Just one part of the coup process.
The goal for trump is to negate the parts of the Constitution that limit his power and his ability to stay in power.
Under trump the goal is for the Constitution to be worthless.
saw that coming - anyone who voted for another person for president is surely on the list. Musk has put all the different data sources together (never done before) so that voting record, health records, money are all ONE.
Turns out this whole time that the constitution was written in pencil not ink. A lot easier to erase laws a president doesn't like. Then there's that word "norms". "Norms" are not laws. It's just political eticate. For the last 259 yrs. "norms" was the glue that was suppose to protect Democracy!
Secession is staring us right in the face but for historical reasons is not part of the conversation. It needs to become part of the conversation, and quickly.
So in 2028 he just sends AOC to El Salvador right after her nomination. Judges trying to block him from running a 3rd time: Gulag! Annoying reporters criticizing him: denaturalized and rendered to some fucked overseas concentration camp.
WHY were we not protected from this a^shole? He should have never been allowed back in to the White House. They all KNEW what a threat he was. I’m so angry and worried and I am in complete disbelief that our “leaders” allowed this menace to take over. This could have been dealt with.
I totally don't get how Democrats never seemed to even discuss the fact that he is barred from office by those amendments / laws (I forget which) passed after the Civil War.
The judges that rightfully followed this up were admonished by the Supreme Court bad 5, pointed at Congress. Who did zilch...
I’m old enough to remember being told that the US constitution had a 14th Amendment which stated that no person could be deprived of his life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
I am not convinced that this was an accident. I would not be surprised if it turns out they specifically wanted to pick someone that had protected status and when they saw one was available that fled El Salvador already, then it was just a golden opportunity. Or possibly he was targeted on purpose.
Look outside your own borders for once. This is Putin's teachings. Victor Orban did this in Hungary, shipping his political enemies to a Syrian death camp. I lost track of how many times Vic visited fRUmp at maralardo.
You are no longer fighting facism at home, you are living it.
Trump spoke of a spiritual renewal after the shooting last summer, and that God saved him for a reason. It's astounding to me that this is what DJT is doing with his second chance. THIS is what he thinks God wanted him to do?
It could not be clearer that our Constitution was intended to keep a guy like Trump from ever holding power. It failed utterly through a combination of innovations in tyranny, amendments that perverted the original design, and a shocking collapse of civic virtue among the population.
Mitch McConnell is responsible for this. If he had a) not prevented Obama from naming a SCOTUS justice & b) impeached & generally held 45 accountable, we wouldn’t have 47 & be dealing w this firehose of corruption & evil.
In the original version of the Constitution, Senators were not elected. A guy like McConnell who thrived on bowing to billionaire campaign donors with policy favors might never have made it to the Senate.
People are not media savvy as a rule. They take in things in chunks and sound bites. That’s the one way Trump has been effective: labeling things and people in straightforward ways. The media ignored all the evidence and embraced Trump. Worst case scenarios were all but likely.
It can be both. Voters are stupid animals. Constitution kind of corrects for that a little bit, but we’ve broken it (through animalistic voting). But the answer isn’t forced voting, it’s probably something like using power better when smart people have it (hope that happens again!).
Never! I don't think even Trump voters would have voted for that magical immunity cloak. Not most of them, anyway. It took the vile Roberts court to crown him.
It’s definitely a whole-of-country failure. Courts, voters, media, academia, business, both political parties, institutions of all kinds, have to collectively shit the bed for years to create the conditions that allow for a greasy con man like Trump to seize control of it all. This can’t be fixed.
At some point the Republican party will be forced to distance themselves from the revolution and the founding of the republic, seeing as Trump seem to have a huge boner for everything King George said and did.
Well my 7x Great-Grandfather served in the Spanish Navy (Real Armada) and was part of the Galvez Expedition and is listed in the Patriot Ancestors website.
I don't see how it is legal to try to avoid responsibility by simply subcontracting out your dirty work. You don't avoid legal responsibility for murder because you hire a hit man to pull the trigger.
The constitution holds no magical power. It never has. We've spent generations holding it up like some immutable talisman that protects us from tyranny. It has failed us now, it has failed us in the past. If the constitution couldn't prevent Trump, it's as useless as the paper it was drafted on.
The depth of dishonor, failure & cruelty of current POTUS, VP & minions has no bottom. A stain on the honor of their families, their party, their communities and our nation. A convicted felon with a lifetime record of dishonor, bankruptcies and failed relationships is ruling #ProtectTheConstitution
After they kill off the seniors and veterans by cutting off their Medicaid, send away the people they don't like, they can be rich and happy in their gated country.
not to diminish your point at all but thats been precedent for… maybe fifty, sixty years? it’s been against more convenient opponents and done hush hush sure, but i mean we all know about the assassinations on us soil? that’s pretty clearly not in line with the constitution either
and if we don’t wanna go for us citizens and such that might’ve been disappeared in foreign countries for left wing speech back in the 60s, well we’ve got a bunch of war on terror victims to pick from (aside from the obvious casualties of the invasion of iraq, afghanistan etc)
This is pure dystopian madness. Denaturalizing citizens isn’t “policy,” it’s tyranny, and it’s what happens when unchecked power goes unchecked. Meanwhile, Trump’s base obsesses over pronouns—diverting attention from real threats to freedom. Priorities, folks. Liberty isn’t a joke.
The US invented concentration camps and masa extermination camps. Look what they did to the Indians. Genocide far more successful than any done by Fascists or Soviets.
Generally speaking, where we are in a movie is where the forces of “chaotic good” kidnap an evil high value target from Team Evil and say, “Give us our guy back and we’ll give you your’s.” However I can’t think of anyone Team Evil actually values, can you?
