i will remark again on this hallmark of maga politics, which is that trump embodies the organic will of the voters and this imbues him with sovereign power that cannot be checked or limited by any other institution in the society.
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in the american system, the president may represent a national electorate but this does not imbue him with anything other than rhetorical power. he must still negotiate with congress, which represents particular constituencies, and heed the courts, who determine what the law is.
apr 20, 2025, 7:49 pm • 2,438 210 • view
But if congress folds like a cheap suit and the courts try to cut the baby in half then his power can be much more than rhetorical. All of the levers of government reside in the hands of the executive who has the will to but grab them.
apr 20, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
At this point, we're effectively dealing with modern monarchists that lack the self-awareness not to fly a Gadsden Flag. The irony is too powerful.
apr 20, 2025, 8:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump is now making the same argument Jackson did before the Whig Senate
apr 20, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
He rules the majority in Congress. They have ceded their power to him so that he has all the power, not just rhetorical. Until Dems retake majority we’re screwed.
apr 20, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view
these people are putting forth a novel system in which elections move imbue the president with the entire sovereign authority of the people, who can then act as an elected despot, unbound by any other authority
apr 20, 2025, 7:50 pm • 2,861 209 • view
They're saying if we don't allow Trump to be a dictator, we'll get a dictator. like saying, if you don't let me shoot you, I'll shoot you. Heads they win, tails we lose. The cult logic
apr 20, 2025, 8:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Not so much a constitutional republic as an electorally-determined Mandate of Heaven, and the electoral part is open to negotiation
apr 20, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
they voted me president that makes me king
apr 20, 2025, 7:55 pm • 3 0 • view
And they're doing it all in a sub 50% vote for a politician who'd lost the popular vote decisively twice before. I still don't get people who disagree with Trump but had docilely accepted the framing of his victory as massive or a mandate.
apr 20, 2025, 11:52 pm • 0 0 • view
49.8% of the popular vote earns you unbridled power.
apr 20, 2025, 9:02 pm • 3 0 • view
So does receiving the votes of less than a third of all eligible voters, apparently.
apr 20, 2025, 10:07 pm • 0 0 • view
it's kind of funny how much conservatives have said on this subject from a perspective that seems to think this is literally the first time a president has been overridden by the other branches
apr 20, 2025, 9:38 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm not sure it's novel. It is clearly un-American and unconstitutional though.
apr 20, 2025, 10:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Is this really all that novel? I’ve been starting to head up on fascism (like a lot of folks theee days, no doubt) and isn’t one of its hallmarks the belief in a leader who is an embodiment of the will of the true people of the nation?
apr 20, 2025, 11:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Embodying the will of the "true people of a nation" is a key point here too! MAGA see Trump as governing for "Real Americans" - a construct that is supported by mainstream media (see Ohio Diner think pieces)
apr 21, 2025, 4:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Not for nothin' but they did this in Rome and in a completely unshocking turn of events the dude they imbued with that power never gave it up.
apr 20, 2025, 7:53 pm • 3 0 • view
Well, they did it two different ways that were both supposed to be limited until someone managed to seize power through it and then the first it led to a revolution and the second to the Empire and the very instability that eventually shrunk them and shrunk them until the Ottomans conquered them.
apr 20, 2025, 9:28 pm • 1 0 • view
The first system was supposed to be constrained by the Senate essentially having made the king, and the second was only to be used in emergencies and the Senate again did the election. However, they usually were very careful, but you only have to screw up or do it for the wrong reasons once.
apr 20, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
However, this is likely the problem with the President, they still have too much power, Congress has effectively conceded some of their power and become gutless, and it's difficult to remove a president within the current rules. So different thing going on here but we've effectively played ourself
apr 20, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
...to get the current situation and in that we are similar to the Romans.
apr 20, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
But of course not for Biden or Obama.
apr 20, 2025, 8:02 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s novel to us but it’s been done elsewhere. Right wing populism: authoritarianism but with elections
apr 20, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Giving future President @aoc.bsky.social the power to summarily deport Republicans to a foreign concentration camp is a strange hill for Republicans to die on.
apr 20, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
This is it exactly it. When posting locally (Las Vegas) about the April 19 protest on Reddit the common theme in all the maga responses was that Dump was democratically elected and so therefore we had no right to protest because he is simply implementing the will of the majority
apr 20, 2025, 8:25 pm • 4 0 • view
In their twisted thinking, they feel that to protest against his and Musk’s policies is to protest democracy itself, and therefore progressives are the anti-democratic ones. It’s so wild but countless responses posted something to that effect.
apr 20, 2025, 8:25 pm • 5 0 • view
Dear Leader can never be wrong. One crack in that armor brings the whole project tumbling down. They will go to any length to ensure he is never, ever wrong about anything. Because if he is wrong, they are wrong. Doubt is the enemy.
apr 20, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Goes hand in hand with their attitude that anytime they lose an election or a floor vote they’re being “disenfranchised.”
apr 20, 2025, 7:56 pm • 4 0 • view
Not all elections of course. These same people in no way would ever have argued that Biden or Obama were imbued with the entire sovereign authority of the people.
may 25, 2025, 10:27 pm • 6 0 • view
Only Republican presidents! They very much did not think Biden had any authority, let alone uncheckable authority.
apr 20, 2025, 7:52 pm • 20 0 • view
Democratic victories are inherently illegitimate, whereas Republican victories are the manifest Will of the People
apr 20, 2025, 7:56 pm • 20 0 • view
There you go
apr 20, 2025, 8:23 pm • 2 0 • view
This attitude has been with us for over 30 years. The GOP very much saw, or at least behaved as though they saw, Clinton’s Presidency as illegitimate. I add the qualification because Gingrich seems shrewd enough to discern that the pretense of belief could inculcate real belief in the GOP base.
apr 20, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
In all fairness to him, that's pretty much what the media and the Supreme Court have been telling him for the past several years. His lived experience is that he can get away with whatever he wants.
apr 21, 2025, 8:36 am • 0 0 • view
This is the simplistic view a child espouses when they ask "Why doesn't The President DO something about this?" and then they are schooled about the Constitution. But this is the view espoused by MAGA. Of course, adults do not want any POTUS (or especially the FOETUS) to have this unchained power
apr 20, 2025, 10:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Ok but let’s be clear — it’s not “the president”. It’s THEIR president. The minute a dem gets elected, it’s pants on fire every move they make, even if it mimics power sought or exercised by a republican president.
apr 20, 2025, 9:07 pm • 9 0 • view
If the US is to ever recover it's trust, it needs major reforms. Cutting down the power and moral authority of the president would go a long way to that. Make the elected members of congres the presidential electors, and make removal 50%+1. President is then clearly subservient to congres.
apr 21, 2025, 10:08 am • 1 1 • view
It’s such an odd view—that he represents true America & is thus all powerful. They’re enthralled by Tr*mp. They don’t understand him. They, too, want to be odious, incompetent & still attract violent fervor. But only the weakest & most feeble-minded men (yes, men, mostly) don’t understand Tr*mp.
apr 20, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
What ultimate outcome did you think Bush and Cheney were tiptoeing toward when they first started pushing the concept of the "unitary executive"? I hate to brag, but I sure as hell saw it.
apr 20, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
While starting arguments for the last few years that America is not a democracy, but a constitutional republic.
apr 21, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
It reminds me of nothing so much as Napoleon III, and how he became Emperor. He won one election, so he gets to be in charge forever, right?
