This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
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Seth Abrahamson has a very long substack on how Trump came to power. It's worth subscribing to just for this article. He goes way back, and explains everything! His Proof series is excellent!
aug 31, 2025, 12:08 pm • 4 0 • view
I feel like it’s pretty obvious that the plan in 2026 is to claim fraud based on this and try and not seat a new Congress. Not saying they will do this or it will work but that’s what this is about
aug 31, 2025, 6:16 am • 4 0 • view
Then there would be no congress and no ability to legislate anymore. The current house has a specific time their terms expire. If no one is there then the seat is just vacant, not permanently in possession of the last elected guy.
aug 31, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
The NYT is the enemy. Simple as that.
aug 31, 2025, 12:28 pm • 3 0 • view
In the future, some historians will note the role of the New York Times in normalizing this dictator and this fascist regime
aug 31, 2025, 2:00 pm • 3 0 • view
I doubt they care. Many of these still existing papers did the same with Hitler and people point that out today. They don't care.
aug 31, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
The NYTimes is so far up Trump’s arse it can no longer see daylight.
aug 31, 2025, 10:46 am • 50 3 • view
democracy dies in darkness
aug 31, 2025, 2:44 pm • 14 0 • view
If the NYT is, the papers across the middle of the country have reached the small intestine.
aug 31, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
You are 100 percent right, they have been for years
sep 1, 2025, 2:15 am • 1 0 • view
Hedging their bets against SCOTUS and their embrace of Calvinball
aug 31, 2025, 10:10 am • 1 0 • view
If only we had a president who isn’t violating the constitution every single day.
aug 31, 2025, 12:33 pm • 3 0 • view
Most of the free press have been negligent....and should be held accountable.
aug 31, 2025, 12:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m sure the Federalist Society will find some penumbral reading to like here.
aug 31, 2025, 11:44 am • 9 0 • view
This is carrying water for fascists. I hop they're proud of themselves.
aug 31, 2025, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump has usurped many powers not granted to the Prez. and yet he continues.
aug 31, 2025, 12:51 pm • 2 0 • view
He's an illegal pretender to the Office. Every day that he calls himself President is another knife in the back of our dying Republic. Every act he commits is unconstitutional because insurrectionists could not legally be Presidents of the old Republic. Without swift action, it will be over soon.
aug 31, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
NYT obeying in advance as is now their custom.
aug 31, 2025, 1:12 pm • 5 0 • view
NYT is a fascist dishrag
aug 31, 2025, 1:55 pm • 5 0 • view
Bending the knee in such unnatural positions must be painful. Cowards.
aug 31, 2025, 1:38 pm • 0 0 • view
They always use a modifier with Trump, as if it was part of their fucking style guide. Trump can never break the law, he "may" be breaking the law.
aug 31, 2025, 9:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly. They are trying to normalize it more than the white house.
aug 31, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Aw, how cute. The New York Times is trying to commit a journalism.
aug 31, 2025, 8:38 am • 2 0 • view
He has NO power to do this.
aug 31, 2025, 1:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Article 1, Section 4 tells the President to go suck an egg.
aug 31, 2025, 6:35 am • 2 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 8:56 am • 20 5 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 9:55 am • 3 2 • view
I think "implicit" is clear, though. We should all be able to agree that the Founders absolutely would have given the president that authority if only they had known that the office would be filled by someone as supremely awesomely awesome as Donald Trump. (Snark now; a 6-3 SC ruling soon.)
aug 31, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
NYT is obscuring the fact that the president has NO SUCH POWER OVER THE ELECTION PROCESS.
aug 31, 2025, 1:53 pm • 2 0 • view
The Constitution is irrelevant. The Tyrant and his goons will push their agenda regardless and force the courts to stop them. They throw a bucket of chum against the wall. Some will stick and then sane people have to clean it up, but by then no one cares because the chum has already made a splash.
aug 31, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view
AI chose it.
aug 31, 2025, 6:24 am • 0 0 • view
Reported by their ace US political newshawk. www.nytimes.com/by/yan-zhuang
aug 31, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
A word left over from the fights among the founding fathers. It failed to gain acceptance. I think I read about “explicit” regard the 10th amendment. 🤷♀️
aug 31, 2025, 7:47 am • 0 0 • view
The President has •NO• authority over election law — full stop. Also, mail-ins are paper ballots, for crying out loud. 🤦🏽
sep 1, 2025, 5:09 am • 5 0 • view
A real editor would have changed the headline-Trump cannot mandate that at all.
aug 31, 2025, 1:49 pm • 7 2 • view
And this aims totally at blue states, Vermont and especially several western blue states, including California.
aug 31, 2025, 10:19 am • 1 0 • view
CA at least has in person voting. Several blue states are entirely vote by mail and would not have the ability to set up in person voting on short notice. So, they'd just be out of the election entirely including all of their house seats.
aug 31, 2025, 10:50 pm • 0 0 • view
“It doesn’t actually _say_ that the President can have his enemies publicly tortured to death, but since it doesn’t explicitly say that he can’t, the question will have to be resolved by the Supreme Court. Which has already ruled that the (Republican) President can do anything he wants.”
aug 31, 2025, 8:11 am • 5 0 • view
Air Bud-ass constitution
aug 31, 2025, 8:11 am • 2 0 • view
WTF!?!?!
aug 31, 2025, 8:19 pm • 1 0 • view
It makes tons of sense once you understand that the New York Times is implicitly a pro-Trump news outlet while explicitly claiming to be neutral.
aug 31, 2025, 5:37 pm • 13 0 • view
Say that again, since some people apparently have not caught on to this yet: THE NEW YORK TIMES IS A PRO tRUmp OUTLET CLAIMING TO BE NEUTRAL
sep 1, 2025, 1:14 am • 2 0 • view
Change my mind.gif
sep 1, 2025, 2:28 am • 1 0 • view
Yet another letter to Santa! His keyboard needs to be taken away
aug 31, 2025, 9:21 am • 1 0 • view
yeah but trump does what he wants and then we all continue to wonder why no one is stopping him
aug 31, 2025, 1:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Suddenly constitutional “penumbras” are back on the menu!
