• neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Meh, most of it will be challenged in court.

    That’s one of the first things I noticed with his previous try; For all of Obamas flaws, it at least seemed that everything was thought through with lawyers in the loop to make sure the execitive orders had a reasonable chance of surviving a legal challenge.

    And then this clown comes along and gives the impression that he handed someone a post-it that said “no moar muzleems!!!111one”

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      Challenged in court? The bloody dude was announced above the law BY THE SUPREME COURT. As long as he OFFICIALLY kills all opposition, he’s got a full green light on everything. The only thing stopping him will be military officers refusing orders that are too fucking outlandish. Tho I doubt the police will care too much.

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        Immunizing Trump as an individual from prosecution related to acts performed as President, while deeply problematic, will not prevent legal challengs his EO’s. Striking down a president’s EO is completely different than convicting a president with a crime.

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          23 hours ago

          I don’t really see the difference, considering he can just lock anybody who opposes him up. People are already bending over for him out of fear, people that used to be critical of him. Challenging him will take some serious balls facing a suicide mission.

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            considering he can just lock anybody who opposes him up

            He cannot. He says he can and will, but he has absolutely no legal authority to order people’s arrest or imprisonment.

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      2 days ago

      Oh sure the courts will sure stop him guys! He won’t totally just, do whatever the fuck he wants

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      That’s the thing about the massive lumbering behemoth that is “government”.

      Despite anyone’s best efforts, actually changing shit is a slow, arduous, sometimes impossible process.

      Not saying he won’t try, but he’ll be about as successful as making America fit his vision as Biden, Obama, Bushel, Clinton, … Etc were.

      The other good news, is that historically, 100% of the time (except for NK), When the strong man dies, the party dies with it.

      My optimistic prediction is that Trump keeps all of our blood pressure high for 4 years, and then we witness the actual death of the GOP, and that in average, most things will stay more or less the same.

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    I’ll never understand why anyone thought the guy to clean up after Trump’s first term was an over 80 year old moderate who’s views on presidential powers boils down to:

    I believe the president should be powerless, which apparently means as president I can’t limit the next presidents power

    We need someone to fight fascism and we got a geriatric pacifist who spent his whole campaign lying about what he was prepared to do…

    And then when he dropped out last minute we ran his VP who kept saying she agreed with him 100% and wouldnt have changed anything over the last four years, despite most of what he “tried” never making it I to the planning stages or getting struck down before implementation.

    Biden failed and Kamala told voters she was fine with that and then acted shocked when that’s not what voters wanted.

    Voters want someone who will fight for them, not “aww shucks, vote for me again and we’ll try the same shit”.