Trump's eruption at Leonard Leo is deranged but the really bad part is where Trump basically says straight out that he should be allowed to disregard Congress when he decrees there's an emergency. He's laying the whole tyrant thing bare. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1959... - ThreadSky

gregsargent.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Trump's eruption at Leonard Leo is deranged but the really bad part is where Trump basically says straight out that he should be allowed to disregard Congress when he decrees there's an emergency. He's laying the whole tyrant thing bare.

New piece from me:
https://newrepublic.com/article/195931/trump-angry-tirade-tariff-ruling

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oeishik.bsky.social•2 days ago

Glad people are seriously starting to notice. https://youtu.be/QexdzZru7bY

djvagirl.bsky.social•2 days ago

Scary crazy man.

auldtwa.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump's view of emergencies. Trade Deficit, yes. Covid--just the flu.

thcarter123.bsky.social•2 hours ago

https://medium.com/@thcarter123/leonard-leo-the-stained-glass-curtain-hes-hiding-behind-cb1964eb1160

bearpondboy.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Mouth That Roared

my2bits4u.bsky.social•2 days ago

The only emergency we have is on a 16 acre property in DC

carljungfranz.bsky.social•2 days ago

*

Trump is an erratic dementia insane king,

dancing on the world stage

in his madness

and the news media is turning

a blind eye to his insanity,

treating this as normal.

The news media

and the Republican Party

is a mass-psychosis.

*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojPcF-oLABE

simon-t-vesper.bsky.social•2 days ago

he's just repeating the same playbook from his first term, only he knows for a fact that mainstream media outlets won't emphasize his craziness, so he can basically get away with shedding all pretense at this point.

mandisbarnard.bsky.social•2 days ago

He’s also saying judges he appointed should be loyal to him and not rule against him when he willfully breaks the law. The law is what he believes it is and everyone should agree, especially his judicial appointees.

missatlanticcity.bsky.social•2 days ago

Tirade away! We the people will take every opportunity to DISREGARD the malignant narcissistic psychopath now illegally “occupying” the Oval Office, not unlike Germany, occupying France, Italy, Poland in 1943 🥶🥶🥶

crankebastard.bsky.social•2 days ago

And then make everything an emergency. Putting the dick in dictator.

prr333.bsky.social•2 days ago

I guess this is what happens when you over invest your political influence in a single sector. It's better to buy influence across many members of Congress (both parties), than to pour a lot of money into a single high-risk president.

spclarke13.bsky.social•2 days ago

TACO Donny Two Dolls.

eliotrosewater1550.bsky.social•2 days ago

Accidentally? Really?

phil-jet.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was wondering when someone would point this out. Congress may be incredibly dysfunctional right now, but that doesn't give any President the right to just take their power as his own. If Reps aren't protecting their power, the judicial branch has an obligation to do it for them, however they can.

sequoyah1.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is the Supreme Courts doing. The blame will be laid at their feet. 🗽🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻

bluefrommagioh.bsky.social•2 days ago

jvsylvester.bsky.social•2 days ago

And there will never not be an "Emergency" - according to him. A "State of Permanent Emergency" has been a standard ruse for many dictators.

welshrarebit.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ever since his praise for the CCP for ordering the Tienanmen massacre it’s been pretty clear that his ultimate goal is to do something similar in the US. Declaring a national emergency brings him a step closer.

picci0909.bsky.social•2 days ago

bgpelaire.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thee's a reason he had Hitler's speeches on his nightstand.

allanschlosser.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's not exactly breaking news that Trump has zero understanding of, let alone respect for, American democracy.

ann7837.bsky.social•2 days ago

He doesn't need Congress.
He doesn't want a judiciary.
That makes him a, oh yeah, a king.

bileschi.com•2 days ago

We should be able to unelect a president if it’s an emergency

flishdog.bsky.social•2 days ago

Felon trump is nothing but a big fat TACO!

