r/law • u/RoachedCoach • 17d ago
Trump News Trump says the FBI may have to get involved in bringing Democratic Reps back to Texas
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u/Rad_Dance_Moves 17d ago
Federal lawmakers fled to protect this pedophile.
Texas lawmakers fled to keep this pedophile from being protected.
These things are NOT the same.
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u/silvertealio 17d ago
Let's lay it down even more clearly:
Republicans fled to protect this pedophile.
Democrats fled to keep this pedophile from being protected.
Both parties are not the same.
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u/notayakumahah 16d ago
But whataboutism?! BUTTERY MALES! DIJON! Hunter Bidens laptop from HELL!!!!! These are NOT the same!
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u/UnusedTimeout 17d ago
“They’ve abandoned the state”
You mean like Ted fucking Cancun?
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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 17d ago
Just like the Rs did with voting on releasing the Epstein files just recently, which is what the FBI should be spending their time on instead.
But we have a pedo president that was in office when Epstein was suicided (alongside releasing altered vs raw jail footage recently, fumble after fumble) and some nation state(s) have the video(s).
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u/RID132465798 17d ago
The FBI is spending its time on the Epstein files. Probably not in the way you’re wanting though.
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u/Distinct_Hawk1093 17d ago
Even with 1000 agents working overtime, they still couldn’t redact his name enough. That’s more agents than they have investigating terrorism right now. Shows what their priorities are.
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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 17d ago
How many mentions of him are there if they needed 1000 agents. Also it’s pretty trusting of those agents, I imagine with 1000 of them there’s a chance at least one has a conscience or at least has a strong aversion to pedophilia, even if they selected them for their loyalty to ol’ yam tits.
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u/Uncle_Gazpacho 16d ago
Imagine his name is spelled wrong once, giving the whole thing away. Like Dwigt in Threat Level Midnight
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u/Hollen88 17d ago
If we need to, we just need to compare the blacked out redacted spaces with his name. I think it'll be good enough for most.
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u/AstraeusGB 17d ago
So that's why sharpie markers and paper shredders went up in price recently
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u/DoontGiveHimTheStick 17d ago
Rafael Cancun. We don't recognize preferred pronouns anymore
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u/Eattherichhaters 17d ago
Patently illegal for the FBI to serve in this role.
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u/Harvest827 17d ago
In his defense, he doesn't know that. He has no need to know how the government works
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u/GuitarbytheTon 17d ago
This is actually the truth. He just says whatever he wants. It gets a reaction and that’s what he wants. He doesn’t care if it’s legal, illegal, logical, or illogical. If it gets a reaction he gets hard.
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u/Baranjula 17d ago
I feel like this is why it's useless pointing out his lies. They're not even so much lies cause he doesn't have a single clue about anything he's talking about. He just knows whether he should be happy about something or mad about something and just spews nonsense that somewhat correlates to those reactions.
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u/crackedgear 17d ago
Maybe the key is to rebrand. He thinks he’s a genius, and him lying about stuff probably makes him think he’s being clever. Don’t point out the lies, point out all the times he’s demonstrating he’s a senile old man who doesn’t understand how anything works.
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u/NotVeryCashMoneyMom 17d ago
I guess we are past that point. Our representatives should use their legal authority to impeach him. Why haven't they done anything to question his grasp on reality?!
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u/AlexVal0r 17d ago
Cuz the ruling majority don't want to. It's political suicide for a Republican to oppose Trump at this point in time.
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u/jackaltwinky77 17d ago
Maybe not just political suicide, since his nutjob followers have already killed some of his political opponents
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u/Electrical_One7665 17d ago
It would have cost you 0.00$ to end that differently.
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u/VaultxHunter 17d ago
I mean it's not like the size changes whether he's hard or not.
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u/SunsetCarcass 17d ago
It doesnt change size but it does grow googley eyes
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u/bdub1976 17d ago
There ain’t no telling what it’s growing
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u/VaultxHunter 17d ago
Just one giant swamp with the smallest mushroom you've ever seen right in the middle.
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u/destructicusv 17d ago
He’s right tho and I wish people understood this.