apr 21, 2025, 3:29 am • 1 0 • view
…not even the people as he’s enacting a flurry of unpopular policy. It’s Project 2025. It’s the White Christian Nationalist agenda….and it’s mesmerizing to me, as an outsider looking in that he’s just being allowed to burn the whole damn thing down. No one is taking the matches away
apr 20, 2025, 8:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Instead of educating swing voters who believed a US president was some kind of king all along, just make the president into a king to suit their vague notions.
apr 21, 2025, 9:57 am • 0 0 • view
This is functionally how all other authoritarian regimes treat their elections as well. Dictators love elections, just ask them. They love them so much they make sure they always win.
apr 20, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
King George on a timer. Pretty sure the Founders had something else in mind.
apr 20, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
And these people will find out if the governed consent to that novel system. Spoiler: we do not.
apr 20, 2025, 8:03 pm • 2 0 • view
What they're really putting forth is a system in which Republicans get to do everything they want with as little friction as possible, and any rule or principle by which this can happen is inherently justified.
apr 21, 2025, 1:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe I learned in high school civics that we can elect a president, but not a dictator. Even if it was 99% of the vote.
apr 20, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
What I mean is, we are not ALLOWED to elect a dictator.
apr 21, 2025, 3:33 am • 0 0 • view
*When the President is a Republican. This novel system, like unitary executive theory, only comes into force when the president has a -R tag. Presidents with a -D tag need permission from both CJ Roberts and Justice Barrett to see the White House trash bins are regularly emptied.
apr 20, 2025, 7:56 pm • 3 0 • view
well to be fair, they believe that only applies when they win the election. So they're half right.
apr 20, 2025, 9:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Only when the GOP wins the presidency. A Democrat is not and can never be the avatar of the Volk.
apr 20, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Businessmen understand executive power to be like the power of kings before the Magna Carta because it how it works in their companies. This, and the fact that they see government and regulations as an affront to their sovereignty is why they should be banned from politics altogether.
apr 20, 2025, 8:07 pm • 1 0 • view
You’re putting too much thought into this. There isn’t a coherent theory of how the government should work. It’s just whatever they have to do to maintain power
apr 20, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 0 • view
*as long as the despot is a MAGA Republican
apr 20, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Pretty rich to see Trump being declared the embodiment of the volonté générale without ever winning 50% of the vote.
apr 20, 2025, 7:53 pm • 5 0 • view
apr 20, 2025, 11:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes but I expect this particular argument, that the populace who elected Trump will demand a dictator if Trump’s will is curtail by the judicial branch, may hold water with people like Roberts. The thought being that if they stand in his way, then they too will lose their power.
apr 20, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a ridiculous argument but Roberts may be just short sited enough to believe that his need to preserve the court is more important than his duty to preserve the constitution. It’s the tack I’ve been expecting them to take but I think this first “argument” I’ve seen in the wild.
apr 20, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
But only when it’s a Republican president
apr 21, 2025, 10:06 am • 10 0 • view
This is actually Jean-Jacques Rousseau's concept of democracy, where one individual interprets the will of the people. This ended up being Maximilien "the Incorruptible" Robespierre, who suspended the constitution and purged the actual republican democrats.
apr 20, 2025, 8:15 pm • 5 0 • view
But only, and this cannot be emphasized enough, when their guy wins.
apr 20, 2025, 7:52 pm • 11 0 • view
Oddly they weren't promoting this system when Biden was president, which is why you know they are totally full of s**t.
apr 20, 2025, 8:27 pm • 4 0 • view
apr 20, 2025, 7:59 pm • 16 2 • view
IOKIYAR to the max.
apr 20, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
(but only the elections that Republicans win. Possibly only the elections that Donald Trump wins)
apr 20, 2025, 7:51 pm • 46 0 • view
Maga are saying "infallibility of the trump" in the same way Catholics believe god speaks directly through the pope?
apr 21, 2025, 12:36 pm • 0 0 • view
And a system they suddenly reject completely with a Dem in the WH
apr 20, 2025, 11:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Not to mention that only ⅓ of registered voters voted for him.
apr 20, 2025, 9:35 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s peak “look at what you made me do” abuser crapola too.
apr 20, 2025, 7:59 pm • 4 0 • view
It would be one thing if that asshole had even won 50% of the popular vote.
apr 20, 2025, 10:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Only won at all because of systematic voter suppression and election interference. hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost...
apr 20, 2025, 10:38 pm • 1 0 • view
And quite possibly outright fraud; smartelections.us
apr 20, 2025, 10:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Like a germanic king
apr 20, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Uncomfortably similar to Führerprinzip...
apr 20, 2025, 7:55 pm • 4 0 • view
Important to remember that this power is only imbued when a Republican wins. When it’s a Democratic President then they must capitulate to the demands of Congressional R’s. After screaming rigged ofc. And some in the media gamely play along with the ‘real America’ and diner rhetoric.
apr 20, 2025, 7:58 pm • 11 0 • view
Congressional R's and whatever district judge they shop their complaints to
apr 20, 2025, 8:25 pm • 2 0 • view
And somewhat insanely they’re doing this while they have majorities in both houses of congress and the Supreme Court.
apr 20, 2025, 7:52 pm • 2,370 129 • view
Well they are useless at ACTUAL governing, so….
apr 20, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
exactly. Not a historian, so I don't know the last time this country had such a scenario, if ever. But there is little we can do, other than try to appeal to the conscience of a dozen GOP pols to stand up, or wait for the midterms. Or engage in some major general strikes.
apr 21, 2025, 2:43 am • 2 0 • view
Their legislative arm largely doesn’t care about legislating, which is both very strange and a major stumbling block for Republicans wielding power effectively.
apr 20, 2025, 10:07 pm • 25 3 • view
I think the idea is to completely neutralize the legislative and judicial branches or at least bring them to heel under the executive permanently. All of this is to ensure permanent unbridled executive power. They don't want to allow the possibility of any subsequent election undoing any of this.
apr 21, 2025, 10:04 am • 9 0 • view
This is what I have been wishing someone would ask him which is if you’re such a dealmaker, why don’t you make a deal with Congress where you have majority in both house houses rather than just doing everything by decree?
apr 20, 2025, 9:27 pm • 4 2 • view
I'm thinking they can only get away with it BECAUSE they have majorities in Congress & SCOTUS.
apr 20, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I know they are power-hungry and greedy but I continue to believe that stupidity and laziness play a deeper role.
apr 20, 2025, 9:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes but that lets them avoid electoral responsibility in their minds. They don’t have to vote for DOGE, the congressional record stays empty
apr 20, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Indeed. If he wanted Congressional approval to shutter agencies and implement all the DOGE stuff, they could get a lot it ratified. That they're not seeking it *is* the point.
apr 20, 2025, 7:54 pm • 77 7 • view
I don't think they could, which is the point. Congress is not acting because they don't want to hold the bag on Project 2025/DOGE.
apr 20, 2025, 8:00 pm • 32 1 • view
They don't want to cut SS/Medicare benefits. But they'd have buy-in for all the foreign policy/humanitarian stuff.
apr 20, 2025, 8:12 pm • 14 0 • view
They do, tho. They just don’t want to be on record for it. The will absolutely put their name to the cruelty and stupidity.
apr 20, 2025, 8:48 pm • 12 0 • view
It’s a way of doing the things while avoiding the accountability for doing the things.
apr 20, 2025, 8:42 pm • 5 0 • view
Which further shows their disdain for the Constitution and a Democratic Republic. They have the means to follow the law holding all 3 branches, they want dictatorship and all the gold too!!
apr 20, 2025, 8:47 pm • 1 0 • view
That is the most infuriating part, honestly. They could do almost any of this legally. It would be awful, but at least it would be democratic.
