me last week: “There was, and is, no external crisis facing the United States. But for reasons of both personality and political ambition, Trump needs a crisis to govern — or rather, to rule. And if the actual conditions of reality will not give him a state of exception, he’ll create one himself.”
Early versions of these manufactured emergencies: border wall in Trump's 1st term and state anti-immigrant measures in Texas, AZ, and FL beginning in 2021 Failures to adequately address have contributed to this moment www.yalelawjournal.org/collection/n... scholarship.law.tamu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
You nailed it: he's not interested in governing. He only wants to rule.
As a nation of free men, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
What is striking to me this go around of Trump is the sheer absence of plausible deniability. How far out are we from him flatly saying he wants to kill all the [insert naked slur]? What would it change? How would our media act any different ?
It's the absence of plausible anything really. I mean he could say that black were white, the Moon were made of green cheese and the Earth were flat, and nobody would question him for a moment.
They would try to profit from it while sanewashing and normalizing the bigotry and personality disorders
🎯 and he is a gangster, too.
A friend traveled to El Salvador recently to talk to people about president Nayib Bukele, who declared a state of exception 2 years ago. Bukele claims to have defeated the gangs, yet the emergency decree remains. Why? Note Bukele is a fave of Trump. americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/...
the trick is that during an actual emergency that requires a competent leader he will completely and totally fail. we are all in grave danger
See Covid-19, an actual emergency.
He's setting us up for a crisis around the time of the 2026 election so he can declare a national emergency and cancel the election. You can just see this train coming down the tracks straight at us!
Maga wants to kill people, just over here and not over there.
More distraction from the Trumpstein scandal
This is not a distraction; not everything he does is one. In the last maladministration he said he wanted to put active duty troops in Chicago. Trump doesn't need to distract from anything to exact retribution. Nor is it a distraction from releasing his tax forms or Melania's immigration forms.
tRump is the national emergency.
OK! So the big balls car jacking that was his justification for all of this to start, that was basically an inside job. A charade to give him an excuse. That seems pretty clear now.
It's a personal emergency, not a national emergency. But "L'État, c'est moi". That makes it a national emergency in Trump's view.
Would someone please give that baby a rattle!
This is like lazy Bush. He won't even bother to actually create a national emergency; he'll just say he did and move on.
It’s what he did in LA
I remember when this would have been considered a Friday afternoon new dump. Now> It's just a day that ends with Y. He also mentioned seizing the means of production by taking 10% of Intel. There is no bottom to the lunacy, we're in freefall.
You called it. Idk what people are gonna do about it. But you called it.
Ps. They control all three branches of government... Still, he relies on declarations of faux national emergencies to govern. After claiming he'd rarely use executive orders to govern.
Our SCOTUS is working against America…….giving Trump immunity……has emboldened Trump……now he thinks he can call an “emergency” and do whatever the hell he wants
He IS the national emergency.
Republicans since W. Bush have created crises in order to govern. Fear IS the Republican currency.
Sucks to be right, sometimes, dunnit?
looking for my college anthro copy of agamben's state of exception because aaaaaaaaaaahhh
Frump is the national Emergency 🚨🆘🚨
If he declares an emergency, is the definition of the emergency whatever he says it is and can't be contradicted or reversed?
US right now.
yall see, Jamelle was not in a coma from 2017-2020 everyone should be like Jamelle on this
Project 2025 telling Trump what to do.
It is a race between Thanatos and Anarchy. I am rooting for Thanatos.
Exactly! That Turd treats reality like it’s some kind of improv—‘no crisis? ok then I’ll just make one up.......... 😑
“As long as *I* want”
There need to be thresholds for these declarations of Emergency besides vibes I get that there aren’t many because you can’t be held back by red tape when there’s a real emergency, but there are dangerously loose restraints on indefinite deployment of troops. where’s the goddamn check on this
Trump is the national emergency
When exactly did proclaiming abject stupidity as valid justification for oppressive overreach become enshrined in law?
Can things get worse? Lol of course they can!!!
Much like Putin needs perpetual war to stay in power. Pretty much a common theme among tyrants and wannabe tyrants.
In prior, pre-John Roberts times, we could have counted on the judiciary to put an end to this madness.
This exactly. So much this.
His low poll numbers are an emergency of a sort
He's goal is to trigger violence from the people so he can bring in all his troops and call down martial law. He wants The Fire Next Time to be this time.
Of course.
@schumer.senate.gov should write a very stern letter to Trump
Emergency in Chicago he says? Is Big Balls going to be beaten up by marauding teenagers on Michigan Ave in approximately 3 weeks?
That's the plan...here is the money...👇 www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/house-r...
....as all must be seeing by now...this is not just about billions for immigration enforcement... The so-called manosphere voted for fascism in America?? The WWII manosphere fought against fascism and for liberty and freedom for all.👇 They did that. www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
The vote to re-elect evil and the cost to install fascism.👇 "The bill would provide nearly $80 billion for internal immigration enforcement, including $45 billion dollars for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention and $14.4 billion for ICE transportation and removal operations."
John Roberts, citing his own decision in Trump v. Hawaii: “ as have held before, just because a Republican president possesses unconstitutional intent when crafting an executive order does not mean that he cannot rectify it by finding a constitutional intent after the fact.”
Let's talk about the fact that the institutional structure of Patriarchal societies requires an external threat to survive. There's nothing fundamentally new going on here and nothing will fundamentally improve until intelligent Americans begin to value their freedom enough to bother to vote.
Yep!
Emergency is is magic word
Well he did say he would be a dictator. That is one thing he wasn't lying about.
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The Bush doctrine of creating a long term crisis to avoid the constitution. War on terror forever
True. But: It’s still just an extension of the earlier War on Drugs, which is to say white supremacists vs POC
Will this Republican Senate ever take their Power back and Stop this Mad Man!! And Protect Our Democracy!!
