Getting a lot of replies along the lines of "oh, you rube, you still think the law matters" and it feels strategically foolish to just concede that it doesn't. Contest everything. Expose the hypocrisy.
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Perhaps those folks are less shutting you down and more anxious that there should be the social infrastructure in place to resist and obstruct for when…the law isn’t followed
I called my senator (Collins, ME) and asked her to protect and defend the senate's ADVICE and CONSENT constitutional right. But forgot to add: Stand firm on NO RECESS APPOINTMENTS. Senators need to hear from us, that we are watching.
I fully plan to resist and fight but I also fully expect that the man who has gotten away with everything and never been held to account will continue to succeed. I am very pessimistic but not rolling over.
It's only exposed if people hear about it and the Zombie Fourth Estate is going to do everything it can to cover it up.
Fight the good fight...but the only way to do that is to understand the battlefield and the positions held by the combatants. No law and no media help. Plan accordingly.
Even when the law doesn't matter, people want - no - need the law to matter.
People become dramatically less okay with people exercising massive amounts of power when it is clear they are not obeying whatever limits, however flimsy, have been set for that power.
"Exposing Hypocrisy" isn't much of a tactic when, for your country's opponents, hypocrisy *is the point*. You're thinking their hypocrisy is a fault, when it's just them doing a typical fascist power-flex.
Replies to what? It’d be less opaque if you’d included that. Also coming to the reasonable conclusion that the law doesn’t matter (although it’s not the only reasonable conclusion, e.g. yours) neither makes it strategically foolish nor does it mean that 1 can’t contest everything or expose hypocrisy
I 100% agree we need to fight for laws mattering. I just don't think it will ultimately be sufficient so the fight needs to reflect that upcoming reality too. Don't cede the ground in advance but don't assume it will be able to hold things together either.
I read it and sorry to say it mostly sounds like nonsense. There is not a single mechanism mentioned by name that has the capability to stop him, or concrete advice. I understand not wanting to panic but this is SO weak. He mentions the courts and congress and fails to acknowledge their capture.
The point is we don't roll over, we keep saying no--we have no idea how far he'll try to go but we don't say 'it's hopeless' ahead of time and let him roll, we say fuck you and at least make a fight out of it.
State laws will stop him. States have quite a bit of power and the abortion rights laws just passed should be followed be voting rights laws, gay marriage, etc. it’s long past time we stop depending on SCOTUS to protect us on those
Very important that you understand the idea that current issues delegated to the states could be changed by the supreme court, and very obviously won't help half the country who don't live in those states taking action.
I think one thing people are responding to is their own sense of despair and shock and futility, which, fair. More usefully we have to keep coming back to the bigger picture of how Trump's nihilistic fascism is the end result of 40 years of neoliberalism
No one will ever say the law doesn’t matter they will just demonstrate they don’t care what the law says. I have seen that enough times over the past quarter century from inside the Govt.
Agreed! I think the intentions are good in wanting to raise the alarm THAT Trump will respect no laws or norms, but it does come across as defeatist and normalizing. It feels like trying to have a measured panic attack at times.
This is an excellent point. If only the "rubes" believe in the law, isn't that an admission that there's nothing holding Trump et al back? That there's nothing we can do?
The law matters because we make it matter. Democracy works because we make it work. Many Americans have a very passive view of our institutions, as though they run on without us. We're finding out otherwise now. We need to put our hands to the wheel and monkeywrench the bad actors and actions.
Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do. T. Snyder
This is the problem. It’s NOT hypocrisy. The GOP are completely consistent. They are for anything that strengthens or protects their power and wealth. That’s it. We can call it “hypocrisy”, but they actually have incredible discipline when it comes to it, bc some of the shit they defend is so vile.
Hypocrisy doesn't imply inconsistency in their own actions, but in their actions vs. ours. They would be outraged and SCOTUS wouldn't rule favorably if Biden did any of the things they said 45/47 could do. Precedence or fairness, no longer applies. That's the hypocrisy.
Trump has the courts. SCOTUS is his. So I'd be careful about what type of case folks push through the courts. If it serves them, they'll want to use it for new case law.
They already made him immune.