apr 20, 2025, 7:55 pm • 2 0 • view
A unitary executive branch is a lawless executive branch.
apr 20, 2025, 8:07 pm • 7 0 • view
But they'd only be able to pass *some* of the bat-shit crazy stuff they want to do. Also, it's hard.
apr 20, 2025, 7:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Which is why they're able to do it.
may 25, 2025, 9:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Unified government, still not unified enough apparently
apr 20, 2025, 9:57 pm • 57 2 • view
Chock full of MINOs
apr 20, 2025, 10:05 pm • 9 0 • view
Is it insane? I feel like if those institutions can’t be counted on to enact Trump’s agenda themselves, they are still much more likely to acquiesce in him usurping their powers in order to enact it than if either were dominated by Democrats.
apr 21, 2025, 4:33 pm • 1 0 • view
…merely a redundancy
apr 20, 2025, 7:53 pm • 56 2 • view
Not redundant: they're scared to use it bc then you put the responsibility for the decision on people who have to be reelected.
apr 20, 2025, 9:24 pm • 10 1 • view
They only have to be reelected until he says they don't.
apr 20, 2025, 9:27 pm • 7 0 • view
But for rn they don't want to be caught holding that bag. That means *they* know they still have weaknesses. Don't grant them power they don't yet have.
apr 20, 2025, 11:11 pm • 6 0 • view
The GOP just wants to abdicate and give all the power to one guy.
apr 20, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a cult.
apr 20, 2025, 9:36 pm • 8 0 • view
Because they want a real dictatorship. They want to break all that stuff and never have to deal with it again. Trump told us that he wanted to be a dictator. He wants to be like KJU where citizens have to exult him. He told us.
apr 20, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
They perfected legislation from the bench to save their congressmen from having to carry so many unpopular policies, but Trump needs to be the strong man so he blows it up.
apr 20, 2025, 8:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Wanna see presidential power and immunity become MAGA Kryptonite? Elect another black president.
apr 20, 2025, 7:54 pm • 26 0 • view
A black female president!
apr 20, 2025, 8:51 pm • 11 0 • view
A woman, hell, just a Democrat and all hell will break loose
apr 20, 2025, 11:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Nope.... as my father was fond of saying; the M-idiots are "all hat, no cattle." Just look at the piddly rallies 34-felon had in 2024. It's all bluster...
apr 20, 2025, 11:34 pm • 3 0 • view
would've been nice if the Dems had had like 20% of this energy when they had the 3 tho
apr 20, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
What it is is that we have a two-party system in the US: Republicans who will do *anything* Trump wants vs. Republicans who won't. And control of the branches is in fact divided between these two parties.
apr 20, 2025, 8:04 pm • 2 1 • view
Yeah, it'd be one thing to make this argument if this was an executive who was elected with a decisive majority being blocked from governing by a gerrymandered legislature or something but he won with 49.8% and his party controls both other branches!
apr 20, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Unchecked power rather than a check on their power.
apr 20, 2025, 7:54 pm • 2 0 • view
It's not about now, it's about stopping democracy from returning after Trump.
apr 20, 2025, 7:59 pm • 5 0 • view
They want more than even that can deliver.
apr 20, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Hmm... Isn't this Jesse Kelly the son or brother of felon..?
apr 20, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
These people are describing a dictatorship with trump at the helm. Do they actually listen to themselves or read what they post. Truly insane.
apr 20, 2025, 9:46 pm • 7 1 • view
Is it insane though? That is the ideal scenario for turning a constitutional democracy into a monarchy, which is what his followers want. The only way it would be more ideal is if he’d actually gotten a majority of the vote.
apr 20, 2025, 7:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Theyre doing this specifically BECAUSE they have those things.
apr 20, 2025, 7:59 pm • 4 0 • view
They will do nothing through institutions because that lends the institutions legitimacy, and they are executing an attack on the idea of institutions - they want nothing that can hinder their whims, keeping only the executors of their will (ICE).
apr 20, 2025, 9:13 pm • 3 0 • view
This nightmare alternative political theory springs from a fertile soil of our primitive monkey authoritarian tribal impulses. John W. Dean @johnwdean.bsky.social has been trying to warn us. youtu.be/mXCoQEXwbSQ
apr 21, 2025, 3:39 am • 5 2 • view
EEP EEP EEEEEEEEEEEEP!
apr 21, 2025, 4:03 am • 0 0 • view
Red Alert! youtu.be/VqmSdDKmj2M
apr 21, 2025, 5:06 am • 0 0 • view
We must keep our doors unlocked at all times. Or else the burglars will have to break open locked doors to get inside.
apr 20, 2025, 8:15 pm • 8 1 • view
You don't try to steal power when you don't have it; you steal it forever once you have it.
apr 20, 2025, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Well actually, THE ONLY REASON Trump and his cabal of white Nationalists can act like they're unbound by laws and norms IS BECAUSE the GOP House, Senate, and majority of Supreme Court are willing to abdicate their duties to check the executive, represent their people, and uphold the law.
apr 20, 2025, 8:22 pm • 6 0 • view
Yes! This is exactly the plan and the process. Bingo.
apr 20, 2025, 9:42 pm • 1 0 • view
They follow his instructions as HE commands and because NOBODY dares to mess with the mob boss, understood?
apr 21, 2025, 6:07 am • 0 0 • view
Well but that would be admittong that Trump's EOs are ineffective and just a big fucking goose egg.
apr 20, 2025, 10:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Legislation is boring apparently
apr 20, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm happy you're hear Chris. Been watching ya for over a decade. Keep fighting the good fight.
apr 20, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
My (unwarranted?) optimistic note of the day is that they are blinded by hubris and that (maybe?) will be their undoing.
apr 20, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Has Trump spoken once about a legislative proposal?
apr 20, 2025, 8:23 pm • 1 0 • view
It reeks of weakness and fear
apr 20, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Please, Chris, consider telling others to watch the interview btw Ezra Klein and Asha Rangappa, "Constitutional black hole!" Eye opening!
apr 21, 2025, 8:03 am • 0 0 • view
People in congress don’t want to work anymore. Lazy bums.
apr 20, 2025, 8:38 pm • 1 0 • view
But the MAGA Congress are making a Great Case for voters Firing their asses. It seems to me that MAGA peeps like people who get crap done, even if badly. I think they'd prefer to keep govt workers for VA, SS, Medicaid, etc & fire do-nothing GOP Congress that gets paid more for doing Jack 💩.
apr 21, 2025, 9:42 am • 1 0 • view
Only *certain* elections (we all know which ones)
apr 20, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Kinda sound like a king 🤷🏾♂️
apr 20, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
What is absurd is the way the right pretended to revere the Constitution, to treat it as God given and infallible. And now it means nothing.
apr 20, 2025, 7:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Elections have disturbing, ineffable consequences
apr 20, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
They are would be redeemers who do not believe this about a democrat president because they do not believe certain democrat voters are real Americans. This is the basis of birtherism, replacement theory and stop the steal, and is why trumpism has been so destructive
apr 20, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
…unless he wants to forgive student debt.
apr 20, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
*Only if the President is conservative. If a liberal President takes the slightest perceived unilateral action, we are full blown authoritarian.
apr 20, 2025, 9:21 pm • 3 0 • view
So, “conservative” officially means racist, sexist, hater of the LBGTQ community, religious hypocrite and lawless grifter now?
apr 20, 2025, 10:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Always was astronomers meme*
apr 20, 2025, 10:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Funny, that wasn't their view when the rushed to Texas to file suit every time Joe Biden put his shoes on.
