What are you on about?

• https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-john-roberts-trump-constitutional-crisis-rcna196940
• https://time.com/7268948/deportation-surgeon-constitutional-crisis/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-latest-deportation-venezuelans-sets-up-potential-constitutional-clash-2025-03-17/
• https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/politics/constitutional-crisis-courts-trump-executive-power-what-matters/index.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-constitutional-crisis.html

You guys are maybe being a little hasty… Many other members of the Trump administration can get forcibly hauled into court even if Trump has “immunity.”

He can have members of the Trump administration dragged into court by U.S. Marshalls. And then if necessary, held in contempt of court and imprisoned.

Isn’t that just as bad as Russia doing it?

That’s some real victim-blaming shit… What exactly did you expect Canada to do to counter Russian election interference in another sovereign nation?

I don’t think Rivian is generally known for quality / reliability: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/rivian/

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This is a really good point. And yet, movements are started in the wings. It’s really hard to get people all fired up with some tepid centrism.

The implicit demand is to stop supporting fascists.

The Supreme Court also desperately wants to uphold the make-believe idea that they are legitimate. Which means they might occasionally rule against Trump just to support that narrative.

Resist. Be noisy. Throw sand in the gears. There are only so many hours in the day, so even just slowing down the Trump administration’s agenda means they break fewer things / grift fewer grifts between now and the midterms.

Maybe from a game theory / trolley problem perspective, sure. But I guess my point is that a “presidential approval rating,” as in the current support for the president, is not one to one with how the electorate voted (or didn’t vote) four months ago. Especially as we get further from that event over time.

I disagree. There’s no “mandate” when so many voters are so disaffected with politics that they’d rather stay home than express themselves at the polls.

I was originally replying to the post above that said: “50% of the country loves their strongman president more than freedom or common sense.” And I was specifically disputing the 50% figure in regards to “loving” Trump. So you’re arguing something else entirely.

It’s an important distinction because falsely claiming that half the country loves Trump legitimizes his authoritarian rule.

So you’re saying those who didn’t vote love him? How does that make sense?

Less than a third of eligible voters voted for Trump.

Saying the emperor has no clothes (or his clothes are made in Moscow) is the first step in doing something about it. If we all keep quiet and just go along with authoritarianism, then the fight will be over before it starts.

This. It gets people used to the idea and shifts the Overton window of protesting, if you will. It’s only the conservatives over on lemm.ee that don’t like that idea.

Yeah, they wanted change. But then the fascists conveniently swooped in and pretended they offered the type of change people actually wanted. (Cheap eggs, etc.)

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