abby1123.bsky.social•2 days ago

His dementia seems to be accelerating, love seeing these meltdowns, eating his little brain, soon to be just a drooling limp bag of dirt.

barefootdog.bsky.social•2 days ago

HE ALSO ADMITTED THAT LEO BUYS JUDGES!

the-dudemeister.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hey Donny John... come talk to me about it. I think we can get this all worked out to everyone's satisfaction in short order. Make sure to bring a videographer.

adamrothman.bsky.social•2 days ago

Emergency powers are the road to ruin. Congress could step in to say there is no emergency, but they won't, and the courts will end up deferring to Trump rather than show themselves to be powerless to stop him. The only check will come via the midterms, which will be too late to prevent much harm.

resistaustria.eu•9 hours ago

Did anyone ever think the most bloated ego in the history of mankind was democratically minded? That guy sees himself as the master of the universe. He makes Zaphod Beeblebrox look like a humble servant of the people.

gregcareyphd.bsky.social•2 days ago

He makes money when countries buy him off on tariffs.

searchingfor.bsky.social•2 days ago

“As Trump’s tirade plainly shows, he made up the “emergency” to grant himself extraordinarily sweeping authorities.”
…. And it’s will continue until he is removed from office.

aristofontes.bsky.social•2 days ago

The United States of Exception

mikethemadbiol.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

stephenrobert.bsky.social•2 days ago

Truth is that Trump is the emergency who must be disregarded 💩

octopu5.bsky.social•2 days ago

abrodsky.bsky.social•2 days ago

he's just "joking".

dougvee.bsky.social•2 days ago

Get him the fuck out of here!!!! Vote blue America! Our democracy and our way of life depends on it!

jdooley47.bsky.social•2 days ago

Bless you all. You are still anticipating that Trump will one day make sense.

bunnyamendt.bsky.social•2 days ago

Marjorie Taylor Greene said Jew Space Lasers caused the 2020 California Wildfires

CZU Lightning Complexes, burned 846,000 across
by mid-September, destroying 2,723 structures and killing 6 people.

dustcongress.bsky.social•2 days ago

he is too dumb to be coy

darksapiens.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

unmaskingterror.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump looks like one of those creepy fish that live deep in the ocean below the last light.

plabonga.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's still a spoiled child who thinks he should get whatever he wants.

just-rog.bsky.social•2 days ago

He told everyone what he was going to do. Did you not listen?

Find something on this list he's *not* doing.

I'll wait.

gregsargent.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump's tirade mocks the very idea that Congress should have authority over the levying of tariffs. But Congress put limits on Trump's tariff authority. This is exactly why the court found the tariffs illegal! He's saying those limits shouldn't exist at all.

https://newrepublic.com/article/195931/trump-angry-tirade-tariff-ruling

joe-knows.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean his whole "hundreds of politicians in DC" section flat out States he doesn't believe in the Constitution or a legislature and that "Presidential powers" are a straight elected tyrannical King. And a lot of his followers agree

weingust.bsky.social•2 days ago

He’s mocking the Constitution, and in doing so — to paraphrase Arsenio Hall — he’s a Founding Fathermocker.

gregsargent.bsky.social•2 days ago

“Congress did not intend to set up a trade dictator where all tariff rates can be changed on a whim by simply declaring a national emergency."

-Douglas Irwin, author of many books on trade, to me.

Trump seems to suggest here that his power should be limitless.

https://newrepublic.com/article/195931/trump-angry-tirade-tariff-ruling

eawinick.bsky.social•2 days ago

The question is, will any Rs actually stand in Trump's way? Right now they seem content to just let him trample Congress' power of the purse.

luckypt7.bsky.social•9 hours ago

So?..Congress could vote themselves out of a job?

gregsargent.bsky.social•2 days ago

An interesting pattern: Two Trump-appointed judges have now declared that Trump does not have the power to simply invent emergencies by decree.