Good points-people will “buck-up” and realize “all is lost” wins nothing. Resistance will grow. However, as the world will never be quite the same for those of us who lived through COVID years-the nation we knew is not the same. Making our way forward means coming to grips with that.
Thank you. I found this really helpful. You spoke to the conflicting emotions I’ve been battling—exhaustion and the desire to fight. Your outreach of empathy made me feel
Less like a cynic and more like a normal human being.
‘“Okay, let’s see you try.”’ That’s my takeaway line and where I’m personally at with this. But it took me a bit to get there because it feels like (I’m no historian) that we are closer to that worst-case scenario than ever. And we’ll have to rely on some unscrupulous characters to help stop it.
GW's WoT was also probably THE animating issue through Trump's first term; Clinton's vote for the AUMF was a drag on her campaign, and it was a distinguishing feature that Trump could differentiate himself from other "swamp" repubs.
Giving him immunity from criminal prosecution is of course bad, but it is not the same thing as saying everything he does is constitutional. Those conservative SC justices are not going to hand over their lifetime power that easily.
Yes, they did. But Barrett wrote separately to say she thought they went too far, and Roberts was taken aback by the public outrage over it. He cares deeply about the court as an institution and its public perception. These people can be influenced. The only ones who can't are Alito and Thomas.
It's silly to just say "laws don't matter" and give up rather than forcing them to litigate everything all the way to SCOTUS. Worst case, it slows them down. Best case we sway Barrett, Roberts and maybe Kavanaugh or Gorsuch.
I see this response a lot and, as troubling as that decision is, it’s about criminal liability. It doesn’t absolve his policies and actions as president from judicial oversight
I’m not assuming anything. I’m pointing out what that decision was about, which was individual criminal liability. Some folks seem to think it completely removed judicial review on policies.
My opinion of the court is as low as just about anyone’s, but Roberts is somewhat responsive to and..
Problem is the people that want to see the hypocrisy already see it, there’s a whole media conglomerate built upon hiding it for those who don’t want to see it
Yeah a ton of negativity which is exhausting. The law matters and it’s up to the people to preserve it. If it gets to a point where we need to arm ourselves and take to the streets, so be it. For now, resist the lawlessness!
I’m all for fighting for every right but this idea of “exposing right wing hypocrisy” needs to die. There is no referee! The right is happy to cheat and lie to win. They think people who follow rules are suckers.
I spent four years contesting everything then another four years where I was NEVER allowed to think things were going back to normal watching a guy criminal left and right and get away with it and now I’m looking at ANOTHER four years of that asshole, so tell me why the law matters anymore?
one thing that baffles me about this line of thought is the idea that 9 un-elected kings will just want to stop being that and give it all over to an orange blowhard.
McConnell got up tonight and said "absolutely no recess appointments" because it turns out the senate likes having power too?
For that reason, I never thought the six right-wing Justices on the Supreme Court would voluntarily give up their power to Trump. But then they did in the insane immunity decision. By giving.../1
...him carte blanche immunity to go on a crime spree, as long as he labeled them "official acts", they surrendered their power to Trump. I guess they are just as enamored of a government by strongman as the rest of the MAGAts. /2x
Some ideological lines overlap and there is an interest in shared outcomes =/= I'm going to give up all my power and just let orange man do whatever he wants
A lot of these folks fully expect (not unreasonably) to outlast Trump and he is, at best, a means to the ends of their agenda, not someone they're personally enthusiastic about. Similarly I doubt they want an AG whose *only* feature is absolute loyalty to Trump (out of their own self-interest).
Straight white people in this country might also take a look at what BIPOC and LGBTQ+ people have had to endure for centuries. They live this shit, every day of their lives, yet they managed to survive and thrive. We can't duck and run as soon as the hammer of injustice starts pointing our way.
Passively accepting or conceding to anticipated actions from Trump is one of the laziest, most self-destructive choices we can make. It’s like inviting bad actors into your home without even making them knock, as if we’re agreeing in advance to their intrusion. We must stop this mindset. Vigilance!
The point of saying they will do what we know they will do, is to start preparing to find another way.. Because there are no such things as norms anymore
I hope the law matters and we should use every possible avenue to resist autocracy. I am skeptical, though, since the fascists have no respect for rules let alone norms.