aug 31, 2025, 5:11 pm • 2 1 • view
Learned a new word - thank you
aug 31, 2025, 5:22 pm • 0 0 • view
If you agree, don't just agree. Please get on the phone or e-mail and tell your reps in DC and make sure they understand no ambiguity. It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. www.nationalfinancialplan.com
aug 31, 2025, 10:25 am • 0 0 • view
The answer is NO
aug 31, 2025, 12:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Even the FT soft peddles on Trump. When /if he eventually goes these papers will shamelessly record how terrible he was.
aug 31, 2025, 12:12 pm • 7 0 • view
Corporate media is corporate media. They are primarily concerned with their corporate interests and agendas.
aug 31, 2025, 1:02 pm • 0 0 • view
🤢 so tired of the cowards.
aug 31, 2025, 12:21 pm • 3 0 • view
The editors got confused in their language in trying to confuse the issue. What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
aug 31, 2025, 7:18 am • 2 0 • view
The word ANY was right there 🙃
aug 31, 2025, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Ambiguous is their life's blood. Controversy sells newspapers.
aug 31, 2025, 7:23 am • 2 0 • view
I hear, people are saying, that the Epstein Tapes are pretty explicit, too.
aug 31, 2025, 1:09 pm • 4 1 • view
dom lucre liked it, though.
aug 31, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
The Constitution said nothing about "vibes" though. And this was a VIBES-based election.
aug 31, 2025, 9:00 am • 3 0 • view
Not weird for the ol' sanewasher NYT though. Also NPRspeak.
aug 31, 2025, 11:49 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a signal to red state leaders to throw a wrench into the process.
aug 31, 2025, 9:17 am • 2 0 • view
NYT or WAPO? Because it's gotta be one of those two Trump-taint-licking rags.
aug 31, 2025, 11:50 am • 0 0 • view
When you accept the news media is against all of us, and very supportive of Trump’s reign of terror, it makes a lot more sense.
aug 31, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
The news editors at @nytimes.com don't choose "fact" over "ambiguity". That's what defines propaganda; take a snippet of fact & bend it to conform to the intended message. They promote the *concept* that 34-felon has that authority, to please him & stay on his good side. It's intentional!
aug 31, 2025, 6:39 am • 7 1 • view
Gees, there will be a lot of executive orders in burn bags when he is overthrown.
aug 31, 2025, 1:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Is the NYTimes signaling to the Alito-Roberts majority on the Supreme Court that they’re open to another of their end runs around the plain language of the Constitution?
aug 31, 2025, 7:46 am • 0 0 • view
Al Jazeera points out,”A judge in April blocked parts of that order, including the proof-of-citizenship requirement, saying that the US Constitution gives the power to regulate federal elections to states and Congress – not the president.” So where’s the accurate reporting? Hmm, NYTimes?
aug 31, 2025, 7:44 am • 4 0 • view
Doesn’t the Constitution also say that powers not given EXPLICITLY to the Federal government are retained to the states?
aug 31, 2025, 7:38 am • 0 0 • view
Exclusive! A weird NYT editorial choice spotted in the wild!
aug 31, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Just when we need editorial courage...
aug 31, 2025, 11:55 am • 0 0 • view
It is not weird. It is pro-Fascist and pro-Regime.
aug 31, 2025, 1:11 pm • 3 0 • view
What Trump wants, and what is constitutional, are two completely different things...
aug 31, 2025, 11:29 am • 6 1 • view
That it’s blatantly unconstitutional doesn’t mean he won’t try. And now the identifying information of 300M Americans has been compromised at SSA.
aug 31, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Just more fence sitting.. unfortunately that is the state of media/news these days..
aug 31, 2025, 9:19 am • 2 0 • view
I thought the puppet masters could only move his lips. Maybe they can make his little fingers hold a pen as well.
aug 31, 2025, 5:38 am • 1 0 • view
A large part of why we're here is due to no one being willing to restrict the power of the presidency. We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for weakness in the Congress.
aug 31, 2025, 11:36 pm • 1 1 • view
Nor does the Constitution give the President explicit power to overturn election results he doesn't like or fire the head of the Fed. And yet.
aug 31, 2025, 5:35 am • 239 7 • view
And yet Congress allows it. I can stand on my porch and declare myself mayor of my town. The only difference between me being committed and actually being mayor is the willingness of others to play along or being too afraid to object.
aug 31, 2025, 1:53 pm • 65 7 • view
But therein lies power, no? If we don’t accept, states can nullify (as grand juries are already doing). That should be strategy. SCOTUS has torched whatever thin credibility it had. I don’t feel inclined to adhere to its musings on imaginary constitution they consult to give a madman superpowers.
aug 31, 2025, 2:13 pm • 41 2 • view
That’s my point. States are not obligated to pay him any mind when he declares stuff outside of his constitutional authority .
aug 31, 2025, 2:36 pm • 21 1 • view
Yes. I agree with you. And I think you should notify your town that you are now mayor.
aug 31, 2025, 2:51 pm • 12 1 • view
aug 31, 2025, 3:33 pm • 7 0 • view
Any state that goes against trump he holds ur govt money ......like our top colleges harvard, columbia he holds back ur govt funding millions hurting colleges future
aug 31, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Not all of it and states can and have successfully sued him. There’s no excuse for rolling over.
aug 31, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Also, appeasement doesn’t work. I hope Newsom makes good on threat to withhold fed taxes. CA could deal w/high cost of living much better if we weren’t forced to keep “low-tax” Red States afloat w/our $$. They’re low-tax bc we foot bill. I do not consent to taxation w/o representation.
aug 31, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Indeed. Enough people played along with Norton I. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor...
aug 31, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
This isn't on Congress it is on the States. Congress only has a say in 2 public offices Senators and House Representatives. All of the rest of the questions on the Ballot issues are state representatives including the electing members of the Electoral College to select a President and VP.
