Will media also call it “Post-Constitutionalism” too? Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-Constitutional’ vision for second term. Russ Vought, the former president’s budget director, is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of presidential powers. wapo.st/3B0fm3a - ThreadSky

rachelbitecofer.bsky.social • 95 days ago

Will media also call it “Post-Constitutionalism” too?

Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-Constitutional’ vision for second term.

Russ Vought, the former president’s budget director, is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of presidential powers.

https://wapo.st/3B0fm3a

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libend.bsky.social•94 days ago

He’s just saying it out loud. America chose White over the system.
We’ll see how they like it

danwalterwriter.bsky.social•95 days ago

Unfukkinbelievable.

janettes-999.bsky.social•95 days ago

IDNK. I will call it a fascist takeover. The time for political correctness is over.

He is already floating the idea of serving another term.

cdh99.bsky.social•95 days ago

He is in cognitive decline… he won’t manage another term….

janettes-999.bsky.social•95 days ago

That’s very true, but Vance is younger, meaner, and he was specifically pushed on Trump to finish implementing Project 2025.

I am not sure that Trump will survive his term. He is not a well man.

steakhousecher.bsky.social•94 days ago

Of course they will.

boboinparadise.bsky.social•94 days ago

New New Originalism

webpuppy45.bsky.social•95 days ago

tonybrenna.bsky.social•93 days ago

https://youtu.be/7s1mwPMlWLs?si=rzMLhv-nLG6UMidk

The constitution has been dead for a long time

stressedsara.bsky.social•94 days ago

If that’s what they’re told to do…

ksheek.bsky.social•94 days ago

MAGA seems to forget that there are 400 million guns in a country with 335 million people. What could possibly go wrong? 😒

mallecai.bsky.social•94 days ago

We’re going to have to mobilize protests. Something more than firing off angry tweets.

gaz254.bsky.social•95 days ago

How can something be “post” a document which exists. Don’t they need to retire that first? Why not simply say “we are ignoring the Constitution because we intend to do things our way and all of you can get stuffed. BTW meet our US Military”?

anththehistorian.bsky.social•95 days ago

When your highest court decided the equal protection clause doesn't matter. "Citizens" of North American banana republics need to stop telling the rest of the world what democracy means.

adam-ross.bsky.social•95 days ago

Are you so sure about our military?

“The AP found that the IDA…report grossly undercounted the number of military and veterans arrested for the Jan. 6 attack and provided a misleading picture of the severity of the growing problem, the AP has found.”

gaz254.bsky.social•95 days ago

That’s my point. These folks will do as they wish and use the military to support it. I’m very sceptical about those in the Mil putting their oath ahead of ideology, politics, pay checks or physical threats. If it comes to that it will be a massive test of leadership and courage in the military.

sandgirl.bsky.social•95 days ago

Let your state legislature know you oppose a Convection of States. They are trying to get enough States to amend/destroy the constitution.

akchaos.bsky.social•95 days ago

Something evil this way comes.

cgfurr.bsky.social•94 days ago

SICK!

mrbg1960.bsky.social•95 days ago

The speed of cabinet selections and bringing vought back they're trying to get it done by July. Dems need to gum up the works

tadhgs.bsky.social•94 days ago

“Post-Constitutionalism” sounds like the PR spin for authoritarianism. Expanding presidential powers at the expense of checks and balances isn’t leadership—it’s a power grab. If this is the vision, the media better call it what it is: a direct threat to democracy.

newfederalist.bsky.social•95 days ago

Is there some way to read without a paywall

markitoresists.bsky.social•95 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/rightsofman.bsky.social/post/3lc2mzwwiu22u

theshnazzyone.bsky.social•91 days ago

Well seeing as you showed the press calling it "post Constitutionalism" i'd assume so. If that's the terms they use, that's what "the media" (you mean the press) will likely call it.

gullagher.bsky.social•95 days ago

Aww, the nefarious euphemisms are back, baby!

This one might be bigger than "alternate facts."

blackwater-rising.bsky.social•95 days ago

Answer: No

They will call it "Creative Constitutional Interpretation."

anththehistorian.bsky.social•95 days ago

lol the implication here that the constitution has mattered for years.

