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For someone so busy making money on the UK, he sure did have a lot of time today to bloviate his conspiracy ridden mind. I hope this serves as a lesson, that even the “moderates” have become radicalized. They defend Trump because (i) they like him and identify with him and (ii) they’ve been convinced by the junk media they consume to hate “the left.” So it doesn’t matter that they’re justifying that which they’d never justify by a Democratic president as long as what their doing fulfills that craving to score pts for the identity and team they’ve adopted.

“Everyone else is wrong and has TDS but me. I’m the only one on the board who sees Kamala as the threat she truly was and doesn’t see Trump as the right wing authoritarian that he is.”
 
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LogGrad98 said:
This sounds a lot like an abusive husband telling his wife she wouldn't get beaten if she would just listen and keep her mouth shut. It's all her fault, after all, it isn't the fault of the guy throwing the punches. Half this country for some reason decided they wanted fascism over democracy. That is unfathomable, and disgusting, and horrifying, but that's also where the fault lies. You seem just fine with it as well, as long as you can keep blaming the dems. Thinly veiled racism and sexism is still racism and sexism. But hey, you ran away to another country and are making bank, so who cares, right? But the way you react to all this feels like you are fully supportive of where the fascists are going with this. And that's sad too.
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Paddy goes before the magistrate, he's been arrested for beating his wife.

The magistrate says to Paddy, "Jesus Paddy, this is the third time you're before me for beating your wife, I'm going to need some persuading to not have to hand out a custodial sentence, Tell me Paddy why do you keep beating your wife?"

Paddy thought for a moment

"Well your honor, I'd have to say its probably because of superior reach and footwork."
 
Sardines said:
@Bucknutz I know you've been welcomed back with a lot of hostility, not excluding myself, but if you will I'd love to know what you think about a few things. Maybe because you're in the UK at the moment you're not as familiar with some of these things but if you have an opinion I'd like to hear it.

What do you think about Alligator Alcatraz? Specifically the reportedly very harsh conditions.

Do you feel strongly about the "release" of the Epstein files?

How do you feel about the on again, off again, seemingly arbitrary tariffs? What's your take on the fact that Trump is using emergency powers to enact them since the President is not where authority to impose tariffs lies (lays?).

How about Trump's relationship with Putin and how that has affected the U.S. support for Ukraine?

That's probably more than enough for now.
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In that context it's "lies" not "lays".
 
Sardines said:
@Bucknutz I know you've been welcomed back with a lot of hostility, not excluding myself, but if you will I'd love to know what you think about a few things. Maybe because you're in the UK at the moment you're not as familiar with some of these things but if you have an opinion I'd like to hear it.
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I actually appreciate the sincere response and I will give you a respectful response to all these questions.
Sardines said:
What do you think about Alligator Alcatraz? Specifically the reportedly very harsh conditions.
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I honestly only know much but they built a place in Florida quickly. That’s it. Don’t know if it was opened, what its actually purpose is, meaning is it just a holding center till people are returned to their country. I honestly haven’t had time to learn more about it. But I will and give you a follow up on this.

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Do you feel strongly about the "release" of the Epstein files?
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I’m pissed about this. It’s ******** that they are still hiding the truth. So disrespectful to cover things up. They should release everything but also put context on people whose names are on there. I can see some random guy, who wasn’t involved with what was happening but was working on business or had a personal relationship with him get dumped on unfairly.

Sardines said:
How do you feel about the on again, off again, seemingly arbitrary tariffs? What's your take on the fact that Trump is using emergency powers to enact them since the President is not where authority to impose tariffs lies (lays?).
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I have no problem with tariffs. They affect me and my business. My reps and I just absorbed the cost and didn’t raise the price to our customers. I see them as a negotiating tool. Don’t have a problem Presidents using emergency powers that do not infringe on our rights.

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How about Trump's relationship with Putin and how that has affected the U.S. support for Ukraine?
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Last I heard, Trump is upset with Putin and that he wants additional help with Ukraine.

I literally do not have time to keep up with current events. I kept up with his new big beautiful bill which I this is a piece of garbage. But the selfish part of me loves it because it’s going to force a movement of sales reps from solar to other industries and it will only help me.
 