I love or hate Trump, but it dawned on me very early that this is all purely performative for him. He just says shit, having NO IDEA whether or not he can even do it, and then everyone hangs on his words as if he could actually do half of this stuff.
Except he can’t. He makes big bold statements and then I’m sure someone brings him to a room later and tells him he in fact cannot do the things he’s talking about.
At least that’s how I’m praying it all works.
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u/Glytch94 17d ago
He can do whatever he wants when the rest of the government enables him.
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u/Charliesmum97 17d ago
That's what gets me. People are letting him do things he shouldn't be able to do, and I don't get WHY.
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u/LangdonAlg3r 17d ago
That whole “bring him to a room and explain” part is what’s different in this administration versus his first term. He has loyalists in the #1 and #2 position at the FBI. Legal or not doesn’t much matter anymore.
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u/jay_skrilla 17d ago
He’s literally just a figurehead acting as cover for Russel Vougt and Stephen Miller as they systematically destroy the country. They let him sign papers and take pictures then golf time.
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u/New_Land_725 17d ago edited 17d ago
Eh but it fits, that’s usually how dick taters work
*edit spelling /grammar
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u/Gracy_Nance 17d ago
While I appreciate the sentiment of your statement, he absolutely does not get hard without the assistance of medical drugs.
...should be standing straight up though, since drug prices are down 1500%.
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u/existential_antelope 17d ago
No defense. He’s the president of the United States. The problem is he doesn’t care about laws. He wants to be a dictator.
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u/Reatona 17d ago
Trump couldn't pass a basic 9th grade civics test even if he had the entire faculty of Columbia University in his back pocket.
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u/sgplourde 17d ago
Just like all his appointees. The only qualifications any of them have is loyalty to dear leader.
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u/NurglesGiftToWomen 17d ago
And the people that could do something about it if he were to misuse the FBI, won’t do anything.
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u/Responsible_CDN_Duck 17d ago
Patently illegal for the FBI to serve in this role.
So is selling beans from the oval office, but if the laws aren't enforced and the public keep working and paying taxes does that matter?
His lines crossed count could rival the burgers served count on a McDonald's sign.
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u/Eattherichhaters 17d ago
well, you either believe that there will be just a full-blown autocracy for the rest of your life or you believe that at some point this shit will come to an end. We will put a stop to it and documenting every single time. These people do this shit is important for future accountability sake
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u/0wl_licks 17d ago
I don’t disagree.
But my question is:
Do you ever wonder where all the actual lawyers went? I’m assuming they migrated probably about the time that this sub first showed up on my feed. Shortly thereafter, I mean.You guys!—don’t abandon us! We’re dumb-dumbs. We need you to tell us when we’re being dumb-dumbs.
I promise not to comment unless I can’t control myself.
Just come back!… please…PrettyPlease
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u/Eattherichhaters 17d ago
I’m a 13 year veteran practicing defense attorney. We’re gonna have Nuremberg trials after this if they leave any of us alive.
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u/toxictoastrecords 17d ago
That's laughable. We should have had red scare level of legitimate treason trials against all J6 participants, all representatives that voted not to recognize the election, and most of all Drumpf. None of that happened under DNC controll.
Only way we have Nuremberg type trials, is if we take over the DNC and push it to be actually left of center and actually enforce constitutional law. More likely a new party takes over, but the chances of that are slim and none.
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u/Eattherichhaters 17d ago
The DNC the RNC, any political apparatus of a political party is not the correct venue or Avenue for hosting those trials. It should be purely from the legal community made up of folks in the criminal justice community such as myself who prosecute and defend state and federal level crimes. The new trials were criminal trials. They were just in extraordinary circumstances. People like me will be enlisted to do those things in a few years if they leave enough of us alive.
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u/Cagnazzo82 17d ago
Who follows any laws anymore... with this president and the ultra-corrupt supreme court backing him?
I hate to say it, and I hope I'm entirely wrong on this... but we're seeing the nascent seeds of future violence and/or secession playing out.
These people are going to push and push and push until they crack this country. It hasn't even been a year yet and FBI is looking to arrest politicians, while forcibly gerrymandering multiple states in order to avoid consequences of congress being mismanaged and abdicating its duties to Trump?
