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I 110% guarantee you the White House is not panicking. He and his little Nazi party of buffoons have zero fears of anyone or anything getting in their way.
They think they’re above the law. And one that is above the law has no fear because he has limitless power to do with as he pleases.
Dude what. Last presidency he got scared during the anti-abortion law protests of May 2019 and installed new fencing around the Whitehouse that are roughly twice as high.
https://apnews.com/united-states-government-f0dae0200dd945dcb868d98b1e8ff378
Then he had additional fencing and concrete barriers installed around the already huge fences during the BLM/George Floyd protests, and when one of those fences was partially pushed down (still leaving a 14 foot fence protecting the Whitehouse), he ran off and hid in a bunker.
Then he spent the next weeks telling everyone he's very brave and did not go to a bunker. While Whitehouse leakers confirmed he did.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/06/trump-is-literally-building-a-wall-around-the-white-house
He's repeatedly shown he's a scared little piss-baby, especially of protesters.
Trump's first term was so much wilder than people remember. It drives me nuts every day.
It feels like ancient history now.
Bruh those fences weren't fear, they were a publicity stunt and rile up the right... They know what they are doing and it's basically a psychological war.
They can just send a manipulated poor person to do their dirty work, including murder, without having anything to fear at all.
Trump is just a puppet to larger organized crime that's global. America is just being used as a tool in the lawless global game that is above the law.
A dictator is always afraid of the people the rule over. Law is not something they fear. It is lawlessness. Protests is the way to show them a glimpse of that.
Lawlessness is their upper hand, but when they realize their victims are willing to die or kill things change. They do have pawns that will die for them though so it's not so simple.
It's exactly like mafia and gang life on a larger scale.
Most Americans are not playing the same game as them... Most Americans are taught not to play that game... But when they start things might have hope.
Thewhite house panicked so hard the President of the united states posted a video of homself with a crown on shitting on the protesters. Think about that for two seconds.
That’s not panicking, that’s laughing and making a joke of the whole thing.
That should be the point of protests. Reminding them that the government should work for the people, and that they will be held accountable for what they did. Because if you don't, no one else will
I think both are kind of true. They have more power than perhaps any administration in history given how stacked the Supreme Court is and how subservient the entire GOP is to Trump and the billionaire apparatus.
That said, I DO sense a panic of how so many months have gone by and midterms are right around the corner. With Trump's approval-ratings plummeting to Jimmy Carter levels already and their lack of justifying consolidation of power while Democrats are energized — IF they don't succeed by next midterms, GOP are going to lose pretty big.
Prop 50 Yes in California is a must as well.
Only an absolute collapse in support for the GOP will affect them. The SCOTUS is going to rule against section 2 of the voting rights act and then southern states are going to jerrymander another 12 seats away from the Dems. That's not insurmountable, but they will need a national lead of 6% in the popular vote just to break even.
If he thinks he's above the law then why does he abide by many court rulings?
You think he’s abiding?
Many of them, yes. For instance, there have been zero National Guard illegally deployed to Portland while the challenges wend their way through the courts. That could change, of course. But the Trump regime has clearly deemed it in their interest to listen to the courts on this point, at least for the time being.
That's not the behavior of someone who thinks they don't have to listen to the law at all.
People need to accept this.
They've seen zero drop in the money they're pocketing or stealing.
They're seeing zero ramifications for their actions.
So they'll keep doing what they're doing.