Hmmmm. Is she FULLY Team Evil? I could see a “chaotic neutral” taking Ivanka for a trade for Garcia, especially if she held a formal position in this government, but as a “chaotic good” character I’d pass.
Stand up for your rights, protest, and call your congresspeople demanding articles of impeachment be drafted. April 19th everyone, this is not a drill. https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
Citizens like political dissidents, the mentally ill, and criminals?
Will they get to wear colored geometric symbols sewn into their uniforms to indicate which they are or will we just jump straight into tattooed serial numbers?
Brit here with a question, if the Constitution has lost any meaning then hasn’t SCOTUS as well, its existence and rulings as meaningless as the Constitution which established it?
The Constitution can't be enforced by anyone except the federal government that actively violates it. The Court can be farcical or illegitimate, but it retains power as long as it supports the executive branch, regardless of how dead the letters of the Constitution are
As long as there are agencies trying to enforce environmental protections, consumer protections and health and safety laws, SCOTUS will play the essential role of striking them down.
That was certainly an extremely bad precedent, and utterly anti-democratic as well.
I think there is a good argument to be made that without the weaking of US democracy due to the "Global War or Terror", you'd never be at this stage now.
Every single person who was sent to CECOT in El Salvador needs to be returned for a Due Process hearing. 70% of them have been informally found to have not committed any crimes. Stephen Miller saying it's so doesn't make it so. CECOT is a crime against humanity. We Americans should not put up w/it!!
A revolution, however, is not worthless and may be our only option out of this. If everything else designed to stop this has failed, then one option is left. We show the world that American citizens can be trusted and take back our country from 🟠 and his cronies. End them once and for all.
that took yall kinda long to notice, see guantanamo
its not the first time the usa has been very restrictive with who is given those quite alienable rights in the constitution. Black people, women, chinese immigrants, japanese americans.
My parents said 2 years ago they don't care if we get a King.
They don't care if people get deported.
They don't care about the homeless or anyone, even me.
They don't care about anything aside from self interest and worshiping a strong man.
Everyone knew this was going to happen.
When fascism comes to America it will be holding a Bible and wearing an American flag.
Fear the military industrial complex.
They don't care. Half of Americans are not Americans.
We were invaded, by an ideology antithetical to the Constitution.
It was written by worthless men and was worthless the day it was was written.
About as worthless as a scold talking about taking up arms during Masters ad breaks
Well, assertion of El Salvador’s impenetrable and irreversible sovereign control over any one shipped there is a very sound basis for Federal Courts to totally ban deportations of ANYONE to El Salvador, whether into custody or just into the country’s territory.
The Constitution has been worthless ever since the Democrats allowed Bush to steal the 2000 election as he sent every Arab-American he could to torture prisons...in 2025, not a damn thing has changed as Democrats are still allowing Republicans to steal elections & Latin Americans to be renditioned
No matter what I read I can't seem to figure this out - Are these people being charged with a crime? Are they being held awaiting trial in the US? Are they charged with a crime in El Salvador? Are they literally there indefinitely just because with no proposed resolution?
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The goal for trump is to negate the parts of the Constitution that limit his power and his ability to stay in power.
Under trump the goal is for the Constitution to be worthless.
“For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses”
Can we hear history’s echoes?
If this stands, the constitution becomes a zombie. It still exists but it is really dead and meaningless
Nothing would please Putin more than managing to finish the Civil War in favor of the Confederates.
Nazis did it little by little until it was too late.
#StopAuthoritarianBehaviorNow
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#CongressMustAct
Americans have a history of overthrowing tyrants.
We're overdue.
The judges that rightfully followed this up were admonished by the Supreme Court bad 5, pointed at Congress. Who did zilch...
You are no longer fighting facism at home, you are living it.
Make it illegal to disappear people without due process!
They want him to kill us and we should never, ever forget or forgive it.
Trust me, I'm already there.
*majority of ballots cast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Coast_campaign
I look forward to have the same level of strength and determination, if the moment comes.
What's happened to us?
Will they get to wear colored geometric symbols sewn into their uniforms to indicate which they are or will we just jump straight into tattooed serial numbers?
They gave lip service to the correct principles while effectively licensing the transgressions.
I think there is a good argument to be made that without the weaking of US democracy due to the "Global War or Terror", you'd never be at this stage now.
But this certainly goes a (serious) step further.
Every single one.
By force if necessary and it will be.
its not the first time the usa has been very restrictive with who is given those quite alienable rights in the constitution. Black people, women, chinese immigrants, japanese americans.
the brazenness is new
https://www.newsweek.com/us-citizen-told-self-deport-dhs-email-trump-administration-2059069
It's hemp or something.
It was societal cohesion, trust, being respectful and caring about your fellow man that made the constitution worth something.
It was us and how we treated other folks and our ideologies.
They don't care if people get deported.
They don't care about the homeless or anyone, even me.
They don't care about anything aside from self interest and worshiping a strong man.
When fascism comes to America it will be holding a Bible and wearing an American flag.
Fear the military industrial complex.
They don't care. Half of Americans are not Americans.
We were invaded, by an ideology antithetical to the Constitution.
2) No one loses the protection of the law because some break the law.
We are the ones who determine what the government can and cannot do. We have the power.
We have fought this fight before. And we have won. We will continue the fight, and we will win again.
Because we have the power.
About as worthless as a scold talking about taking up arms during Masters ad breaks
It’s not worthless. Although it could be better you can’t put that on the framers. That’s on us. We have (and have had) the tools to change it.
And if you don’t care to be scolded, then get off your ass and be the change you want to see.
Is it much clearer to you now?
https://www.wcvb.com/article/nicole-micheroni-dhs-self-deport-letter-massachusetts/64467408