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In It to Win It

(11,988 posts)
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:05 PM Nov 4

Leah Litman: 🚨 This is the President openly announcing that he will violate court orders

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This is the President openly announcing that he will violate court orders - two courts had concluded that the Trump regime withholding SNAP funding was illegal - and that the government had to pay out (at least reduced) SNAP benefits starting this week

Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) 2025-11-04T16:40:43.963Z

Openly announcing he will be flouting court orders the day before SCOTUS hears argument on the lawfulness of the tariffs is ... interesting?

(Thus far, SCOTUS hasn't cared about the government's apparent defiance of lower court orders.)

Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) 2025-11-04T16:41:40.366Z
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Leah Litman: 🚨 This is the President openly announcing that he will violate court orders (Original Post) In It to Win It Nov 4 OP
I knew this would happen BeerBarrelPolka Nov 4 #1
Bring it on! SARose Nov 4 #2
I thought the GOP was "pro business" IbogaProject Nov 4 #3
Think about this for a second. This FUCKER will never be stopped at anything. bluestarone Nov 4 #4
Hold him in contempt. Lock him up! leftstreet Nov 4 #5
Why should the orange cartoon-character obey the courts; the courts are impotent? Magoo48 Nov 4 #22
He doesn't care - and no one will make him TBF Nov 4 #6
What's next legally? Amaryllis Nov 4 #7
Where's the "TrUMp iSn'T oMnIpOTenT!1" guy now? BannonsLiver Nov 4 #8
Who will apply the shock collar? usonian Nov 4 #9
This is not legal Wifes husband Nov 4 #10
You're right: this is NOT legal. MLWR Nov 4 #16
I don't believe a lot of this shit popsdenver Nov 4 #11
I'm sure you're right, for the reasons you cite. ShazzieB Nov 4 #17
Bingo Shazzie popsdenver Nov 4 #19
Another LIE from the shitstain spanone Nov 4 #12
And another lawless behavior. n/t Justice matters. Nov 4 #13
This is what happens when you put a career criminal in the White House... Fil1957 Nov 4 #14
All of the tax revenues personally belong to the king... dlk Nov 4 #15
Any Congressional Democrat seeking "compromise" to reopen the gov't better realize MAGA's lack of good faith here. Efilroft Sul Nov 4 #18
Even Mike Johnson can't believe this shit orangecrush Nov 4 #20
Post removed Post removed Nov 4 #25
All the Republicans understand is FORCE. hadEnuf Nov 4 #21
There needs to be something, someone, some group who can break through his 24/7 shit show of media focus Jbraybarten Nov 4 #23
Turn about is fair play Nigrum Cattus Nov 4 #24
Good thing for the Republicans that the election is before people go hungry at Thanksgiving. ratchiweenie Nov 4 #26
Anybody who's gamed the system as much and as often as he has calimary Nov 4 #27
Not "will violate". "IS VIOLATING" Bluetus Nov 4 #28
Trump is not into lawful acts. After all, he is a convicted felon. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Nov 4 #29

BeerBarrelPolka

(2,068 posts)
1. I knew this would happen
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:10 PM
Nov 4

I even posted on a thread that I won't believe him until the money is deposited in my account.

Democrat leaders need to get out today and broadcast that they are not at fault and do it strongly. They need to tell the country that Trump is a liar and needs to be held responsible for this defiant and criminal act he is doing.

SARose

(1,819 posts)
2. Bring it on!
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:12 PM
Nov 4

My prayer is that Republicans from dogcatchers to Governors get taken to the wood shed today.

Let the tech bros spin their AI Hal world.

The rest of us will be over here actually governing and helping our citizens attain the American dream!

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.


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IbogaProject

(5,398 posts)
3. I thought the GOP was "pro business"
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:17 PM
Nov 4

It is crazy an entire party is as dumb as our spoiled brat in chief. The purpose of SNAP is to stabilize food prices and to support grocery stores. I know Walmart gets nearly of 1/4. The narrow mindedness of only thinking of the horror of a poor person getting something to spend on food and not a moment of thought of that money being spent at a business.

bluestarone

(20,745 posts)
4. Think about this for a second. This FUCKER will never be stopped at anything.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:23 PM
Nov 4

No supreme court, no republican congress will do a dam thing about ANYTHING this bastard does the next 3 years. If he gets an inch, he gonna start tanking feet and yards, and then football fields.