apr 21, 2025, 12:52 am • 1 0 • view
only 1/3 of Americans voted for him - he does not have the will of the people
apr 20, 2025, 9:02 pm • 1 0 • view
It is terrifying that we have at least two Supreme Court justices who appear to share this absurd vision, albeit only for a Republican President.
apr 20, 2025, 8:07 pm • 5 0 • view
And for unknown reason they seem to think that that power only rest on the executives head when he is (R)ight...
apr 20, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
And we’re supposed to talk to these people in diners and try to understand them.
apr 20, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
i say this very much as "yes, and" not "but" we should also remember that jesse kelly is among the stupidest human beings currently capable of remembering to breathe. many of them neither understand nor care what they're doing
apr 20, 2025, 7:54 pm • 6 0 • view
Except when Democrats get elected. Then the are all about checks, balances and limits on power.
apr 21, 2025, 12:12 am • 0 0 • view
Part of this rationale is the President’s”accountability” to the electorate. But if he is immune from prosecution and apparently seeks to lie cheat and steal his way to a third term, where is the accountability?
apr 20, 2025, 11:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Whiny fascist crybabies.
apr 20, 2025, 9:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Even though they have 6/3 conservative majority in the Supreme Court, they want to “dissolve“ the Court because it doesn’t do exactly what they want it to do all the time. They have the emotional maturity of infants.
apr 20, 2025, 9:31 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s hard to disentangle this from the Christian nationalism/mythmaking about the divine implications of his survival in July. As the fictional president said in Succession: “a well-regulated election is a transmission frequency for God’s grace.” That’s how they’re approaching this.
apr 20, 2025, 8:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Except they don’t believe this works if Democrats win.
apr 21, 2025, 1:39 am • 0 0 • view
"Elections imbue the president with the entire sovereign authority of the people*" *terms and conditions may apply, offer not valid in the event of Democratic administration
apr 20, 2025, 7:56 pm • 4 0 • view
Wonder if the ppl who sound as if they believe this (because of course they don't think this applies if s/o other than Trump wins) have any thoughts about difference betw/ slim vote margin vs. substantial one. Is it a magical, essential quality, as strong w/ a 1-vote win as in a landslide?
apr 20, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Its exactly what Putin has done to the T
apr 20, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
“system in which elections move imbue the president with the entire sovereign authority of the people,” Well, some elections do. Others, not so much.
apr 20, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
This makes even less sense when you consider the electoral college which can give the presidency to someone without the popular vote. 60,000 people in 3 states should not be able to imbue anyone with sovereignty.
apr 21, 2025, 12:17 am • 4 1 • view
It is becoming increasingly evident that “Idiocracy” is not a satirical movie but is in fact a documentary.
apr 20, 2025, 9:01 pm • 2 0 • view
He and they missed the whole “co-equal branches” thing.
apr 20, 2025, 7:54 pm • 2 0 • view
unfortunately, trump doesn't need to negotiate with this congress because the republican majority are puppet-pawns of the few, the arrogant wealthy. (not all wealthy, but you'd be hard-pressed to go under 80%...name five)
apr 20, 2025, 11:18 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s not the president of the United States. He’s a mob boss trying to take over as much territory as he can.
apr 20, 2025, 7:50 pm • 8 0 • view
Yeah, but what if everyone just pretended like Trump was unstoppable? How could anyone stop him then?
apr 20, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve repeatedly noted during presidential primaries that the President is most of all chief diplomat in myriad ways (it was most important to me coming down between Bernie and Hillary in 2016) and it’s weird people think of the job otherwise. Yes yes policy, but it’s literally all about persuasion
apr 21, 2025, 4:39 am • 0 0 • view
(Bernie has great policies and that’s part of why I wanted him to stay in the Senate at the time; I thought it was work where he’d have more success and he never struck me as a “finds the middle ground” dealmaker. A team player, sure, but not a whole lot of finesse/delicacy to his approach.)
apr 21, 2025, 4:44 am • 0 0 • view
(Ironically, in 2008 between Obama and Hillary, I took the policy approach and, aside from the Iraq war, found Hillary’s policies more leftist. But I liked Obama and if the GOP weren’t so racist he’d probably have made more progress, and Pres HRC prolly would’ve been just as GOP-thwarted. Hindsight)
apr 21, 2025, 4:48 am • 0 0 • view
Really starting to think those at the constitutional convention arguing against an executive branch were on to something. (This is mostly a joke but my god).
apr 20, 2025, 7:53 pm • 3 0 • view
And also, even though he is elected by only some, he is supposed to consider the welfare of all Americans. We pay his salary
apr 20, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view
P.S. Last time I checked I DIDN'T get to imbue my will directly into my presidential choice but instead *might* get the chance to do so indirectly via a slate of electors in a system organized by my state.
apr 21, 2025, 4:03 am • 1 0 • view
They want a dictator. It doesn't matter what the arguments are. And you can't reason with a mob.
apr 20, 2025, 9:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Ugh but how about when this SC rules that passing a law for universal health insurance is unconstitutional. Or brings back Lochner.
apr 21, 2025, 10:16 am • 1 0 • view
So Mitch McConnell stole the court just for the orange puppet to turn on them? Interesting 🤔
apr 21, 2025, 12:05 am • 2 0 • view
I have read the JK post 20x now—and I am still SO confused 🥺
apr 20, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s like an evolution of the notion that he can de-classify documents with his mind.
apr 20, 2025, 11:14 pm • 1 0 • view
“Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” One People, One Country, One Leader) was one of the central slogans used by Hitler and the Nazi Party. Nazi propaganda portrayed their leader (Fuhrer) as the living embodiment of the German nation and people.
apr 20, 2025, 10:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Love how in the 2nd tweet, "the Right" becomes "they".
apr 21, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Crazy cult talk. Never gonna happen.
apr 20, 2025, 9:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Check out the article “Autocratic Legalism.” It does a great job explaining how modern autocrats leverage democratic rhetoric to undermine liberalism and constitutionalism. lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...
apr 20, 2025, 8:00 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s what these dummies on the Supreme Court allowed Trump to float by giving him immunity. Why not decide he doesn’t like Judge Jackson because maybe she’s a DEI hire and she has to be arrested? Why not replace her with Jon Voight? Or Roseanne. That’s where we are
apr 20, 2025, 7:59 pm • 8 0 • view
Presidents are chosen by God! Except Biden. Oh & neither was Obama or Clinton. President's have total immunity! Investigates Biden for 4 yrs. Presidents are the will of the people and can't be denied! Unless you really need the Supreme Court then it's OK to deny a President & the people that seat.
apr 20, 2025, 8:29 pm • 2 0 • view
I feel like something obvious has been missed
apr 21, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
A lot of democrats seem to believe this too!
apr 20, 2025, 7:49 pm • 8 0 • view
Like who?
apr 20, 2025, 8:33 pm • 5 0 • view
MAGAts aren’t very smart people.
apr 21, 2025, 2:03 am • 2 0 • view
Yes, it is EXACTLY the kind of divine right monarchy crap we revolted against. If we wanted a leader imbued with the whole power of the nation, we should have stuck with King George. And slavery would have ended here sooner too!
apr 20, 2025, 8:07 pm • 1 0 • view
more like Bill GRUeskin
apr 21, 2025, 12:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Gotta love the logic of "if Trump fails, Vance will be a dictator" too. As if Trump isn't the one feeding the entire illiberal right movement from Vance on down. But insofar as Trump did actually win a plurality of voters, the fact that America _chose_ this is also an emergency we need to confront.
apr 21, 2025, 9:58 am • 0 0 • view
Mr. Grueskin seems to be a bit confused.
