Hopefully they remember that he’ll do it anyway. Deals with him are worthless.
Looking at last night’s election results, that really worked out great for him. Lol.
We’re approaching a huge turning point in US (and world) history. Either republicans are going to mostly lose for a long time (at least 6 years if I were to guess), maybe until they demonstrate they’ve changed, OR they are going to succeed at rigging or cancelling elections so they don’t have to give up power. I don’t think we can expect much in between those two extremes. Makes my stomach queasy as hell to think about.
Which is why everyone should be prepared for them to inflict physical violence upon us, because it’s coming either way.
I agree and am also quite queasy.
Sure, why not another constitutional crisis.
It’s not really a crisis – eventually he can go back to using regular toilet paper.
If nobody enforces court rulings they’re just an ethics council.
Seems like lately its the ethically wrong council
After midterms. These dems better put on their big girl panties and start impeaching and imprisoning this entire administration and the Supreme Court immediately. No mercy project 2029!
They absolutely need to, but I’d bet real money they wont.
I hope there are enormous protests and campaigns to pressure them into it, if they don’t (which yeah, they probably wouldn’t, left to their natural inclinations).
I can already hear them saying “we as a nation need to heal and move on from the darkness behind us” 🙄
Rinse and repeat.
Can we create a Judicial Guard that is basically a force to enforce court rulings? Like whatever they have now is clearly not working. This happened under Andrew Jackson too, so don’t tell me they never saw this coming.
The Secret Service should be trained to arrest or assassinate the President if he openly violates the constitution.
Andrew Jackson, you mean Trumps aspirational role model?
Everyone should have seen this coming. All the writing has been on the wall for near a decade now.
Yes, Andrew Jackson was about 10 generations ago so… Pretty sure they can say they didn’t see it coming
Why would anyone expect Donald J Trump, convicted felon, to uphold the rule of law? Mother fucker can’t even follow it himself lol
Another impeachable offense.
The road to hell is paved with impeachable offenses?
I thought it was kiddie rape
I would hope that’s an impeachable offense Oo.
I think he wants to pave a road made of impeachable offenses.
You’re kidding yourself if you think he’d build a public utility
Oh it would be a private road. A nice alley lined with trophies of self-aggrandisement and narcissism, closed off to the public who only get to look on through a fence as he gets driven up and down his rue de merde (which someone told him is related to merit, so he ate it right up, because fact checking is for losers) in a pimped out golf cart.
civil disobedience isnt just an option, its a moral obligation
Release the Epstein files
Trump will negotiate with Hamas, Putin and North Korea but NOT with Democrats.
And we can add the Taliban to the list, scheduled to negotiate at Camp David no less.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-calls-off-secret-meeting-with-taliban-afghan-leaders
Honestly, Trump and Republicans in general aren’t that different from what one might imagine an American version of the Taliban to be like.
So, it’s either healthcare subsidies or food? You can’t have both? Even though we had both before Republicans took it all away, so they could give tax breaks to Trump’s rich donors?
Fuck these assholes.
It’s also a bit of PR nightmare for the GOP. Trump defying the court order shifts the blame back onto them.
it was always on them, but more never hurts.
In a less polarized and post truth world you’d probably be right. I fear however that the solid 36-37% maga base will never find an issue that can’t be spun or rationalized. In the magasphere this situation seems to be framed as the GOP stepping up to fight against free health care for illegal immigrants which seems divorced from reality.
In a less polarized and post truth world you’d probably be right. I fear however that the solid 36-37% maga base will never find an issue that can’t be spun or rationalized.
It’s not an accident…
When Nixon resigned, Roger Ailes wrote a memo that accidentally ended up in the icon presidential library:
The memo – called, simply enough, “A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News” – is included in a 318-page cache of documents detailing [Roger] Ailes’ work for both the Nixon and George H.W. Bush administrations that we obtained from the Nixon and Bush presidential libraries. Through his firms REA Productions and Ailes Communications, Inc., Ailes served as paid consultant to both presidents in the 1970s and 1990s, offering detailed and shrewd advice ranging from what ties to wear to how to keep the pressure up on Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the first Gulf War.
The memo explains why television was the way to go:
Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2011/memo-from-1970-a-plan-for-putting-the-gop-on-tv-news/
They knew that if they owned the media, they could control what people thought, and no republican president would ever have to resign due to public outcry again.
Luckily, he was held back by federal regulations, until a good ole capitalist from Arkansas got elected and decided anyone should be able to own media in America:
The stated intention of the law was to “let anyone enter any communications business – to let any communications business compete in any market against any other.”[5] In practice, it gave way to one of the largest consolidations of the telecommunications sector in history - as such, it is often described as an attempt to deregulate the American broadcasting and telecommunications markets due to technological convergence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
After that it was gloves off and the billionaires gobbled up every aspect of the “news” industry and maintain almost exclusive control over what a majority of Americans hear.
TBF, the problem with media was well underway before Clinton came along. The Fairness Doctrine being done away with under Ronnie Raygun opened the floodgates.
Trump is posting on social media that Biden’s administration was just giving SNAP benefits away. His idiot supporters are gonna believe it.
Yeah, but most of the hardcore maga base is going to die within 10 years, but waaaayyyy sooner if Trump keeps cutting snap and Medicaid. Then you’ll be left with the few capable white supremacist MAGAts, and a lot of out of shape brainwashed dipshits who will either scatter into the shadows or fall in line and shut the fuck up real quick
I think by saying he’ll defy a court order, he’s letting the supreme court know they have to okay whatever bullshit he comes up with. Otherwise, it will become obvious that they can’t do jack shit.
If the government can’t afford to feed and heal the people, they shouldn’t be building a ballroom. I was taught in school to pay for your needs before your wants.
But the ballroom is all being paid for by the people who are hoping Trump will do them favors. So, that makes it none of our business.
In the end it’s going to be neither. Because once you give way on one front, it is proven that you’ll negotiate.
Use open secrets dort org. You can find the shitbags in your area that gave 5k, 10k, 20k, 50k+ directly to the trump campaign. Not a general Republican PAC, but directly to HIS campaign. You can then cross reference those names with county property records. Then you can engage in civil political discourse with those people
I feel like dems should add to their list of demands- if the Rs dont agree to reverse course on Healthcare now, dems will not agree to reopen until all missed snap benefits are paid back retroactively- if it goes another week, they will not vote until ice is fully refunded, etc
Be thankful you get a choice.
We didn’t get a choice about bailing out Argentina. Or soybean sales to China.
So when is that contempt warrant being issued?
“I will withold food from them, unless Democrats let me take their healthcare”
Since he is ignoring courts now, what’s stopping him from doing that anyway, even after government is open? The bill already severely cut snap benefits, and instructed agencies to stop reporting on hunger level in US, so it is not like he cares.
They already took the healthcare, Democrats want to put it back.
Bullshit, the POS does not want Adelita Grijalva to be sworn in and 40 million hungry people could lead to an increase in violence, which is exactly what he wants.
This is the play. Look for even more ICE escalation and fishing boat attacks in the coming days as the entire establishment retaliates, not just from tRump but also the MSM from the major L they just took in NY. It’s gonna be an ugly few weeks ahead.
Check in on your neighbors and community support networks, and help out locally any way you can as people start to hurt. The coming holiday season is going to be less than holly jolly for everyone. Talk about a war on Christmas…
