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Pluvious

(5,197 posts)
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 11:49 AM Feb 2025

I'm with George Takei !!



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If the White House decides it can defy the will of the courts, then the people must defy the will of the White House.

George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2025-02-10T15:30:01.426Z
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I'm with George Takei !! (Original Post) Pluvious Feb 2025 OP
Immunity comes to mind. aeromanKC Feb 2025 #1
And the mules Clarence, Sammy, GorSUCK, and Beer-Boy rode in on!! lastlib Feb 2025 #8
Clearance Thomas, markodochartaigh Feb 2025 #17
I would like to live long enough to see how history, honest history, portrays that Fascist Dickhead RVN VET71 Feb 2025 #14
Mitch McConnell Broke America OMGWTF Feb 2025 #20
Don't get me started. RVN VET71 Feb 2025 #21
Hear hear! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Feb 2025 #2
Kick dalton99a Feb 2025 #3
I suspect we are about to find out quakerboy Feb 2025 #4
"How is this going to play out?" DV1 Feb 2025 #5
And the ammosexuals want their instructions from dear leader. rubbersole Feb 2025 #6
The Supreme Court had a major hand in creating this situation. If they don't act now Bluetus Feb 2025 #11
They probably have their bags packed... littlemissmartypants Feb 2025 #12
I am not sure if they expected it to turn out this way Bluetus Feb 2025 #16
They didn't think the drmeow Feb 2025 #19
Looks like it won't be long before America's Everyman must decide whether they will be inconvenienced enough Magoo48 Feb 2025 #23
Bingo kacekwl Feb 2025 #7
Someone who abrogates the social contract relinquishes its protection. Gaugamela Feb 2025 #9
This is a beautiful thing that... littlemissmartypants Feb 2025 #13
"Someone who abrogates the social contract relinquishes its protection" liberalla Feb 2025 #18
Yup. orangecrush Feb 2025 #24
It's an unconsitutional presidency anyway nuxvomica Feb 2025 #10
The last time a president ignored a Supreme Court order, was Andrew Jackson and the "Trail of Tears." 3Hotdogs Feb 2025 #15
Once they force this constitutional crisis, this is the only option left. If the law can be selectively ignored Karasu Feb 2025 #22

lastlib

(27,422 posts)
8. And the mules Clarence, Sammy, GorSUCK, and Beer-Boy rode in on!!
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 01:35 PM
Feb 2025

with a saguaro cactus.

markodochartaigh

(4,906 posts)
17. Clearance Thomas,
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:52 PM
Feb 2025

Buy all the justice that you can afford! No job too large! Have gavel, will travel!

RVN VET71

(3,117 posts)
14. I would like to live long enough to see how history, honest history, portrays that Fascist Dickhead
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:17 PM
Feb 2025

That can, of course, only be after the Donnie Fatso "New Nazi America" regime has collapsed of its own greed and cowardice, at a time when scholars can once again write the truth without fearing financial ruin, or prison -- or even death. Then the truth about Roberts will be taught in every school in America.

And what truth that will be:

1. His actions to release the president from any strictures of any law,
2. His opening the floodgates of racism to deny, once again, the voting rights of 10s of millions of American citizens,
3. His shocking vesting with humanity the very corporations whose greed and callousness ultimately undermined the fabric of our democracy.

All of these and other actions and inactions will be the evidence real scholars need to portray him as the sniveling, fascist coward we, here, know him to be

Without Roberts at the helm, with, instead, a jurist of character who took pride in his position and thanked God for the opportunity to serve America as a nation of laws, things would have been different indeed. (I know damned well that Warren Burger, for example, would have blocked the efforts of the fascist dweebs on the court and given his energy to protecting the Constitution against all of their efforts to suck the life out of it.)

(Footnote: Ronald Reagan awarded Chief Justice Burger the Medal of Freedom, back when it meant something and hadn't been shit on by Donnie Fatso who awarded it to Limbaugh, and Jordan.)

It may not happen in my lifetime. And Roberts still has years to add to his record of dark support of racist fascism and its leadership. But the time for truth will come.

(And, lest there be any doubt, I truly despise Roberts, even more than I despise fascist Sammy-the-Flag or the corrupt and worthless clown Bush Sr. appointed to replace the great Thurgood Marshall.)