Obviously,the American people, in the large part, didn't believe the process fair. There's no other way to explain Trump winning both the electoral and popular vote. Don't shoot the messenger, democrats took too much for granted and it blew up.
It is being situationally aware that although lawsuits may prevail in lower courts, the Roberts 6 will likely rule for whatever T or the Federalist Society wants. Mitigate for this and have a plan B. Roberts was reportedly shocked at the immunity ruling pushback, so he may have some limits.
It seems the law matters now mostly as a cudgel and shield for the party in power. If new law is simply birthed by SCOTUS as demanded by the executive-or to suit its own political whims-how does it retain equal force and application for all? How can it be said to be just for all?
The difference is he believes he is the law and we believe civilian law is the law so like all of history there is a power struggle involved. We shouldn't let him bully the legal system into his own mafia state.
Communication, networking and arming your community is one thing. Another is not silencing yourself. If you only allow yourself to lie from authority then open society is dead and you have given up your agency. They are outnumbered. Look at recent Chile, Brazil, France protests and general strikes.
Speak up for your representatives and local officials. Speak against the republican party to your friends and neighbors. When the inevitable bad thing happens ask them why their shitty rep politicians are allowing it to happen. Make them answer for their dumbass choices to themselves.
Find organizations who are well versed in fighting for liberty and civil rights & donate to them (if you are able, or ask others to donate to them in your name) or contact them to find out what they need help with. They will have suggestions! ACLU, FFRF, Human Rights Campaign, SPLC, PFLAG, https://AU.org …
Maybe they mean when people post “ don’t worry the law will catch up with them”, is proven BS. We have 20+years of trump doing whatever. We are not giving up, we just don’t believe in magic anymore.
I really want to see the courts absolutely swamped with cases objecting to everything they try. They don’t even have to be valid. Just molasses. I don’t know if Dems have the wartime consigliere mentality though.
I believe it is a fatal flaw to give up on the law. People unaccustomed to devising workable solutions often give up on the very means by which to do so.
This is very true, but what gets me is people thinking that exposure is sufficient. The law still matters, but the flaunting of it has become brazen. It must be challenged with action, not just exposure.
Especially because loudly denouncing conduct as illegal is almost no work at all. You just say it. If people argue, they are doing the extra work. Contesting bad behavior is so obvious. If it doesn’t work, so what? At least try.
Yes, we need to fight this every step of the way, but we must also acknowledge that many of the traditional guardrails and avenues for recourse no longer apply, at least not the way they used to. We need to be clear-eyed about that.
I think the "contest everything" is unwise. Contesting things will ultimately lead to SCOTUS, which will make a decision that will be nationwide and a precedent that could take decades to undo. They make crazy laws because they WANT people to contest them in order to follow that path.
The law has always been about interpretation. Just now you have judges who are much more willing to entertain arguments judges would have rejected 10 years ago. It's not that law doesn't matter. It's that it's not a fixed target.
Here's the thing: the opposition controls nothing with regards to the levers of power. Those that do have already capitulated. So, what comes after you are unheard? Yeah.
So, you have your mutals together in your city of residence? All on the same page? No online organizing? Stocked larder? Prepared for the worst outcome?
The Disappeared in Chile are not so sure. The people of France were more than willing to snitch on the Resistance and any Jews in hiding. Brazil? Not enough space for Brazil.
If you're doing recent history, then you are none of those nations, because HE WON THE ELECTION.
We are structurally different. Not saying we aren't capable of or intrinsically different. I'm saying that we are a long ways from a regime capable of occupying the civilian population like Russia does. The police state tactics might work in rural areas but cities will be tough to police speech.
Call this cynical old retired journalist a naive rube, but the rule of law still matters to me, and we must never cede the battlefield to the oligarchy out of apathy.
That needs to include exhorting Dem officials to fight, too- instead of accepting their continuing obsession with fundamentally playing nice. (Their critical social media posts don't count.)
I might have been one of those cynics, but I think this post is getting to something closer to a useful strategy.
Fight, but don't expect to win directly. Instead, structure and target the fight to win VOTES in 2026. The House is definitely winnable, and the Senate map looks a LOT better.