aug 31, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Congress absolutely has a constitutional check on the Executive branch. While the states can fight back, so can Congress if it so chooses; eg, removal from office. Unfortunately, we have far too many right wing extremists and pro-status quo types that renders Congress inept and impotent.
sep 1, 2025, 1:21 am • 1 0 • view
Congress doesn’t allow a President to fire the Fed Chairman unless there is “cause.”
aug 31, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Let’s all stop reading this yellow journalism
aug 31, 2025, 5:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I think the editor is anticipating that the Senate and House will continue rolling over like the submissive weaklings they are and allow Trump to do whatever he wants regardless of what the Constitution says. Their strategy seems to be, let the courts rein him in, if they can.
aug 31, 2025, 1:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Trumps executive orders are not law!
aug 31, 2025, 8:10 pm • 4 1 • view
Doesn't the 10th Amendment give this power to the states? States run their own elections.
aug 31, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Why are they doing this? Why have they always done stuff like this?
aug 31, 2025, 11:36 am • 2 1 • view
@democracydocket.com will challenge this, as will state attorneys general.
aug 31, 2025, 2:35 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m reminded of the phrase: Follow the money.
aug 31, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Please flood @nytimes with this, fellow blueskyites. They occasionally correct or retract.
aug 31, 2025, 7:12 am • 3 1 • view
aug 31, 2025, 11:05 am • 2 0 • view
If you are so afraid of being outvoted that you have to try to suppress votes you shouldn't be on the ballot anyway.
aug 31, 2025, 2:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Not weird at all givrn its the NYT
aug 31, 2025, 1:11 pm • 2 0 • view
What part of "an EO is not a law" does any not understand????
aug 31, 2025, 12:20 pm • 2 0 • view
The US constitution gives explicit authority to state legislatures. This is how the "unbiased" US media supports Trump. Always deniable, always disingenuous.
aug 31, 2025, 7:40 am • 1 0 • view
Shitrag New York Times gonna shitrag.
aug 31, 2025, 1:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Words matter. They have power
aug 31, 2025, 3:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Games people play
aug 31, 2025, 1:19 pm • 3 0 • view
This is what happens when the people who own politicians are also the people who own newspapers.
aug 31, 2025, 7:37 pm • 9 2 • view
Yeah, and I signed an executive order this morning that Trump now reports to me. Therefore everyone should immediately ignore all Trump decisions until they’ve checked with me.
aug 31, 2025, 3:27 pm • 13 0 • view
The legality of this is debatable as the constitution doesn't give each citizen explicit authority to issue executive orders
aug 31, 2025, 4:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Nor does it give the president the authority to control how states run their elections. Of course the difference is that while blue states will ignore the act, if any red states don’t already do this, they’ll rush to implement an invalid order, because … heil to the fuhrer and all that. …
aug 31, 2025, 4:37 pm • 4 0 • view
Meanwhile the same states openly defy ACTUAL voting laws in the Voting Rights Act.
aug 31, 2025, 4:37 pm • 3 0 • view
@nytimes.com cozy and comfortable supporting fascism yet again
aug 31, 2025, 3:16 pm • 7 0 • view
They want authoritarianism so bad
aug 31, 2025, 5:52 am • 16 0 • view
It does explicitly give the power to the states
aug 31, 2025, 8:02 pm • 3 0 • view
And here we go again with the news outlets assisting the tyranny out of self-interest! We need to sack these news outlets! How do we fully and completely boycott mainstream media!
aug 31, 2025, 11:13 am • 0 1 • view
He has 0 rights to influence how elections are run.
aug 31, 2025, 9:45 am • 1 0 • view
HMM…AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT THE LAW.
aug 31, 2025, 8:25 am • 4 0 • view
NYT helping out by framing it he has no right not just "explicit" this is our country it does NOT belong to Donald Pedophile Trump
aug 31, 2025, 10:08 am • 0 0 • view
Exactly. Nor implicit. MAGA NYT at it again
sep 1, 2025, 2:02 am • 0 0 • view
#BrokenTimes
aug 31, 2025, 12:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Yup! Not explicit, not implicit, not partial, not secondary. It gives the president no power over this.
aug 31, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Ok, call his bluff. Every ballot must be counted. 1 person one vote, No electoral college. There can be no way to counterfeit duplicate ballots. Water marks, anti-copy measures. Every ballot verifiable to the sender. In other words, no way to “stuff” fake ballots. An old Russian game.
aug 31, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s how the media whitewashes the news 😡
aug 31, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm writing an executive order that requires Trump to show the contents of his diaper every day at 5:00 PM, Eastern Time Zone. tRump works for me, I don't work for him! If I could, I'd fire the demented fat shit stain in a New York minute!
aug 31, 2025, 7:33 am • 3 0 • view
Which shitty enemy of the people printed this crap?
aug 31, 2025, 6:15 pm • 1 0 • view
The NYT can hope can't it?
aug 31, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
The Guardian did a better job I think. Of course, they don't have the same pressures NYT presumably has. I'm glad they do so much reporting on the US because it's hard to find a source as good. NYT is actually not bad if you de-weasel it in your head, but that shouldn't be necessary.
sep 1, 2025, 1:46 am • 4 1 • view
Since the constitution explicitly gives the power to the states and to congress, it very nearly "explicitly" withholds it from the president.
aug 31, 2025, 3:57 pm • 3 1 • view
All the views that's fit to hedge. I can't tell if it's just how the NYT weasels think, or if they are afraid of being shut down in some unusually assertive exercise of executive authority that was never made explicit in Article II.
aug 31, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Voter ID is unconstitutional. At least the Missouri Supreme Court has ruled it that way.
aug 31, 2025, 4:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah but red states are going to do it. There are so many ways they can protect their majorities in 2026
aug 31, 2025, 4:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Did they have to give Susie something?
aug 31, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe NYT should just end every article with "...or not."