Bucknutz said:
Please tell me how he is a dictator? I cant wait till I hear how America is now ruled by a dictator!!! In less than a year. That was fast.
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Respectfully, if the SCOTUS dissolves the balance of power among the institutions and power centers of the federal government: the presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court; and allows the president to assume power reserved by the Constitution to Congress, and not the Executive branch at all, is not the Supreme Court allowing the president to assume unconstitutional powers? And, if the answer is yes, they are granting unconstitutional power to Trump, by allowing him to assume power RESERVED only for Congress, by the Constitution, is that not a step toward dictatorship, when combined with other things the administration is doing, things that also have a very high likelihood of being unconstitutional?

Edit: this is a lot to chew on, a lot to read. I’m really just pointing out how he is becoming a dictator, from my perspective.


“On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to move forward with its abolition of the Education Department by firing about 1,400 employees. Many of these workers performed critical tasks at the agency, distributing billions of dollars to schools and students while protecting civil rights and disability access in education. Much of that work will now grind to a halt. By law, the president has no authority to unilaterally restructure or dismantle a federal agency, like the Education Department, created and funded by Congress. The Supreme Court’s conservatives allowed Trump to do it anyway. They did not bother to provide a reason for their order. All three liberals dissented.

Monday’s decision in McMahon v. New York represents the Supreme Court’s latest intervention on the administration’s behalf over its shadow docket, an act that’s grown almost routine. The conservative supermajority has consistently exploited this process to hand Trump an unprecedented amount of power, usually without a word of explanation. But McMahon is arguably more radical than those past rulings. SCOTUS has now, in effect, allowed the president to destroy an entire agency by himself, an action that would’ve been unthinkable for most of history. The conservative justices are accelerating this administration’s lawless seizure of duties and prerogatives that the Constitution expressly assigned to Congress. They are doing so after sharply limiting President Joe Biden’s power to carry out responsibilities that are assigned to the president.

This split-screen reveals an unseemly double standard: A Republican president gets to do pretty much whatever he wants, while a Democratic president must be constantly boxed in by the courts. And what is the basis for this discrepancy? Thanks to the shadow docket, the conservative justices don’t even have to come up with one. Perhaps they refuse to justify these decisions in writing for the simple reason that they are unjustifiable.

McMahon is the latest proof that Trump is on an extraordinary winning spree at the Supreme Court. As Georgetown Law Prof. Steve Vladeck explained on Monday, the court has granted relief to the Trump administration in 100 percent of the 15 emergency applications it has filed since April. (It offered majority opinions in just three of those cases.) Just last week, SCOTUS allowed the government to begin implementing a mass-firing plan across many different agencies. Now it has rubber-stamped a more targeted attack on the Education Department, one with devastating consequences for millions of student across the country.

The administration has not kept its goals a secret. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to disband the department, calling it a “big con job.” His Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, promised to “put herself out of a job” by leading her department’s “final mission”—that is, shutting it down. In March, Trump issued an executive order directing the agency’s closure; McMahon promptly announced that she would lay off more than 50 percent of its staff, calling it the first step toward a “total shutdown.” A group of plaintiffs—blue states, schools, and unions—filed suit, arguing that Trump and McMahon had no legal authority to demolish a whole federal department. The lower courts agreed and blocked the termination of more than 1,400 employees.

Now SCOTUS has lifted that block, allowing the president to resume dismembering the agency. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted in a furious dissent joined by the other two liberals, the impact will be swift and calamitous. Trump’s purge will shut down many offices within the agency, and slow the work of others to a crawl. An office that oversees grants under the IDEA, which funds special education for 7 million disabled students? Gutted. Another office that helps schools comply with IDEA requirements? Destroyed. An office that administers bilingual education programs? Gone. An office that certifies schools whose students are eligible for financial aid? Hollowed out. Most regional divisions of the Office of Civil Rights—which investigates and adjudicates violations of students’ rights—will be shuttered. Departments that distribute billions of dollars to public schools and universities have been reduced to a handful of employees. Educational institutions around the United States are about to see massive delays in essential funding because there are just not enough employees left to keep the money flowing.