This is the real reason Stephen Miller and others are so furious. It's *that* power that they want for Trump.

https://newrepublic.com/article/195931/trump-angry-tirade-tariff-ruling

centristsisyphus.bsky.social•2 days ago

While Trump declares emergencies requiring broad executive powers, he barely works half-time, plays golf every week, and has time to tweet about Taylor Swift.

The disconnect is revealing about the true nature of the 'emergency.'

cmbennett01.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's that power they want for themselves. Trump is oblivious. They just put stuff in front of him to sign. Miller is running the renditions to Central American gulags program.

culthero12.bsky.social•2 days ago

No wonder. Declaring an emergency is exactly how they plan to finish murdering democracy.

thedetroitdiva.bsky.social•2 days ago

His argument is that Congress would take "weeks or months" but what has Donnie been doing? He's been playing hokey pokey: He put the tariff in; he took the tariff out; he put the tariff in and he shook it all about. For two months now he's been doing this -- tariffs in, tariffs out

thimbles.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sigh.
https://jacobin.com/2023/07/biden-climate-change-emergency-act-gop-congress
Republicans want for their leaders what they deny for their opponents, again.
Must be a weekday.

creativepower.bsky.social•2 days ago

One of the mandates of the 5th Amendment if I recall rightly when we studied it was that all government action had to be based on a - - prior!!! duh - - rational reason for the action.

What has changed this common sense?

curiousdogs.bsky.social•2 days ago

No King in US!

dribrats.bsky.social•2 days ago

We are "actively looking at" imprisoning Stephen Miller for the rest of his life.

ddt.bsky.social•2 days ago

I've been listening to archives of Knowledge Fight from his first term and it's worth going through. The narratives from the admin then about declaring emergencies, the pushing against the judiciary -- it was all there, just checked, in 2019.

sciantixo.bsky.social•2 days ago

oh, the landslide so massive that you have to cheat like that...

sciantixo.bsky.social•2 days ago

ah, and fake geniuses and patriots to solve the fake emergencies

smart-alec.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't use this word often pr lightly: Miller is evil

brightanimal.bsky.social•2 days ago

His only joy in life seems to be causing sorrow amd suffering, the more the better. He is absolutely evil.

bagatsen.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because after the declaration of an emergency comes the Ermächtigungsgesetz.

spottiedoggy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because they have bigger plans later?

upearly.bsky.social•2 days ago

we can only hope that actually setting up a completely fascist system meets some resistance

cathamand.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank you!

ozymandias23.bsky.social•2 days ago

The quiet part is "we wouldn't have to invent emergencies if he were granted full, absolute, uncontested power."

johnheaner.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's that power that would give Trump dictatorial powers like declaring martial law and suspending habeas corpus. This was a huge miscalculation

papa-phil.bsky.social•2 days ago

Simply declaring something to be true does not make it true, unless you are making a TV sitcom.

resistmagafascism.bsky.social•2 days ago

They know that if they can get the judges to grant them this power everything else they want will just fall in line.
It's the fascist playbook.

quispme.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is why Miller is doing the press circuit calling these judges “Communist”. They’re creating a judicial crisis where none exists to wrest power from them.

1canoe2paddles.bsky.social•2 days ago

It isn't so much that they want a power for him, it is more that they want the power that declaring an emergency enables for themselves.

sparklepigeon.bsky.social•2 days ago

Let’s hope they don’t Reichstag an emergency as a last resort.

bakerblue.bsky.social•2 days ago

Feel like this is coming sooner than later..

bananapantz.bsky.social•2 days ago

Feel like they will send a bunch of busses to Capitol Hill with immigrants, unload them and then claim it’s an assault or invasion.

kurtalert.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's *that* power that they want for themselves... not Trump. They tell him what to do. He just gets up on stage and blathers on endlessly. He's their useful idiot.

steevarino.bsky.social•2 days ago

There is an emergency. Just not the one they think there is.

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