Truth, decency and doing the right thing should matter and they not matter in the Trump administration as Trump/GOP work toward making America an autocracy with white male "leadership" and friends benefiting with cruelty to the rest including the free world no matter the damage or pain.
It is way more than the number indicated on the chart. Every time Trump makes any claim about a new tariff, that is a declaration of a national emergency because the President has no authority to impose tariffs other than in cases of national emergency. He surely must be around 100 by now.
Thanks for this informative post, as a UK citizen it's often hard to comprehend how he's managing to act like this. Your constitution is being stress tested
*According to the White House, America's decades-old trading relationships — including with tiny countries and uninhabited islands — qualify as such threats.
“Redefining” words. Incessant gaslighting. Employing Orwellian doublethink. The dangerous manipulation to exert control must be called out for what it is and stopped, 24/7/365.
Daddy issues! His father never let him play with dump trucks, fire engines, play pistols, fireworks as a kid...so now he's making up for lost time! He just loves blowing things up to satisfy that missing freedom and attention from Daddy!!
No kidding. These “national emergencies” will keep being elevated in their emergency status until he determines he needs to declare martial law and suspend elections. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out which is good since he’s fired all the rocket scientists.
Thanks to Elizabeth Goitein's previous work it has long been obvious that the over 100 emergency powers given by Congress to the executive during more trusting times constituted a gun just waiting to be picked up and used to assassinate democracy. Trump has picked up that gun and is shooting wildly.
As if it’s some sort of “wicked jokes” ?!?!?!
So many lower-income families are beG “murdered off SILENTLY”
by the declaration of so mny Wicked-unjustified-illegal Emergencies by the soul-sold-to-demonS Psycho-felon at the Ovl-Ofc WH.
Someone need to learn the correct meaning of word “creative” !
I will never understand what possessed regular, well-meaning people to vote for a diabolical chud to lead this nation. It's not as if there wasn't an abundance of evidence that Trump lacks character and is unfit for any public office. Consequently, here he is using the levers of power to cause harm.
Trump suggested that he would not be advocating for any new gun legislation, saying, “The gun doesn’t do the shooting, the people do.”
Of course, but does fentanyl do the shooting?
»By allowing the Chancellor to override the checks and balances in the constitution, the Enabling Act was a pivotal step in the transition from the democratic Weimar Republic to the totalitarian dictatorship of Nazi Germany.«
This vote occurred one month after the burning of the Reichstag, which itself was four days before a national election. An analogous situation would be if 9/11 happened on Nov 1st (with the planes piloted by leftists), the Rs were voted back in with 44% of the vote on Nov 5th, they subsequently…
…outlawed the Democratic party (impossible in our system), and then passed a constitutional amendment with “2/3” of Congress (only possible after eliminating the Ds) to do away with democracy altogether.
Our Republic is in existential danger right now, but it won’t unfold in the same way.
And the answer to that question is also immaterial. Even after the Nazis won, a minority of their subjects continued to fight them, and later the subjects of their occupation in other countries, too. The thing is, there’s never a rational time to stop fighting fascism. So the center will hold, or
The original exchange was about what is possible within the law as it is written. Your question is: what is needed for *any* coup to succeed or fail? The answer is always: a critical number of people participating/acquiescing. That’s all that ever keeps any society together, or dooms it.
Thanks for the response. Since Trump has surrounded himself with underlings who pledged their loyalty to him, the success of a coup attempt will rest on people further down the chain of command. If people don’t push back then our democracy could fail. I will not be surprised if Trump tries it…
And Trump will save the biggest ‘national emergency’ for October 2026 and declare that the mid-terms cannot proceed.
So now is time to start educating the public this could happen. Of course Republicans will push back, but it might weaken their case if they do attempt it next year.
Isn't there a way for the Congress to over-ride the declarations or do they run 100 days before the Congress can act? Can he just continue declaring emergencies to extend them as long as he wants to? Some of these things clearly aren't emergencies in any sense of the word.
When Congress writes bad laws that allow a president to declare anything an emergency and then rule as a dictator, you're inviting tangerine fascists to do this.
Spineless Congress! Everyone needs to continue the outrage. The courts are doing their job. One branch of our government is out of control and the third has checked out. Republicans will be judged by history as Germany was in 1930s.
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This is why Americans should feel shame at having elected such a feckless President. He will wreck us all through his ignorance.
That Nazi thug president tramples democracy every day.
The concentration camps are here.
We need our representatives to shout “Impeach!”
All together.
Every day.
(Please repost.)
Shockface.
So many lower-income families are beG “murdered off SILENTLY”
by the declaration of so mny Wicked-unjustified-illegal Emergencies by the soul-sold-to-demonS Psycho-felon at the Ovl-Ofc WH.
Someone need to learn the correct meaning of word “creative” !
Of course, but does fentanyl do the shooting?
#2 Trump
Walking emergency manufacturing machine.
»By allowing the Chancellor to override the checks and balances in the constitution, the Enabling Act was a pivotal step in the transition from the democratic Weimar Republic to the totalitarian dictatorship of Nazi Germany.«
Our Republic is in existential danger right now, but it won’t unfold in the same way.
U.S. intelligence contradicts Trump’s justification for mass deportations
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/17/us-intelligence-tren-de-aragua-deportations-trump/
Sense of impending doom or danger
⛔️
Fear of loss of control or death ☠️
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/panic-attacks/symptoms-causes/syc-20376021
So now is time to start educating the public this could happen. Of course Republicans will push back, but it might weaken their case if they do attempt it next year.
The whole system is broken beyond repair.