A man did a coup. Then you elected him. You don't get to tell the rest of us what "Democracy" means.

calleycat.bsky.social•94 days ago

You're at Bluesky; we get it and are the resistance. We did not vote for him; very close to half the votes (as the known count now stands).You don't need to preach to us or hit us over the head.

july2022.bsky.social•94 days ago

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/28/elon-musk-cfpb-trump

cgfurr.bsky.social•94 days ago

He is such an evil asshole! He wants no more recalls on Teslas!

philswallow.com•94 days ago

Germany 1933 onwards, please read up on it or look at some old documentaries - the Nazi playbook is being followed to the letter

diotimaellen.bsky.social•95 days ago

IT'S NOT POST-CONSTITUTIONAL EXCEPT IN THEIR WET DREAMS. We can stop this shit.

f-ed-up.bsky.social•95 days ago

Post-Constitutional sounds like a coup to me

meatballstreudal.bsky.social•94 days ago

They did say revolution, bloodless if we let it be.

nywonk.bsky.social•95 days ago

Instead of calling it anti-constitutional.

This is the Washington Post bending over. The 'quote' marks don't make it any less obvious.

pinkfloydmuse.bsky.social•95 days ago

charliemas.bsky.social•94 days ago

The Washington Post just did call it "post-Constitutional".

Clearly they are cool with that.

joyfulme.bsky.social•94 days ago

So sad when the truth gets mucked up in the dirt.

cgfurr.bsky.social•94 days ago

Because Bezos will continue to benefit with less regulations, treating his workers like shit, and not paying any income tax!

pjtinker.bsky.social•94 days ago

Vought has also authored a new book to be released on January 20, 2025, entitled, “The Founding Fathers Can Go F*ck Themselves.”

calleycat.bsky.social•94 days ago

Which means an intent to not support the Constitution. Which means a coup. In time, they should be handled accordingly. They must be rewriting the Oath to be "sworn" into office. Fake government.

kimagogo.bsky.social•95 days ago

Fuck Russ Vought.

kr8729.bsky.social•95 days ago

No, no,no! Not acceptable!

dustnthewind.bsky.social•95 days ago

The only court in worried about siding with him is the supreme Court.

lucky5556.bsky.social•95 days ago

WTH???? Just no

ontopofit4.bsky.social•95 days ago

They likely will, but as the resistance that is where we have to draw the line and fight FOR OUR Constitution.

marie-ann.bsky.social•95 days ago

How many of you are shocked?

leolouie.bsky.social•94 days ago

When NBC5 Chicago introduced Vought’s appointment, the only thing they said about him is that he graduated from Wheaton College.

avielroshwald.bsky.social•95 days ago

Post-constitutionalism means going postal against the constitution.

im2insaine59.bsky.social•95 days ago

45 is going to declare martial law & then he'll suspend the constitution ... hitler 2.0 in action ... hellbent on destroying america while most of america sits back and takes it ...

gabby0219.bsky.social•95 days ago

I thought people voted for Trump for cheaper eggs. Did they know they were voting to abolish the Constitution? Inquiring minds want to know.

kailash-kiwi.bsky.social•94 days ago

Trump was completely open about the kind of hell scape fascism he wanted to enact. People voted him in anyway. Ironically if he gets his way egg prices will only go up.

harrymeanwell4.bsky.social•94 days ago

@tribelaw.bsky.social
👀

jeffholcomb.bsky.social•94 days ago

Article is from June. There is plenty of current information to use.

maxxaine.bsky.social•95 days ago

#weird

maxxaine.bsky.social•95 days ago

#weird

pwrussell.bsky.social•95 days ago

I take it ‘post-constitutional’ means unconstitutional and illegal.

camillebrougher.bsky.social•95 days ago

Holy shit. Probably they will. I hope we won’t end up in the position where it is reality.

danielfee.bsky.social•94 days ago

We must respond every time we see or hear this with:
IT'S CALLED FASCISM!!!!
REPEAT AFTER ME:
FASCISM
FASCISM
FASCISM!

celticsjam.bsky.social•94 days ago

Oh FFS. There isn’t even an attempt to hide what they’re doing?

jonstafford.bsky.social•95 days ago

Kinda scary accurate.

jonstafford.bsky.social•95 days ago

"Blessed be our New Founding Fathers for letting us Purge. Blessed be America, a nation reborn."

billakers.bsky.social•94 days ago

Scares the JeBezos out of me.

rightsofman.bsky.social•95 days ago

Non-gated link.

https://www.startribune.com/trump-loyalist-pushes-post-constitutional-vision-for-second-term/600372180

lea-e.bsky.social•95 days ago

Thank you.

markitoresists.bsky.social•95 days ago

thank you

whitneychick.bsky.social•95 days ago

BTW, Peri-Fascisism works too, legacy media.

archroadkill.bsky.social•95 days ago

Nah the media will call it "controversial ideas about executive power" and pretend its just the other side in some debate.

overlord.bsky.social•94 days ago

Can't read the Wapo no mo'.

