They don't think the presidency has these powers, a democrat was president less than a month ago and they didn't think he had them. They just think America should be a dictatorship where they rule forever bsky.app/profile/jame... - ThreadSky

adamserwer.bsky.social • 13 days ago

They don't think the presidency has these powers, a democrat was president less than a month ago and they didn't think he had them. They just think America should be a dictatorship where they rule forever https://bsky.app/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3lhqlbh6j522r

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worth saying that vermeule’s view that “separation of powers means the president is an elected despot” is fucking stupid and has no basis in the constitution as written

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sadieheartsclyde.bsky.social•13 days ago

Bingo

northstarroadie.bsky.social•12 days ago

warmwestwind.bsky.social•13 days ago

they do not care whether their arguments make sense, because their strength does not derive from argument.

jamalgreene.bsky.social•13 days ago

An important distinction, though I don’t think it applies to Vermeule himself.

jpure.bsky.social•13 days ago

At which point will the @democrats.org call for a total shutdown of the country nationwide with massive people in the tens of millions on the street 24/7 refusing to do anything until these fascist are removed from the country and fly to Russia a la European Velvet Revolution?

jpure.bsky.social•13 days ago

Israel is a small country, but thousands took to the streets to pressure corrupt proud boy Benjamin Netanyahu. Will they call for a total lockdown at the first defiance of court orders? Democrats should be planning now instead of reacting timidly as they’ve been doing.

jpure.bsky.social•13 days ago

And one more thing, Seig Heil fascist Apartheid era fascist Elon Musk and his brethren foreign born Nazi oligarchs are antithetical to American values. We cannot have them and America at the same time. Either the country is destroyed and balkanized or they should go.

not-the-lawyer.bsky.social•13 days ago

They know better; we know that. They’re counting on their virulent fans hell bent on bigotry and fascism not to critically think about the paradox.

kathleennodak.bsky.social•13 days ago

💯 This is it exactly.

lizcious.bsky.social•13 days ago

Wow you mean they aren't acting in good faith and they never were!?

mapragmatist.bsky.social•13 days ago

Republicans are fast talking and trying to hide what’s occurring : a coup by a billionaire. No matter how fast they talk, we all see what is going on.

joshtpm.bsky.social•13 days ago

that's exactly right. a few months Joe Biden couldn't make minor discretionary decisions about immigration enforcement or make expansive interpretations about debt collection from student borrowers.

sean-hecker.bsky.social•13 days ago

And the real question is going to be whether they believe in separation of powers, judicial review, Marbury v. Madison, and the concept of abiding court orders.

seangralton.bsky.social•13 days ago

From what I’ve seen this morning, their beliefs on Marbury v. Madison are no longer in question.

incompetusrex.bsky.social•13 days ago

Even when a statute explicitly gave the executive branch the discretion being exercised!

shadowmonk.bsky.social•13 days ago

This is the scary part. No sane person would give this much power to the President unless their intent was that the office never change parties again.

strangelynow.bsky.social•13 days ago

But- when last did Donald Trump “lose”( not get his way).

astroattorney.com•13 days ago

This is a great argument to use against them in all the court cases, too.

realhumanbeing.bsky.social•13 days ago

Unitary Republican executive theory

philbeee.bsky.social•13 days ago

Ah, but that's probably where we do not really understand their way of, uh... thinking: to them it's perfectly clear and obvious that a republican president naturally has completely different powers to a democratic president.

oakisland.bsky.social•13 days ago

In Trump v US Roberts asserts that unlike any other person the President is a branch of government. We’re seeing what that means now

burtonad.bsky.social•13 days ago

The founding principle of the modern GOP is that the exercise of government power by Democrats is facially illegitimate.

technicallyowen.bsky.social•13 days ago

Wilhoit: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

burtonad.bsky.social•13 days ago

A useful general maxim: my observation is US specific.

searcy514.bsky.social•13 days ago

The lives lost due to the lack of support from the US Democrats cannot be ignored. Their actions have had real, tragic consequences for the people of Israel.

dmskywalker.bsky.social•13 days ago

The Supreme Court made it clear presidents now how these powers and Joe Biden preferred this outcome to using that power.

Because he’s a fucking loser in every sense of the word.

adamserwer.bsky.social•13 days ago

Which of these powers did you want biden to use that he didn’t?

nestedpistordoll.bsky.social•13 days ago

Its amazing how many guys out there want to give adult conversion to Catholicism a bad name.

travalanch.bsky.social•13 days ago

The “best most powerful” level of government is the one they can control completely, whether that’s a despotic county sheriff or the unitary executive. Power lies with them, not the office.

sapnasesq.bsky.social•13 days ago

Waiting for people to reckon with the fact that one of two parties in this country is anti-democracy....

drrxufa.bsky.social•13 days ago

NEVER let them live down their fraud, heap tons of scorn upon these hypocrites and pathetic posers.

sawdog.bsky.social•13 days ago

Why do we kid ourselves that we are playing by the same rules anymore?
The Constitution is being ignored, plain and simple.

old-skool-lib.bsky.social•13 days ago

Yep, sadly they do, problem is, it’s both democrats and republicans— two wings of the same diseased bird

lilflonase.bsky.social•13 days ago

One of these judges has to compel Musk to appear in court and threaten to arrest him

patsbard.bsky.social•13 days ago

They are also apparently ignoring "checks and balances".

ejpettinger.bsky.social•13 days ago

Sadly and stupidly, they think a dictator you pick will continue to be the dictator you want.

caesar-stan.bsky.social•13 days ago

Fascism is just conservatism in its perfected form. Conservatives believe in a natural hierarchy, with white men on top. Democracy is in tension with that, and so they would rather it just be gone. What has been the US system the past few decades is what is corrupt and unnatural to them.

bd-sint.bsky.social•13 days ago

Zero people want a dictatorship when the opposing party is in power, but some (anti-democratic, hypocritical) people want a dictatorship when their party is in power.

jonvarnado.bsky.social•13 days ago

"The second American revolution will be bloodless, if the left allows it."

Heritage Foundation

yardyspice.bsky.social•13 days ago

That the American rule of law is falling in real time on what was once one of the best products the U.S. gave the world but is no more is sadly poetic.

luxechronicles.bsky.social•13 days ago

Exactly.

resepeeps-18.bsky.social•10 days ago

Of course! A Democrat could NEVER do what these folks are doing, and we wouldn’t want to. We thrive on helping others while they thrive on helping themselves.

outtaflushing.bsky.social•13 days ago

...so make as many winning legal arguments as we like (and even more winning moral arguments or arguments from tradition/precedent) and it won't slow them down one bit, as they are not playing the same game. Those arguments, though, are predicate to push back - but by whom? and by what means?

jeffg127.bsky.social•13 days ago

Nakedly arguing for power for themselves, not the people and the sooner people realize the sooner this will end.

reuxben.bsky.social•13 days ago

This is why I wish people would stop honoring/appeasing them w/the serious, aggrandizing label of “conservative” or playing along that their party is “grand” when they clearly have no actual ideological truth/consistency, but change on a dime to suit whatever opportunistic, current goal they have.

wrongbottom.bsky.social•13 days ago

Gop maga. Not "republicans."

Slaves to a king of kings can not categorically be republican.

technicallyowen.bsky.social•13 days ago

The con is short for confidence trickster and GOP is gaggle of pedophiles

thewiseoldbat.bsky.social•13 days ago

That’s their goal!

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