No. But we must be alert to trump wresting power from the Leg and Jud'l Branches.
Know that his goal is to destroy the regulatory state, and that there probably aren't GOPs in either chamber who will check him if says, "No more EPA," or "No more food inspections," or, "Drill in this Nat'l Park"
Just to expand on this; it's been clear a sort of self-imposed cooling of resistance thinking and self-policing has taken root at the thought of being treated harshly by the state... if this is you then you will already be treated this way and while I understand your fear you will only embolden them
Also mockery. They understand when we mock them. They don't like it but they understand it. It's a great weapon. Make them look stupid and foolish and weird. That's what they are.
1/ The point is terror … and yes, we all have vulnerabilities, but it’s a calculus. We are not there yet and by developing a community of resistance where one does not submit before anything has happened, that strength, will carry through. Will it be “blitz Kraig?” We do not know. >>
2/ We do know that there are many executive orders at the ready, some of which we can readily surmise, and of course the 2025 primer shows us the intention. How it will be carried out; what forces will be brought to bare are unknown, but there are still laws, courts, and state/local jurisdictions >>
A piece on the Meides Network said the Dems in the Minority in the House can hold up funding (they only need a few Dems) unless certain guarantees are made by Trump's people. In this case, money talks.
3/ A study of resistance in Germany, Spain, Italy, and more recently, Hungary, Argentina, the Philippines, and other places with a sudden take over by a fascistic government offer lessons and clues. Closer to home, look at the 50s/60s during McCarthy & under Hoover’s FBI for clues as well. >>
OK, here's the number for the Republican Senate Leadership: 202-224-2764. It can't hurt to let them know how you feel about recess appointments in general and Trump's nominees in particular.
"exposing the hypocrisy" hasn't worked for a decade. by all means, keep cataloging everything they're doing, but don't expect it to change hearts and minds.
the things you need to do to defeat fascism you shouldn't be posting about.
This 100%… I have no idea why people are just giving in. Make the admin’s existence a headache. Joe and Mika today being a terrible example of what NOT to do!
To those who are now in charge of running this country, the law doesn't matter one bit.
Trump tried to overturn election.
He incited a riot at our Capitol and police were assaulted (by MAGAts he is now going to pardon).
He stole top secrets.
If you or I break the law, only then does it matter...
Absolutely! If anyone is wondering how otherwise decent Germans let Hitler happen, it just might be because they hunkered down and hoped someone else would fight him. We ALL have to call out every single thing.
I mean the legal angle isn't up to us riffraff though is it. exposing the hypocrisy doesn't seem to have done the trick either, though millions of people have been working that angle tirelessly at all times forever. I think it's important to stop relying on shit that clearly isn't working
I do agree. I think it stems from the powerlessness many folks feel in the wake of our institutions being utterly not up to the task of holding Trump accountable or preventing him from further torching our democracy and our Constitution.
1/ The reason I go around saying exactly that (oh, you think the law matters now?) is that the party that is supposed to be "resisting" for almost 10y now has NOT been. It's now sitting back and allowing a completely red takeover as it shifts more red waiting for red to realize their errors.
2/ The party at national level is just...sitting back expecting people who do not recognize their fellow humans as such (even their own kids!) to have some sort of Come to the Light moment and just stop doing that.
I think I agree in the long run tho; we need to make it as annoying as possible now.
3/ so my "they don't care about rules" comes more from a place that something SHOULD be done nationally rather than what I'm seeing: top level Democrats drifting further and further Red and political and economic analysts trying to Good Vibes us into internment camps and national hate crimes.
I have a hard time not being cynical, especially about elections in ‘28. I’m not at all convinced that will happen, or if it does, that it will be free and fair. 🥴
I take it more as a “contest away, but have your next step planned too.” It feels like Ds have been too complacent about relying on others (courts) to do the work. Much more pressure is needed and to not be frozen by ‘surprise’ setbacks. Prepare for it. Get ahead of it.
To most ppl, the only thing that will matter is when their lives are specifically impacted. In the meantime, we can become as obnoxious/obstructionist as MAGA about everything and then when shit blows up in their faces remind them this is what they voted for.