aug 31, 2025, 3:18 pm • 2 0 • view
The headline is the weapon. It is what 1000x more will read and believe than will read the story. And they know it. Scolding reactions to headlines with “I see you didn’t read the article” instead of outing the editor who wrote the misinformation is insane. That HL’s aren’t even attributed is insane
aug 31, 2025, 3:08 pm • 10 1 • view
Their headline editors are the worst.
aug 31, 2025, 10:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Complicit.
aug 31, 2025, 10:57 pm • 2 0 • view
And they wonder why their readership is down! Bunch of ass kissers who will do everything they can,when he’s gone, to cover themselves! Won’t work of course because once it out on the internet it’s there forever!
aug 31, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Not weird. It's typical NYT--Rght Wng bias subtle enough to influence a liberal audience 2B politically inactive. That's their bias. That's the kind of audience NYT has. See interviews & wikipedia on exec editor Joe Kahn. A plutocrat. Talks in RWing talking pnts. Appears 2B richer than Sulzbergers
aug 31, 2025, 3:08 pm • 13 2 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 3:09 pm • 7 2 • view
Executive Orders generally only effect the Executive branch. They are not and cannot establish new law or punishments for breaking such fake laws. We need to be very careful to not give EOs more power than they have.
sep 1, 2025, 5:28 am • 5 0 • view
As we can see from the stream of lawsuits and countersuits involving Trump's actions, the constitution isn't a very useful document in determining what is, or isn't, within his authority.
aug 31, 2025, 1:05 pm • 0 0 • view
As long as it causes some people believe they need ID to vote the gambit will work. Doesn't matter if it's true or not.
aug 31, 2025, 6:41 pm • 3 0 • view
Very few people are even aware of this shit
aug 31, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
The Constitution only has to be explicit about abortion, which I been repeatedly informed is not a word in the Constitution. There may be a doctrine or penumbra of the Constitution that SCOTUS will tell us about that would allow this president to do it over text and precedent to the contrary.
aug 31, 2025, 3:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Three justices owe their jobs to him. Two were far right cranks to begin with. Chief Justice Roberts probably thinks he'll look like a twit if he dissents from the majority too often. So the "doctrine" is give Trump whatever the hell he wants.
aug 31, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
The NY Times is corrupt, never forget it.
aug 31, 2025, 6:21 am • 9 0 • view
👍
aug 31, 2025, 10:11 pm • 1 0 • view
This is merely a fig leaf for the red states, who will implement this EO.
aug 31, 2025, 10:56 am • 4 0 • view
He's dead! I call horseshit!
aug 31, 2025, 6:07 am • 1 0 • view
Or, at least, barely alive.
aug 31, 2025, 11:23 am • 0 0 • view
Now we will which secretaries of state, the ones in charge of state elections, will simply roll over and do as Trump says and which ones will tell him to go pound sand.
aug 31, 2025, 2:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Do any reporters or editors in recent years ever read the Constitution before writing about what is or isn't in it? I'm thinking they mostly don't. Certainly not taking the time to sit with the words and absorb the meaning.
aug 31, 2025, 2:19 pm • 6 0 • view
They just accept right wing framing on every issue. That is how they have convinced people that having a criminal orange dictator is good for them.
aug 31, 2025, 2:31 pm • 2 0 • view
On most topics that are relevant in the news, media people know a great deal less than an ordinary educated person who reads a lot. I see this all the time when it's local media reporting on, e.g., some gimmicky real estate deal that requires public funding for "economic impact."
aug 31, 2025, 3:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Donald Trump is a Russian asset and a traitor. He's also a liar, a sexual deviant, possibly a pedophile, a convicted felon, a cheater at everything, an adjudicated rapist and an all around bad guy. Release the Epstein files! Keep that war criminal Putin out of our country
aug 31, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Possibly????? He was fucking Ivanka when she was a teenager
aug 31, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Donnie just wants to show his base he is doing “something”. Then when states ignore him, he will say “look! Liberals defying me!”
aug 31, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean, the constitution doesn’t give the president explicit immunity from criminal prosecution over official acts — and yet … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
aug 31, 2025, 5:38 am • 382 16 • view
It also bars export tariffs and foreign emoluments "explicitly" and also *shrug thing i don't know how to make*
aug 31, 2025, 4:59 pm • 8 0 • view
Heh, I have a macro for it 😉 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
aug 31, 2025, 5:03 pm • 4 0 • view
Show off....
aug 31, 2025, 5:05 pm • 1 0 • view
(Agree with you that the editorial choice is wrong and perhaps shameful. But this president for some reason seems to have a few powers that the constitution places off limits.)
aug 31, 2025, 5:39 am • 125 6 • view
No, this president in in the process of facing consequences. It requires that ALL OF US participate and openly state his powers are limited, he will face consequences, and this is in process. Please don’t participate in acquiescence. Stop.
aug 31, 2025, 1:17 pm • 3 0 • view
I can think of six reasons.
aug 31, 2025, 2:54 pm • 9 0 • view
(… or more precisely, seems able to act as if he has such powers despite his plain lack of them.)
aug 31, 2025, 5:56 am • 147 4 • view
There, now you have it.
aug 31, 2025, 11:57 am • 47 0 • view
What difference does it make when no one holds you accountable?
aug 31, 2025, 1:09 pm • 3 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, after all he IS a felon. And oh, by the way,release the Epstein files.
aug 31, 2025, 2:17 pm • 1 0 • view
📌
aug 31, 2025, 11:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, because we have venal and craven people in Congress.
aug 31, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
And a rogue Supreme Court that may rubber stamp them. The presidential immunity case was laughed out of court appropriately in every lower court.
aug 31, 2025, 3:43 pm • 3 0 • view
To be fair, that's NOT just him as President - that's been his whole damned life! * 'Powers' can also be replaced with: morals, ability, education, etc...
aug 31, 2025, 1:58 pm • 3 0 • view
All it takes is for one party to control all three branches of gov., and you have state capture and dictatorship.