The Constitution does not allow for any of this. To the contrary, it empowers Congress to create and structure federal agencies like the Education Department, and hands Congress control over staffing and budget decisions. The Constitution then instructs the president to “faithfully execute” the laws enacted by Congress. Of course, Congress has not defunded or eliminated the Education Department. It has laid out procedures through which the president can seek congressional approval to withhold funds, transfer offices, or undertake a large reduction in force. But Trump has followed none of these rules. He has, instead, purported to assert his own executive authority to tear down an agency without the assent of Congress, eviscerating its ability to operate as intended by purging its workforce.

And the Supreme Court just let it happen, for reasons it did not see fit to share with the public. The result, as Vox’s Ian Millhiser has observed, is a fundamental alteration of the balance of power between the president and Congress, awarding Trump authority to repeal duly enacted federal laws. It would be a mistake, though, to assume that the court will extend this new arrangement to all presidents, given that it frequently deprived Biden of the authority to carry out duties plainly assigned to him by the Constitution and Congress. The conservative justices, for instance, allowed a lower court to impose a universal injunction against Biden’s student loan plan for months. It then declared the plan unlawful, in part because mass debt relief was a “major question” reserved to Congress. Now, not even six months into Trump’s second term, these same justices have abolished universal injunctions, and decided that the Education Department’s termination is not a major question reserved to Congress. Could anyone really defend this partisan hypocrisy with a straight face?”

(THIS. How much power can the SCOTUS just strip from one branch of the federal government, Congress, and hand without explanation to the chief executive, before we basically have one man rule? Eventually, the SCOTUS will likely actually rule on the actions they are presently giving Trump a free hand to enact.):

“The pattern emerging here could not be more disturbing. First, the conservative supermajority rewarded Trump for breaking the law by firing leaders of independent agencies, erasing removal protections enacted by Congress. Then, the same justices allowed Trump to deportimmigrants to random countries without due process, nullifying the Convention Against Torture and other limits imposed by Congress. Now this same clique has gone even bigger, letting Trump effectively kill off an entire agency, paralyzing dozens (perhaps hundreds) of statutory duties assigned to it by Congress. Is any law disfavored by a Republican president safe from this Supreme Court? Is it accurate to call the United States a nation of laws when our highest court will simply suspend laws disfavored by a Republican president?

There are words to describe countries in which a strongman leader works with a captured judiciary to hobble the legislature, consolidate power, and declare himself free from legal restraints on his reign. Democracy is not one of them.”
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(I think the word might just be “dictatorship”, and it really does seem like that is exactly what the conservatives on the Supreme Court desire. They may be thinking of the Unitary Executive Theory, but, the way Trump uses power, they really do seem to be actively enabling a dictatorship in the United States. And, surely, it’s not like Trump doesn’t want to be a dictator, by his very personality, by his words, by his actions, by calling >50% of the electorate “radical left lunatics, and “the enemy within”!!!

Seems to me we are creating a dictatorship. And I’m not sure how you put our government back together given this cascading attack against the separation of powers enshrined in our Constitution, and being destroyed by our Judicial branch…..)
 
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Red said:
Respectfully, if the SCOTUS dissolves the balance of power among the institutions and power centers of the federal government: the presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court; and allows the president to assume power reserved by the Constitution to Congress, and not the Executive branch at all, is not the Supreme Court allowing the president to assume unconstitutional powers? And, if the answer is yes, they are granting unconstitutional power to Trump, by allowing him to assume power RESERVED only for Congress, by the Constitution, is that not a step toward dictatorship, when combined with other things the administration is doing, things that also have a very high likelihood of being Constitutional?


“On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to move forward with its abolition of the Education Department by firing about 1,400 employees. Many of these workers performed critical tasks at the agency, distributing billions of dollars to schools and students while protecting civil rights and disability access in education. Much of that work will now grind to a halt. By law, the president has no authority to unilaterally restructure or dismantle a federal agency, like the Education Department, created and funded by Congress. The Supreme Court’s conservatives allowed Trump to do it anyway. They did not bother to provide a reason for their order. All three liberals dissented.

Monday’s decision in McMahon v. New York represents the Supreme Court’s latest intervention on the administration’s behalf over its shadow docket, an act that’s grown almost routine. The conservative supermajority has consistently exploited this process to hand Trump an unprecedented amount of power, usually without a word of explanation. But McMahon is arguably more radical than those past rulings. SCOTUS has now, in effect, allowed the president to destroy an entire agency by himself, an action that would’ve been unthinkable for most of history. The conservative justices are accelerating this administration’s lawless seizure of duties and prerogatives that the Constitution expressly assigned to Congress. They are doing so after sharply limiting President Joe Biden’s power to carry out responsibilities that are assigned to the president.