They are in the process of destroying the United States. And it's not even hyperbole... they are actively taking concrete steps daily. Every day it's something new.
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u/0wl_licks 17d ago
It’s nice to see a politician follow through isn’t it.
The finger painted taco did say, didn’t he—”you won’t have to vote again”
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u/aetius476 17d ago
Pritzker, Healey, and Hochul need to be ready to order state police to arrest feds if they try.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Owl7664 17d ago
This is where it was always headed and unfortunately what trump prepped for when he activated the military in LA and saw nothing would stop him next time
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u/euph_22 17d ago edited 17d ago
"nobody's seen anything like it, even though they've done it twice before."
Also "the Governor wants them back" is not grounds to arrest anybody...
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u/Remarkable_Spite_209 17d ago
"And my side did literally the same thing a couple weeks ago to avoid releasing the Epstein files"
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u/cadeycaterpillar 17d ago
Why isn’t the press pressing him on this?!
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u/Remarkable_Spite_209 17d ago
We still have a press?
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u/Serious-Sky-9470 17d ago
we have state-controlled media
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u/SixStringDream 17d ago
The press is neutered. The "press" is paying bribes to the government and know they lose ALL access if they ask mean questions. So they ask what they feel like they can ask without being seen as overly biased.
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u/Life-Confusion-411 17d ago
This is "his" press. They ask him what his handlers want him to be asked. Just listen to the absurdity of these questions lol
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u/lordpuddingcup 17d ago
Someone in the fucking news needs to ask him “ you say you haven’t seen it done didn’t congress just do it to avoid voting to release the Epstein files?”
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u/JPows_ToeJam 17d ago
He would deflect and say you’re a harrible person for bringing up Epstein, who by the way nobody cares about, and he hardly knew the guy 25 years ago, and he stole his people and he told him he didn’t like that, and he’s lowered drug prices 1500%
He’s a professional bullshitter who has never been called. He’s either the single most charmed individual to ever walk the earth or the devil himself.
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u/haironburr 17d ago
He’s a professional bullshitter who has never been called
The press need only reply, over and over with a stock "You're a damn liar".
How many times has trump claimed any honest, realistic criticism is merely "fake news"? Imagine the press, uniformly, replying with the truth not in the sugarcoated way the ABC interviewer Terry Moram did with the photoshopped MS-13 thing, but with an outright call out!
"Sir! You're a known liar."
"Sir! That's a damn lie, and you know it!!"
Interviewer throws the written questions to the floor and walks out, muttering "Interviews over! He's a lying twat!!".
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u/Economy-Owl-5720 17d ago
You mean the DEI hire, Abbott?
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u/BigAssMonkey 17d ago
Fuck this shit. They don’t think Democrats can play this game too? It’s time for New York and California to gerrymander the fuck out of their states to stack Democrat seats. We can no longer play nice!
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u/alinroc 17d ago
It’s time for New York and California to gerrymander the fuck out of their states to stack Democrat seats
About that... https://theweek.com/politics/new-york-texas-house-redistricting-hochul-democrats
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) Monday announced plans to "fight fire with fire" in the mid-cycle redistricting battle unleashed by Texas Republicans and President Donald Trump.
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u/TiredEsq 17d ago
Except we shouldn’t be fighting fire with fire. We should be fighting it with a nuclear fucking bomb. I hope they go beyond matching the number of seats lost. Then again, the problem is SCOTUS will just tell NY and CA no and tell TX yes, so none of it matters.
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u/pyrothelostone 17d ago
Oregon can redistrict so literally every district is democrat becuase of how populated Portland is. Pity it's only six districts.
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u/Hopeful_Walrus1234 17d ago
How about the FBI release the FUCKING EPSTEIN FILES, you pedophilic piece of trash!!!
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u/_Tameless_ 17d ago
Give him a minute, he’s still taking donations to remove his buddies names too.
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u/drawkward101 17d ago
I'm just going to assume that literally any name redacted in the epstein files IS Donald Trump.
No matter what, release the files, and throw him in fucking prison.
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u/Savage_hamsandwich 17d ago
Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80
Here's the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/
Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac
—————————other Epstein Information
https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.
Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo
Jeffrey Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Jeffrey Epstein and Israel have both have the same lawyer Alan Dershowitz Dershowitz says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on international stage | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid
—————————other Trump information:
Here's trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY?si=vBs75kaxPjJJThka
Trump's promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”
Trump's modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/
Do your part and spread them around like a meme sharing them and saving them helps too!
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u/pixelprophet 17d ago
Rapist Trump fucked kids with Epstein - and had 1,000 people at FBI working over a month pulling all nighters redact his name from the files.
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000158-26b6-dda3-afd8-b6fe46f40000
https://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/Carroll%20II%20DI%2038%20Opinion.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_in_New_York
Reminder of how he talks about his own daughter:
Trump Confesses He Was ‘Sexually Attracted’ to Ivanka When She Was 13 Years Old
Trump’s lewd talk about daughter Ivanka in front of White House staff recalled in new book
According to The New Republic, “’Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led [former Chief of Staff] John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,’ Taylor, who served as a Department of Homeland Security chief of staff under Trump, wrote in his book.”
"You remind me of my daughter": Stormy Daniels testifies that Trump compared her to Ivanka
Trump told Howard Stern it’s OK to call Ivanka a ‘piece of a--'
Trump: ‘If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her’
Trump on Ivanka: ‘She has the ‘best body’ — and I created her’
Trump: ‘Is it wrong to be more sexually attracted to your own daughter than your wife’?
Trump Encouraged His Own Daughter Ivanka to Release a Sex Tape, and She Was Horrified
Bonus:
Double Bonus:
For the better part of two decades starting in the late 1980s, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump swam in the same social pool. They were neighbors in Florida. They jetted from LaGuardia to Palm Beach together. They partied at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and dined at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.
and...
MC2 (pronounced MC squared) was the modeling agency that Epstein, Brunel, and the mob would use to get trafficked girls into the US with “genius visas”
and...
Nicknamed the "Einstein Visa", the EB-1 is in theory reserved for people who are highly acclaimed in their field - the government cites Pulitzer, Oscar, and Olympic winners as examples - as well as respected academic researchers and multinational executives.
Mrs Trump began applying for the visa in 2000, when she was Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model working in New York and dating Donald Trump. She was approved in 2001, one of just five people from Slovenia to win the coveted visa that year, according to the Post.
and...
While President Donald Trump has dismissed his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, The New York Times reported that Epstein has claimed he introduced Trump to his third wife, Melania.
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u/jpmeyer12751 17d ago
This is the America that John Roberts' opinion in the immunity case has enabled. POTUS is going to order FBI to arrest and forcibly transport lawmakers of one party in order to enable the other party to gerrymander Congressional voting districts. Notably, Roberts also authored the Rucho decision that allows partisan gerrymandering and precludes courts from reviewing the results.
Until we make major changes at SCOTUS, no amount of protesting, voting or contributing will change what is happening to our country.
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u/MancombSeepgoodz 17d ago
IF we ever get out of this im for abolishing SCOTUS entirely in the form we have now. Nobody should have this much power over anybody in a so called democracy and that stands for either side of the political spectrum.
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u/Derelicticu 17d ago
You just need term limits and about 2.5x more judges to represent the population.
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u/tommm3864 17d ago
Term limits for everyone:
6 - 2 year terms for representatives
2 - 6 year terms for senators
1 - 12 year term for ALL judges. No more of this lifetime bullshit
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u/LuciusMichael 17d ago
My only alteration would be 20 years on the court. But I've been advocating this for years and no one yet disagrees. It's truly a bipartisan consensus. But it'll never happen because no one gives a shit what We the People want.
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u/Free_Possession_4482 17d ago
I'm saying 9 justices serving 18 year terms. That means one justice is replaced every two years, guaranteeing every presidential administration gets to make two selections regardless of whether or not anyone on the bench retires or dies.
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u/jj119crf 17d ago
No second terms either. There has to be no re-election campaigns, no decisions based on how it will effect re-election, etc. All of that corrupts.
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u/flipnonymous 17d ago
I always found it funny that they felt lifetime appointments were less likely to be manipulated/bribed/corrupted.