OMGWTF

(5,000 posts)
20. Mitch McConnell Broke America
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 07:37 PM
Feb 2025

"By rights Mitch McConnell's tombstone should read that he presided over the end of the Senate. And I'd add a second line: He broke America. No man has done more in recent years to undermine the functioning of the US government. He has been the epitome of unprincipled leadership, the triumph of tactics in service of short-term power." -- Dana Milbank

RVN VET71

(3,117 posts)
21. Don't get me started.
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 09:42 PM
Feb 2025

So many people doing evil, so many evil people. Mitcheroo played politics, partisan, partyline politics because he could care less about the country and its people or the fairness of its system of government. The perfectly soulless (and hellbound, if you're a believer) politician.

And Roberts is the guy, the Supreme Court Chief "Justice," who went about deliberately undermining the system of laws that kept the legal edifice of the state, its very soul (again, if you believe) from crumbling.

McConnell sold us all out for power. I'm not sure why Roberts sold us out -- maybe to support the white race, especially the greedy, and richest part of it..

Each in his own way is an embodiment of selfishness and evil on the grandest imaginable scale. Take away either and our situation would not be nearly so desperate. Imagine a GOP willing to fight Trump and his fascism. Or, a tough constitutionalist, like J. Michael Lettig, as SCOTUS' Chief Justice to protect the Constitution against the efforts of the inferior, but evil, minds of the fascist Right

DV1

(138 posts)
5. "How is this going to play out?"
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 12:58 PM
Feb 2025

The coin is now flipping in the air. One side is peacefully, the other side is violently.

rubbersole

(10,964 posts)
6. And the ammosexuals want their instructions from dear leader.
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 01:07 PM
Feb 2025

And protection from Pam Bondage.

Bluetus

(2,200 posts)
11. The Supreme Court had a major hand in creating this situation. If they don't act now
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:02 PM
Feb 2025

they will find themselves being ignored along with all the laws. Time is running out. Chief Roberts had better get serious about this if he wants to preserve any part of the Constitution, including Article II.

If he doesn't act quickly, then we must assume that he has been wishing for the dissolution of the Constitution and entire judicial system all along.

littlemissmartypants

(31,446 posts)
12. They probably have their bags packed...
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:14 PM
Feb 2025

And are on the way to their second homes somewhere on the French Riviera.

Or who knows where?

Yachts floating on the Mediterranean?

Bluetus

(2,200 posts)
16. I am not sure if they expected it to turn out this way
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:52 PM
Feb 2025

Maybe Thomas always wanted to see everything burn to the ground. Alito too -- it is God's way, you know.

But I really don't believe Roberts, Barrett, Gorsuch and beer-bong guy really saw any connection with their radical decisions and the threat of complete disregard for the law. But here we are, with the sitting VP openly advocating for the country to simply disregard a lower court. Notice that Vance could have said, "I think the court is completely wrong about this injunction and I look forward to seeing that position reversed on appeal."

That is how the system is supposed to work, but that's not what he did, and nobody in the Trump camp has made the slightest move to walk that back because Trump wants EVERYTHING burned to the ground. He has a very simple mind. It is the same with Gaza. Let's burn everything to the ground and then we'll build a whole new thing in it place. Millions of people will be moved somewhere and it will be wonderful. They will love it.

Burn the SCOTUS to the ground. It will be more efficient for me to decide everything. It will be wonderful. Everyone will love it.

Magoo48

(6,687 posts)
23. Looks like it won't be long before America's Everyman must decide whether they will be inconvenienced enough
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 09:14 AM
Feb 2025

to save their own democracy and freedoms. Obedience now will end very poorly for us.

littlemissmartypants

(31,446 posts)
13. This is a beautiful thing that...
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:16 PM
Feb 2025

I would love to have on a poster and would gladly wear on a shirt.

❤️

nuxvomica

(13,861 posts)
10. It's an unconsitutional presidency anyway
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 02:40 PM
Feb 2025

I would say no one should obey any of his orders because he is banned from holding federal office by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. This has not been tested in court. All the Supreme Court ruled was that Congress must enforce the ban by statute but they said nothing about his status should he win.

3Hotdogs

(14,983 posts)
15. The last time a president ignored a Supreme Court order, was Andrew Jackson and the "Trail of Tears."
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 03:19 PM
Feb 2025

Karasu

(2,003 posts)
22. Once they force this constitutional crisis, this is the only option left. If the law can be selectively ignored
Tue Feb 11, 2025, 05:21 AM
Feb 2025

at will, that applies to fucking everyone.

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