aug 31, 2025, 1:00 pm • 8 1 • view
Especially when the majority are venal and craven.
aug 31, 2025, 1:50 pm • 3 0 • view
There have been many times where one party has controlled all three without dictatorship. It’s not purely structural, the actual people in these roles matters.
aug 31, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
When did all three agree that the president has more power than the others, to the effect that Congress and SCOTUS are irrelevant?
aug 31, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
The "some reason" is at least partially this Supreme Court.
aug 31, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
He does not have those powers. He's being allowed to run rough shod over the country, constitution and laws. The People are the ultimate check on usurped power when the other branches do nothing.
sep 1, 2025, 7:53 am • 1 0 • view
It is good to read further. Article points out he signed a similar EO struck mostly down by the courts. Describes who has explicit authority over elections. Don’t expect a more from a reporter in S Korea. Technically through DOJ he has authority - limited to enforcing election laws & Constitution.
aug 31, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 0 • view
of course therein lies the difference between "not explicitly granted to the president" and "explicitly not granted to the president", and power over voting law is very much the latter. This isn't something the Constitution is remotely silent on.
aug 31, 2025, 1:59 pm • 8 0 • view
Trump v US was bad law not merely because of the constitution's silence, but the need to reverse interpretive signals such as bribery as an impeachable crime, and ALSO ignore a strong history and tradition of laws criminalizing conduct that *necessarily* involves presidential acts, such as the PCA.
aug 31, 2025, 1:59 pm • 8 0 • view
here, though, the Constitution is explicit about who has power over election law, and explicit that it is not the President.
aug 31, 2025, 1:59 pm • 5 0 • view
It's worse than that. The Constitution explicitly makes it clear that official acts are not above criminal prosecution. It mentions bribery. The SCOTUS majority, at least in theory, has legalized bribery.
aug 31, 2025, 2:39 pm • 6 0 • view
It would have made more sense to write "The Supreme Court Republicans have yet to say he can't do this."
aug 31, 2025, 5:52 am • 76 6 • view
🎯🎯🎯
aug 31, 2025, 6:13 am • 8 0 • view
They are sooooo afraid of The Felon.
aug 31, 2025, 8:41 pm • 0 0 • view
States are under no obligation to follow EO as they are NOT laws.
aug 31, 2025, 10:07 am • 1 0 • view
Its the NYt, confusing is their goal, they are not a legitimate news source, the small amount of honest stories compared to the thumb they put on the scale in a majority of their garbage makes them unreliable
aug 31, 2025, 9:20 am • 0 0 • view
I think this implies that red states will happily capitulate bc apparently, all of the gop is on board with facilitating fascism. Blue states understand that they are under no obligation to do so.
aug 31, 2025, 1:59 pm • 3 0 • view
I am a fan of paper ballot backups, though.
aug 31, 2025, 2:15 pm • 2 0 • view
This is why I don’t read NYT or put much faith it’d it’s journalism. But the games are great! Sad that this once great institution is reduced to bro g purchased for games instead of content.
aug 31, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
#NOKINGS IN USA
aug 31, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Clearly the author wants everyone to think there is an implicit right for the POTUS to control voting. That is how the media manipulates people into believing things that aren't true. IOW: Propaganda
aug 31, 2025, 2:30 pm • 6 1 • view
My concern, as always, is that a corrupt conservative majority on SCOTUS no longer cares about the constitution as it gives *this* president extraordinary powers to do whatever he wants...
aug 31, 2025, 12:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Fascist appeasing media. Cowards.
aug 31, 2025, 2:22 pm • 2 0 • view
They're not cowards. That implies they don't want this, but they're too scared to speak up against it. They're framing it this way because they themselves are fascists, who want fascism. That goes for the billionaires who own the media, and for the Republican Party themselves.
aug 31, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
No, but the military forces he is deploying in cities does.
aug 31, 2025, 9:42 am • 8 0 • view
We can swallow that whole, like he wants us to or else take note of the fact that Trump is stiffing them on their pay and inciting their wrath. newrepublic.com/post/196729/...
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 pm • 7 4 • view
😂😂😂 Cheapo in Chief Why pay ‘suckers and saps’ anyway
aug 31, 2025, 9:43 pm • 4 0 • view
Oh no, not the guy tasked with fixing the jets who has almost no real combat training an experience!
aug 31, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 9:54 am • 6 5 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 10:20 am • 1 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 10:38 am • 4 3 • view
They're petrified of being called out by Trump and other mindless MAGAts but not the least bit concerned about what decent, thinking Americans say
aug 31, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
They are desperate to manufacture consent for him to do it by stating it is entirely normal. The media has also tried to convince people deploying the NG for policing is a normal common thing If he is somehow alive in 2028 they'll also try to make it seem like that could be valid when he runs again
aug 31, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Article 1, Section 4: "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators." Seems clear.
aug 31, 2025, 4:19 pm • 6 1 • view
Hold my beer and hand me a sharpie. How about the part that says "Or when Trump says so"?
aug 31, 2025, 4:26 pm • 4 0 • view
SCOTUS:
aug 31, 2025, 6:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Truly weird. What‘s a plausible explanation for nyt headline choices?
aug 31, 2025, 8:17 am • 0 0 • view
I just learned that Trump sells copies of his EOs. If his motive is moolah, the more EOs — and more over the top — the better.
aug 31, 2025, 8:02 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah fuck that horseshit
aug 31, 2025, 1:05 pm • 0 0 • view
He is also bringing back prima nocta but for 12 year olds rather than brides, and all queer people are getting milled into sausage. I guess he can do any dumb thing.
aug 31, 2025, 11:33 am • 3 0 • view
Release the Epstein files!
aug 31, 2025, 7:09 am • 5 2 • view
I really wonder if these are written by AI and there is a setting that makes it lean in favor of not calling Trump out “explicitly”
aug 31, 2025, 3:11 pm • 2 0 • view
His entourage will carry on writing up executive orders while he golfs til the cows 🐄 come home
aug 31, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
In fact, the constitution very explicitly designates this power to the states. No ambiguity. The constitution explicitly does not give him this power.