This split-screen reveals an unseemly double standard: A Republican president gets to do pretty much whatever he wants, while a Democratic president must be constantly boxed in by the courts. And what is the basis for this discrepancy? Thanks to the shadow docket, the conservative justices don’t even have to come up with one. Perhaps they refuse to justify these decisions in writing for the simple reason that they are unjustifiable.

McMahon is the latest proof that Trump is on an extraordinary winning spree at the Supreme Court. As Georgetown Law Prof. Steve Vladeck explained on Monday, the court has granted relief to the Trump administration in 100 percent of the 15 emergency applications it has filed since April. (It offered majority opinions in just three of those cases.) Just last week, SCOTUS allowed the government to begin implementing a mass-firing plan across many different agencies. Now it has rubber-stamped a more targeted attack on the Education Department, one with devastating consequences for millions of student across the country.

The administration has not kept its goals a secret. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to disband the department, calling it a “big con job.” His Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, promised to “put herself out of a job” by leading her department’s “final mission”—that is, shutting it down. In March, Trump issued an executive order directing the agency’s closure; McMahon promptly announced that she would lay off more than 50 percent of its staff, calling it the first step toward a “total shutdown.” A group of plaintiffs—blue states, schools, and unions—filed suit, arguing that Trump and McMahon had no legal authority to demolish a whole federal department. The lower courts agreed and blocked the termination of more than 1,400 employees.

Now SCOTUS has lifted that block, allowing the president to resume dismembering the agency. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted in a furious dissent joined by the other two liberals, the impact will be swift and calamitous. Trump’s purge will shut down many offices within the agency, and slow the work of others to a crawl. An office that oversees grants under the IDEA, which funds special education for 7 million disabled students? Gutted. Another office that helps schools comply with IDEA requirements? Destroyed. An office that administers bilingual education programs? Gone. An office that certifies schools whose students are eligible for financial aid? Hollowed out. Most regional divisions of the Office of Civil Rights—which investigates and adjudicates violations of students’ rights—will be shuttered. Departments that distribute billions of dollars to public schools and universities have been reduced to a handful of employees. Educational institutions around the United States are about to see massive delays in essential funding because there are just not enough employees left to keep the money flowing.

The Constitution does not allow for any of this. To the contrary, it empowers Congress to create and structure federal agencies like the Education Department, and hands Congress control over staffing and budget decisions. The Constitution then instructs the president to “faithfully execute” the laws enacted by Congress. Of course, Congress has not defunded or eliminated the Education Department. It has laid out procedures through which the president can seek congressional approval to withhold funds, transfer offices, or undertake a large reduction in force. But Trump has followed none of these rules. He has, instead, purported to assert his own executive authority to tear down an agency without the assent of Congress, eviscerating its ability to operate as intended by purging its workforce.

And the Supreme Court just let it happen, for reasons it did not see fit to share with the public. The result, as Vox’s Ian Millhiser has observed, is a fundamental alteration of the balance of power between the president and Congress, awarding Trump authority to repeal duly enacted federal laws. It would be a mistake, though, to assume that the court will extend this new arrangement to all presidents, given that it frequently deprived Biden of the authority to carry out duties plainly assigned to him by the Constitution and Congress. The conservative justices, for instance, allowed a lower court to impose a universal injunction against Biden’s student loan plan for months. It then declared the plan unlawful, in part because mass debt relief was a “major question” reserved to Congress. Now, not even six months into Trump’s second term, these same justices have abolished universal injunctions, and decided that the Education Department’s termination is not a major question reserved to Congress. Could anyone really defend this partisan hypocrisy with a straight face?”

(THIS. How much power can the SCOTUS just strip from one branch of the federal government, Congress, and hand without explanation to the chief executive, before we basically have one man rule? Eventually, the SCOTUS will likely actually rule on the actions they are presently giving Trump a free hand to enact.):

“The pattern emerging here could not be more disturbing. First, the conservative supermajority rewarded Trump for breaking the law by firing leaders of independent agencies, erasing removal protections enacted by Congress. Then, the same justices allowed Trump to deportimmigrants to random countries without due process, nullifying the Convention Against Torture and other limits imposed by Congress. Now this same clique has gone even bigger, letting Trump effectively kill off an entire agency, paralyzing dozens (perhaps hundreds) of statutory duties assigned to it by Congress. Is any law disfavored by a Republican president safe from this Supreme Court? Is it accurate to call the United States a nation of laws when our highest court will simply suspend laws disfavored by a Republican president?