Magoo48

(6,678 posts)
22. Why should the orange cartoon-character obey the courts; the courts are impotent?
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 01:44 PM
Nov 4

There is not one policing structure willing to hold these fascists accountable at this time.

TBF

(35,276 posts)
6. He doesn't care - and no one will make him
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:35 PM
Nov 4

that is what he has gotten away with so far. Thanks to Chief Justice John Roberts & the most corrupt Supreme Court in the history of our republic.

usonian

(22,342 posts)
9. Who will apply the shock collar?
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:53 PM
Nov 4

Run by kids with game controllers




WOW! LOOK AT THE MAN DANCE! ---------------------- WE COULD DO THIS FOR HOURS






Wifes husband

(655 posts)
10. This is not legal
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:56 PM
Nov 4

The SNAP benefits are not based on an annual appropriation. No reason not to pay them

MLWR

(666 posts)
16. You're right: this is NOT legal.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 01:15 PM
Nov 4

But what has Krasnov done that IS legal? He is out to prove that HE and HE ALONE is above the law and he has six fascist enablers masquerading as justices on the SCOTUS who are all in on that.

popsdenver

(973 posts)
11. I don't believe a lot of this shit
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:57 PM
Nov 4

is truly written by him......his staff writes this drivel and gives it to him to put on his posts.

"Most" of these somewhat openly display complete sentences, proper grammar, spelling, punctuation etc which his personal posts don't....

ShazzieB

(21,949 posts)
17. I'm sure you're right, for the reasons you cite.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 01:17 PM
Nov 4

But I'll go a step further. I think a lot of his posts are posted directly by staff, not just given to him to post. Especially the longer ones.

I suspect there are certain trusted individuals on his staff who have his login info, and those people are allowed to post stuff, with his approval. That's why the differences in vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation are so glaringly obvious - because someone else wrote and posted every word of those posts.

Efilroft Sul

(4,235 posts)
18. Any Congressional Democrat seeking "compromise" to reopen the gov't better realize MAGA's lack of good faith here.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 01:18 PM
Nov 4

For there is no good-faith negotiating when the lawless want people to suffer.

orangecrush

(27,519 posts)
20. Even Mike Johnson can't believe this shit
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 01:26 PM
Nov 4

Trump’s latest Truth post surprised some Hill Republicans, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. Speaker Mike Johnson specifically said Monday that “the president isn’t appealing the [court] decision.”

Senate Democrats quickly and publicly pushed back Tuesday.

“The President who threw a Gatsby-themed party the night before he cut off SNAP benefits is now vowing to break a court order so that he can force millions of children, seniors, and veterans to go hungry,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said in a post on X. “ It’s sickening. I won’t stand for it.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/04/trump-snap-funding-shutdown-food-aid-00635141


It's great that you won't stand for it.

What action does that translate to?

Response to orangecrush (Reply #20)

Jbraybarten

(121 posts)
23. There needs to be something, someone, some group who can break through his 24/7 shit show of media focus
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 01:48 PM
Nov 4

calimary

(88,479 posts)
27. Anybody who's gamed the system as much and as often as he has
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 02:44 PM
Nov 4

is probably not too worried, because he’s probably pretty cock-sure the fix is in, favoring him.

It sure would be nice to see him shocked by results he wasn’t expecting.

Bluetus

(1,889 posts)
28. Not "will violate". "IS VIOLATING"
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 02:57 PM
Nov 4

Why do people have such difficulty with tense? We have been in a constitutional crisis continuously at least since 2000, yet there are still people out there saying things like "Golly, if this goes much farther, we could one day be looking at the remote possibility of a (gasp) constitutional crisis"

No. We are there already. Anybody who is not treating this like a 5-alarm emergency needs to get the hell out of the way.

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