OT: American Politics

[worm]

to be fair, it did take 50 years of planning to stack the courts with the right type of judges to allow this. Without the 6-3 federalist SCOTUS, this just isn't possible.

Put some respeck on Mitch's name.

I feel like just ignoring the courts is easy.

 

[MindzEye]

I feel like just ignoring the courts is easy.

That's a bridge too far for a lot of Americans. The perverting of the Supreme was a necessary step to this imo, which is why it was such a concerted effort by their top Sith for so long.

 

[Cal Gal]

It certainly is now, and indefinitely.

 

[zeke]

View: https://x.com/MattGertz/status/1904689137120403693


View: https://x.com/JonahDispatch/status/1904698732139970924

 

[zeke]

View: https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1904713379152814139

 

[worm]

That's a bridge too far for a lot of Americans. The perverting of the Supreme was a necessary step to this imo, which is why it was such a concerted effort by their top Sith for so long.

And what will Amerikans do about it? Nothing

 

[zeke]

View: https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1904716943375900899


View: https://x.com/JosephSzymanski/status/1904715283392008699


View: https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1904715597847339170

 

[MindzEye]

And what will Amerikans do about it? Nothing

Eh, you're looking at this in the context of right now, where there's already been a bagload of SCOTUS decisions to lay the groundwork to give Donald the powers he's using right now.

If the now was then, this would all be different. But then is now now, so it's all fucked up. I completely understand the confusion though.

 

[zeke]

View: https://x.com/JonahDispatch/status/1904692656711852415

 

[zeke]

View: https://x.com/Acyn/status/1904718271934587388

 

[worm]

Eh, you're looking at this in the context of right now, where there's already been a bagload of SCOTUS decisions to lay the groundwork to give Donald the powers he's using right now.

If the now was then, this would all be different. But then is now now, so it's all fucked up. I completely understand the confusion though.

Sure. But I didn't think Americans would just roll over so easily. Not even pretending to push back.

 

[hockeylover]

View: https://bsky.app/profile/jonathancohn.bsky.social/post/3llaiyodmis2b

 

[hockeylover]

Sure. But I didn't think Americans would just roll over so easily. Not even pretending to push back.

I was thinking this would get pretty dark but it’s gone way faster than I expected so far also.

 

[zeke]

I'm surprised it didn't happen in the first term.

 

[worm]

View: https://x.com/MattGertz/status/1904689137120403693


View: https://x.com/JonahDispatch/status/1904698732139970924

GOP should just say. Meh. Whatever. We can do whatever we want

 

[MindzEye]

Sure. But I didn't think Americans would just roll over so easily. Not even pretending to push back.

Agreed, and I've ranted a fair bit about that. But to a lot of Americans, the canary in their personal coal mine is SCOTUS. It's one of those norms and guardrails and shit. A non captured SCOTUS probably puts Trump in a box during Trump 1, and their fuckery during the Biden admin was a major reason the investigations into Trump moved so slow.

I don't think you can seperate the two. Dunno, maybe I'll be proven wrong if SCOTUS drops a ruling Trump doesn't like and he publicly ignores it.

 

[zeke]

i saw a chart which showed protests are at least double so far than they were his first term.

the aoc/bernie tour is also more aggressive than anything we saw at any point last time.

 

[zeke]

View: https://x.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1904674731552276547

 

[hockeylover]

I’d say the protests are hardly making the news so far - feels like less attention than last time.

 

[hockeylover]

View: https://bsky.app/profile/davidcorn.bsky.social/post/3llanaqor222y