There are words to describe countries in which a strongman leader works with a captured judiciary to hobble the legislature, consolidate power, and declare himself free from legal restraints on his reign. Democracy is not one of them.”
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(I think the word might just be “dictatorship”, and it really does seem like that is exactly what the conservatives on the Supreme Court desire. They may be thinking of the Unitary Executive Theory, but, the way Trump uses power, they really do seem to be actively enabling a dictatorship in the United States. And, surely, it’s not like Trump doesn’t want to be a dictator, by his very personality, by his words, by his actions, by calling >50% of the electorate “radical left lunatics, and “the enemy within”!!!

Seems to me we are creating a dictatorship. And I’m not sure how you put our government back together given this cascading attack against the separation of powers enshrined in our Constitution, and being destroyed by our Judicial branch…..)
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Yeah but see, we still have people making a lot of money, and Trump hasn't declared it is a dictatorship yet, so since they have only been rewriting the constitution and revamping federal agencies without reason and illegally, but they haven't come out and said "hey, we are a dictatorship now", and since many of us, you know people not here illegally, to white people, so make it simple, have no problems as long as we leave well enough alone, there is no way you can call this a dictatorship. I mean what have they done that make it a dictatorship? They still have courts, and elections, I mean as long as the courts decide the right way, the last thing we want is militant courts that try to take away the power the administration is trying to take away from congress, you know to save us from people that aren't wanted here, like brown people, who have invaded the country, like people who have been teachers for 30+ years and people who were born here but kind of look like people who we don't want here, so, uh, brown people, well as long as we have this invasion then anything the president does it justified, I mean it goes to the supreme court, if we can get them off the billionaires' boats long enough to vote in favor of the president, then how can we possibly be called a dictatorship? That is ridiculous in the extreme! Just fear-mongering leftist lunatics, kowtowing to their leftist socialist overlords and ignoring the fact that we are under direct attack from immigrant, people who do things like go to work and pay taxes and many of whom even voted for this president, because he seemed good and tough, and now he is showing us the importance of being tough on anyone here who looks like they shouldn't be here, regardless of where they were born. Since when does being born here mean you get any special privileges? How dumb. But since he is arresting these people at walmart and at the farms where they work it is obvious he is stopping this egregious invasion by keeping them from holding jobs and paying taxes, so they need to go back to where they came from. Not to where they were born, you know like Cleveland, and Miami and Los Angeles and Houston, no they need to go back to where they belong, like Venezuela, since we are getting a ****-ton of money from Venezuela to send them there, or something. So this proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there is not even an attempt to set up a dictatorship here. How ****ing stupid are you sheeple anyway? You are the enemy within if you believe that crap, and you should be the next ones sent back to where you belong, like South Sudan and Rwanda, where all these white socialists belong. Deport them all!! Heil Tr....uh, I mean, Hail Trump!! The least dictator president we have ever had. In fact Biden was more of a dictator because he used some kind of digital signing equipment that shows he is a traitor. Take that, leftist lunatics!!!
 