The ability of demagogues & autocrats to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions & normalizes them. It slowly numbs the senses, including outrage. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear.
Yes. Make every argument.
See my profile for more arguments including that he’s still an #insurrectionist as found by a Colorado court and thus disqualified from the presidency based on the 14th.
In any event, upending “the law” requires a lot more than rewriting legislation/regulation and receiving favorable rulings from activist judges. Even assuming those things are easily done.
No it doesn't. Roe stood for 50 years and when the Dobbs decision came out and women were dying from pregnancy related causes within days if not weeks.
The post-Dobbs world of abortion governance underscores my point, it by no means refutes it.
You can’t explain the multiple post Dobbs legal regimes without understanding that “the law” is something more than regulations/statutes/court decisions.
I don’t entirely agree with this take. It’s possible to still sue while simultaneously being realistic that Trump is going to get away with a lot of what he tries. Other forms of activism will likely be more effective than legal action in a new Trump era.
Every overstep that the Trump SCOTUS takes will be another leverage point to break any recalcitrant Dems on the wheel of pain when we retake the Senate and demand SCOTUS reform. If only to obtain that leverage over them, we must FIGHT everything they try to do through the courts.
How much of Trump’s agenda including opening a new department, closing departments, reclassifying employees, cutting staff can Trump do without congressional approval. Yes, the media is treating him already like a dictator instead of a man not even president. The media does not care about democracy
I think a lot of people are learning what black people and minorities have known for a long long time, when it comes to the incredible but flawed US judicial system.
It has its heart in the right place, but can too easily be manipulated by money and power.
https://medium.com/p/93d7c36264e1
article from Illuminati Ganga about why no American cares about somebody being a criminal but everybody has agreed to pretend to care.
#crime #trump #theory
Isn’t there a way to contest everything & also (1) not be naive/ have unrealistic expectations re likelihood of success (2) plan for contingencies? I still see some ppl expecting reasonableness from SCOTUS (say about certain Biden rules); it’s important to try but also we need many other strategies.
Yeah this is the right question I think. There are a lot of people smoking piles of copium who need a reality check, and also we need to fight like hell
People are really mad about the failure of the legal structure to uphold what it was build to stand for. Don't get mad at those people. Get mad at the failed institutions. Give people something to root for.
From my perspective, pointing this out is less about sowing hopelessness and conceding and more about people getting it through their fucking skulls that the unspoken guardrails that make up the majority of our government aren't going to protect us and we need to start figuring out alternatives.
Yep even if both we and the enemy believe it to be true, stall the enemy, make them have to prove to everyone it is so first. Sometimes battles are worth fighting even if you know you'll lose because those battles give time to others.
As notably demonstrated by the 300 Spartans under Leonidas, in "losing" the Battle of Thermopylae. The Greeks won the war because the Spartans delayed the Persians long enough for the other Greeks to regroup and take up advantageous positions.
One reason to keep seeking recourse in the law is to force The Law to show on the record who it chooses to be. Some in it may choose corruption through fear, greed or ideology -- but once that's on the record, there can be a reckoning ... eventually. It's happened before.
I understand where the sentiment that the rule of law, ethics and morals no longer matters when all three branches of government have been hijacked by a cult supporting a convicted felon as their leader. Giving up though is idiotic. This is OUR gov't! We must follow the Israelis' example & protest!
The law is no longer respected by the oligarchy and corporate CEOs. Lawyers are seeing it every day as their legal advice is ignored, and the courts become a bribery SHITSHOW of ignorant unqualified judges.
this is a good point. probably a good thing that elections are so state-run. there’s not really a central “election organizing” department for GOP to accuse as corrupt and dismantle. there is the FEC, but my understanding is they mostly handle campaign finance violations.
It’s a nice idea about Democrat Governor power and certainly some ok roadblocks will be set up, but Republicans are saying two things: “have the states decide” & then also deny states money if they aren’t “loyal.”
It’s kind of simple really. Props to Gov. Newsom and on his recent statements.
Clearly Trump and some of his absurd fans would love God-King-Trump-for-Life, but I suspect the fedsoc people, billionaire backers, senate lifers, etc, would much rather a less contentious approach (and appreciate a natural off-ramp for finally washing their hands of Trump) than "no more elections!"
