll die, Vance will take his place, and will be so un-charismatic that he'll be defeated by a Democrat in 2028 which will find themselves with all this power thanks to the Supreme Court... but will prefer to take the high road and reach across the aisle only to get fucked once again.
Well, I tried.
I'm pretty sure that would effectively end all state mandates to participate in the Constitution, effectively dissolving it.
It's very clear that Trump does not realize that dissolving the Constitution means states no longer need to adhere to the joined Republic. That agreement IS the Republic. If it no longer exists, then States are their own territories, and DC is nothing.
States activate their reserve guard forces, assume control of stationed assets, and stop sending DC money. That's it. Then it's every state for itself, and guess where all the good shit is he thinks he's just going to order around? In those "Coastal Elite" states he's always belittling.
No incoming money, no people to order around, and only his little cavalcade of dipshits who no longer have positions of power...
As somebody else had mentioned, he'd be killed in a heartbeat, and then the groveling and backtracking would immediately begin to try and undo what he's done.
Any backtracking would be useless, once the country is gone there is no way to put it back together without a lot of bloody violence. Even then it will be a powder keg ready to explode again as soon as the leader who managed to put it back together is gone.
These 50 states are held together by a common history and the republic they participate in. The history is meaningless once the republic is gone. At least we will get to see the birth of a bunch of new nations. But that will come with a ton of war as the wanna dictators in red states try to take whatever they can.
Krasnov, mission accomplished with the United States finally dissolved, take your well-deserved rubles, comrade!
I am optimistic the SCOTUS won't take the bait. Not because they're against Trump, but rather because they don't seem as eager to surrender their own power than Congress is. Even in their notoriously pro-Trump rulings last year, they took care to keep the Judiciary involved in interpreting the extent of the Executive's powers.
And all his GOP underlings will fall in line and support his outrageous statements.
"It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is."
-Supreme Court, Marbury vs Madison
Fat Donnie has no idea what the duties of the US President even are. Dear Karma, one fast golf ball to the noggin would be appreciated.
When Trump dies, someone else will take over his role, and that other person is bound to be a lot smarter than Trump (it's a very low bar). At this point, it seems to me like the only thing that might stop the usa's descent into fascism, is Trump completely destroying the economy in record pace because of his unfathomable stupidity. If the usa opposition can't defeat fascism with Trump in charge of the fascists, then they have no chance with someone like Vance in charge.
The allies had the same dilemma with Hitler in WW2. They had a solid plan to assassinate Hitler and they really wanted to, but Hitler's meddling incompetence was helping them win the war.
Additionally, British officials believed that Hitler’s incompetence and flawed military tactics were, in fact, advantageous to the Allied cause. They argued that by leaving Hitler in power, the Allied forces could continue to leverage his bungling strategy against the Germans. They believed that replacing Hitler with a competent successor could pose a greater challenge, as they might be more adept at waging war against the Allies. Source: https://ahistoryfactaday.org/the-controversial-decision-to-not-assassinate-hitler-in-1944-weighing-political-pragmatism-and-conventional-tactics/
Smarter? Quite possibly.
But I'd say the people who are smarter are already manipulating him behind the scenes anyhow. Anyone coming after would at least have less of a cult following hopefully
While we're wishing: Lightning strike during a golf swing on a clear blue day would be a nice message
...all I want is a President who can assume the duties of a President. Starting to feel like a unicorn.
I just want an adult at this point. Preferably a non-ancient one but I'll take what I can get.
America is an unserious country
And no president can assume the duties of a judge
And no President can ignore the Courts.