apr 20, 2025, 7:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Unrelated but "we don't have a country anymore" is my favorite conservative talking point because of how nonsensical it is
apr 20, 2025, 7:55 pm • 3 0 • view
Serious question; do these people know the definition of "dictator" or are they just doing the same old "snow job" (aka post-truth translation that "up" is "down")? Never mind.... I know the answer but I needed to make sure I wasn't dreaming just how nuts they are.
apr 20, 2025, 8:50 pm • 2 1 • view
34-felon was foiled in his effort to have an excuse to declare Martial Law (when there wasn't a government shut-down), so now he's working his way now. He's got a troop of "you made him do it" posts from sycophants noted in the comments.
apr 20, 2025, 8:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Egad!
apr 20, 2025, 8:16 pm • 0 0 • view
At our own peril, we underestimate just how unhinged the Maga cult is and how far they will go for Trump. They will stop at nothing! They are dangerously unwell.
apr 21, 2025, 3:26 am • 7 0 • view
📌
apr 20, 2025, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view
"Someday, a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets." Jesse Kelly, a Nazi, heard this soliloquy in Taxi Driver & whispered to himself, "From your lips to God's ears, Travis."
apr 20, 2025, 8:18 pm • 2 1 • view
Always so hard to fathom. "Embodiying organic will" meaning a sort of mandate of the soul?
apr 20, 2025, 7:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Wait??? What??? sigh...
apr 20, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
This reads like a man beating a woman and then saying as she bandages her wounds, "You made me do it".
apr 20, 2025, 8:20 pm • 4 0 • view
The lack of self-awareness among MAGAts is remarkable.
apr 20, 2025, 9:54 pm • 7 0 • view
This sudden chorus all saying the same thing scares the shit out of me. If he got pushback he might say his hands were tied, but these voices clamoring for him to defy SCOTUS give him cover to do just that. It’s incredibly dangerous.
apr 20, 2025, 8:50 pm • 1 0 • view
These are extremists, whose voices sound louder online and on right-wing media, which gives a false sense that everyone feels that way. That's not true, based on the millions of people demonstrating around the country and the polls that strongly oppose this line of thinking. They are the minority.
apr 20, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s not the point I was making. I’m saying he will use this chorus to justify defying the SCOTUS. I am aware this is a small group—but they are loud and get attention.
apr 20, 2025, 10:13 pm • 1 0 • view
He's already defying SCOTUS. He doesn't need a chorus of random people to do that. His psychopathy is ingrained in his psyche; it's not brought on by external factors, although it doesn't help that he has people cheering him on and feeding his ego.
apr 21, 2025, 8:28 am • 1 0 • view
“this imbues him with sovereign power that cannot be checked or limited by any other institution in the society.” How high are you?
apr 20, 2025, 9:24 pm • 4 0 • view
It's a perfectly valid statement. What's your beef with it?
apr 21, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Agreed and also key word here is "deport" These people were not deported by the Executive branch without due process, they were trafficked.
apr 20, 2025, 11:25 pm • 3 0 • view
sounds a lot like Hitler's argument and coup
apr 20, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
L'État, c'est moi.
apr 20, 2025, 7:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup! Straight up Schmitt
apr 20, 2025, 7:57 pm • 16 0 • view
Like it's actually uncanny
apr 20, 2025, 7:57 pm • 8 0 • view
Carl Schmitt to Jesse Kelly: first time as tragedy, second time as farce
apr 20, 2025, 8:00 pm • 7 0 • view
Robespierre before Schmitt
apr 20, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Notably lacking from any Trumpian or republican assertion is any verifiable form of truth or logic. There is no legal or constitutional basis for what they insist. This claim of "only our votes count" (we are inseparable from our leader, he is the arbiter of reality, etc) is utterly nonsense.
apr 20, 2025, 9:28 pm • 2 0 • view
I don’t agree with Liz Cheney on much of anything, but her words ring out every time I see these pro-dictatorship sycophants post this garbage. “I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”
apr 20, 2025, 8:47 pm • 2 0 • view
"don't have a country anymore" Hwīt þreax.
apr 20, 2025, 8:43 pm • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/cher...
apr 21, 2025, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Orwell was an optimist, apparently.
apr 20, 2025, 8:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Giving future President @aoc.bsky.social the power to summarily deport Republicans to a foreign concentration camp is a strange hill for Republicans to die on.
apr 20, 2025, 9:20 pm • 2 0 • view
You have got to hand it to them on their messaging. The psyops and propaganda is locked in like a deep science. We have no retort.
apr 21, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
Ah, so we’ve hit the “now we’re just going to legitimize the obvious” part. Next is the “look what you made me do” part when the real protesting and conflict begins and they enact martial law.
apr 20, 2025, 9:23 pm • 23 1 • view
The far right are obsessed with having a divine king/strong man and allergic to the idea of democracy
apr 20, 2025, 9:15 pm • 1 0 • view
To be fair. It’s exactly what Hitler said.
apr 20, 2025, 8:20 pm • 1 0 • view
We must dissolve the Supreme Court (?) After Roe was overturned, Democrats wanted to grow the Supreme Court, not abolish it!!
apr 20, 2025, 7:56 pm • 0 0 • view
"You can deport immigrants or you don't have a country anymore" This is a poor argument, and a type of fallacy called a False Dilemma. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_d...
apr 21, 2025, 1:48 pm • 5 0 • view
This idiot might want to pick up the pocket Constitution he carries everywhere he goes and read how the Article I-III branches are CO-EQUAL. The Executive branch doesn't get to follow the rulings he likes and ignore the rest. If that's case, we DON'T have a country anymore. That's a dictatorship.
apr 20, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
theory of unitary executive fully adrift from constitutional reality, otherwise known as gibberish
apr 21, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
L'État, c'est moi but make it a platform.
apr 21, 2025, 1:15 am • 2 0 • view
The president - constitutionally - doesn’t represent the will of the people. That’s the House. The Senate represents the State. And the President represents the Law: or rather administers the law formed by Congress.
apr 20, 2025, 11:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course it comes with a side of "look what you made me do". Spousal abuser logic, all the damn time.
apr 20, 2025, 8:00 pm • 16 0 • view
"the right will demand a dictator if Trump isn't allowed unlimited power" like okay what are you guys doing now then
apr 20, 2025, 9:11 pm • 57 2 • view
And if those other institutions try to check him, it's their fault he's a dictator. Either let him be a dictator or he'll become one. Like, what?
apr 20, 2025, 8:35 pm • 0 0 • view
"organically"
may 25, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
what does Jesse Kelly think the difference is between a dictatorship and what Trump is trying to do
apr 20, 2025, 9:03 pm • 2 0 • view
The right in this country has spent so long hating the "Chinese peasants" that they've actually become Chinese peasants. #mandateofheaven
apr 20, 2025, 8:02 pm • 3 0 • view
I think I’ve asked this before but have you read Francois Furet on the French Revolution? He theorizes a discourse of monarchy which is just this archive.org/details/inte...
apr 20, 2025, 7:53 pm • 11 2 • view
Yeah I read him for my senior thesis, with Schama and McPhee
apr 20, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
"The leader is always right" as another party that believed this put it
apr 20, 2025, 7:52 pm • 9 0 • view
He's already the thing they're afraid of. Dolts.
apr 20, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
If you get out of this and a Dem president follows Trump, what do you do with people like Jesse King now?
apr 20, 2025, 8:02 pm • 1 0 • view
I am curious about how some of these people think one can "dissolve the Supreme Court"?
apr 20, 2025, 9:27 pm • 3 0 • view
That post can’t be for real. Are these ppl really that delusional? If so, someone has to explain to them what a dictator is. “Donald Trump is the last thing we get before we have a dictator” is true only because DICTATORS NEVER GIVE UP POWER.