Do we REALLY think he'll last much longer? With his age and diet, I doubt he'd even WANT to continue after 4 years. Of course there'll be more elections! The day elections stop mattering is the day we give up.
The people talking about not having future elections are wishcasting. These are the people who approve of Genocide Joe hiding his infirmity for years, then oligarchs picking the later losing candidate.
I think you're seeing something different... I'm not defending the view, but I recognize that some people are tired of fighting to protect Trump voters from the consequences of their decisions. "Let them destroy government in exactly the way we warned, then they'll understand."
It's exactly this "Well, they'll just do it anyway..." defeatism among Democrats in Congress that has so demoralized the left. Even if you don't think you'll win, you fight anyway, on everything. You introduce friction to your enemy's projects. That's how you fight a war of attrition.
Correct. They have failed miserably over the past 8 years (or more tbh). And by “contest everything,” that excludes the possibility of Starlink or Russia interfering in the recent election, correct?
Perhaps we need to think about what “contesting everything” means, too. For many — not you — it means endless IKR on social media. I think we need a lot more Yes, AND?
Laws don't matter and neither does hypocrisy. That doesn't mean we let them do it without a fight but Trump has absolute immunity in a couple months. He's literally above the law. They won't save us. They can't. We must.
People have been but it has not stopped the illegal behavior or the hypocrisy. Keep doing it, sure, but there are stark reasons why people are jaded about it.
Depends upon what you mean by “matters”. I don’t believe that calling out laws being broken right, left and center by Felonious Trump II will stop it happening. If American Democracy survives the next 4 years, history will call it out. If not…history is written (and RE-written) by the victors.
I agree. We have to fight like hell for as long as we can. Even tho I think he will be a dictator on day one and all subsequent days, it is possible to fight hard and be realistic at the same time.
Everyone should watch season 1 of Fargo… You have to acknowledge that the enemy does not operate in the confines of laws and treat them accordingly. But you still have to do so within the rule of law. Just for the love of god stop fighting them like laws or norms mean anything to them.
I found this perspective helpful. One thing that affects my interpretation of the current moment is the way it mirrors 1933 Germany and what proceeded from that moment in time.
Absolutely. If, in fact, we're conceding the law at this stage, then why would we even go forward with the normal transition of power at all? It does matter, and we must continue to hold them to it. We have one chance to mitigate this disaster. If we fail, then we can talk about contingencies.
I think that many of us were expecting the law to save us from a second Trump presidency given the blatant and extensive law-breaking we’d witnessed. Instead, he was not held accountable and his captured SCOTUS worked diligently to undermine the constitution and rule of law. We shouldn’t use 1/
this experience to throw our hands up and despair of using legal means to slow the march of fascism, but depending on the law alone now seems naive and foolhardy. The law is not useless, but fighting for justice in a captured system will be a slogging uphill battle at best.
Precisely. Fight every lawless action, overreach, and legal distortion they try. Fight them in every court in the country, state and federal. Keep the bastards so busy litigating that they can’t actually get anything done. Never surrender. If the law doesn’t matter, then we are but savages.
I am trying to believe the law matters but when a rapist and convicted felon is elected president, slips out of all accountability, has a Supreme Court rule that ANYTHING he does as president is legal; then how can I, a lay person, think the law will actually matter? 1/x
When I read constant stories of cops murdering people. When sexual assault appears to be qualify a man to a cabinet position. When this motherfucker has and will pardon terrible people. When the rails of government and laws have failed so deeply to stop a fascist to date. 2/x
It feels very naive to me to believe the law matters when reality seems to be proving with regularity that it does not. Again, I'm not in law. I'm speaking as a layperson. Let the legislators, lawyers, judges and cops fight it out. I've got to be on the ground figuring out how or if to survive. 3/3
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What bothers me is the "I have hope, let's wait and see, we have guardrails, that will never happen" crowd.
https://bsky.app/profile/cdpositive.bsky.social/post/3lbakw65u4k2t
Fight the good fight...but the only way to do that is to understand the battlefield and the positions held by the combatants. No law and no media help. Plan accordingly.