LogGrad98 said:
Yeah but see, we still have people making a lot of money, and Trump hasn't declared it is a dictatorship yet, so since they have only been rewriting the constitution and revamping federal agencies without reason and illegally, but they haven't come out and said "hey, we are a dictatorship now", and since many of us, you know people not here illegally, to white people, so make it simple, have no problems as long as we leave well enough alone, there is no way you can call this a dictatorship. I mean what have they done that make it a dictatorship? They still have courts, and elections, I mean as long as the courts decide the right way, the last thing we want is militant courts that try to take away the power the administration is trying to take away from congress, you know to save us from people that aren't wanted here, like brown people, who have invaded the country, like people who have been teachers for 30+ years and people who were born here but kind of look like people who we don't want here, so, uh, brown people, well as long as we have this invasion then anything the president does it justified, I mean it goes to the supreme court, if we can get them off the billionaires' boats long enough to vote in favor of the president, then how can we possibly be called a dictatorship? That is ridiculous in the extreme! Just fear-mongering leftist lunatics, kowtowing to their leftist socialist overlords and ignoring the fact that we are under direct attack from immigrant, people who do things like go to work and pay taxes and many of whom even voted for this president, because he seemed good and tough, and now he is showing us the importance of being tough on anyone here who looks like they shouldn't be here, regardless of where they were born. Since when does being born here mean you get any special privileges? How dumb. But since he is arresting these people at walmart and at the farms where they work it is obvious he is stopping this egregious invasion by keeping them from holding jobs and paying taxes, so they need to go back to where they came from. Not to where they were born, you know like Cleveland, and Miami and Los Angeles and Houston, no they need to go back to where they belong, like Venezuela, since we are getting a ****-ton of money from Venezuela to send them there, or something. So this proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there is not even an attempt to set up a dictatorship here. How ****ing stupid are you sheeple anyway? You are the enemy within if you believe that crap, and you should be the next ones sent back to where you belong, like South Sudan and Rwanda, where all these white socialists belong. Deport them all!! Heil Tr....uh, I mean, Hail Trump!! The least dictator president we have ever had. In fact Biden was more of a dictator because he used some kind of digital signing equipment that shows he is a traitor. Take that, leftist lunatics!!!
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Why didn’t I think of that? Stream of consciousness always does the trick….
 
An older article, whose point is that Project 2025 supports the Unitary Executive model of executive branch power. Trump wants absolute power. A dictatorship. Loyalty oaths, removing Civil Service protections, employed by the president’s whim, fired by his whim. Replaced by loyalists. Trump is all for absolute power, in his hands, and only his hands. That’s pretty much a dictatorship, IMO.

www.peoplesworld.org

Architect of Project 2025 cheers U.S.’ march toward dictatorship

On the eve of the United States’ 248th birthday, Kevin Roberts – president of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank – cheered on the country’s descent toward dictatorship and made clear that the far right will not hesitate to use violence to achieve its aims.
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The 900-page blueprint calls for firing tens of thousands of public employees, dismantling the Department of Education and other federal agencies, imposing massive tax cuts for corporations and the super-rich, wiping out climate change regulation on behalf of oil and gas companies, abolishing anti-discrimination protections, severely restricting abortion access, and much more.

The centerpiece of the Heritage wishlist, though, is the implementation of what it calls the “unitary executive.” The proposal is a scheme for transitioning toward a more dictatorial presidency. It would place the entire federal bureaucracy, including independent agencies like the Department of Justice, under direct and absolute presidential control.

Yearning for a dictator

Republican operatives have long yearned for a corporate-backed dictatorship, and the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling in Trump v. United States brings them closer than they’ve ever been to achieving it.

GOP lawyers have worked the legal system for decades in an effort to sideline Congress, undermine the authority of autonomous regulatory agencies in the government, the so-called “administrative state,” and accumulate unrestrained power in the White House.

In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon pushed the idea that he should be able to commit crimes while in office, telling a journalist, “When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.” He openly declared the end goal that Republicans pursued from that day forward.

During the Reagan years, Republican attorneys and think tanks started assembling constitutional theories to justify a president ignoring Congress and pursuing whatever policies he wanted. Later, they seized on security fears in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks to accumulate vast new powers for President George W. Bush.

The “unitary executive theory” was used to justify the invasion and military occupation of Iraq and the torturing of people in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons. Domestically, it entailed the creation of Cabinet-level “policy czars” – like the Director of Homeland Security – who reported only to the president and bypassed Congressional oversight. Bush also aggressively used “executive privilege” to block Congress from questioning many of his policies.

With Trump, the fascist wing of the Republican Party now has a leader eager to go all the way to fulfill the right’s authoritarian aspirations. He has no problem resorting to criminality or violence; he has a cult-like mass movement behind him; and, after packing the Supreme Court with extremist justices, he has a compliant court which is a willing accomplice.
 