apr 21, 2025, 12:11 am • 2 0 • view
#WTAF #IRONY
apr 20, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I think many of his supporters actively want a dictator. The exigent circumstances have arrived and for them it’s time to suspend democracy.
apr 21, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Who's Jesse Kelly? I googled him, seems he's only famous on Twitter. 🤷♂️
apr 20, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
uh ... "give Donald Trump unlimited powers. Or else we'll have a dictatorship." That does not seem like anything approaching logic.
apr 21, 2025, 12:19 am • 2 0 • view
📌
apr 21, 2025, 3:09 am • 0 0 • view
This! I have also realized this. They specifically are redefining American democracy in these terms. Trump = will of the people/ treason to disagree or stop him. Here are more examples
apr 21, 2025, 3:09 am • 3 1 • view
I cannot comprehend being this warped. Are we truly this different in our beliefs? Are we this far away in our perceptions of what is just? Of what our country should stand for? I wonder what the world would be like if he’d just stuck with reality tv and golf.
apr 21, 2025, 12:01 am • 2 0 • view
he's like the leviathan on the title page of Hobbes
apr 20, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Hegel predicted that one day, from the soul of a nation’s shitheadheads, the embodiment of the nation’s scheißenkopfgeist would rise.
apr 20, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Lord that Jesse dude is delusional.
apr 20, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
How are they all so delusional?
apr 21, 2025, 4:21 am • 1 0 • view
This is a major thrust of @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social’s excellent book “What is Populism,” which I highly recommend. www.pennpress.org/978081224898...
apr 20, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
That's a pretty basic feature of Fascism, actually
apr 20, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
The Republican Party’s bigotry has been an open secret for decades, but this time, the consequences are catastrophic. America is now in a full-blown crisis, thanks to a movement that prizes cruelty, spectacle, and ignorance over justice, decency, or even basic national interest.
apr 20, 2025, 9:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Courage is a fire that spreads; cowardice is a chain that binds us. We must rise together, fearless and united, to demand justice. Now is the time to hold accountable those who betray our nation, and to ensure the law reigns supreme. Let us move forward boldly—until justice flows like a mighty river
apr 20, 2025, 9:14 pm • 4 0 • view
Deport Trump and his uber evil gang of fascists or we won’t have a country, we’ll have a dictatorship.
apr 20, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Really aren’t that intelligent are they?
apr 20, 2025, 10:52 pm • 1 0 • view
All because of emails and eggs 🤪
apr 20, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 0 • view
This is what I don't understand. Like there weren't Senate and House elections either? The Presidential was narrowly decided and the U.S. electorate returned as evenly divided a Congress as they come, which can fairly be interpreted as a call to compromise and bipartisanship to make the system work.
apr 20, 2025, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view
None of that original posting makes any sense.
apr 21, 2025, 12:46 am • 1 0 • view
It's a double-down and consolidation of power with sprinkles of fear as the usual marketing tool. "If you dont let me do anything i want, you're going to get a real demon." ~The Demon
apr 21, 2025, 12:59 pm • 7 0 • view
Wow such ignorance! Trump is a dictator!
apr 20, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
That is the embodiment of Maga, dumb as rocks and don't know it.
apr 20, 2025, 8:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah cause that’s what the world needs. Another dictator. tRump is already acting like one. He has unchecked power. He’s ignoring the rule of law. He’s taken over the free press and bought his election. We don’t need to give him any more power. We need to dethrone him
apr 20, 2025, 8:40 pm • 3 0 • view
Idiot thinks that giving shitgibbon unlimited powers will PREVENT a dictatorship? I wonder if his parents had any children who survived the birth process….
apr 21, 2025, 3:57 am • 1 0 • view
…at which point proceedings are moot…
apr 20, 2025, 9:10 pm • 0 0 • view
this is really his only appeal for them: if trump can be stopped, if he has to negotiate, if he can be denied, if he has to follow the rules or laws...then for MAGAts, what's the point?
apr 20, 2025, 9:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Ouroboros.
apr 20, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
He embodies the will of an increasingly shrinking electorate (that bothered to vote) that squeaked him by Biden. Nothing remotely close to a “mandate” or other rhetorical means to somehow legitimize his march to autocracy.
apr 20, 2025, 7:57 pm • 3 0 • view
some sort of... leader principle... where he embodies the will of real america...
apr 20, 2025, 7:54 pm • 13 0 • view
We must make Trump a dictator in order to avoid dictatorship??
apr 20, 2025, 7:58 pm • 8 0 • view
Brilliant reasoning.
apr 20, 2025, 10:31 pm • 2 0 • view
It's absolutely nuts.
apr 20, 2025, 8:10 pm • 1 0 • view
MAGA aren’t known for their intelligence
apr 21, 2025, 2:10 am • 2 0 • view
Wtf
apr 20, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
I love this theory that Trump isn’t a dictator but is shielding us FROM dictators. These people are insane.
apr 20, 2025, 8:28 pm • 16 0 • view
It’s all about masks and remote schooling. You think the home schooling crowd would love it.
apr 20, 2025, 10:30 pm • 5 0 • view
They’ve recreated the divine right of kings. Well, I guess 250 years was a good run.
apr 21, 2025, 2:31 am • 1 0 • view
Stupidity is an existential threat
apr 20, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
apr 20, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
So it's only a dictatorship if it's Democrats doing it? When it's them, it's what? I just don't get why they can't be honest and own that they WANT a dictatorship that promotes white nationalism and brutalizes anyone who disagrees with them. Do they fear repercussions or do they somehow not know?
apr 20, 2025, 8:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Did this guy read definitions backwards in a mirror? Give 🍊💩 unlimited power to avoid a dictatorship ? The level of stupid never ceases to amaze me. I like to imagine the US school system gave a semblance of a basic education to all of us. To write 💩 like this ? One loses faith in humanity
apr 22, 2025, 7:29 am • 0 0 • view
In the 70s and 80s, people like Jesse would be placed in an insane asylum. Also, for the mental health of this poor retired college English Instructor, would posters please use quotation marks--I'm looking at you Bill Grueskin--so I know you're repeating another's insane declarations! 😳
apr 20, 2025, 9:07 pm • 4 0 • view
Don’t let a MAGA cool aid peddler like Bill Grueskin gaslight you. He’s full of propaganda.
apr 21, 2025, 2:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly the opposite of what Bill is saying…dissolving the Supreme Court in favor of unchecked Presidential powers would give us a ruler, a dictator, a king. We are not going back!
apr 21, 2025, 2:34 pm • 3 0 • view
The stupid is staggering! Now I understand the saying, “you can’t argue with stupid!”
apr 20, 2025, 10:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Who the fuck is Jesse Kelly, and why is he so goddamned dumb?
apr 20, 2025, 11:15 pm • 2 0 • view
He's a stupid motherfucker who likes to make sure everyone knows it.
apr 21, 2025, 2:28 am • 0 0 • view
"The leader completely and perfectly represents the nation and the people" is an inherently fascist position
apr 20, 2025, 7:50 pm • 30 1 • view
Ah so exactly like Hitler then. Great
may 25, 2025, 8:10 pm • 4 0 • view
They’re doing the thing where accusations are confessions again.
apr 20, 2025, 8:20 pm • 5 0 • view
They never understand they are guaranteeing a dictatorship, the thing they fear! Look if they want one, take Trump and go ELSEWHERE.
apr 21, 2025, 12:27 pm • 1 0 • view
If Trump doesn't want to obey our Constitution then he should NOT be president. If we want to go back to His Majesty, maybe King Charles will take us back if we beg.
