and also, an executive order banning mail-in voting has the legal authority of a social media post
need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive
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You’re right in the first part but me and my emotions aren’t the problem here, it’s elected democrats and other civil servants—like, people with actual power—who are the ones giving him the authority in a wrapped gift basket (accompanied by a sternly worded note!)
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please don't go all Josh Marshall on us
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I’m curious to see the polling/results of the CA redistricting ballot initiative.
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1,000,000 times this
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Agreed.
I just want news networks to clearly say he has no authority for this, so people in general realize this is screaming at the waves level.
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Could he get the postmaster general to sabotage the ballots themselves?
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I don't accept that Trump has the authority to do these things. I accept that six members of the Supreme Court will assert that Trump has the authority to do these things, and that will decide the matter.
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People aren't accepting or conceding that. They're accepting or conceding the fact that corrupt GOP institutions like the supreme Court will accept or concede that he has the authority. And that's why people are saying we need to fight in the streets instead of rely on failing, corrupt institutions.
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Amen.
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🎯💯
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Exactly! Never obey in advance. We must never allow Trump/GOP, or any force of evil, to determine our fate.
"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow." -Lord Byron, frequently quoted by Frederick Douglass
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Just worried Dems will roll over for this
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damn if only this was not the strategy of the opposition party
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And those enablers Will be Remembered.
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The penalties for disobeying an executive order are fines of up to $0.00, and as much as 0 days in jail.
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Keep this up, Jamelle! Ppl have been in the streets but we need more defiance.
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Article I, Section 4, Clause 1:
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
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Exactly. He can fuck off into the sun with that noise.
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If accepting or conceding that he has the authority is tantamount to giving him authority, then SCOTUS and Congress have given him the authority and people on the internet "dooming" is not the problem.
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The only people accepting his authority are the courts, his military and MAGA.
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[The rule of law]: "I'm sorry Mr. President, you cannot do that."
[Trump]: "GEDOUDDA HEAH YOU COMMUNIST LEFT-WING RADICAL! FAKE NEWS! MAGA!"
[Republican Congressional majority]: " *** "
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"Checks and Balances" is the new age motto
The USA is the Titantic, it simply CAN'T be halfway underwater.
Dooming can actually be good in terms of reality-checking. bsky.app/profile/doge...
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Exactly….stop the bellyaching and give him ‘’Gavin’’…corporate America needs to ‘get out bed with this administration’ and pushback en’masse ‘’flood the zone’’
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That's true, but there are plenty of red-state Secretaries of State that are eager to give them force of law, and so by the mechanism you describe above, they effectively gain it. Also SCOTUS is playing some crazy games with whether individuals even have standing to sue to vindicate statutory rights
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It's psyops for dummies
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yup
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This!!! Keep saying it. Do not concede his falsely claimed power, insist on limiting to his lawful authority, show him up as the man behind the curtain rather than the all-powerful wizard, and then stop paying attention to the man behind the curtain. Once his spell is broken, we can start to heal.
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It’s nice to see some sanity on the timeline
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This is true, but we've also learned that, with Trump, claiming to do things, and creating conflict, confusion, and delay is as effective as doing things. He may be setting up endless legal challenges, before and after elections, weakening the opposition and allowing him to overturn results.
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We are so fucked.
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We're so fucked.
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Somebody needs to show Trump in 19th-century clothing, now that he is trying to get rid of voting machines and mail-in ballots.
Either his head traveled back in time (without the wig), or he has a roomful of Republican advisers wearing 19th-century gear, carrying buggy whips and smoking stogies.
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There are states like WA that don’t even have an in-person option, and wouldn’t be able to cobble that together by next year. And they also would never take this rolling over. Our AG Nick Brown has been very busy the last 6 months.
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My 10 YO has understood this for a long time. Thread shows several months’ worth of
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heh, evergreen. Do you have this text on your desktop to just paste into a post whenever? I don't, but I might as well at this point.
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He also didn't have the authority to steal a truckload of top-secret documents.
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The good news is they are still abiding by Supreme Court orders. They want this all to be legal.
The bad news is they have every reason to believe they can get whatever they want through the Supreme Court, preemptive dooming or not.
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Cuckoo-thority
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25% of Israelis are protesting Netanyahu & untold accounts on here (including some presumed people and not chaos bots) pretend we can do nothing about it when administration officials, Republicans on SCOTUS, and Congressional Republicans push fascism while not being confronted about it nearly enough
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The story here is that whatever Putin said to him on Friday sent him completely doolally.
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Indeed.
Where possible they should be treated as evidence in support of impeachment.
The Democrats should have a website with a running tally of impeachable offences.
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The doom and gloom stuff from people is just exhausting at this point. If they aren't willing to help fight back over just dooming and glooming, they need to stay out of the way so the real ones that want to fight back can do so without them getting in the way.
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@generalstrikeus.bsky.social #GeneralStrike There is a way to bring the unaccountable to their knees. Sit down and do not participate until change is instituted. You’ve got to strike for you right to equality.
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Grateful for you
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I am confident that Republicans in Ohio will continue to send out absentee voter application forms to voters, as they have for years.
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Gerrymandering and voter suppression is how a fascist minority party attempts to cling to power. We need more Newsom/Pritzker and less Schumer/Jeffries. Find your spine, Democrats.
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Agree about "preemptive dooming," but we shouldn't ignore this. He says he has the authority to do a lot of things he doesn't, but his spineless minions in the GOP who do have the power to do what he wants will take his posts and EOs as directives to act. We need to preempt those actions.
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I really do feel that we don't repeat the fact that executive orders, in and of themselves, are little more than glorified birthday wishes on White House letterhead.
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No one thinks of any actionable ideas (ok, Newsom with 1). Only me. Every Dem just goes 'ooh, this is very bad, is this bad? I think it's really bad' which is not a strategy.
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No self-whomping, period. Not being able to stop something now does not mean we shrug and move on. Anger is building and we need to be ready to ride that wave.
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Ok but (ducks for cover) for him to not effectively have the authority, someone with the authority has to stand up to him.