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Yeah but see, we still have people making a lot of money, and Trump hasn't declared it is a dictatorship yet, so since they have only been rewriting the constitution and revamping federal agencies without reason and illegally, but they haven't come out and said "hey, we are a dictatorship now", and since many of us, you know people not here illegally, to white people, so make it simple, have no problems as long as we leave well enough alone, there is no way you can call this a dictatorship. I mean what have they done that make it a dictatorship? They still have courts, and elections, I mean as long as the courts decide the right way, the last thing we want is militant courts that try to take away the power the administration is trying to take away from congress, you know to save us from people that aren't wanted here, like brown people, who have invaded the country, like people who have been teachers for 30+ years and people who were born here but kind of look like people who we don't want here, so, uh, brown people, well as long as we have this invasion then anything the president does it justified, I mean it goes to the supreme court, if we can get them off the billionaires' boats long enough to vote in favor of the president, then how can we possibly be called a dictatorship? That is ridiculous in the extreme! Just fear-mongering leftist lunatics, kowtowing to their leftist socialist overlords and ignoring the fact that we are under direct attack from immigrant, people who do things like go to work and pay taxes and many of whom even voted for this president, because he seemed good and tough, and now he is showing us the importance of being tough on anyone here who looks like they shouldn't be here, regardless of where they were born. Since when does being born here mean you get any special privileges? How dumb. But since he is arresting these people at walmart and at the farms where they work it is obvious he is stopping this egregious invasion by keeping them from holding jobs and paying taxes, so they need to go back to where they came from. Not to where they were born, you know like Cleveland, and Miami and Los Angeles and Houston, no they need to go back to where they belong, like Venezuela, since we are getting a ****-ton of money from Venezuela to send them there, or something. So this proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there is not even an attempt to set up a dictatorship here. How ****ing stupid are you sheeple anyway? You are the enemy within if you believe that crap, and you should be the next ones sent back to where you belong, like South Sudan and Rwanda, where all these white socialists belong. Deport them all!! Heil Tr....uh, I mean, Hail Trump!! The least dictator president we have ever had. In fact Biden was more of a dictator because he used some kind of digital signing equipment that shows he is a traitor. Take that, leftist lunatics!!!
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Lol. Well done.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Yeah but see, we still have people making a lot of money, and Trump hasn't declared it is a dictatorship yet, so since they have only been rewriting the constitution and revamping federal agencies without reason and illegally, but they haven't come out and said "hey, we are a dictatorship now", and since many of us, you know people not here illegally, to white people, so make it simple, have no problems as long as we leave well enough alone, there is no way you can call this a dictatorship. I mean what have they done that make it a dictatorship? They still have courts, and elections, I mean as long as the courts decide the right way, the last thing we want is militant courts that try to take away the power the administration is trying to take away from congress, you know to save us from people that aren't wanted here, like brown people, who have invaded the country, like people who have been teachers for 30+ years and people who were born here but kind of look like people who we don't want here, so, uh, brown people, well as long as we have this invasion then anything the president does it justified, I mean it goes to the supreme court, if we can get them off the billionaires' boats long enough to vote in favor of the president, then how can we possibly be called a dictatorship? That is ridiculous in the extreme! Just fear-mongering leftist lunatics, kowtowing to their leftist socialist overlords and ignoring the fact that we are under direct attack from immigrant, people who do things like go to work and pay taxes and many of whom even voted for this president, because he seemed good and tough, and now he is showing us the importance of being tough on anyone here who looks like they shouldn't be here, regardless of where they were born. Since when does being born here mean you get any special privileges? How dumb. But since he is arresting these people at walmart and at the farms where they work it is obvious he is stopping this egregious invasion by keeping them from holding jobs and paying taxes, so they need to go back to where they came from. Not to where they were born, you know like Cleveland, and Miami and Los Angeles and Houston, no they need to go back to where they belong, like Venezuela, since we are getting a ****-ton of money from Venezuela to send them there, or something. So this proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there is not even an attempt to set up a dictatorship here. How ****ing stupid are you sheeple anyway? You are the enemy within if you believe that crap, and you should be the next ones sent back to where you belong, like South Sudan and Rwanda, where all these white socialists belong. Deport them all!! Heil Tr....uh, I mean, Hail Trump!! The least dictator president we have ever had. In fact Biden was more of a dictator because he used some kind of digital signing equipment that shows he is a traitor. Take that, leftist lunatics!!!
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As a leftist lunatic I'd like to point out that they had elections in the Soviet Union for most of its history.
 
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