aug 31, 2025, 2:30 pm • 5 2 • view
Sounds like the NYT is hedging on what the courts might do. Because this is going to the courts.
aug 31, 2025, 4:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Words. How do they work?
aug 31, 2025, 5:03 pm • 4 0 • view
😒 NYT softly giving reverence softly giving something… 🍄🟫 😏
aug 31, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Not just weird but wrong by omission. The Constitution "explicitly" in Art. I (Congress, not II executive) Sec 4:1 gives states power of "manner of holding elections" and more. SCOTUS has included these "explicitly," plus punishment. So, can states prosecute Felon47 for his e/o violating their laws?
aug 31, 2025, 1:08 pm • 2 0 • view
NYT is a fascism laundry, stop being surprised when they launder fascism.
aug 31, 2025, 3:10 pm • 14 0 • view
It implies that literally anything that dribbles out of Trump's lips or thumbs is potentially legitimate.
aug 31, 2025, 1:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Enough of the executive orders. 99% of them have been determined illegal.
sep 1, 2025, 12:21 am • 1 1 • view
WHAT CONSTITUTION? Did Trump write a new one...cause the old one went out the window when Elon stole the election for the dear leader!
aug 31, 2025, 12:17 pm • 3 0 • view
The Constitution gives no explicit authority”? No — it gives none at all. That one word makes authoritarian overreach sound debatable. Hedging like this is complicity. If your paper can’t defend democracy, cancel your subscription.
aug 31, 2025, 3:36 pm • 47 1 • view
They don't even want to.
aug 31, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah; we've been seeing that kind of normalizing of Fascism for years now, from sources that used to be respected.
aug 31, 2025, 3:56 pm • 7 0 • view
Canceled it after they tried to turn Mamdani into Stalin.
aug 31, 2025, 6:02 pm • 0 0 • view
What happened to #statesrights?
aug 31, 2025, 2:20 pm • 2 0 • view
They know that. They're facilitating his takeover on purpose, assuming that red states will just go along with it and it'll run through the courts. It's become a routine with corporate media, especially them, and his stupid ass EOs. Or should I say Stephen Miller's.
aug 31, 2025, 3:49 pm • 3 0 • view
I think that "respectable" media outlets are often more afraid of being laughed at than they are of being on the wrong side of history. If they point out that the constitution is explicit about who regulates elections and it ain't POTUS, but then Trump does it anyway, they will feel like fools ...
aug 31, 2025, 4:00 pm • 6 1 • view
... it's a lot like being bullied in a schoolyard. Let's say you try to point out something true but that your classmates don't know: objects fall at the same acceleration independent of mass. So the school bully drops you and a feather from 5 feet up, showing to the amusement of all that you ...
aug 31, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
... hit the ground a lot sooner. You dust yourself off (if you're an uber-nerd) adjust your cracked wireframe glasses and explain: "Yes, but that's in the presence of friction." At this point you've lost your audience already. Editors either remember being the nerd or being in the audience.
aug 31, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I guess I'm more cynical because I think it's just their corporate overlords and that true journalism has been neglected by corporate media for a long time, while they have long had a few excellent standouts maintaining an undeserved reputation since their transfers. Most of those have now quit.
aug 31, 2025, 4:21 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm not sure which view is the more cynical, let alone which is true. There is indeed concentration of media ownership. I remember hearing this from Mark Crispin Miller 30 years ago (though he has gone off the deep end since). But what if most journalists are actually just cowards too?
aug 31, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced. — Upton Sinclair
aug 31, 2025, 4:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Well, that's the cycle. If it's corporate run, then the preference is going to be toward those who adhere to their slant. Independent publications, show a dramatic contrast in reporting quality, investigative journalism, etc. It's why they're on the rise and corporate media is in steep decline.
aug 31, 2025, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
What if they're doing the job they intend to do, in the way they intend to do it? Conversely, if your hypothetical is true, and considering where we are *right now*, what do you think it would take for these cowards to find the courage to *do their jobs*?
aug 31, 2025, 8:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Ah, but they're only ever "afraid of being laughed at" by Certain People -- and it *just happens* to be the exact same folks for whom they carry the water and sanewash the fascism. Once is a mistake, twice coincidence, after that it's a pattern....and we're a full decade into the pattern now.
aug 31, 2025, 8:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Test your theory like this: Would they treat a President Biden the same way?
aug 31, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm not sure the hypothetical makes sense. No Democratic administration has ever made up unconstitutional shit that the NYT has to make excuses for. But yeah, they would report it differently. But they would be face with a different reaction as well, being praised for not toeing the line.
aug 31, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
I still remember how the NYT & WaPo reported on Biden's completion of Trump's plan to pull out of Afghanistan. Critics were allowed free reign. Not one shred of credit was given to the administration's position. Biden was popular before that. It was the turning point.
aug 31, 2025, 5:35 pm • 2 0 • view
I noticed the same “maybe he can, maybe he can’t” hedging. It’s infuriating but not surprising.
aug 31, 2025, 7:15 am • 7 0 • view
Is it a NYT article? They are known for opening doors for Trump.
aug 31, 2025, 6:21 am • 2 0 • view
The nyt is a propaganda machine, not journalism.
aug 31, 2025, 11:02 am • 0 0 • view
Theoretically, the constitution provides checks & balance too. His adm meticulously planned this crap for years which is why they are always ready with some obscure law or weird interpretation to support the EOs.
aug 31, 2025, 10:46 am • 7 0 • view
Yep. His people put shady lawyers to work years ago.
aug 31, 2025, 10:49 am • 3 0 • view
Yes, they (the media) are COMPLICIT.
aug 31, 2025, 5:33 am • 16 2 • view
Trump does Executive Orders like a King does Edicts.
aug 31, 2025, 8:57 am • 0 0 • view
well it's the nytimes, the paper we've grown to distrust. sigh.