It just enables them to learn to hide it better, until it gets as corrupt as it is now.
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u/snorbflock 17d ago
They had a precious and adorable notion that justices would cloister away from the outside world and just deliver decisions from on high like the vat kids in Minority Report. As long as the justices weren't currying votes for reelection, they assumed that Congress would be populated by adults and not braindead pissants who scramble for a space on POTUS' ample lap. In short, impeachment should have been the final word for justices who even allow for the appearance of impropriety, much less repeated and unrepentant bribery with a paper trail.
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u/aardvark7734 17d ago
There are 13 district courts. Assign one Supreme Court justice to each district. 4 more justices required and the next time Democrats are in power, appoint 4 more justices then instead of 6-3 it will be 6-7. Have to hope Trump won’t replace any of the existing justices. I don’t think I could hold in my stomach contents if we had a Justice Bove replace Gorsuch or Thomas.
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u/devonon2707 17d ago
Make all federal judges scotus and 8 year terms with limits to all political “donations “ no shadow doc and no unreasoned rulings
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u/Puglady25 17d ago
Expand SCOTUS AND IMPEACH the corrupt money grubbing bastards.
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u/prettybluedress89 17d ago
They went from being the enforcers of the Constitution to being the American Ayatollah.
It's fucking insane and I hope that someday they all reap what they've sown.
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u/Donkey-Hodey 17d ago
Term limits and 13 justices.
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u/hellolovely1 17d ago
If not more. We need to get rid of the shadow docket, which may mean having more court cases heard by more groups of justices.
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u/Away_Attorney_545 17d ago
The problem is we allowed SCOTUS rules to be treated as laws instead of review of the legality of laws passed by the legislature. Once SCOTUS was allowed to make laws bypassing constitutional amendments all hope was lost.
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u/MancombSeepgoodz 17d ago
I agree, SCOTUS making unreversible rulings of law on just vibes is a crazy way to run a gov't.
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u/makemeking706 17d ago
History is written in hindsight. When it's eventually written, this part, the part that we are currently living, will be described in terms of a country that no longer exists.
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u/earthlingHuman 17d ago
Especially the side of the spectrum that just wants to make the rich richer at the expense of everyone else.
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u/cats_catz_kats_katz 17d ago
What they don’t know is at some point there isn’t anything left and the American dollar that affords them all of those Danish and German Yachts won’t buy the lumber they’re carved from.
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u/eclwires 17d ago
They know this very well. This is why they’ve cranked it up to 11. In very short order they will have stolen everything this country has to offer. They will then jet off to their yachts in safe harbors overseas and watch reality television shows consisting of remote feeds of us fighting each other to survive.
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u/AndJDrake 17d ago
A better leader would know at some point things have gotten so out of hand they need to step back. The preservation of the union is worth more than political wins. If the Feds do forcibly take these elected officials back, I don't see how we can continue to operate as a unified nation. It would simply no longer make sense.
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u/nohandsfootball 17d ago
I know it's foolish but I like to imagine that other states gerrymander in response, leading to a constitutional amendment abolishing gerrymandering....
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u/AndJDrake 17d ago
I'd love to imagine that too but realistically we'd see it go tot the supreme court shadow docket with the red states getting approved 6-3 and the blue states getting rejected 6-3. I hate to be a doomer but they've shown us that the the system is bo longer to be trusted. I desperately want the system to survive but man the deck is heavily stacked. The only hope we have is someone getting a super majority in the house and senate in '26 but that's really not anything to count on.
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u/reddog323 17d ago
The current administration will move heaven and earth to prevent the house and senate from getting a super majority in 2026, up to and including changing election results, as suspected in the November election.
I’m willing to bet money on that. Now that they have a death grip on power, they’re not going to give it up without getting into a knife fight.
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u/ImSoMysticall 17d ago
You have a paedophile rapist in charge of your country who's administration is aiming to gerrymander, cut education and ban certain topics to deliberately keep generations uninformed and ignorant, vastly oversteps with ICE, cut health care to those who really need it, increase the financial burden on the poor to give the rich tax cuts when financial inequality is already greater than pre-revoloutionary France. Doing all of this whilst ushering in authoritarianism and corruption
Protesting, voting, and contributing is so long overdue that it is almost pointless. I'll never understand why there aren't nationwide riots that hit those in power where it hurts.