oraclestwin.bsky.social•94 days ago

Why can’t they just say it I. Literal terms - he wants to destroy democracy by cancelling the Constitution. Post constitutional ?&-&:!$;!:@-“

ingerw.bsky.social•95 days ago

'Fascism' is fewer syllables

kali8989.bsky.social•95 days ago

yup.........

minivet.bsky.social•94 days ago

Euphemism for Fascism

stathiosb.bsky.social•94 days ago

No; at least not until they have made this reprehensible concept palatable to readers or viewers over a period of time. That’s how we got here and how it is continuing. Not the far-right outlets (though they are, of course) but the alleged mainstream media’ that most people consume.

boomdrummer.bsky.social•95 days ago

Jacqueline Singh the Cybersecurity Lead of the 2020 Biden campaign has written a letter with grave concerns about the 2024 election and the need for a forensic audit

More at the link

https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/letter-to-president-biden-and-vice

dh444.bsky.social•94 days ago

I’ve written my legislators as well as Biden and Harris. But will anything be taken seriously? I live in hope that investigations are happening (behind the scenes, to protect the processing of them) with a pre-inauguration surprise to successfully challenge these massive irregularities.

dkon.bsky.social•94 days ago

Does the Washington Post not count as the media? They literally call it Post-Constitutionalism in the headline.

adamarket.bsky.social•94 days ago

The Right have been obsessed with a “Unitary Executive Theory” for years, but only when they’re in power. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer balance of power or even, separation of powers.

adam-ross.bsky.social•95 days ago

“Post-Constitutionalism”?

Each new euphemism is more terrifying than the last. Few Americans realize what has been unleashed.

kimberleelynn.bsky.social•94 days ago

Since I wasn't asked for that when I voted, I say "post"-constitutional is a big NO.

rodmart.bsky.social•94 days ago

"laying the groundwork for dictatorship" would be more accurate, but it's corporate media.

ottolinemorrell.bsky.social•95 days ago

The @washingtonpost.com has proven, once again, why hundreds of thousands of people, including me, pulled the plug on their subscriptions. Is “Post-Constitutionalism” the new “Trump’s fresh take” of 2024? Shameful from a once-legendary journalistic giant. Shameful and sad.

not-bot.bsky.social•94 days ago

The constitution defines America. Call it post-Americanism.

hans-g.bsky.social•95 days ago

Is that the new term for authoritarian, Christian Nationalist, dictatorship, where we get reality TV governance? Meanwhile, billionaires and family members steer contracts, bully public servants, receive board memberships and steer procurement policy in support of their underlying graft.

arabellaspireship.bsky.social•95 days ago

used2balawyer.bsky.social•94 days ago

Of course. They’re CORRUPT CORPORATE-OWNED MEDIA.

jdknight69.bsky.social•95 days ago

There is a word for post-constitutionalism, it’s called tyranny.

notgoingback802.bsky.social•94 days ago

JFC

teri15.bsky.social•95 days ago

But first they have to brain wash that the constitution is a bad thing.

bhaley61.bsky.social•95 days ago

Maya Angelou is always right.
Believe them when they say this shit.

jaden4808.bsky.social•95 days ago

Hed doesn't match article.

mamaday514.bsky.social•94 days ago

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mamaday514.bsky.social•94 days ago

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nathanielwhiteside.bsky.social•95 days ago

It’s UNAMERICAN, simple as that.

Concentrating power in the executive branch is not an American value

They refer to themselves as trump Loyalist. What year is it 1776?

LOYALIST
support
THE KING (executive)

PATRIOTS
support
THE PEOPLE

We have to support an agenda to get power back to the people

meatballstreudal.bsky.social•94 days ago

“The Redcoats are coming! The Redcoats are coming!”

groku.bsky.social•94 days ago

Sickening. Will our Constitution hold?

sooper-t.bsky.social•95 days ago

So post-First Amendment?

kali8989.bsky.social•95 days ago

maybe post-2nd Amendment too.... 😏

("post-constitutional? WTAF....)

ciaoquirktax.bsky.social•95 days ago

Speaking of the 2A. This could be fake for all I know.

Not that the conversation hasn't occurred.

sooper-t.bsky.social•94 days ago

Wow. In the current chaotic environment it’s hard to tell if it’s real. Can envision it, tho’

senseistarman.com•95 days ago

Trump did openly talk about grabbing guns. Something Republicans have ignored completely.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376097-trump-take-the-guns-first-go-through-due-process-second/

td12212.bsky.social•95 days ago

old word new word
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Lie alt truth
Adultery fun
Rape consensual sex
Pussy Grabbing flirting
Dictatorship post constitution

liannewildlife.bsky.social•95 days ago

“Post constitution” sounds so harmless. Just bureaucratic noise… They want to DESTROY or Abandon the Construction

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