apr 20, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
📌
may 6, 2025, 12:41 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s insane these morons somehow all live in a fictional world where Replacement Theory is unquestionable fact
apr 20, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans seem to feel free to make any word mean anything they want it to mean.
apr 21, 2025, 12:30 am • 1 0 • view
Why? He scriptually appears to be the antichrist. The lawless one.
apr 20, 2025, 7:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Funny. That didn't say that about Obama.
may 25, 2025, 8:05 pm • 4 0 • view
By same argument, aren't the laws Congress passed also the "organic will of the voters"? Or are Presidential elections different than other elections?
apr 20, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
This logic is baffling to me. How are you going to cry to dissolve the courts and literally give all power to one guy....in the name of saving democracy. Do these people know what democracy is? I'm starting to believe they have it mixed up with dictatorship.
apr 21, 2025, 10:01 am • 11 0 • view
"Democracy is when I get my way." - MAGAts.
apr 21, 2025, 1:17 pm • 8 0 • view
Nail on the head
apr 21, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
"...Cuz, obviously, *we* are America, and *you* aren't!" - also MAGAts.
apr 22, 2025, 12:22 am • 0 0 • view
Just like the founders intended? Sigh. 😑
may 25, 2025, 8:06 pm • 1 0 • view
pure fascism. 100%
apr 20, 2025, 8:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Which is particularly galling, given that he won a coinflip election with basically 49% of the vote. He doesn’t have anything even close to resembling a historic popular mandate.
apr 21, 2025, 11:53 am • 3 0 • view
True Will of the People ™️ Can only be held by whatever branches of governments the Republicans hold (usually state legislatures, but if they don’t hold them it doesn’t count)
apr 20, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Nobody ordered Voltaire
apr 20, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
They have a symbiotic relationship rooted in fear aggression and racism.
apr 20, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't understand the lets make Trump a dictator in order to avoid a dictatorship concept.
apr 20, 2025, 7:52 pm • 36 1 • view
Logic isn’t their strength.
apr 20, 2025, 10:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, that's likely because you're sane.
apr 20, 2025, 10:23 pm • 1 0 • view
i mean the idea is the same as the Nazi Führerprinzip. the only authentic members of the nation are supporters of the Führer, everyone else is a foreigner or a traitor, and ought to be expelled from the body politic. it is an explicitly anti-democratic and anti-rule-of-law position
apr 20, 2025, 7:54 pm • 32 0 • view
Given that bit if history, it is really hard to believe that anyone accepts this way of thinking today in this country.
apr 20, 2025, 8:58 pm • 4 0 • view
They're basically modelling the state on a corporation's structure of governance. Makes you wonder why we allow CEO:s to act as dictators withing companies.
apr 20, 2025, 7:51 pm • 11 0 • view
He did not even win a majority of the popular vote. Trump 49.8% Harris 48.3%
apr 21, 2025, 3:35 pm • 5 0 • view
📌
may 25, 2025, 8:16 pm • 0 0 • view
fascist doublethink
apr 20, 2025, 10:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Not sure they understand how that works..
apr 20, 2025, 9:50 pm • 0 0 • view
"Or else"? "Therefore"!
apr 21, 2025, 4:02 am • 0 0 • view
I have no words 😐
apr 20, 2025, 8:18 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s Jan 6 that gives him these powers - his own militia he can muster at will and unleash on the courts or whoever.
may 25, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view
sort of like napoleon, right?
apr 20, 2025, 9:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Am I reading that right? "If Trump isn't allowed to be a dictator, we'll end up with a dictator."
apr 21, 2025, 4:34 am • 8 0 • view
“Or else we will have a dictatorship?” Are these people out of their minds? Trump is the dicktator.
apr 20, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
There are a bunch of these coming out of the woodwork today
apr 20, 2025, 7:49 pm • 139 10 • view
So if he can’t be a dictator, we’ll end up with a dictator? And it will be the fault of the Supreme Court who said, “you can’t be a dictator”? Very, “what did you do to make daddy hit you?” energy.
apr 20, 2025, 7:57 pm • 3 1 • view
The “rebellion” clause is interesting, seems like they’re all calling for rebellion against the American Constitution
apr 20, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Tom Fitton is an absolute moron that pretends to know the law, but he has an English degree, and was determined by researchers to be the 3rd most prolific purveyor of election misinformation - in the world!
apr 20, 2025, 8:23 pm • 4 0 • view
They’re trying to normalize him being King. It starts with the Tenet Media Russian Troll bot farms posting stuff like this. Then Elon reposts it. Then the GOP with latch on to their talking points script. Then once everyone is tweeting the same propaganda nonsense, it’s normalized. Ta-daa
apr 20, 2025, 7:57 pm • 103 7 • view
I don't understand why someone doesn't just hack X and take it down? If they could shut down 4chan, X should be easy.
apr 20, 2025, 10:21 pm • 27 0 • view
People need to make good trouble for Fox too. The ongoing institutionalized lying isn't benefiting anyone.
apr 21, 2025, 12:53 am • 15 0 • view
Absolutely!
apr 21, 2025, 1:15 am • 1 0 • view
And my 80 year old lead brain fox news q Anon brain rot repeats to me whenever I see the narrative. Like clockwork here comes he stupid Americans that should have NEVER had an iPhone all day just old and mad they are about 2 die. on Twitter all day changing how they think about any subject non stop
apr 20, 2025, 8:18 pm • 4 3 • view
"Look what you made me do!" is one of their two rhetorical tools they've been using since elementary school. The other being "I know you are but what am I?"
apr 20, 2025, 9:33 pm • 4 0 • view
"And it's because your shadow made Mary Jane trip and fall yesterday!"
apr 21, 2025, 4:15 am • 0 0 • view
Invasions are purposeful coordinated things anyhow. They are not trespassings. Odds are even this USSC strikes down the suspension, not the least because this clown squad can't legally argue its way out of a paper bag.
apr 21, 2025, 4:11 am • 1 0 • view
They always look for the next hail marionette. But again they worship the devil, so to them "Christ arose" means that satan rises. And they forget the GOP permissiveness to immigration, in fact the vigorous nod-wink about typical "red" vocations such as farming. Biden deported more than Trump 1.0
apr 21, 2025, 4:09 am • 0 0 • view
Ah yes. The "She wore a short skirt so she deserved it" argument.
apr 20, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
But how could it have been a Biden invasion? If anything the president does is legal because they are president, than any invasion approved by Biden would have been legal. These people are under the grossest spell. It is baffling.
apr 20, 2025, 8:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Whoa that is Orwellian doublespeak to the max!
apr 20, 2025, 10:03 pm • 1 0 • view
My head spinning a bit from that last "the worst thing that could happen would be a despot so to avoid that Trump needs despotic powers" bit.
apr 20, 2025, 7:56 pm • 2 0 • view
And the model for this kind of power is prima nocta.
apr 20, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
You give them way too much credit. Most MAGA Republicans are neither MAGA nor Republican. They are simply people travelling blissfully through life adhering and repeating past practices without true thought. (cont.)
apr 20, 2025, 8:15 pm • 1 0 • view
(cont.) In association, I am personally intrigued by most of your observations. However, I bet most of your friends/family are "it's just Jamelle being Jamelle."
apr 20, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
The sheer amount of mental gymnastics I was just subjected to by reading this has left me motion sick. My nausea over the unadulterated stupidity will need to wait in line for a bit.
apr 20, 2025, 9:05 pm • 2 0 • view
In times like these we can see how harmful it was for Reagan to shut down all the mental hospitals. As you can see by so many MAGA claims and desires we clearly need many more resources for the mentally challenged. These people really need help getting in touch with reality. Reality is important.