People become dramatically less okay with people exercising massive amounts of power when it is clear they are not obeying whatever limits, however flimsy, have been set for that power.
"Exposing Hypocrisy" isn't much of a tactic when, for your country's opponents, hypocrisy *is the point*. You're thinking their hypocrisy is a fault, when it's just them doing a typical fascist power-flex.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Donald will not do the right thing because he never has.
Walking away was my privilege.
I am now trying to figure out how to pay several years of back dues and catch up on my CLEs.
I remembered that shit is power, and The Resistance is gonna need people like me.
Don’t do things fascists want you to do.
https://www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-the-dark/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3qN27BGRNRZIJeKO2ozKa5sUrokOFTprC_sUnBy6jTNJzbqW3I3CxqNBk_aem_rYCW7LAqUHBAYprhVhPO_w
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g9UKnU3dRDM
Do not obey in advance.
NOT TRYING - 0% CHANCE
TRYING - >0%
THAT IS INFINITELY BETTER!!! Like...actually mathematically so
Your average person thinks copyright law doesn’t apply to AI companies…
Very few people can AFFORD long court cases to defend themselves, and judges can delay cases and/or dismiss them at will.
SO .. who gets 'dismissed' an who gets 'dragged on endlessly' is up to Judges.
Law does not necessarily mean justice...
That doesn't seem like an exceptionally strong base to begin governing from like the rule of law doesn't matter.
That’s as true today as when he said that in 1974
Important to remember in these early days that being mindful of a potential outcome does not require ceding to it as an inevitablity.
They already made him immune.
I haven’t been disappointed by my disappointment yet!
Less like a cynic and more like a normal human being.
Which is all to reinforce your point: resistance comes in many forms, and it's important to keep perspective when politics becomes dark.
My opinion of the court is as low as just about anyone’s, but Roberts is somewhat responsive to and..
Relevant now more than ever since publication in 2017.
https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny
(Those responses seem fake-jaded, like an adolescent trying to show how they’ve seen shit.)
McConnell got up tonight and said "absolutely no recess appointments" because it turns out the senate likes having power too?
It was always a fragile covenant, and our failure to remove the criminal conspirators destroying it has sealed our fate.
Play along if you want, but justice is dead.🤷🏼♂️
#resist
We gotta know hope that justice will come...one day.
If you're doing recent history, then you are none of those nations, because HE WON THE ELECTION.
Fight, but don't expect to win directly. Instead, structure and target the fight to win VOTES in 2026. The House is definitely winnable, and the Senate map looks a LOT better.
Know that his goal is to destroy the regulatory state, and that there probably aren't GOPs in either chamber who will check him if says, "No more EPA," or "No more food inspections," or, "Drill in this Nat'l Park"
Bernie's gone; The Resistance can just openly agree with Trump now.
the things you need to do to defeat fascism you shouldn't be posting about.
Trump tried to overturn election.
He incited a riot at our Capitol and police were assaulted (by MAGAts he is now going to pardon).
He stole top secrets.
If you or I break the law, only then does it matter...
I think the author is Roxanne Gray
Even so, we must keep up the fight, together.
I think I agree in the long run tho; we need to make it as annoying as possible now.
See my profile for more arguments including that he’s still an #insurrectionist as found by a Colorado court and thus disqualified from the presidency based on the 14th.
You can’t explain the multiple post Dobbs legal regimes without understanding that “the law” is something more than regulations/statutes/court decisions.
Use the word duplicity instead. Much more punchy and accurate
I don't know how we go back from where we are at, to be frank.
Absolutely everything.
It has its heart in the right place, but can too easily be manipulated by money and power.
article from Illuminati Ganga about why no American cares about somebody being a criminal but everybody has agreed to pretend to care.
#crime #trump #theory
https://bsky.app/profile/davetait.bsky.social/post/3kxdrzyrops2o
I’ll need another week for any kind full restoration. Taking care of others is exhausting at the moment.
It’s kind of simple really. Props to Gov. Newsom and on his recent statements.
https://bsky.app/profile/leahmcelrath.bsky.social/post/3lb7672kzis22
I like that.