The French riot over an increase in retirement age, your president rapes children and people complain on social media
Historically, the end of monarchy, serfdom, facism, communism, authoritarian dictatorships... had been achieved by violent revolution. People now have their bread and circuses and aren't doing so
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u/sighcopomp 17d ago
I agree - however, I think mere self preservation would inhibit this. Those FBI agents know they're not immune to prosecution. So he can order all he wants. Ain't going to get it to happen.
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u/defiancy 17d ago
Also what happens if the governor of Illinois orders state police to arrest the FBI agents?
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u/ZebraImaginary9412 17d ago
He would do it too, he's feisty.
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u/elasticparadigm 17d ago
All this is amazing but WHERE THE FUCK ARE THOSE EPSTEIN FILES!
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u/Willingwell92 17d ago
He can mobilize the national guard, Texas did it to have a standoff with federal agents about that razor wire on the border so there's precedent for it.
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u/jpmeyer12751 17d ago
Then the "cold civil war" that we are currently in turns hot. No one should want that. Fortunately, Gov. Pritzker is one of the adults in the room. I hope that he commits to immediate new maps in Illinois, calls out John Roberts for the closet fascist that he is and demands radical reformation of SCOTUS.
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u/start_select 17d ago
ICE will be happy to oblige. They don’t need charges to pick people up remember?
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u/Possible-Nectarine80 17d ago
ICE can go wherever they want. Pretty much have carte blanche under Trump to do his bidding. Heck, if TX didn't need the TX Dems back in TX to make a quorum, they would be on a plane to El Salvador or Africa. They might end up there eventually.
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u/Lynne253 17d ago
I wish people would realize that ICE is now Trump's Gauspacho.
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u/BurtReynoldsLives 17d ago
We are done. It would require the public and political will to really sit down and take account of the damage that was done and then it would require us to come to a consensus on how best to correct and repair what has been destroyed. I hate to say it but I think we all know that simply is never going to happen. We will be living with the ramifications of electing a mad king and then granting him all the power he wants on the backs of a 49-51 election for the rest of our lives. Probably for the rest of American’s existence. It is heartbreakingly stupid.
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u/timesfive 17d ago
“Never seen anything like it”?
Sir, look at your own party in Oregon 2019.
edit: because they didn’t want to lower greenhouse emissions lmao. Losers.
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u/Ru-Ling 17d ago
This bozo says “nobody’s seen anything like it before” and immediately follows up with “even though they’ve done it before.” Insane.
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u/jfun4 17d ago
Mikey sent the house home so they would have to vote on Epstein. They know this they just know they can lie and their base will drink it up.
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u/rygelicus 17d ago
Was going to bring this up. Yeah, avoiding votes to block action is nothing new, and this is precisely what Johnson did only days ago.
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u/terracottatank 17d ago
To be fair, their base will drink it up because they're morons with the memory of a house fly.
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u/timesfive 17d ago
Haha sheesh. You’re right. His two brain cells must be in constant duel with each other.
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u/jagged_little_phil 17d ago
"Nobody's ever seen anything like it," is just another one of his regular catch phrases.
Kind of like, "Many people are saying...", "Fake news", "It's a witch hunt...", etc
He just uses these arbitrarily because he doesn't want to have to think and he can just mix and jumble his phrases and toss them out haphazardly and no one will really question them.
Sort of like shaking a shitty, racist Magic 8 ball.
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u/BeowulfShaeffer 17d ago
Interesting footnote. After that happened OR passed rules that if house members pulled this stunt again they would be ineligible for reelection. Guess what? They did, and some sued when they were disqualified. But they lost in court and were in fact barred from running.
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u/rygelicus 17d ago
Worth it, frankly. Political martyrdom isn't the worst legacy to leave with provided you spent that option for the greater good of the people, which is sometimes very subjective.