aug 31, 2025, 11:52 am • 4 0 • view
That is illegal; Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution (“Elections Clause”) gives states the power to set the “Times, Places and Manner” of elections, though Congress may alter those rules by legislation. It's another diversionary tactic—where are the #Epstein files?
aug 31, 2025, 11:24 am • 6 3 • view
The NY Times seems to be laying the groundwork here for an argument that “yes, this may not be ‘explicitly’ enumerated as a presidential power in the Constitution, but it’s obviously part of the powers of the president.” 1/2
sep 1, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Just the kind of circular, results-driven, nonsensical argument that the current 6-3 SCOTUS will eat up with a spoon. 2/2
sep 1, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
It's crazy the number of "interpretations" are conceived from a one-page document for organization, a set of 10 rules for individual protection from said document, and that it was federal and that all states must adhere to the rules as laid out. They wrote it that way to be flexible, not rewritten.
aug 31, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Always Wierd Editorial Choice at NY Times.
aug 31, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
But everyone let's the bastard do this shit anyways, and treats it like it's a damn law.
aug 31, 2025, 9:24 am • 1 0 • view
He don’t want machines because he know Musk knows how to change the votes and with them two on the outs he’s afraid musk will double cross him and pick Dems to win even in red states so he can be impeached!
aug 31, 2025, 1:42 pm • 3 0 • view
There is no basis, no standing, nor authority here. Elections are conducted by states. States make the rules, they can start and stop voting when the want. The can have all mail in ballots, etc. Once again, idiot boy can try, but will fail.
aug 31, 2025, 1:06 pm • 4 0 • view
There is no longer a reason to compare the Constitution to America's leadership, because all three branches are in the hands of fascists. To bad Biden wanted to uphold leaders who committed treason, because he could have taken a path that led Trump, and others to prison.
aug 31, 2025, 11:15 am • 1 0 • view
Are they using this phrasing to infer that he has some kind of wiggle room? He doesn't. Full stop. He WANTS it, that is all. No one should ever give him an inch, because he will take a mile in the blink of an eye. Do better, media! FFS. 🤬
sep 1, 2025, 1:27 am • 2 1 • view
The press is why we are where we are. They are as responsible for the rise of fascism as any institution
aug 31, 2025, 5:57 am • 89 4 • view
The @nytimes.com is in CYA mode far more often than not.
aug 31, 2025, 11:25 am • 19 0 • view
People love to rag on the NYT. They annoy everyone, meaning they're doing something right.
aug 31, 2025, 5:49 pm • 1 0 • view
An interesting standard. Should we apply your logic to anyone performing functions on a public sidewalk that would normally be reserved for the privacy afforded by a stall in a restroom. After all, by your reasoning, "They annoy everyone, meaning they're doing something right."
sep 1, 2025, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
"I am going out of business...making me the victor."
aug 31, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
By your logic then, if I just constantly go around shitting on everyone's lawn in broad daylight, I must be doing something right? The NYT is awful.
sep 1, 2025, 7:42 am • 1 0 • view
No. Truth isn’t defined by what’s exactly in the mathematical middle of the loudest voices.
aug 31, 2025, 6:00 pm • 23 0 • view
Yeah, what an absurd take on journalism to think that the point of it is to annoy the largest amount of people possible. I guess Newsmax is journalism of the highest quality to Glen.
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 pm • 11 0 • view
Newsmax is a Conservative source; nothing centrist about them. It is interesting that Right wingers on X tell me to take my liberal ass to BlueSky where I belong, while hard Lefters call me crap, too. And here I am a guy who spent years with human rights causes and Liberal church membership. 🤷🏻♂️
aug 31, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
You seem to look at criticism in the most shallow way possible. One should look at what the criticism is, not just if people complain.
aug 31, 2025, 7:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Do you talk like this to people face to face in your daily life? If so I feel sorry for those who have to endure your self-appointed superiority.
aug 31, 2025, 11:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes but I'm sure the tone is different online. You read it how you imagine me saying it and probably not how I would say it. Like I'm guessing you think I was calling you shallow when I was meaning that you just look at "criticism" in general and not what it actually is.
sep 1, 2025, 12:36 am • 0 0 • view
You often hear this fallacy from centrists about the BBC - everyone thinks they're shit, so they must be amazing
aug 31, 2025, 6:19 pm • 11 0 • view
Yeah, it's completely moronic.
aug 31, 2025, 7:42 pm • 6 0 • view
Centrists are annoying because they won't say what kind of system they want or think would be best. They approach each issue as a unique unconnected event rather than result of specific policies and behaviors. That's why no one likes them. No one knows what they believe so you can't trust them.
sep 1, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
Being louder doesn't make you right and both the Left AND Right complain about the NYT being biased against their stands.
aug 31, 2025, 6:28 pm • 1 0 • view
That doesn't mean they're neutral or truthful. The truth of a claim isn't determined by who complains about it.
aug 31, 2025, 7:37 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah, if the Times said the moon was made of cheese and the left and the right said that's stupid, it wouldn't make it true, it would make it so absurd everyone can see it.
aug 31, 2025, 7:41 pm • 2 0 • view
The right: "the moon is made of cheddar cheese" The NYT: "the cheese that the moon is made of may not be cheddar, say some cheese experts who have examined samples provided by administration officials in bags marked MOON CHEEZ in Sharpie."
aug 31, 2025, 7:52 pm • 2 0 • view
I just remember not that long ago the Left embraced the NYT and the Right hated it. Now it seems almost fashionable to hate them by everyone, and I can't help wondering if some group is behind this effort to discredit what was considered a crown of the newspaper business.
aug 31, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
No difference really between the @nytimes.com and TV network news.
sep 1, 2025, 1:14 am • 0 0 • view
That doesn't make any sense. I'm annoyed that they keep publishing anti-trans nonsense. What's "right" about that?
sep 1, 2025, 12:08 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't know what articles U R referencing. But IMO, to write of an entire publication bc U didn't like something published abt 1% of the population is short-sighted. Now, no opinions will b changed in continuing this & only blood pressures will rise, not intelligence, so I'm ceasing this exchange.