apr 20, 2025, 11:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow. These folks have fallen off the edge of the flat world they so love to reside upon.
apr 20, 2025, 9:33 pm • 1 0 • view
You see this on the far left too, where they think Executive Orders make law and that norms should be ignored.
apr 20, 2025, 8:25 pm • 1 0 • view
This is so messed up
apr 20, 2025, 10:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Give one person complete and unlimited power, otherwise, we will become a dictatorship? That logic seems faulty & inconsistent with the founders, but they wrote our Constitution that permitted slavery & unequal rights among genders. 🤔
apr 20, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
FWIW, they don't even believe this themselves. As always, the only legitimate holder of power is one which aligns with them. MAGA has no abstract principles, other than they should rule in all circumstances.
apr 20, 2025, 8:21 pm • 1 0 • view
So either we let Trump be a dictator or we will get another dictator?
apr 20, 2025, 9:20 pm • 19 0 • view
Civil War part II here we come
apr 20, 2025, 9:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Been trying to tell folks that...
apr 21, 2025, 12:54 am • 1 0 • view
Always advocate for peaceful resistance, as it is 2x more effective and saves lives! But being prepared isn't necessarily a bad idea. I think we're going to be heavily reliant on the military anyway. Many officers are concerned they will have to ignore unconstitutional orders, but seem prepared to.
apr 21, 2025, 11:49 am • 1 0 • view
Another big reason why his continued existence is very bad. Him disappearing isn't a panacea, but I don't think they can project as much as they do on him on anyone else.
apr 20, 2025, 11:29 pm • 4 0 • view
End it.
apr 21, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
Giving Trump full power IS dictatorship!
apr 24, 2025, 2:16 am • 1 0 • view
They keep on gaslighting.
may 25, 2025, 10:33 pm • 0 0 • view
That Jesse Kelly person is one confused motherfucker.
apr 20, 2025, 9:55 pm • 1 0 • view
AKA, the quintessence of a cult
apr 20, 2025, 10:23 pm • 2 0 • view
📌
apr 21, 2025, 2:49 am • 0 0 • view
This is literally just the Führerprinzip. To the extent there is a coherent legal theory behind this it's literally based on the work of Carl Schmitt!
apr 20, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Feels like there's a parallel with Napoleonic ideology. The leader represents the pure will of the nation. Elections and institutions only get in the way of that.
apr 20, 2025, 7:59 pm • 4 0 • view
So who don't you GTFOH if this is such a terrible place, Jesse? No one here will miss your whiny ass.
apr 20, 2025, 9:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Schmitt happens
apr 20, 2025, 7:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Just as insane as their leaders and twice as willfully ignorant.
apr 21, 2025, 11:22 am • 1 0 • view
Weber charisma or bust … never mind how that usually turns out.
apr 20, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, the irony!
apr 22, 2025, 6:59 am • 1 0 • view
Cult of personality in the classic sense
apr 20, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
These people (going to write “idiots”) don’t understand that you have to determine that someone is here without legal authority to be here, and, then, yes, you can require them to leave—& the SC isn’t saying otherwise; they’re just saying you have to LEGALLY DETERMINE IT… W/ DUE PROCESS.
may 25, 2025, 9:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Man, if only we had a document that has all this written down... 🤔🫣🤣
apr 20, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Apparently some folks don’t understand that our Constitution was written in such a way that the President is held in check by the other two branches of government. Dictators and King’s are excluded from the same Constitution.
apr 20, 2025, 8:49 pm • 4 0 • view
It’s certifiable bullsht
apr 20, 2025, 8:42 pm • 2 0 • view
The president is just “some guy”. He deserves a little bit of respect and deference, but not much more than you should give to a mayor or any other elected official.
may 25, 2025, 8:41 pm • 1 0 • view
I looked to see where he got the nerve, and it turns out he’s just some random guy, though.
apr 20, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
It's giving Divine Right of Kings but with a fun little faux-democratic twist
apr 20, 2025, 8:32 pm • 1 0 • view
As a retired Marine, I probably hate him more than anyone else I've interacted with on a Twitter. Except for maybe Schlicter. I'm ver happy I deleted my Twitter account and don't see them anymore.
apr 20, 2025, 7:50 pm • 9 0 • view
The logic there is fantastical and non-logical, dissolve the Supreme Court? Otherwise we will have a dictator? I’m not sure how they invert things in their mind that way. Double think?
apr 21, 2025, 12:21 am • 8 0 • view
We need Donold to be a dictator so we don't end up with a dictator? That's what I read. Bizarro.
apr 21, 2025, 12:47 am • 7 0 • view
All dictators are not created equal, something like that.
apr 21, 2025, 12:51 am • 2 0 • view
And if we end up with a dictator, it's all the left's fault, apparently.
apr 21, 2025, 6:26 am • 3 0 • view
The irony of demanding a dictator. Do these people have any sense at all? Why would anyone demand that? I know - they ARE - but why? Why do they think they will be safe? “He’s a dictator but he’s MY dictator” is maybe the most stupid misconception that’s ever existed.
apr 20, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
USAG keeps talking about the big "mandate" that gives Trump the right to trash the constitution, apparently.
apr 20, 2025, 8:12 pm • 1 0 • view
These people are fucking nuts. What they say is just insane. And also, very, very ignorant.
apr 21, 2025, 12:38 am • 1 0 • view
Putting aside the absurdity of the argument, his current disapproval rating is 55%.
apr 20, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
It also maybe worth adding that going by this current MAGA ethic, one week ago, the "will of the people" was mistakenly tying to defund a university.
apr 20, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a troll. Burn it to the ground.
apr 20, 2025, 8:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, and next to "mandate" in the dictionary is: "1.5%."
apr 20, 2025, 10:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Just the craziest of crazy crazypants--remove all the checks and balances so one guy can have all the power, or else we're going to have a dictatorship
apr 20, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
He literally described making Trump a dictator! We are further down the authoritarian path than I initially thought!
apr 20, 2025, 9:34 pm • 1 0 • view
They are all delusional! 8 of 10 Americans disagree with this blatant power grab. One thing we and MAGA agree with. The SCOTUS approval rating is at an all-time low!
apr 20, 2025, 9:29 pm • 1 0 • view
"The will of the voters", who we all know were lied to at every opportunity, and many now would not vote for him again. We need a petition for republicans who got burned to have as evidence that tide has changed.
apr 20, 2025, 8:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Fascinating. So we need to make Trump a dictator… so we don’t end up with a dictator?
apr 20, 2025, 11:41 pm • 1 0 • view
"Give us what we want or you'll force us to take it".
apr 21, 2025, 5:19 pm • 2 0 • view
What is a left wing dictator? Some9ne who forces you...to get healthcare? Who gives you universal basic income and a living wage? What in the fuck already.
apr 20, 2025, 10:10 pm • 43 0 • view
Mao, Stalin, arguably Pol Pot (leftist language, but very agrarian and explicitly anti-intellectual, and ultimately just weird and genocidal). Others. I don’t think a left wing dictatorship is particularly likely in the US though.
apr 20, 2025, 10:40 pm • 11 0 • view
The curious thing about authoritarianism is that you undermine your leftist values by being a raging psychopath. Words and actions must match, or you're just another lying piece of shit propagandist in it for your own agrandissement.
apr 21, 2025, 12:18 am • 6 0 • view
Do these fucking morons hear themselves?
apr 20, 2025, 8:09 pm • 6 0 • view
Love that Jesse Kelly has gone full mask off fascist
apr 21, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 0 • view