Seriously! THIS is the guy you pull the trigger for! THIS is the guy you give up everything for! It's absolutely insane. They can see how he treats his subordinates and enablers -- all of them ultimately get thrown in the trash. And yet.
I struggle to think of examples of authoritarian slide where this hasn't happened. The specific form it takes - long knives, falling out of windows, etc. - varies, but the consolidation of power and petty retributions are common.
There were a lot of wealthy Jewish people in 1930s Germany who supported Hitler, who thought the antisemitism was just bluster and they’d be fine. A lot of people who helped Saddam Hussein get into power were taken out in his culls. People always think THEY’re safe from dictators until it’s too late
Hahaha. Trump’s only gambit his whole life has been ‘the courts will protect me.’ and he’s been largely right. Now that he has the highest court in the land in his pocket he is not going to target them. Okay, he might target 3 of them.
I think they realize that the courts will be extremely relevant —as legitimizers of the regime domestically and abroad — and are more than happy to do so as long as they can be compensated well for it. Which, coincidentally, they just ruled that they can be.
For some time, for sure. But it seems apparent that the Federalist Society’s aims are for a unitary chief executive, where the President doesn’t really have to concern himself with what the courts say because they have eliminated any plausible enforcement mechanism.
And by a group of people who all ostensibly believe in a higher power that, if Scripture is to be believed, will hold them negatively accountable for until the end of time.
But once they are gone, Roberts would obviously be next in line. After that Trump will call the three justices he already appointed into the oval office and have them fight to the death to see who gets to keep their seat.
The burden would be on the prosecution to demonstrate that this was not an official act. How will the Supreme Court Rule when the case makes its way to them? Some things just can't be known in advance.
It's by the numbers what happens in authoritarian takeover. Everyone knows that some of the vanguard who take power eventually are excised form the movement, often violently, but everyone is confident that it won't be *them.*
They have been brainwashed and it's almost impossible to bring them out of it....at this point they are mentally incapable of rational thought. We need to ignore them all if we can, go around them and fight like hell to get them out of positions of authority, that includes the Supreme Court.
It’s easily verified that Putin seized the wealth of all Russian oligarchs except a handful he kept close. Do American businessmen of that wealth class really think Trump won’t do the same to them?
Alongside that, working people can’t buy iPhones or drive for Uber if they’re in jail for mean tweets
And let’s not forget that they’ve got lifelong sinecures to boot! Most craven lickspittles at least do it because they need the gig, they need the juice. These clowns could have literally sat around for decades swapping golf stories at brunch. Actively evil.
As opposed to whom? For whom would it have been acceptable for them to pull the trigger? Yes, Trump is the absolute worst. But who’s only middling awful enough that would’ve made this make sense?
there is such a rich text of evil in how Obama had to be followed up with not just a white man, but a mediocre white man, a lazy white man who can barely focus. how unimpressive he is feels like part of the point
Trump after Obama is basically a filled-in swimming pool thing. “Oh, a black president. How about the jerk from Celebrity Apprentice? Not such an august position now.”
I watched Obama’s inauguration w/a lot of my Black coworkers and everyone was SO thrilled. My [Black] manager at the time walked by and said, “Don’t get too excited. They’re going to make us pay for this.” Seems like she was right!
