Did the Conservative Six not hear him complain about regret nominating Federalist Judges? Did they just chuckle and brush it off?

Waiting for him to start firing federal judges

It seems like scotus has given trump procedural wins while not ruling on the substance of the issues. He keeps getting “wins” but when I look at details it’s a win because the plaintiff had no standing, for example. When will they actually rule on the substance?

It’s shocking how feckless and impotent congress has become in the last 8 years- basically not meaningfully involved in the operation of the country

In fact, I expect Grassley to be taking orders from Habba in 3.....2....

it's not just republicans

Someone ELI5 "ride the tiger" for me?

"ride a tiger- take on a responsibility or embark on a course of action which subsequently cannot safely be abandoned. The expression comes from the Chinese proverb ‘He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount’." 🐯

💡Thank you!

He has no loyalty to anyone, tho he demands it of his sycophants.

Tigers eat faces too, not just leopards.

And the same losing bet Germans made when they elevated Hitler thinking they could control him.

And fascist dictators should all end up like Mussolini.

all for white demographics to go up

Unfortunately, this was exactly the same reasoning used by German politicians & elite in the early 1930s. The global economic collapse drove the Nazis and the Communists from political irrelevance to contenders for leadership. They choose Hitler, thinking they could control him. They were wrong.

My prediction: 7-2 (Kagan joining), Trump can fire. Supreme Court (7-2 again) will also find in the near future that democratic presidents’ appointments can be removed.

We need a more appropriate analogy for Trump than a magnificent beast like a tiger. Maybe it's more like thinking you can carry a tapeworm just long enough to lose weight and being stuck with a massive parasite.

Thank you. Perfect reframing for accuracy.

Sometimes you just want some delicious raw pork, but you end up with a worm in your brain.

A+

This is how fascism works—you think they’re going for that guy over there to do what you want, that they are reflecting your desires—but they are always hungry.

Make a pact with the devil…

Conservatives will never care until they are personally harmed.

Are they ever NOT going to fall for that?

Since 2000. Bush cratered the world economy after being appointed by Rehnquist.

This tiger is the only big game I’d like to see dead and stuffed on a wall.

It's almost as if it has never occurred to them - or any Republican member of Congress - that absolute dictators have no use for courts or legislatures. As soon as he has got all he needs from them to assume complete power, they will be sent home to be crushed under the boot like the rest of us.

Real von Papen and von Schleicher energy

But isn't the goal of certain international and national influences to dismantle the US monetary system for their benefit [and also another way of destroying the country]? Seems like they are sadly right on schedule.

I think Democrats should allow a government shutdown this time so ICE and National Guard can’t be funded. It’ll be a sacrifice on all our parts, but it would be better than this dictatorship.

You’re absolutely right. If the Democrats vote to fund a government that is being destroyed, they will just keep losing people who feel they have abandoned us.

They'd still get money as they're considered "essential services" because the administration gets to choose who counts

We need to do what we can. A government shutdown is a good start.

I'm just explaining that it won't stop ICE or similar abuses, so don't expect it to.

Those ICE people are snowflakes. They likely won’t work for free.

maybe you should take some remedial phonics classes

They will still get paid because they're classified as essential workers. A shutdown doesn't affect them.

See www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

ICE standing around in cities doing nothing and getting paid while actual essential services are shut down would be a very glaring visual for most Americans.

No they still have to work. They get back pay eventually, and maybe actual psy at the start, but in a real shut down most of them don’t get paid

1/ Yeah, but they're guaranteed that pay and the job market isn't good for them to find something else. It will probably make them act even more brutally. I don't think this is some clear spam dunk that will send a message to the people who enjoy abusing immigrants.

2/ A shutdown might well be necessary, but that's about getting Republicans in Congress to negotiate.

I don’t even give a damn anymore, if they want to use the government to do this shit then I’ll gladly see it shut down

I just read this the other day and man is it relevant www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The same bet the law firms made this past year, the same bet the universities made, the same bet JD Vance and Peter Thiel and Elon Musk all made.... The same bet countless other shitheads will continue to make until he is gone.

Just like Mitch McConnell thought he could and look where we are now. Mitch should have gone along with the “no more public office” option with Trump.

Appeasement doesn't work is one of the only things I remember learning in hs history. It's absolutely obvious and intuitive to anyone who doesn't lust for power or long to be dominated.

honest question, given the precedent of doubling SC justices based on case load....will DEMs go farther and increase it 3 times as that is the level of case load now...

One of the greatest disappointments of the Tr*mp era has been how quickly politicians of all stripes will give up their supposedly immutable principles to keep their phoney-baloney jobs. Politics is a cynical business, but it turns out the rot is deeper and wider than anyone ever guessed.