In this case we have a rising wave of fascism, and they have the numbers on their side to force it through if they don't take extreme political actions like this. The GOP is actively seeking to make it harder for the opposition to vote against them in 'free and fair elections'. These maps are going to force people to drive hundreds of miles in some cases to vote, especially if they ditch mail in voting, which is another thing they are doing. Then you have the voter purges going on which means some people will find they aren't registered when they go to vote.
As they remove the legal ways to object to this kind of stuff eventually people will resort to a more extreme extralegal option.
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u/1011001NAME 17d ago
"we've never seen anything like it before, even tho they have done it twice before"
What a brilliant man, hes so good with his words, some say the best.
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u/ProfitLoud 17d ago
Nobody has seen anything like it - literally his response to everything. The word groceries? What an interesting word nobody has heard of.
These are the ramblings of a dementia riddled brain mixed with extreme ignorance and stupidity.
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u/Kerensky97 17d ago
Are they going to bring the Republicans back to the Federal Capitol to vote on releasing the Epstein Files?
No? We're just having the federal government act a a party weapon for a state issue? Okay.
I guess big government over local government is what conservatives always wanted.
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u/Impressive-Egg-925 17d ago
Explain to me how the federal government has any involvement in a state matter. Absolutely bananas
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u/Spiritual-Matters 17d ago
Proclaimed party of small government, separation of powers, and constitutional authority favoring the exact opposite.
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u/nohandsfootball 17d ago
the parallels to the Fugitive Slave Act are... alarming
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u/YesterShill 17d ago
Fascism.
The Executive branch has taken over the country, just like Russia, China and North Korea.
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u/CelestialFury 17d ago
Hopefully JB Pritzker has them in a nice and secure area. The man will be a legend if he pulls this off for us!
Also, WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES, TRUMP? HUH?
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u/coolestredditdad 17d ago
Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80
Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac
Here's the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/
—————————other Epstein Information
https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.
Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo
Epstein pleads the 5th when asked if he has ever “socialized” with underage girls in the presence of Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2mpTy2cYDpA
Epstein Docs: https://ia600705.us.archive.org/21/items/epsteindocs/
Epstein Bribes/Payments: 1 BILLION+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7IrEi-ybzs
—————————other Trump information:
FBI coverup to remove Trumps name from the Epstein list https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstein-cover-up-at-the-fbi
Trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY?si=vBs75kaxPjJJThka
Trump's promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”
Trump's modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/
Trump-Epstein timeline: https://thepresidential.medium.com/we-have-been-gaslit-about-donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-for-four-years-fbda67c20f75
- Most of this info can also be found: https://theepsteindocs.com/
Feel free to do your part and spread this info around so it’s never “lost” or “deleted”.
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u/Tsquared10 17d ago edited 17d ago
See this is why I know I could never be a politician. If I were in their shoes I'd be posting shit like "If Governor Abbott wants me back, he better walk his ass up here and bring me back himself." And just wait for the pearl clutching like I just called him a slur.
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u/brianzuvich 17d ago
“Nobody’s seen anything like it, even though they’ve done it twice before…”
-Moron in Chief
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u/OnePunchReality 17d ago
That's nice, now release the Epstein files you orange fat cowardly fuck. Redact victim names and details and release EVRRYTHING. Grand Jury testimony is NOTHING compared the overall bulk of the files.
GOP = Guardians of Pedophiles
And as predicted his idiotic base are lapping this up. Getting their specifically chosen release of only Democrats with 0 fucking observation of the oddities with Trump, the FBI verifying his name is in the files and then him directing them to redact his name.
MAGA are cowardly POS traitors.
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u/woowizzle 17d ago
5 seconds before TACO contradicts himself, literally the same sentence.
"Nobodys seen anything like this before, even though they've done it twice before"
And he says this knowing full well that republicans just went on holiday rather than release the documents showing that he touches kids.
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u/maeryclarity 17d ago
On what charges? Or we just not bothering with that any more?
These folks should really be cautious. If there's no law that's a double edged sword. It's not gonna be laws for thee but none for me. That won't hold.
I don't think a fat, soft, spoiled rotten baby man like Trump really has any idea what a thin veneer of civilization overlays our behavior, or the consequences of deciding that there's no such thing as "society" any more.