sep 1, 2025, 12:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Nah, fuck you.
sep 1, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
But Americans are partly to blame also. A large number don’t know at the minimum how our government functions. State vs Fed. They don’t believe/understand the 3 branches of government are coEqual and used as checks and balances.
sep 1, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
The reason the press is so important is they are the ones who keep us informed. It's why the first thing every authoritarian regime does it attack it. Most people I work with tell me they no longer know what to believe.
sep 1, 2025, 3:56 pm • 0 0 • view
If Trump does something he doesn't have the legal right to do and the NY Times says "Trump signs executive order recinding spending on blah blah", most people aren't going to say the Times doesn't understand the separation of powers, they are going to say oh, I didn't know he could do that.
sep 1, 2025, 3:59 pm • 1 0 • view
It takes a village
aug 31, 2025, 10:37 am • 2 0 • view
Television and newspapers used to have a lot more influence over candidates and campaigns. People used to get their political ideas and news and "vibes" from the press. They don't. Not anymore. Unless you consider social media and hateradio to be part of "the press". I don't 🙂
sep 1, 2025, 2:43 am • 0 0 • view
He wants watermarked paper ballots, a downgrade from the paper ballots we have now, so he can stuff the ballot boxes.
aug 31, 2025, 11:27 am • 1 0 • view
NATIONWIDE PROTESTS September 1st on LABOR DAY. Stand up for America!! Show Up!! Find a protest near you by clicking findaprotest.info. Show your photos or videos tomorrow. Start putting out your signs in your yards. Show courage! Resist! No shows don't deserve to complain if we lose this shitshow
aug 31, 2025, 11:55 am • 4 3 • view
You mean the same New York Times that published this? www.nytimes.com/1939/08/20/a...
aug 31, 2025, 12:41 pm • 0 0 • view
It's even more interesting in context. Here's screenshots of lede and end on jump page. But notice the story before it: Private, First Class promoting US soldiering, and 2 down from it, mocking France for saying it's in crisis but acting like Hitler isn't there buggering them all. Sound familiar?
aug 31, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
...Sangfroid translates as “cold blood," a person showing no sympathy or mercy to others. By mid-1700s, English used to describe ruthless for >a century, but sangfroid put a positive spin on ice in the veins, composure under strain—not a “cold fish” or “icicle” but someone who is cool as a cucumber.
aug 31, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I think you spelled "capitulating in advance" wrong.
aug 31, 2025, 12:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Poor wording in the subhead. The article equivocates a little less. Here are the last couple of paragraphs in the article:
aug 31, 2025, 6:21 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 11:40 am • 5 1 • view
The only encouraging thing here is that if Trump and Musk really had control over the voting machines, paper ballots are the last thing they'd ask for.
aug 31, 2025, 4:56 pm • 3 0 • view
The bad guys don't have to control All of the machines
aug 31, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
There are plenty of ways paper ballots could be exploited by the bad guys 🫤. Ballots will have to be authenticated in two or three ways. Election officials will have to be watched like a hawk. The process will take forever, and that time can be politically exploited
aug 31, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
If Trump had successfully hacked the voting machines, he would be calling for EXCLUSIVE USE of voting machines in the next cycle, not paper ballots. He's calling for paper ballots because they can be more easily manipulated. This would be unnecessary if the voting machines were hacked.
aug 31, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
How about never? Is never good for you?
aug 31, 2025, 6:46 am • 0 0 • view
True but since when has the orange-tinted mental midget ever concerned himself with having the 'authority' to do anything?
aug 31, 2025, 11:48 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 1:52 pm • 4 0 • view
I guess they can claim that technically no explicit authority does not exclude no authority whatsoever. As in does it give him explicit lauthority ? No. Does it give him any authority? No. Lolz
aug 31, 2025, 1:01 pm • 0 0 • view
He just use DICTATOR MUSKx and PUSSY BOYS No one BRAVE ENOUGH, to stop him
aug 31, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
The orange clown is going to do everything he can to stay in power ... that's what dictators do.
aug 31, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
There have always been those among us who swiftly acquiesce to the slightest hint of conflict! The opportunists, the cowards, the appeasers and the selfish. They live a pitiful existence constantly changing the direction of their sails in a sad and rudderless lifeboat. May they never know peace!
aug 31, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
They're just lying
aug 31, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
I assume he'll issue one of his executive orders where he says he'll deny federal funding to any state which doesn't pass laws implementing this.
aug 31, 2025, 7:53 pm • 1 0 • view
This is simply not a weird editorial choice for the @nytimes.com : they are, and have been, corruptly complicit.
sep 1, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
So much for all his voters in the south. You know he's going to cheat anyway, right?
aug 31, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Dear Mr. President, Fuck you and your executive order about election laws. Sincerely, Every Blue state in the USA (and a few Red ones, too).
aug 31, 2025, 2:36 pm • 1 0 • view
What would the modern press be, if not complete jelly at the worst possible moment?
aug 31, 2025, 6:10 am • 2 0 • view
Maybe they didn’t know how to spell “any”?
aug 31, 2025, 1:36 pm • 3 0 • view
That's how "woke" started, they couldn't spell enlightened.
aug 31, 2025, 2:24 pm • 3 0 • view
i know this is a joke but "woke" existed for decades and generations before Rcons tried to weaponize it
sep 1, 2025, 1:18 am • 1 0 • view
There’s also the wee matter of the tenth amendment: all powers not explicitly given to the federal government, and not prohibited to the states, are reserved to the states and the people. Looks like the NYT editors failed a basic civics exam as they try again to normalize Trump’s actions.
aug 31, 2025, 2:36 pm • 3 0 • view
But executive orders aren't laws. 🤔
aug 31, 2025, 11:29 am • 0 0 • view
Well if @washingtonpost.com and the @nytimes.com would stop reporting that executive orders are laws…
aug 31, 2025, 4:18 pm • 3 0 • view