The pied piper strategy puts Dems firmly in the navigators seat… www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Every senior Republican, up to and including the six, has mucked their hand. This was a choice, not force majeure. The party could have walked away in 2016, in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Their cowardice and corruption spoke louder.

When the screenplays are written, no one will believe he actually told “The Snake” on the stump. It’s so on the nose.

Everyone goes under the bus.

Starting to believe there are some SCOTUS names in those Epstein files.....

lol simple answer is they fucking love Trump and want him to rule us like a king™️

Yeah. This.

They are for project 2025. They are still enjoying the tiger.

Its this, every time

"Surely I will be able to handle Trump without getting destroyed in the process" attempt #255406 failure #255405 right now Putin is the only one that seemed to have pulled it off, and even that's questionable

I forget which journalist, but he commented on the GOP thirsting for the Tea Party that it reminded him of a dog chasing a car. He left with the question: what happens once the dog catches the car. Turns out dogs can't steer or brake.

Dog sinks its teeth into a tire and gets its head pounded into hamburger on every rotation.

It's almost as if, now bear with me. Conservatives are really really dumb and evil.

Ride the tiger = watch leopard eat someone else’s face

Robert’s ending up in handcuffs after Trump dismantles the court would be a pyrrhic victory.

thinking about Cardinal Dolan grimacing during Trump's ramble at the Al Smith dinner then still signing on because hey, someone else will stop all that bad stuff right?

You know the 6 are meeting f2f like crazy to figure out what to do. Can’t have any crumbs around for FOIA.

So, let's say Boof Kavanaugh starts voting against Trump, and maybe with Barrett and Roberts, tries to draw a line. Trump will just reveal who paid off Boof's debts, and get him investigated, indicted, impeached? So, Boof ain't gonna cross Trump, no matter what he does.

Some democrats too.

I wonder if they are waiting for him to die? Seriously! If he's on death's door--which is possible, the man is falling apart before our eyes--are the Republicans ramming through as much as possible while they can still get him to lift a pen?

Paul Krugman says this makes us Venezuala. I guess then he won't have to deport minorities there....God, what are we going to do? It's still 16 months to midterms, and then he would have 2 more months to muck things up before a new Congress. We're fucked, aren't we?

A general strike might dislodge him.

Stupid? They’ve won on everything. Especially short term destruction.

It's incredible. I assume they believe that their family would never face negative consequences of living under fascist rule, like all Trump supporters do. And. I don't know how more obvious it can possibly be that this is a pipe dream. Denial and hubris is a hell of a drug.

Or anyone who's ever done business with Trump, ever

Those corrupt imbeciles can't do anything right, because they live in a fantasy world of their own making. The most outrageous story gets spread the most and is therefore the most accepted.

And they seem not to have imagined how much more vulnerable—in position as well as physically—they are now that they gave him all this anticonstitutional power. The administration [sic] can ship them to Uganda while they procedurally stay the order on the shadow docket.

This was coordinated. They are ALL participating.

This is the bet that the ultra wealthy have made. Republican politicians are just the kewpie dolls that they bought and of course have swindled a seriously dumb electorate.

How familiar. The German elites thought they could control Hitler and the Nazis. How’d that work out?

History's pretty clear that assuming you can keep a tyrant on a leash is not only foolish, but you'll end up in the tyrant's crosshairs.

Honest tale, ppl really need to invest some time in reading/understanding HISTORY!!! Drives me nuts!

"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS – EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE."

He's had his eye on the Fed the whole time becasue he thinks he's a business GENIUS and wants to control the money. He will appoint himself Chair, just as he did with the Kennedy Center.

My question is: who is our von Papen?

The thing Trump most wants to do is the thing you tell him not to do. He's still the spoiled toddler grinning at you as he shits on the floor. How the fuck can they still delude themselves into thinking they can set boundaries?

Is it a mistake or a choice? They all know the bed they've made.

"I pray the dragon eats me last."

📌

I highly doubt SCOTUS is concerned about fed independence. It was just at that moment the market was in flux. Now the GOP thinks market is invincible and I bet Roberts was the only one that care about the fed exception. My bet…5-4…this court is not adversarial to full executive control.

Since 1980 to be honest.

Neville Chamberlain.

Conservatives have a stronger attraction to authoritarianism than do liberals. Most Republicans want authoritarianism that hates the same people they hate. With a racist rapist as fascist dictator, their bet is paying off. It's not a stupid bet. They wanted "other" people in Concentration camps.

Make Inflation Great Again. FAFO.

They thought they could throw the yokels a bone and eventually become the philosopher-kings of some ideal WSJ Republic and the yokels crowned their own king instead