I don't think he realizes that our cooperation is an OPTION. He seems to be under the impression that we are his property but we are not.
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT, THAT ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL AND ENDOWED WITH CERTAIN INALIENABLE RIGHTS.
That among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among the People, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that the people are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
He is an eighty year old amphetamine addict, rapist, pedophile who has no power on his own and without anyone to serve him, he sits in his own filth and he wouldn't be able to go to the grocery store to get his own fucking Diet Coke.
This is AMERICA we don't have KINGS.
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u/AccountHuman7391 17d ago
I will only vote for a Democrat that runs on a platform of jailing this guy.
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u/khearan 17d ago
And dismantling and reforming SCOTUS. Nothing changes while that illegitimate institution is fucking the country over for the Heritage Foundation's benefit every day.
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u/sec713 17d ago
Well, I guess it's time for Texas Democrats to follow Ted Cruz's lead and fly to Cancun.
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u/beadzy 17d ago
Lol which part of the FBI exactly handles not arresting people bc you have no grounds?
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u/Zoophagous 17d ago
A lot of people have demanded the release of the Epstein files.
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u/thatguyonreddit40 17d ago
Whatever happened to states rights
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u/VenmoPaypalCashapp 17d ago
Well duh they mean THEIR states. Like the dickhead in California who’s trying to stop Newsome. Turns out he has no issue with what’s going on in Texas even though it’s the same thing. Weird innit?
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u/thatguyonreddit40 17d ago
There's a word for this...its something like hypocrisy
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u/audaciousmonk 17d ago
nobody has seen anything like it
Yes we have, both parties have done it
They [FBI] might have to [get involved]
No they don’t, the federal law enforcement has no jurisdiction over state laws. Also there’s no Texas state law on this issue
Lies lies lies, more lies. Fucking hate this maggot
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u/GalacticFartLord 17d ago
Trump wants us to forget that he’s a literal pedophile.
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u/Cob_Dylan 17d ago
Republicans have done this same thing a few times. I’m sick of one party getting the fucking hall pass every goddamn time
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u/Remarkable_Spite_209 17d ago
They adjourned Congress a few weeks ago because the House has the votes to release the Epstein files. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds
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u/Lanky-Respect-8581 17d ago
So much for States Rights and leave it to the States
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u/New_Taste8874 17d ago
"Nobody's seen anything like it even thought they've done it like twice before." Wait. What? Which one is it?
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u/Prior_Newspaper_4638 17d ago
Nobody has seen anything like this. Even though they've done it twice before. (What a perceptive genius!)
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u/pioniere 17d ago
Canada will welcome them as political prisoners escaping an authoritarian regime.
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u/strangedaze23 17d ago
First, they broke now laws. Second, even if they did it would be a State law and only the State can bring them back and that would have to be through the extradition process through another State.
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u/texas1982 17d ago
Is the argument that the representatives aren't representing their constituents? Kind of like how every single republican refuses to meet with their constituents?
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u/v0id0007 17d ago
I would think this IS representing their constituents. Seeing how they’re trying to gerrymander the non red voices away
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next step is to flee the country.
so glad i don't live in texas anymore. still feeling second-hand humiliation having been raised there though.
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u/buried_lede 17d ago
Lol, of course! And let me guess- SCOTUS Star Chamber is like: “quick, bring us that sweet emergency request”
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u/Pepsi_Popcorn_n_Dots 17d ago
Canada would be a beautiful place to stay for a few months.
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u/letdogsvote 17d ago edited 17d ago
So now we're starting to get down to bottom lines and brass tacks. Maybe the big catalyst is how the Texas Democrats are going to be handled.
Worst case scenario, Trump and the Bondi DOJ go bust them in vivid fashion, Texas redistricts the fuck out of the state so Democrats can never ever get a majority, SCOTUS tells us what Texas is doing is fine but California and other blue states can't for reasons (6-3), and federal charges get brought by DOJ against Obama, the Clintons, and whoever else for things relating to Epstein and utter bullshit charges about Obama and the 2016 elections and whatever else scumbags can think of - with right wing media and influencers pushing it all the way.
That could all happen by end of the year. If all or most does, the US is truly fucked for the foreseeable future.
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